Industrial applications specifically designed for in-vehicle or outdoor applications have unique requirements. Extreme environmental conditions, for example, high or low temperatures, thermal shock, high humidity, and electromagnetic disturbances, necessitate most of their unique specifications. Because system failures are generally quite costly, all systems must have the highest level of failure tolerance to operate reliably under every possible condition. Wide temperature testing ensures the system's reliability in extreme operating environments.
Intelligent Software API and Thermal Protection Utility
ugged systems are mostly used in unmanned environments, such as remote power stations or locations where automatic alarms are used to alert administrators to system failure or overheating. Advantech provides software APIs as well as rugged thermal protection, power saving, and hardware monitoring utilities.
Advantech's SUSI unified API enables developers to write applications for controlling hardware without knowing the specifications of the specific chipsets and driver architecture.
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Power Saving API
- Customers can create utilities using CPU SpeedStep and a system throttling API
- Reduces power consumption in extreme environments
- Deployment
Note
- The Power Saving API supports projects as assigned
- The Power Saving API is powered by a specific Intel processor that supports CPU SpeedStep and system throttling
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Hardware Monitor API
- The Hardware Monitor API is a system health supervision API that monitors certain condition indices, such as fan speed, temperature, and voltage
- Facilitates real-time monitoring of system temperature, fan, and voltage, as well as critical temperature alarm alerts
Deployment
- Monitors the system temperature and voltage
- APIs allow customers to integrate functions into applications and set alarm values and corresponding actions
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Monitoring Utility
Advantech's monitoring utility facilitates real-time monitoring of system temperature, fan, and voltage, as well as watchdog timer and custom alarm configuration
Note
Advantech’s monitoring utility is designed for Windows XP. Support for other OS is available upon request.
Design with Industrial-Grade Components
Using components with a wide temperature range is the most direct way to produce computers with a wide operating temperature. For ease of locating and deploying components, hardware, and layouts that support a wide operating temperature range, designers need a list of components that meet their rugged application requirements. Accordingly, Advantech has created a wide operating temperature design database for selecting key industrial-grade components including CPUs, chipsets, clock generators, super I/O, and power supply packs that guarantee reliable system operation for extended periods of time. This database is extremely useful for transforming a standard temperature product into a wide temperature product.
Extended Temperature Testing (ETT) Solutions
Advantech Phoenix Operation testing evaluates system and component performance under a range of environmental conditions, including various dynamic temperature burn-in cycles over extended periods of time. Depending on the system requirements, designs are required to pass either Phoenix Gold Package (-20 to 80 oC) or Platinum Package (-40 to 85 oC) testing without loss of function. This stringent testing process ensures the reliable performance of mission-critical applications under extreme and rapidly changing temperatures.
- Advantech's Design Validation Phoenix testing process ensures embedded SBCs undergo dynamic a PassMark burn-in test at 100% loading and a power on-off test.
- During the manufacturing validation phase, embedded SBCs must receive complete certification as a Phoenix Operation board prior to shipping.
Phoenix Testing Process
Wide Temperature Cycle Chamber
- Variable temperature (-40 to 85 ℃)
- Customized profile (run burn-in test, QA Plus or customized software)