EmbeddedXpress Basic SBC with Intel Atom E680T CPU; EMX and PCIe MiniCard I/O Expansion

Altair is a high performance, highly integrated small form factor single board computer in the EmbeddedXpress (EMX) Basic form factor. Altair incorporates a wealth of standard PC-style I/O plus on-board digital I/O. It accepts both EMX and PCIe MiniCard add-on I/O modules.

The SBC supports either 1GB or 2GB of DDR2 DRAM soldered on-board and provides high-resolution LVDS and VGA graphics interfaces. Additional I/O ports include SATA, USB, serial, CAN, digital I/O, and Gigabit Ethernet. Flexible system expansion is based on stackable EMX modules, and a PCIe MiniCard socket. A socket is also provided for an optional on-board USB flashdisk of up to 8GB.

Altair's power-efficient design leverages Intel's ultra-low-power (Queensbay) silicon platform, consisting of the Atom E680T (Tunnel Creek) processor and EG20T chipset (Topcliff). These ICs are positioned on the bottom of the board, resulting in easy and efficient heat removal via a heatspreader for wide temperature, fanless operation. Altair utilizes conduction cooling for improved ruggedness and reliability through the use of a heatspreader mounted on its bottom side, resulting in optimal thermal management and increased space for I/O functions and connectors. The four mounting holes on the bottom of the conduction cooled heatspreader are #6-32 threaded holes on 2.8" centers.