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A range of industrial long-life ATX motherboards support a broad performance spectrum, allowing the user to optimise the chipset and CPU combination to best suit the application
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The latest additions to BVM's range of embedded computer boards are a range of industrial long-life ATX motherboards that support a broad performance spectrum, allowing the user to optimise the chipset and CPU combination to best suit the application. Pentium 4, Pentium D and Core 2 Duo chipset families can be combined with the 915, 945 and the latest 965 Intel chipsets; all motherboards include graphics with VGA and LVDS connection.

The industrial motherboards differ from typical desktop machine versions in that they are fitted with PCI expansion slots, enabling a direct interface for both standard and specialist industrial I/O cards, frequently only produced in PCI format.

Another important feature for industrial applications is the inclusion of a watchdog timer to reset the system in the event of a software crash.

The motherboards are designed with long-life components wherever possible, providing manufacturing repeatability for three to five years from product launch.
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With the PC market so fast moving, it is only through careful initial design and component selection that any particular design of board can continue to be available for a reasonable period of time.