Pico-ITX
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| Computer form factors |
PCB Size (mm) |
| WTX | 356×425 |
| AT | 350×305 |
| Baby-AT | 330×216 |
| BTX | 325×266 |
| ATX | 305×244 |
| LPX | 330×229 |
| NLX | 254×228 |
| microATX | 244×244 |
| DTX | 244×203 |
| FlexATX | 229×191 |
| Mini-DTX | 203×170 |
| EBX | 203×146 |
| microATX (Min.) | 171×171 |
| Mini-ITX | 170×170 |
| EPIC (Express) | 165×115 |
| Nano-ITX | 120×120 |
| COM Express | 125×95 |
| ETX / XTX | 114×95 |
| Pico-ITX | 100×72 |
| PC/104(-Plus) | 96×90 |
| microETXexpress | |
| nanoETXexpress | |
| mobile-ITX | 75×45 |
Pico-ITX is a PC motherboard form factor announced by VIA Technologies in January 2007 and demonstrated later the same year at CeBIT. The Pico-ITX form factor specifications call the board to be 10 x 7.2 cm (3.9 in x 2.8 in), which is half the area of Nano-ITX. The processor can be a VIA C7 or a VIA Eden V4 that uses VIA's NanoBGA2 technology for speeds up to 1.5 GHz, with 128KB L1 & L2 caches. It uses DDR2 400/533 SO-DIMM memory, with support for up to 1GB. Video is supplied via AGP by VIA's UniChrome Pro II GPU with built-in MPEG-2, 4, and WMV9 decoding acceleration. The BIOS is a 4 or 8 Mbit Award BIOS.[1][2]
EPIA PX (currently the only motherboard series that uses the Pico-ITX form factor) has been demonstrated running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista[3]. Major current flavours of Linux, including Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 7.10, have also been shown to be able to run on it.
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[edit] EPIA PX10000G
The first motherboard in this form factor is called EPIA PX10000G. It is 10 x 7.2 cm and 10 layers deep. The operating temperature range is from 0°C to about 50°C. The operating humidity level (relative and non-condensing) can be from 0% to about 95%. It uses a 1 GHz VIA C7 processor, a VIA VX700 chip set, and is RoHS compliant.[4] It has onboard VGA video-out, VIA VT6106S 10/100 RJ45 Ethernet, UDMA 33/66/100/133 44-pin PATA (1x), and SATA (1x) I/O. DVI and LVDS video-out, USB 2.0, COM, PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard, and 7.1 channel audio (supplied by a VIA VT1708A chip) are supported through the usage of I/O pin headers and add-on modules.[5][6]
The VIA PX-O add-on module supplies access to: 1 RCA-out for S/PDIF usage, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 Mic-in, 1 Line-out, 1 Line-in, 1 buzzer/speaker, 1 CN9 Connector (function TBC), and 1 CN10 Connector (function TBC). (Note: Either the VIA PX-O add-on module or 4 USB 2.0 I/O are supplied in retail packages.)[7]
The VIA VT1625M add-on module supplies access to 1 External TV-Out and 1 Video Capture Port.[8]
