The Qseven platform was specially developed with an eye on the latest low power processor technology and demand for small physical size. With a typical power consumption of <5Watts, mechanical dimensions which are scarcely bigger than a credit card, integrated battery management and ACPI 3.0 power management functions, the conga-QA is ideal for all mobile applications.
The new module provides fast, serial differential interfaces such as PCI Express and SATA, although it consistently avoids old 'legacy' interfaces such as EIDE and PCI to ensure that future generations of CPUs and chipsets can also be used without problems. It provides 8x USB 2.0, 1x SATA, 1x SDIO, 1x PCIe, LPC bus, I2C bus as well as gigabit Ethernet and high definition audio. Additionally it offers 4 GByte onboard flash storage as an option for robust mass storage. The flexible SDIO interface means that SD cards can also be used as easy and robust mass storage.
The Intel US15W system controller hub contains the Intel GMA500 graphics engine. The 3D-capable on-board graphics use a frame buffer of up to 256 MByte and support DirectX 9.0E and OpenGL 2.0. Video applications are accelerated by MPEG2 and MPEG4 decoding in hardware. Graphics output is either via a 1x24 bit LVDS channel or an SDVO port.
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