Low Power design also helps performance at high temperatures

Why use RISC instead of x86 CISC?

What makes ADS' systems so robust?

Big System Graphics for Small Computers
The great new eye-catching SVGA and XGA Panels from Sharp, Fujitsu and LG are no longer tied to desktop/Pentium scale systems. Likewise, battery powered and portable systems are no longer limited to QCIF, QVGA and VGA. Now, via a custom-configured CPLD, Applied Data RISC systems can drive the dual pixel bus demanded by these new high-end graphic displays. And with an optional Graphics Accelerator chip, Applied Data Systems can display Polygon benchmarks almost ten times as fast as a non-accelerated VGA RISC system.

Say Goodbye to Backup Batteries with Super Cap Design
Now, with XScale and other power-miser technologies, you can build "Super-Cap" backup into your ADS system, allowing the user to change batteries without losing power to the CPU and memory. Super-Caps can keep a system running, with DRAM preserved, for seconds or even minutes, enough time to swap out a set of batteries. In addition, Applied Data can implement this technology where it is seldom seen - in systems with battery chargers for Lithium or Nickel batteries.

ADS chargers can manage not only the battery load but also the heavy capacitor load on first power-up.

Smart Batteries for Smart Systems ride the SMBus
Batteries are becoming a bigger part of product cost, and are a more central element of the product revenue plan. The SMBus increases the integration between the devices and its new-generation, 'smart' batteries. Widely adopted by both battery and charger manufacturers, the SMBus provides manufacturer information, tells the system about model and part number, reports different types of battery/charger errors, and detects low battery condition.

The Power of Management over Power Management
Embedded Systems are demanding increasingly complex power and battery systems. Critical systems may carry on-board backup and redundant batteries, and may need to cycle charge and discharge between them. Power may have to be budgeted between operating the device and charging the battery. Battery use may have to be tracked for replacement and maintenance programs, and certain chemistries may have to be cycled to maintain charge. Applied Data Systems provides this capability - largely offloaded - into a satellite 8 bit micro controller.

Expanded Windows Operating Environments
CE.NET is here, offering 'shared source', lower power consumption, built in network/web services and real-time performance that will surprise you. This platform will seamlessly transport your application effort to the new; object oriented web-based program and data exchange world of SOAP and XML. Applied Data's CE.NET systems come with a BSP that supports all the hardware on the board, and is supported and maintained by Applied Data directly. Past that, Applied Data offers application support for the programmer who wants to move past VB and C++ to eVB and C# , and move that into an enterprise environment.

Processor Technology Moves Forward
Applied Data's XScale platform kicks up embedded computing a notch. Not only does the Applied Data implementation provide the increased processing speed and built in MAC for the XScale, but it brings out the 921.6 kB Bluetooth™ bus, offers Phillips I2C synchronous serial, supports Secure Digital and MMC Cards, a high-fidelity AC97 Codec and a precision Real Time Clock.

Of course, the features you expect from ADS like ADSmart I/O™, on-board LED's, multiple serial ports, IrDA, USB and 100bT Ethernet are still there.

Multi-Media Support in the Palm of Your Hand
Multi-Media requires more than a Stereo (AC97) Codec. Applied Data supports not only the Codec standard, but high quality input and output analog audio circuits offering as much and 70dB of SNR in some customized applications. Output audio circuits, right on the ADS board, offer as much as 2.2 watts power. Accelerated embedded systems by Applied Data can run polygons for graphics as used for advertising and games as fast as desktop systems, and movies can be shown in full motion speed in QCIF format or better.

Application-Ready Interfaces to Real-World Systems
Applied Data is always expanding the hardware interfaces to its customer-supplied subsystems. Now we offer an Encoder input via ADSmartIO™, perfect for reading high speed pulse trains without loading the CPU, a parallel Address bus on Bitsy offering simple, parallel addressing for read/write to a customer supplied subsystem and SPI bus to external clocks timers and other devices. CAN, Ethernet, and multiple serial interfaces remain a staple of the Applied Data offering.