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New Windows® CE Ready Panel PC is Both Economical and Time Saving
June 2000
 Taipei, Taiwan - Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2000 - Advantech today announced its newest Panel PC of the PPC-102 series, the Windows® CE Ready Panel PC. The new products are ready-to-run Windows® software and hardware platforms. Windows® CE Ready Panel PC already comes with the pre-configured Windows® CE Image. There will be no need to waste any time or energy developing the on-board device drivers or need to use the Platform Builder to build the Windows® CE Image. Advantech has already done this. All that one needs to do is to develop one's own Windows® CE applications.
Benefits
The Windows® CE Ready Panel PC offers the developer various types of benefits. It will definitely save time and money. Developing Windows® CE drivers and customizing Windows® CE OS Image is not that easy for it is very time consuming. The pre-configured Windows® CE Image supports the on-board devices, so it will save one lots of time. The Windows® CE Image, application programs, and data can all be stored on a small capacity and cheaper Flash Disk instead of a typical hard disk. This will make the whole system much more stable and cheaper. The bundled Windows® CE license is also cheaper than Windows 95/98 or Windows NT. Windows® CE also supports a subset of the Win32 API, Visual C++ and Visual Basic programming, familiar Windows application development paradigm and tools. All this will help your system to be more robust. Of course, you will also get a lower Total Cost of Ownership and a better Time to Market.
Features
By using Windows® CE Ready Panel PC, the developer will also find a large amount of features attached to it. The pre-configured Windows® CE OS Image includes web browser and Windows-like Shell and Desktop. It also comes with Windows® CE 2.12 full version license. The platform SDK will also give developers the ability to write Windows® CE applications. SDK supports the popular Visual C++ and Visual Basic Programming.
Advantech also offers some features that doesn't exist on default Windows® CE x86 platform. These include an Auto Launch application function and a persistent registry solution. The Auto Launch application function allows you to launch your applications without rebuilding the Windows® CE Image. The persistent registry solution allows you to store registry settings on Flash Disk. You will also receive a full version of the Getting Started manual on CD.
Unlimited Amount of Applications
The fact that the Windows® CE Ready Panel PC is suitable for many types of applications makes it both extremely flexible and competitive. Among the many applications used include Web-based kiosks, POI (Point of Information) terminals and HMI (Human Machine Interface).
Specifications
This series comes with hardware which is common to Advantech's PPC-102. It supports Intel® 233 MHz MMX CPU and 32 MB DRAM. It includes a solid-state disk (SDD) using DiskOnChip® or IDE Flash Disk, 16 MB. The software being used is Windows® CE 2.12 full version (English version). The devices being supported include a 10/100Base-T Ethernet networking controller, a VGA controller, a PS/2 keyboard, a PS/2 mouse, serial ports, a parallel port, and a 1.44 MB floppy drive. There is also an optional resistive touchscreen that has always made Advantech's products extremely user friendly.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Advantech is an industrial computer company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices and sales worldwide. It is an innovative, prolific company, introducing dozens of new PC-based industrial automation and control products each year. These products include data acquisition and control systems, modular industrial computers, industrial PC cards, panel PCs, signal conditioning modules, communication modules and industrial control software.
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