User manual

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Advantech UNO-4678 has a special design without the weaknesses of a
standard PC. No fan, and no HDD prevent dust and vibration problems.
With a smart mechanical design, UNO-4678 can meet 50 G shock (Use
CompactFlash card ), 2 G vibration (Use CompactFlash card ), up to 50°
C operating temperature and almost anything an industrial environment
can demand.
Designed to Fit Comfortably Into Racks
In completely new packaging, UNO-4678 has standard 1U rack size as
440 x 220 x 44 mm (W x H x D) could fit your rack. You could easily
mount UNO-4678 on rack and manage all UNOs in one rack and easily
develop your application on rack.
Flexible Networking Options
The Advantech UNO-4678 offers two ways to connect to a network:
Ethernet and Modem. The three built-in Ethernet ports provide high-
speed networking capability up to 100 Mbps. And through UNO-4678’s
isolated serial COM ports, you could link industrial modems to offer the
most popular and easiest networking method by PSTN. Not only 8 chan-
nel serial COM port has 3 serial type but also provides surge and isolation
protection up to 2,000V
DC
, protecting your system from abrupt high volt-
age attack and accident or damage in harsh environments.
Popular Operating Systems and Rapid Application Development
The Advantech UNO-4678 supports the popular off-the-shelf Microsoft
Windows 2000/NT/XP operating systems and the Linux operating sys-
tem. UNO-4678 also features pre-built Microsoft Windows XP embedded
or Windows CE solutions offering a pre-configured image with optimized
onboard device drivers. Microsoft Windows CE and XP Embedded are
compact, highly efficient, and real-time operating systems that are
designed for embedded systems without a HDD. There is no need to
waste time and energy on developing onboard device drivers or using the
Platform Builder to build a custom Windows CE image, they have all
been done for the Advantech UNO-4678 series! Through the built-in
runtime library and Software Development Kit (SDK), the UNO-4678
series leverages your existing Windows-based programming skills to rap-
idly develop applications.