VIA Technologies’ Pico-ITXe
single-board computer (SBc) builds
on the 10- by 7.2-cm Pico-ItX form factor
and adds the Small Form Factor SIG’s
SUMIT stackable connectors (Fig. 1).
the motherboard holds up to 2 Gbytes
of DDR2 and has Gbit Ethernet and dual
SATA ports. The SUMIT expansion supports
PCI Express, USB, I2C, and LPC.
The VIA P710-HD board can plug into
the SBC to add dual hi-def video playback
support. It can handle resolutions up to
2560 by 1600 and support outputs that
include HDMI and dual low-voltage differential
signaling (lVDS). It also supports
DX10.1 graphics.
Other expansion boards for the Pico-
ITXe include the WinSystems Pico-I/O
board and acces I/O’s PICO-DIO16R08,
which has eight 1-A relays and 16 32-mA
buffered I/O lines (Fig. 2). the board can
be controlled via an external USB cable.
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