A Chinese Company Hoply recently showed its CARPC products. It is the first CARPC in China. The CarPC uses the power saving 1G VIA C3 processor as the CPU with a large capacity hard disk and memory. The operating system can be the Windows from Microsoft, and the compatibility is very good for both hardware and software. Different application software can be installed for different usage. As a fully equipped PC it has full and all kinds of interfaces for connecting peripheral equipments and can be easily configured as an information processing platform for a certain application.

Here the shown model CarPc is equipped with a 7inch fully motorized in-dash TFT touch screen. The screen is of 16:9 and VGA resolution, and it is not only the touch screen of the CARPC but also a CarTV The screen is very clear with high lightness and very convenient for operating during driving. So the driver can operating the carpc safely, easily and convenient during the travel.

As the working condition in cars is very hard for carpc, it must be robust enough to stand for high temperature and strong vibration. Hoply??s CarPC used VIA??s special motherboard and CPU which were specially designed for hard working condition. As the power supply in cars is not very stable, in order to keep the CARPC working smoothly, Hoply designed a special power supplying module for the CARPC, which can make the 12V DC power supply stable even when there is a very short power failure.

The CARPC

Size: 19*25*5mm

Processor: - VIA C3 EBGA Processor, C3 1GHz with Fan

Chipset: VIA CLE266 North Bridge,VT8235 South Bridge

RAM: 256m the DDR memory (or larger )

Hard Disk: 40G 2.5 inch hard disk (or larger )

Display Card: VIA Unichrome AGP graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator

Sound card: 6 channel AC'97 Codec

Interfaces: 4 USB 2.0

1 1394 ports

1 COM

1 LPT

1 VGA port

1 RCA port (SPDIF or TV out)

1 LAN outlet

1 S-Video port

1 Mouse keyboard connection

Bios: BIOS supports sleeping and hot starts

Power: DC/DC the ATX power , supporting 6v-30V DC input

ITPS: when the car is switched off, carpc will be shut after 30 seconds and cut off power after 60 seconds, when the car is switched on, the carpc will be started after 4seconds.

The Display:

In-dash size : 1Din

Display size: 7inch new Panasonic digital panel

Out-size:: 19*18*5cm

Resolution: 800*480(WVGA)

TV system: PAL/NTSC auto switch

Sound system: I, B/G, D/K, M

Power: 12V

Power Consumption: 8-12W

Video Input: Two CVBS input

Optional function: 1.VGA support 640*480-1280*768

Touch panel: reliable 4 line touch board

Accessories: (optional)

5 meter USB (or longer)

5 meter VGA (or longer)

The GPS module (optional)

CDMA module with USB connecting cable

WLAN card

The blue tooth adapter

The VW engine interface (A4, A6, Bora, Passat) ( optional )

Working condition:

Operation temperature 0~50 Centigrade

Operation humidity 0% ~ 93%