Taiwanese board-vendor Acrosser is shipping a 96-bit PCI-bus I/O card with discrete I/O, on-board SRAM, and a host of built-in security features. The AR-B2002 supports Linux, and targets casino gaming machines and industrial control applications.

AR-ES0891 (Click to enlarge)

Acrosser describes the AR-B2002 as an “all-in-one” gaming I/O control card that can be used to interface with “several” gaming peripherals. The card is especially well suited for use with Acrosser's Linux-friendly, Pentium M-powered AR-ES0891 system (pictured at right), the company says.

Touted features aimed at gaming control include 96-bit digital I/O, a timer, battery-backed SRAM, an intrusion logger, “software security,” and a real-time clock.

Additional touted features include:

• 32-bit 33MHz 5V/3.3V PCI bus
• 88 channels programmable digital I/O
• Interrupt on input change-of-state
• 4 x 16-bit programmer timer
• 512K bytes battery backup SRAM
• 8 channels, 16 events Intrusion logger
• 8-bit DIP switch read back

Availability

The AR-B2002 appears to be available now, along with drivers for Linux and Windows XP. Pricing was not disclosed.

 
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