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        Kontron drives PCI Express bus to PISA

        Staff | Date: Mar 1, 2005 | Comments: 1



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        Kontron unveiled a board-level embedded computer form-factor leveraging PCI Express technology, at the Embedded World conference in Germany. Dubbed "PISA Express," the approach combines PCI and PCI Express buses in a half-size "slot board" format modeled after the ISA/PCI-based "PISA" standard introduced by Kontron in 1996.




        (Click for larger view of PISA Express board mock-up)

        Kontron's initial PISA Express CPU board offering will be based on a 1.8GHz Intel Pentium M 745 or 1.0GHz Intel ULV Celeron M 373 processor and a DDR/DDR2 SDRAM slot.

        Kontron says it plans to release PISA Express as an "open specification, freely available at no cost," and that the spec will be offered for during Q2, 2005.

        Additional details about the specification and Kontron's initial PISA board are available at DeviceForge.

        Read more about PISA Express at DeviceForge




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