socket, and a PC/104 expansion bus.

Arcom said it designed the Viper to offer a low power, off-the-shelf solution for industrial control, instrumentation, and display system applications. The Viper is said to offer a typical power consumption of just 1.4W from a single 5V supply, and includes power management control to achieve less than 200mW in standby mode, making it suitable for sealed fan-less enclosures and battery backed systems.

The standard VIPER board is specified for operation from 20C to +70C, but the board was designed using components with extended temperature range specifications and is available in a version specified to -40C to +85C operating temperature range, making it suitable to commercial, industrial, military, and mobile telematics applications, Arcom said.

A Viper Development Kit is available which includes the Viper SBC fitted with 64MB DRAM and 16MB Flash memory, a compact enclosure, an uninterruptible power supply, a comprehensive Quickstart manual, and an optional Q-VGA color display and touch-screen. Support for Windows CE .NET as the Viper's target embedded operating system is included in the kit.