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Passive Backplane CPU Board

BatRay is a highly integrated Pentium III passive backplane CPU board that supports processor speeds up to 600 MHz. It is based on the standard for PCI in passive backplanes established by the PICMG and is ideal for machine control, voice processing, computer telephony, and factory automation applications. BatRay has been tested on numerous operating systems, including DOS, Windows 95/NT, SCO UNIX, and OS/2 Warp.

BatRay features a flush-mounted processor, onboard support for both 10 and 100BaseT Ethernet, Ultra2 Wide SCSI using the Adaptec 7890 RISC controller and 4 MB of AGP video using the ATI Rage Pro graphics accelerator to achieve 1280 ý 1024 at 256-color resolution. The board contains external Level II cache and includes four 168-pin DIMM sockets to support DRAM with ECC functionality. Also included are two serial ports, two on-chip UARTs that are compatible with NS16C550, an ECP/EPP parallel port interface that can be configured through software to be bi-directional, and a PCI IDE interface that supports up to two enhanced IDE devices. BatRay also contains a USB, floppy drive controller, mouse and keyboard interfaces, and real-time clock.

BatRay pricing begins at $1850.

I-Bus Company
(858) 974-8400
Fax: (858) 268-7863
www.ibus.com

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