Fanless products boost embedded reliability

Reliability is a key factor for both manufacturers and their end customers, who depend on their products to perform 24 hours a day continuously, with limited monitoring. However, whenever moving parts are involved, there is always the possibility of mechanical breakdown, which can cause serious problems in the field. The failure of a low-cost CPU fan can cause irreparable damage.

Acrosser provides a wide range of fanless embedded PC solutions which range from 386 processing to the latest and fastest in x86 technology.

With a variety of form factors to choose from, manufacturers can have the flexibility to work with several possible off-the-shelf options, rather than considering customised products that have long design cycles.

One of the newest high performance fanless products from Acrosser is the AR-B1841CM600ZC, a half-size Celeron-M 600MHz fanless embedded board.

It has four RS232 and six USB 2.0 ports for I/O connectivity and high speed bus communication.

It can be used stand-alone or with a PCI backplane for additional I/O expansion.

The board is RoHS compliant and features a software programmable watchdog timer.

This combination delivers a fanless and heavily functional industrial PC solution for applications that require processing horsepower with reliable, continuous operation.