A reliable communication platform for remote devices monitoring
Artila Electronics has released the Matrix-700, Cortex-A5 based industrial embedded Linux computer. Matrix-700 is fanless, has long term stability, faster flash memory, flexible input/output function and smaller dimension. It is powered by a ATMEL 536MHz ATSAMA5D35 Cortex-A5 CPU which is equipped with 512MB SDRAM, 8MB Flash and is suitable for 24/7/365 non-stop running for unmanned application environment.
The industrial embedded Linux computer of Matrix-700 features one 1Gb and one 10/100Mb/s Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 high speed (480Mb/s) host ports, four software configurable RS-232 485 serial ports, one microSD socket, one USB client port which can be powered directly and function as console.
Matrix-700 is shipped with Linux kernel 3.18.x and file system, plus many software utilities such as a web server, PHP, python, MySQL and SQLite. Users can download the Toolchain, Package Management from the Artila web site. Users can also use apt-get to upgrade Toolchain on a local site via Ethernet. Webmin is available in Matrix-700 and is ready for the customer’s web-based application. Users can set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more.
The low power consumption of the Cortex-A5 processor, plus the high efficiency of Linux kernel 3.18.x and file system make Matrix-700 an ideal light weight computing platform for device networking and remote monitoring.