Half-Sized PCI Board Comes With SmartView BIOS

Equipped with VGA/LCD, Ethernet and PCI interfaces, the SBC8260VE single-board computer (SBC) includes a proprietary SmartView BIOS. The board allows LCD setup with 16 VGA settings in CMOS. Also included are display-during-post and display-after-post functions for point-of-sale and kiosk applications. This lets users see a screen message or an advertisement in place of the conventional startup BIOS. This Socket 370 SBC with PCI golden finger incorporates a 100 MHz front side bus and supports Celeron CPUs up to 466 MHz and up to 128 MB of FPM/EDO RAM. The half-sized PCI board is configured with an Ali Aladdin V Core Logic chipset, Award PnP BIOS in a single flash ROM with VGA BIOS, 2-MB of flash ROM, 512 KB of synchronous L2 cache, and PC/104 support. Also included are keyboard and PS/2 mouse ports, two serial ports, one parallel por,t and two USB ports. Networking is done via an integrated 10/100BaseT and RJ-45 interface. Price starts at $355.