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The F8 is a powerful CompactPCI or busless industrial PC for multimedia and infotainment applications -- for vehicles (railways, buses, planes, trucks...) and stationary information systems. It is designed to operate in harsh environments up to EN 50155 (railway standard). The F8 is controlled by the Crusoe TM5900 microprocessor from Transmeta, a Pentium III-like x86 CPU with an integrated Northbridge that operates at 800MHz. What makes this CPU especially attractive is its extremely low power consumption of typically 5W at 800MHz and a guaranteed long-term availability of five years. The SBC is equipped with an onboard 133MHz fast DDR RAM SO-DIMM socket for data storage, a CompactFlash slot for scalable program storage and an integrated graphics RAM. At its front panel the F8 provides one RS232 interface and two Fast Ethernet channels via RJ45 connectors or 9-pin D-Sub connectors. The front panel also includes two Digital Video Interfaces (DVI and DVI-I) for long-distance connectivity and USB 1.1. The onboard display controller supports enhanced multi-display capabilities at a maximum of 1600 x 1200 pixels resolution (235-MHz, 24-bit RAMDAC). It can drive two independent digital displays (dual digital), alternatively with identical or with different screen displays. Simultaneously, it can drive two DVI and one CRT display (DualMon). The F8 provides slots for eight SA adapters for all kinds of serial interfaces (RS232, RS422/485, HDLC, binary I/O, CAN, AC'97 audio, keyboard/mouse). The functionality of the SA adapters (and other individual functions) can be flexibly implemented in the onboard FPGA as a customization of F8. The FPGA content can be programmed by the application software.