The COMX-ATOM-420 from Emerson Network Power is a 95 mm x 125 mm Type 2 COM Express® module based on the Intel® Atom™ processor N450 for low power consumption and improved performance. It is designed for use in a variety of applications such as industrial control, kiosks, clinical display systems, panel PCs, diagnostic and test equipment and other applications that require easy-to-use embedded PC functionality.
COM Express modules are designed to be used as the central processing engine on custom carrier boards which makes them highly versatile. The COMX-ATOM-420 is based on the most common format COM Express module – Type 2. This makes it suitable for both existing applications that are looking to use a new processing module from a trusted vendor as well as new applications that need to incorporate off-the-shelf PC controller functionality onto custom I/O baseboards. The latest generation Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS from AMI manages the interaction between the low-level hardware and OS-level interfaces in a clean and efficient way for superior reliability.
COMX-ATOM-420 has a wide range of built-in devices to connect to standard PC interfaces. This includes either LCD or CRT displays, both SATA and legacy PATA disks, PCI Express and PCI peripherals, USB devices and Gigabit Ethernet networks. Some of the target applications are in locations not well suited to physical disk support, so in addition to Solid State SATA disk support, it also has the capability to use and boot from an optional USB flash disk.
