Low Power SBC suited for LabVIEW apps

[Mads]

I'm looking for a low power single board computer that can run LabVIEW applications and is suitable for integration into a measuring device.

Is there anyone who has experience with LabVIEW on small SBCs with e.g. Windows Mobile? The two basic tasks for the SBC is to communicate on RS485 with an external board, do some number crunching on some data from this external board and store the results for later retrieval using TCP or another serial link...The power consumption should at least be less than 6W.

We have been looking at sbRIOs or the possibility of using the cards inside a PAC unit..(more compact than sbRIO)...but the form factor is too large and the prices are much higher than e.g. an SBC running Windows Mobile or XPe so it looks like we'll need to find a suitable SBC instead.

Mads

Edited February 2, 2010 by Mads

[EricLarsen]

There are numerous low power PC/104 cards that could probably do this. The 6W requirement is going to really limit the options. Here is on from VersaLogic that might work. I've never used this one before, but we've used numerous VersaLogic boards and they are a good company.

http://www.versalogic.com/products/DS.asp?ProductID=200