Date: 24/06/2012

Flex-ATX embedded boards from Kontron built on Intel's 3rd gen Core processors

Kontron has announced a new embedded motherboard, the Kontron Flex-ATX KTQ77/Flex, built on the 3rd generation Intel Core processors. The ATX-compliant embedded motherboard offers up to 20% enhanced computing power, 50% more graphics performance and is available long-term.

The motherboard’s integrated Intel Turbo Boost technology 2.0 and Intel AVX and SSE instruction sets provide computing-intensive applications in the industrial automation, medical and military markets increased floating point operations and vectorial calculations with reduced power consumption.

The integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics features 30% more execution units for increased graphics capabilities for gaming and digital signage applications. Multi-screen applications with simultaneous presentation on three independent displays are possible without the need for a dedicated graphics controller.

The embedded feature connector implemented supports up to 160 GPIO, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC), minimizes the need for individual I/O boards.

Features of KTQ77/Flex:
1. Based on the 3rd generation Intel Core processors offering performance range up to 3.8 GHz
2. Maximum of 32 GB DDR3 RAM
3. Connections for video include 2x DisplayPort, 1x CRT and LVDS
4. Expansion cards include 1x PCI Express x16 and 2x PCI slots. 4x USB 3.0, 10x USB 2.0, and 3x GbE-LAN
5. Includes Intel AMT 8.0
6. 6x SATA interfaces (4x SATA150/300 and 2x SATA600) with RAID 0/1/5/10 functionality and the mSATA (mini-SATA) socket for state-of-the-art on-board SSD.
7. HD audio and the Trusted Platform module 1.2 for safety-related applications
8. Supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL 1.1

The motherboard also features long term availability of 7 years. Operating systems supported are Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Embedded Standard 7, VxWorks, as well as Linux (Red Hat Enterprise, Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise, Red Flag Linux and Wind River Linux, among others).

For more information: http://www.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/embedded+motherboards/flexatx++microatx+motherboards/ktq77flex.html