Advantech launches smallest Intel® XScale® Communication Controller

Advantech Europe, Industrial Automation Group has released the powerful ADAM-6501 communication controller – the smallest application-ready Intel^® XScale^® communication controller currently available to the industrial market.

With a 400 MHz Intel^® XScale^® processor packed into the small ADAM^® form factor, it provides a computing platform for challenging applications. Equipped with a CompactFlash^® slot, the controller can easily be expanded with additional file storage or other CompactFlash form factor devices like modems or WLAN cards. There is also an embedded web server, FTP server, and telnet server that make it possible to create remotely operated controller.

"The ADAM-6501 is the first industrial communication controller to offer this much processing power in such a small package," says David Lee, product manager of the ADAM-6000 product line. "Its networking capability combined with its compact size and this much memory, storage and processing power will enable many new applications."

For the operating system, the ADAM-6501 has embedded Microsoft^® Windows^® CE .NET 4.2, and for applications there is 32 MB of onboard flash memory and 64 MB SDRAM. The ADAM-6501 has an option to bundle with Advantech Studio, our web-enabled HMI/SCADA software.

Networking is taken care of with one RS-232, one RS-485 and one RJ-45 10/100BaseT Ethernet port. Drivers for Modbus/RTU and Modbus/TCP ensure networking integration goes smoothly.