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| Industrial applications that are designed for vehicles or outdoor applications make special demands. Extreme environmental conditions – operation in high or low temperatures or thermal shock, high humidity or electromagnetic disturbances and startups in low temperature – account for most of these demands. Since system failures often result in high costs, the system must be very reliable under every possible operating condition, and it must provide the highest level of failure tolerance. Wide Temperature Testing ensures the system's reliability under extreme operating environments. |
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Intelligent Software API and Utility for Thermal Protection |
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Rugged systems are mostly used in unmanned environments such as remote power stations, and where automatic alarms need to alert administrators when systems crash or overheat. Advantech includes software APIs and utilities to provide rugged thermal protection, as well as power saving, and hardware monitoring.
Advantech's SUSI unified API helps developers write applications to control the hardware without knowing the hardware specs of the chip sets and driver architecture.
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Customer can create utility utilizing the CPU SpeedStep and System Throttling API |
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Benefit: Reducing power consumption in extreme environment |
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Select Power Scheme |
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Set Power Events |
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Set System Action Schedule |
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Power Saving Utility support projects by request |
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Power Saving API is provided by specific Intel processor that supports CPU SpeedStep and System Throttling |
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HardWare Monitor (HWM) API is a system health supervision API that inspects certain condition indexes, such as fan speed, temperature and voltage. |
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Benefit: Provides real-time temperature, fan and voltage monitoring, and alarm setting in critical temperature |
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Required: Need to monitor the temp and voltage |
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APIs allow customer to integrate functions into their application, set alarm values and corresponding actions. |
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Advantech's Monitoring Utility provides real-time temperature, fan and voltage monitoring, watchdog Dog timer and custom alarm settings. |
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Note: Monitoring Utility is for Windows XP base, other OS utility support is by request
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Design with Industrial Grade Components |
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Using wide temperature components is the most direct way to produce wide temperature range
computers. To make it easier to find and deploy wide temperature components, hardware and
layouts, designers need a list of components that meet their rugged application requirements. Advantech has constructed a wide temperature design database for selecting key industrial grade components including CPUs, chipsets, clock generators, super IO, and power supplies that make sure any system can be operated reliably over extended periods of time. This database is extremely useful when it comes to converting a standard temperature product into a wide temperature product.
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 Advantech Phoenix Operation testing evaluates performance of components or systems under different environmental conditions. This includes a variety of dynamic temperature burn-in cycles over extended periods of time. Depending on the requirements, designs may have to pass either Phoenix Gold Package (-20 to 80oC degrees Celsius) or Platinum Package (-40 to 85oC degrees Celsius) testing without any degradation of performance or loss of function. This stringent testing ensures reliable performance in mission-critical applications under extreme and rapidly changing temperatures.
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Advantech's Design Validation Phoenix testing process ensures SBCs undergo dynamic passmark burn-in test at 100% loading and power on-off test. |
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In Manufacturing Validation phase, SBCs must receive a 100% pass rate to be certified as a Phoenix Operation board before shipping. |
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Phoenix Testing Process |
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Wide Temperature Cycle Chamber
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Variable temperature (-40 ~ 85oC) |
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Customized profile (run burn-in test, QAplus or customized software) |
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