June 13, 2011 - Habey USA announced the post-it sized SOM-6670 E6XX Tunnel Creek QSeven computer module, which manages to fit the memory controller, graphics processing unit with HD video encoding/decoding, and CPU all within the same chip. Just 70 x 70mm in size, the module carries the newest Intel Atom E6XX processors (the same found in the HABEY’s BIS-6622), ranging in speed of .6GHz to 1.6 GHz with low power consumption of 3.3 – 7 Watts, respectively.
The integrated GMA600 graphics is based on a 400 MHz PowerVR SGX mobile GPU (same IP of the iPad2 GPU) with hardware high definition video encoding and decoding capability. Paired with its mini-ITX carrier board, the SOM-6670 with up to 2GB DDR2 on board memory supports six USB 2.0 ports, two gigabit Ethernet, two serial ports, one CAN Bus, two Serial ATA ports, one SD card reader, one mini-PCIe slot and a PCIe x1 slots; scalable for highly-compact, rich I/O embedded applications.
Taking advantage of the new Tunnel Creek Atom’s integrated 3D graphics, memory control, and display controllers, the SOM-6670 displays on dual independent screens both HD encoding of MPEG2 and H.264 in addition with hardware-accelerated HD decoding of OpenGL ES2.0, OpenGL 2.1, OpenVG, MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1, WMV.
The new Tunnel Creek Atom performs all video encoding/decoding via hardware acceleration with support up to a 1920x1080 external display over VGA as well as 1280x768 through LVDS.
Here is a video of the SOM-6670 with mini-ITX carrier board in action: Specifications: SOM-6670 Chipset Intel Atom E6XX series integrated graphic controller Processor Intel Atom E620 600MHz / E640 1.0GHz / E660 1.3GHz/ E680 1.6GHz RAM DDR2 Onboard 512MB memory Graphics Intel Atom E6xx Integrated GMA 600 Video Out 1x LVDS signal via gold finger expansion with resolution up to 1280X768, 1x SDVO bus signal via gold finger expansion with resolution up to 1720X1080 Decoder Full hardware acceleration of H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, VC1, and WMV9 up to 1080i @ 30fps Encoder Full hardware acceleration of H.263, H.264, and MPEG4 up to 720p @30fps (Linux) Expansion 3x standard PCIEX expansion, 1x standard LPC signal via gold finger expansion, 1x standard I2C signal via gold finger expansion, 1x standard SDIO signal via gold finger expansion, 1x standard SMBus signal via gold finger expansion SATA 2x standard SATA signal via gold finger expansion USB 6 group standard USB Bus signal via gold finger expansion Audio Provide standard HAD signal via gold finger expansion Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps, Realtek, RTL8111CL Power +5V, 5V SB OS Support Supports Windows Embedded Standard 2009/7/POS Ready 2009/CE 6.0 R3, Windows XP SP3/7, Fedora Core 11 Linux*, MeeGo 1.0, QNX Neutrino, Wind River VxWorks Oprtn Temp 0°C - 60 °C (31ºF - 140 ºF) Rltv Hmdity 0%~95% relative humidity, non-condensing Dimension 70mmx70mm (H x D x W) Net weight 1 lb
