Set Your Imagination on Fire

SPARK Your Imagination is a joint offering between VIA and Microsoft Windows Embedded. Combining VIA's power efficient, ultra compact embedded boards and a full version of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional, a software offering previously available only to professionals, SPARK Your Imagination allows you to take advantage of one of the most comprehensive sets of powerful embedded hardware, development tools, technologies and resources.  Start building your vision today.

Ever since VIA's introduction to market of Mini-ITX form factor based boards in 2002, VIA processor platforms have inspired professional developers, academics and hobbyists alike to create innovative systems. In maximizing the creativity allowed by the increasingly tiny boards, VIA hardware platforms make a perfect fit for Microsoft's SPARK Your Imagination program, which seeks to free the imagination in embedded design.

The VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX builder kit and the VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX board have been selected as the primary VIA hardware offering for the SPARK Your Imagination program in North America, providing the ideal platform for super-compact embedded systems that offer all the performance, features and multimedia you need for your embedded applications.

Together with Microsoft, VIA supplies a complete, enterprise-class hardware and software package to hobbyist developers and academics through a simple and affordable engagement program. Features and benefits include:

• Assurance of a robust, flexible VIA hardware platform with proven reliability running Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2
• Support from Microsoft and a large, active community of embedded developers
• A professional grade product at an affordable price point
• Support for up to 32,000 simultaneous processes, with 2GB of virtual memory space for each process

You can find out more about the community-focused SPARK Your Imagination program on the Microsoft website here, or buy a complete SPARK kit here.