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Low-Profile PCI Cards: a New Approach to Inner Space • Lavalanche Winners! • Distributor Profile Lava I/O News April 2002 Vol.4 No.4 Inside this issue: • Low-profile PCI cards: A New Approach to Inner Space • Lavalanche Winners! • Distributor profile Lava I/O News Low-Profile PCI Cards: A New Approach to Inner Space Most of us remember our first impression on looking inside the chassis of a desktop or tower computer: is that all there is? Apart from the motherboard, power supply, drives and cables, a few cards, and dust bunnies, things were pretty empty in there. And while we knew that air had to circulate inside the case, the empty spaces inside still seemed a bit large. Notebook computers came along and really confirmed the impression that the inside of typical computers had enough extra space for a game of baseball. sets standards for the PCI bus generally. As well as defining a maximum height for Low-profile PCI cards follow the “PCI Local cards designated as “low-profile”, the low-pro- The reason for all the empty space is historical: Bus Specification, Revision 2.2” or later, but file PCI specification also outlines two low-pro- the original PC's expansion cards were loaded in addition adopt the form factor require- file PCI card lengths —short (called “MD1”) with lots of separate and large components. ments of the new "PCI Engineering Change and long (“MD2”).An MD1 low-profile card has They were rather tall, and needed to be so. Notice —Low Profile PCI Card". Designed as a a maximum length of 4.72" (119.91 mm). An However, as integrated circuit technology collaborative effort by the PCI Special Interest MD2 card is longer than an MD1 card, but not advanced, expansion boards got smaller and Group and companies including IBM and longer than 6.6" (167.64 mm). Both MD1 and fewer. Motherboards shrank and incorporated Intel, the low-profile PCI standard limits the MD2 cards can be no higher than 2.536" (64.41 drive controllers, graphics adapters, sound height of low-profile PCI cards to a maximum mm) and can be as short as 0.945" (24 mm). cards, additional interfaces, and so on. But of 2.5 inches/60 mm —about 60% of the The diagram below compares low-profile PCI along the way, the standard allowance for height of standard PCI cards. card sizes with standard height PCI card sizes. adapter card height remained the same. Eventually, in early 2000, someone asked the PCI Card Sizes obvious question:why not cut down the height of expansion cards, and enable case designers to reduce the volume of the computer chassis Standard Height Short Card — 6.875" by almost half? Bingo! low-profile PCI. Standard Height Long Card — 12.283" What are low-profile PCI cards? Low Profile Short Card (MD1) — 4.72" Low-profile PCI cards are simply PCI cards Low Profile Long Card (MD2) — 6.6" based on a new card size standard. The low-profile PCI standard was developed to standardize the design of PCI cards used Maximum 4.2" Standard Height Standard in small-footprint systems. Low-profile PCI Low Profile Low Maximum 2.536" cards follow the design guidelines of the PCI 0.945" Minimum Special Interest Group, the organization that Profile Low The low-profile PCI specification also stipulates The DSerial-PCI/LP adds two 16550 serial Win a Lava DSerial-PCI/LP! a new bracket design.While the low-profile PCI ports, each with speeds up to 115.2 kbps. card bracket has the same width as standard It comes complete with its own “Y” splitter Please take a moment to fill out the height PCI cards' brackets, it is naturally much cable. The DSerial-PCI/LP is very popular with survey. Tell us a little about yourself so shorter. In addition, the top part of the low- Point-of-Sale system builders designing com- we can serve you better! profile bracket (where a screw secures the pact under-the-counter cash register systems. bracket to the computer's chassis) is a mirror By filling out this survey and faxing it image of the conventional bracket: a low- The SSerial-PCI/LP adds a single 16550 UART to 416.674.8262, you might win Lava's profile bracket is not simply a full-height serial port on the PCI slot of any low-profile best-selling DSerial-PCI/LP! bracket with the bottom cut short. system. NAME _________________________________________ COMPANY Min. 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On average, how many I/O cards do you What does Lava offer in use/resell each month? low-profile PCI? Lava makes low-profile versions of its stan- _________________________________ dard-setting EPP card,the Lava Parallel-PCI; its SSerial-PC/LP popular and dependable dual serial card the Where do you get your information Lava DSerial-PCI; and its single port serial about I/O boards? card, the Lava SSerial-PCI. Each of these is an Low-Profile PCI Marketplace: MD1 (short) low-profile PCI card. • POS (Point-of-Sale) system builders use the ❍ Advice from your tech low-profile dual serial card! support department The Parallel-PCI/LP is the classic Lava Parallel- ❍ Distributor PCI card —our high speed, ultra-reliable, • Low-profile PCI cards —parallel and ❍ Manufacturer enhanced parallel port —redesigned for low- serial —are great for all-in-one systems ❍ Industry magazines profile. 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