SBC suits high performance systems

The P4ELA from BVM is a single board computer conforming to the Micro ATX form factor.

Said to be suited as a platform for high performance systems in a range of applications with demanding processing and graphics requirements, the board features the Intel Q45 + ICH10D0 Express chipset and supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Celeron processors. A built in Intel Graphics Accelerator 4500, operating through a bandwidth optimising enhanced backbone architecture, supports Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL to give 2d and 3d rendering. Connectivity includes one ISA, two PCI, one mini PCI socket, one PCI-e 16X and one PCI-e 4X, providing design flexibility. In addition, eight USB2.0 ports, five RS232, one RS232/422/485 port and two GigaLAN ports are provided, as are six SATA interfaces supporting RAID and Intel MST. An onboard 8bit programmable GPIO interface and a 256 level watchdog timer are provided for system management purposes.