1. Dual Gigabit Ethernet, support Wake-on-LAN function;

2. Support 18/24-bit LVDS & VGA dual display;

3. Support 1*Mini- PCIE, 1*SATA,1*C-Fast card;

4. 4* COM, 6* USB;

5. Support DC +12v~36V wide voltage range  input;

6. Support surge protection on touch screen and serial ports;

7. Optional voltage on COM Pin9;

8. Support RS485 isolation protection.

System Mainboard	NIS-H923
CPU Type	Intel® Atom™ Processor N455/D525 , 512KB Cache
	N455=1.6G @ 6.5W TDP,D525=1.8G @ 12W TDP
CPU Package	FCBGA559
Chipset	Intel® NM10 PCH
Memory	Onboard 2GB DDR3-800/1066
Graphics	Intel GMA3150
LAN	2x Realtek RTL8111C PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller
Expansion Slots	1x mPCIe(x1) slots for optional WiFi + 3G
	Support CF card slot
I/O Interface	1x  VGA
	2x USB 2.0 ports
	2x RJ45 for Gigabit LAN
	4x  RS232 serial port
Watchdog Timer	256 segments, 0, 1, 2...255 (sec/min)
Power Requirement	Support wide range voltage input  from +9V~+36V (The standard accessory is DC-in +12V adaptor)
Construction	Aluminum
Weight	TBC
Chassis Color	Black
Storage	1x 2.5" HDD
Power Supply	60W power adaptor
Mounting	Support VESA suspension installation
Dimensions	205mm(W) x 127mm(D) x 56.5mm(H)
Operating Temperature	0°C~ 50°C
Storage Temperature	-20° ~ 80°C
Relative Humidity	5~90% @ 45°C, (non-condensing)
Vibration	SSD: 5 grms / 5~500Hz / random operation
	HDD: 0.25 grms / 5~500Hz / random operation
Certificate	FCC, CE, RoHS standard



Zuckerberg, sporting jeans and a sweatshirt, arrived at a Sheraton hotel in midtown Manhattan around 1 p.m. Monday to meet with hundreds of potential investors, according to a report from MSNBC.com. Facebook CFO David Ebersman, wearing a more traditional suit and tie, also was on hand for the company's first road show appearance.

The report also said that a long line of investors stood outside the Sheraton for about an hour, waiting to get in and hear the social network's pitch about the strength of its business and vision.

The nine-day roadshow is said to include stops in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore and possibly Los Angeles.

Despite a lawsuit from Yahoo, two recent hefty deals -- for Instagram and to buy former AOL patents from Microsoft -- as well as disappointing first-quarter profits, interest in Facebook's IPO remains strong. Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Herman Leung said in a note to investors Monday that he expects Facebook's revenue to grow 40% this year and 33% in 2013, MSNBC reported.

Most reports agree that Facebook's initial public offering will launch May 18. Facebook has not announced a date.

Investors, entrepreneurs and techies around the world will be keeping an eye on the IPO, which is expected to act as a bellwether for the business validity of other social networks.

In a glossy roadshow video that Facebook released last week, Zuckerberg, wearing his usual gray t-shirt and talking directly into the camera, said he knew the social networking concept would take hold. He said he wasn't sure that Facebook would be the one to make it happen.

"We design our products to be social from the ground up," Zuckerberg said in the video. "We think people's lives will be better, and the whole world will function better, when there is more information out there. In the world there exists this map or graph of all the relationships around the world... Now there are real people on the end of the connection. Before Facebook there was no way to do that."

The 31-minute video shows snippets of videos posted on Facebook and images of users' Timelines, photos and posts.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, participating in the video, focused on the business aspect of the social network.

From IT NEWS by Sharon Gaudin

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles on Monday issued to Google the first state license, and possibly the first in the nation, to test autonomous vehicles.

"It's still a work in progress," said Tom Jacobs, a DMV spokesman, told the Las Vegas Sun. "The system regulates the brakes, accelerator and steering."

Last summer, Nevada lawmakers passed Bill 511, which authorized the state's DMV to begin formulating a set of rules of the road for autonomous, or self-driving vehicles.

It was the first step toward getting autonomous cars, which are designed to use artificial intelligence, computer sensors and GPS instead of human drivers, on the state's roadways.

Google could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Last month, Google executives went to Detroit looking for partners in the company's efforts to develop autonomous vehicles. Anthony Levandowski, head of Google's self-driving car project, told an audience there that the company would like to get self-driving cars on the road within the next decade.

A Google spokesman told Computerworld last month that the company has been reaching out to auto companies but is still keeping its options open.

DMV officials have taken test drives in Google's autonomous vehicles, traveling on the famous Las Vegas strip, according to reports.

However, Jacobs said Google isn't the only one talking with state officials about self-driving cars. According to the Sun, other companies have approached them about developing and testing their own autonomous cars. "Google has a lot of competition," Jacobs said.

From IT NEWS by Sharon Gaudin

Financial Self-service Terminal---The application of electronic bank slip box has significantly simplified banking business procedures. It does not only liberate the banking stuff from tedious and repeated working process, but also promotes efficiency and reduces error ratio. Moreover, it ensures users to transact business and get documents more easily and more conveniently without lining up, which greatly enhances the efficiency of business transaction.

The traditional electronic bank slip box adopts commercial pc architecture, which requires at least four serial ports or even multi serial ports card for extended functions. However, the unstability and fast generation replacement become crucial shortcomings of commercial pc, which results to the increasing expenses of products maintenance and after-sale services.  

Ⅱ. Yacoo’s Solution

Yacoo’s ENC-5146 motherboard is a perfect industrial grade hardware solution for electronic bank slip box controlling system. It has integrated adequate merits: Six serial ports; Six USB ports; Two Ethernet ports; Supporting LVDS and VGA display; Industrial grade design and raw materials etc.. With all these superiorities, ENC-5146 can greatly strengthen the products’ stability and effectively reduce the maintenance cost.

Ⅲ. Topological Graph



Ⅳ. Advantages:

ⅰ.  Six serial ports and six USB ports have saved the cost of multi serial port card and extended interfaces.

ⅱ. It supports asynchronous dual display, which ensures users to connect  VGA and LCD simultaneously.
ⅲ.  With at least five years’ stable long supply period.

ⅳ. Ultra low power consumption with fanless CPU.
ⅴ. Providing OEM/ODM services.

With the rapid development of POS industry, the price of the variety of high performance POS has become easier to be accepted by business. However, the competition is becoming fiercer and fiercer with the expansion of market application. Facing to the mass of DIY products in the market, the POS manufacturers found themselves in a sticky situation, meanwhile the DIY manufacturers also noticed that their maintenance cost are in rapid increase, and their low cost advantage is replaced by small scale workshops. How to deal with the conflict between product quality and cost? This issue stands in front of all the manufacturers. As the core of POS, what the business cares for more about motherboard is its cost proportion in the complete machine, and after a certain period of developing time, many enterprises will finally find that it is not economic by comparing the impact of prophase saved cost and anaphase maintenance cost to enterprise brand. Nevertheless, market is market, competition can only become fiercer and fiercer, the one who can not decrease the cost might be confronted with the survival and development crisis.

In order to keep your competitive power, we recommend a best price-performance ratio motherboard to ensure the quality and decrease cost. There are many main advantages of this product: Firstly, long work standing time, e.g, if you arrange good quality memory, power supplier and hardware etc., they can ensure the stability of cashing machine; Secondly, good performance of dustproof and anti-disturbance; Thirdly, low power consumption, it just needs one third of power consumption  of the common PC motherboard. In the rapid information technology development era, the industrial POS cashing machine with stable performance and powerful functions will become more competitive and more popular in the market. 

POS consists of two display components, one of them is ordinary VGA display which is used for casher operation; and another one is LED or VFD、LCM display, it informs the customer payment/change amount, the display content is simple, and usually it adopts serial port communication. All of the POS’s cashbox are equipped with a pop-up device which can adopts digital quantity I/O interface to drive. Bar code reader is used to read the bar code on the commodity, and then transmit the result to host computer through serial port. In addition, currently most of stores provide credit card consume option, which means credit card reader device is essential, and this credit card reader communicates with host computer through serial port as well.

The days of going to a special medical facility for an ultrasound exam are numbered. A recent Global Industry Analysts report  predicts the global market for medical ultrasound equipment will reach US $6.9 billion by 2017. Embedded developers should note that a lot of this growth will occur in new segments such as portable and handheld ultrasonic devices for emergency medicine, teleconsultation, and clinics. The race is on to develop ultra-small ultrasound devices providing high quality imagery, back-end connectivity, and long battery life—all in a rugged design.

A major category for this boom will be portable B-mode ultrasonic devices (see Figure 1). B-mode ultrasonic devices direct discrete pulses of high-intensity ultrasound at body tissues and then listen for discrete echoes back to create two-dimensional (2D) images displayed on a screen. While imaging quality is lower quality than high-end 3D ultrasound devices, portable B-mode ultrasound devices are very effective in the hands of experienced examiners. Portable ultrasound devices can be used to visualize organs for abdominal, urinary bladder, cardiac, obstetric and pediatric exams. By helping to speed diagnoses, portable ultrasound devices can reduce patient wait times and help healthcare providers deliver faster, more efficient patient care with fewer referrals.

Figure 1. Example of a configuration for a ultra-small B-mode ultrasound device.

A B-mode ultrasound device uses a transducer that emits sounds waves to image body tissues. As each sound wave is reflected back to the transducer, the ultrasound machine needs to calculate the distance that the sound wave traveled between the transducer and tissue using a mathematical equation based on the average speed of sound in tissue and the time it actually took for the relection to return to the transducer. At the core of an ultrasound system is an analog-to-digital converter which converts the filtered input signals from the analog front end into a digital representation which can then be passed to a digital beam former for further processing. Within the beam former the digitized signal is scaled and time delayed to create the focusing effect in the receive chain. The properly adjusted signals are then summed together across all receive channels and passed to the imaging system for rendering and display.

Let's look at what you need to compete in this new category. Compared with previous generations, today's medical ultrasound systems are smaller and lighter with higher levels of processing capability. For developers, the mobile B-mode ultrasonic space presents a number of challenges:

·         Small form factor

·         Ability to offload FPGA functions to CPU to save power

·         High resolution graphics and video

·         24 hours of standby time with 4 hours of working time between charges

·         Ability to wake from sleep quickly so as not to keep staff or patients waiting

·         Shock/impact resistance

·         24-bit LVDS, VGA, TV-Out display output

·         Competitive pricing environment because of pressures in the healthcare industry to reduce  costs

To meet these requirements, developers need to source embedded boards, interface components, amplifiers, and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) components that deliver high speeds, improved electrical performance, and lower power consumption, all at reasonable cost. A good place for design teams to start is selecting the processor architecture that enables low-cost, a small form factor configuration with minimum number of extra components.

Shenzhen Yacoo Technology Co., Ltd., a general member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, is targeting this market by providing designers with a rugged, flexible COM board (see Figure 2) that uses an Intel® Atom™ processor N2000 series to meet all the necessary criteria.



Figure 2. The 146mm x 80mm Shenzhen CMS-4551 COM board is expressly designed for the portable B-mode ultrasound device market.

The 146mm x 80mm Shenzhen CMS-4551 COM board aptly meets small form factor requirements and is engineered with a multi-function interface. This enables designers to design their own interface card for the board and use it to differentiate their scanner with their own combination of external I/O (LAN, LDVS, VGA, TV-Out, USB*2, COM1) and positioning of I/O on the product shell.

The key to low power is the Intel® Atom™ processor N2000 series (see Figure 3). It takes care of a lot of the computation and graphics processing. Its leading-edge 32nm technology adds new features to a dual-core Intel Atom processor, making it well suited to the needs of battery-operated portable medical devices. Its architectural enhancements enable it to share part of the traditional work performed by the FPGA, including floating-point arithmetic and image processing capability. In fact, its new graphics core delivers up to 2x the performance of previous generation Intel Atom processors, as well as the ability to decode 1080p HD video. The new Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 3600/3650 even opens the door to providing the color imagery of high-end ultrasound devices. Plus, dual-display support enables simultaneous viewing on two displays, making it easier for ultrasound technicians to share high-resolution scans with patients on large displays in clinic settings.

Figure 3. The Intel® Atom™ processor N2000 series features high performance integrated graphics, dual HD display support, and power-saving 32nm technology

All this performance comes without a performance penalty. The Intel Atom processor N2000 series is specified for thermal design power (TDP) as low as 3.5 W, when operating with a 1.6 GHz core clock speed and 400 MHz graphics speed. What's more, a new S6 deep-sleep mode consumes just one tenth of the power needed in S5 mode, enabling weeks-long standby time – a key requirement for ultra-small ultrasound.

A new feature, Intel® Rapid Start Technology, helps preserve battery like while enabling devices to quickly resume operation from a deep  sleep state when it comes time to do a scan. This technology can move DRAM data to a Flash solid-state drive (SSD) after a user-defined period of time in Standby (S3) mode, putting the system into the Hibernate (S4) state while the OS remains on Standby. When a user turns the device back on, data is quickly transferred back to DRAM and regular operation restored. You get the best of both worlds—longer battery life, plus fast resume.  

The CMS-4551 can include up to 2GB DDR3 667MHz memory. All internal interfaces use shock-resistant wafer connectors with latches that are designed to withstand the normal vibration and bumps of a portable ultrasound device. While the low power dissipation of the Intel Atom processors enable fanless designs, for designs requiring fans for other components, the CMS-4551 includes smart-fan technology. This technology detects enivronment temperature and runs the fan only when needed and at the lowest possible speeds to save energy and reduce noise.

Already, three Chinese ultrasound manufacturers are designing systems with the CMS 4551 board—Wuxi Xoamgsjeng Medical Imaging Ltd., Shenzhen Ruike Cable Technology Ltd., and Sichuan Kang Medical Equipment Ltd.

What are your thoughts on the sonic boom in ultra-small ultrasound? Is this yet another promising sign on the way to trimming healthcare costs while improving diagnosis and patient care through portable, connected devices?