Advantech Unveils New Low Profile Universal PCI-bus Card

Advantech is pleased to release a new series of Low Profile Universal PCI cards, which features a 128-byte FIFO driver, and the ability to work with both 3.3-volt and 5-volt server slots. Its compact size and high-flexibly design allow our users to adapt any industrial constrained environment smaller scale systems and low profile servers.

What is the Low Profile PCI card?
The Low profile PCI card has the same signal protocol, electronic definition and configuration definition with standard PCI card, but the length of the low profile PCI card is shorter. The low profile PCI card is suitable for embedded system, or low profile server in every space-constrained industrial environment.

PCI-1602 (123 mm x 92 mm)	PCI-1602UP (119.91 mm x 64.41 mm)

What is the "Universal" PCI card?
The Universal PCI card enables a single product to be used to implement systems with dramatically different resource requirements; it uses a universal PCI connector compatible with both the 3.3V connector key and the 5V connection used by older systems. The diagram is as follows:



As many embedded systems, thin clients and compact-size system demonstrate a remarkable business growth these years, it is more and more difficult to plug general size PCI cards in such space-constrained embedded systems. Advantech foresees the huge market demand and is ready to release a series of Low Profile Universal PCI card.

Ordering Information
PCI-1602UP: Dual RS-422/485 Low Profile Universal PCI Card
Low profile (119.91mm x 64.41mm) / Universal PCI card (both 3.3V and 5V signaling).
2-port RS-422/485 serial port.
128-byte FIFO, speed up to 921.6 Kbps.
High-voltage isolation (3000 VDC) and surge protection (2500 VDC).
Automatic RS-485 data flow control.

PCI-1604UP: Dual RS-232 Low Profile Universal PCI Card
Low profile (119.91mm x 64.41mm) / Universal PCI card (both 3.3V and 5V signaling).
2-port RS-232 serial port.
128-byte FIFO, speed up to 921.6 Kbps.
High-voltage surge protection (2500 VDC).

PCI-1757UP: 24-ch DI/O Low Profile Universal PCI Card (coming soon)
Low profile (119.91mm x 64.41mm) / Universal PCI card (both 3.3V and 5V signaling).
24 TTL levels DI/O.
Emulates mode 0 of 8255 PPI.
I/O configurable by S/W or DIP switch.
Keeps port setting s and digital output after hot reset.
Digital input with interrupt capability.
Board ID set by DIP switch.


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