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VIA Pico-ITX motherboard integrates power supply

Press release, June 30; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia 0

VIA Technologies has announced the VIA Epia P700 Pico-ITX motherboard that couples several features within a streamlined, ultra compact footprint designed for low profile systems, with extended I/O port options through two companion boards.

The board featuring native SATA 3Gb/s support, Gigabit LAN, and support for GPIO, SM bus and LPC devices, and measuring 10×7.2cm is based on the VIA VX700 unified digital media IGP chipset and is powered by a 1GHz VIA C7 or fanless 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor. An integrated power adapter coupled with the 5V S-SATA power cable negates the need for a separately powered daughterboard, saving considerable space for ultra compact systems.

The VIA Epia P700 also features two companion boards – the P700-A board features an RJ45 port, a VGA port and a COM port, while the P700-B sports four USB ports and three audio jacks for multi-channel surround sound. The two companion boards fit seamlessly with the linear pin-headers on either side of the VIA Epia P700 to enable ultra low profile devices.

VIA EPIA-P700 Pico-ITX motherboard specifications

Item

Detail

Model Name

VIA EPIA-P700-10L
VIA EPIA-P700-05LE

Processor

1.0GHz VIA C7 processor
500MHz VIA fanless Eden ULV processor

Chipset

VIA VX700 Unified Digital Media IGP chipset

System Memory

1 x DDR2 533/667 SO-DIMM socket, Up to 1GB memory size

VGA

Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II 3D/2D AGP graphics

Onboard IDE

1 x UltraDMA 133/100 Pin Connectors with 2.0mm 44-pin right-angle type

Onboard Serial ATA

1 x SATA connector
1 x SATA power connector (5V)

Onboard LAN

1 x VIA VT6122 Gigabit LAN controller (a connector board is required or
1 x VIA VT6107 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller (manufacturing option)

Onboard Audio

VIA VT1708B High Definition Audio Codec

Onboard I/O Connectors

1 x LAN pin header
1 x CRT/DVI pin header
1 x COM Port pin header
1 x CPU Fan pin connector
1 x Audio pin connector for Line-out, Line-in, MIC-in
1 x Front panel pin header
4 x USB 2.0 ports pin header
1 x PS2 mouse/keyboard pin header
1 x LVDS pin connector
1 x LPC/SM Bus/GPIO pin header
1 x +12V DC-In 2-pin jack with lock

Operating System

Windows XP, Linux, Win CE, XPe

Form Factor

Pico-ITX (10-layer)
10 cm x 7.2 cm

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, June 2008

VIA EPIA-P700 Pico-ITX motherboard

VIA EPIA-P700 Pico-ITX motherboard
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