Pico-ITX form factor SBC

This extreme small form factor embedded platform can meet today’s customers’ needs of fanless operation, low-power consumption, compact-size, flexibility and versatile I/O. Its applications include in-vehicle PCs, in-flight entertainment systems or industrial automation systems, and even ultra portable devices.

“In the new Pico-ITX form factor, the Intel® Atom™ PICO821 provides system developers and OEMs with an ultra compact yet highly integrated platform that enables many new power-efficient applications to be considered,” said Joseph Chou, Product Manager of Embedded Computing Business Unit. “Moreover, the single board computer provides a full set of internal connectors for COM interface, Gigabit Ethernet, USB, audio, video and more. We haven’t soldered the I/O connectors onto the board edge, because we consider the designing flexibility for different scales for embedded developers. This extreme small form factor embedded platform offers an excellent solution for embedded markets such as portable POS, Car PC, entry-level gaming, and in-flight infotainment.”

The Intel® System Controller Hub US15W features the Intel® GMA500 graphics engine which utilizes up to 256 MB frame buffer and supports DirectX 9.0E and OpenGL 2.0. Graphic output is 18/24 bit single-channel LVDS. Moreover, the Intel® Atom™ processor Z500 series supports SSE3 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 3) that improves performance on multimedia and gaming applications, as well as, Hyper-Threading technology and Intel® Virtualization technology (Intel® Atom™ processor Z530 only), and have low thermal design power (TDP). In a small rugged form factor, the PICO821 provides a full set of I/O features including one 10/100/1000 LAN, one COM port, four USB 2.0 ports and one USB client port, one PATA-100, one CompactFlash™ Type-II socket, one PS/2 keyboard/mouse, and HD audio. Additionally, the PICO821 features DDR2 400/533 memory up to 2GB.