High End

The AMC-X915 features Intel® Pentium® M processors up to 2GHz with 2MByte cache. Compared to AMC-X845 the AMC-X915 offers additional 4 PCI Express lanes to support very fast I/O.

Low Power Consumption

The complete design is geared around low power consumption. The Intel Pentium M 1.4 GHz variant offers a very reasonable computing performance at a mobile solution suitable power consumption. The Embedded BIOS offers ACPI support that's necessary when using batteries. Enhanced Intel Speed Step® Technology is supported.

Lead-Free Design (RoHS)

Starting in July 2006 all electronic products need to be environmentally friendly. The AMC-X915 already fulfills these requirements today.

ETX Standard

The AMC-X915 is based on the ETX spec 2.7 and can easily be integrated into any existing ETX design that is not using the ISA bus. In order to take advantage of the XTX functions you only have to consider the X2 connector signals, everything else remains the same.

Graphics Efficiency

The integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics controller features latest 3D, 2D and video capabilities. Supports up to 64 MByte frame buffer using Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT). It automatically recognize almost every available flatpanel display and sets all parameters accordingly using EPI. Additional displays might be connected using the analog VGA interface or the SDVO port. TV-Out is possible via SDVO port.

Mass Storage

Two serially ATA® drives can be connected as fast mass storage devices. In order to support the economical and robust CompactFlash cards parallel ATA also available.

Sound

AMC-X915 can utilize several high definition audio (HDA) codecs. This allows for the easy implementation of telephone and audio applications that require the highest sound quality and numerous channels.

Connectivity

Thanks to the six USB 2.0, 2x SATA®, two COM ports, PCI, I˛C, PCI, LPT,... the AMC-X915 offers more connectivity as most other computer modules.

Security

The AMC-X915 can be equipped optionally with a "Trusted Platform Module" (TPM). This TPM includes coprocessors to calculate efficient hash- and RSA-algorithms with key lengths up to 2,048 bits as well as a real random number generator. Security sensitive applications like gaming and ecommerce will provide also with improved authentification, integrity and confidence levels.

Software and Driver Support

AMC offers advanced Board-Support-Packages for the embedded board, which will include both the latest tested drivers from silicon vendors and the specific drivers for accessing all of our additional embedded BIOS features. This will help our customers reduce their time-to-market.

Embedded BIOS Features

The AMC-X915 is equipped with an Embedded BIOS that supports the following features:

• ACPI Power Management
• ACPI Battery Support
• Multistage Watchdog
• User Data Storage
• Manufacturing and Board Information
• BIOS Setup Data Backup
• Fast Mode, Multi Master I˛C Bus
• Customer Specific CMOS Defaults
• Flat Panel Auto Detection via EPI
• OEM Splash Screen

Design-In Support

AMC support begins with your product idea and philosophy and continues throughout the series phase all the way up to the next product generation. This commitment to support helps our customers keep system development costs low and speeds up time-to-market.

System-Integration

An important factor for each system integration is the thermal design. The heat spreader is a thermal coupling interface that makes fanless and rugged solutions possible.