Best current solutions 
 
For supervision and main strategy deployment: Fujitsu-Siemens : Tablet PC, compact, Ethernet, WiFi 
 
 
 
 
For distributed I/Os, with on the order of 1 ms data sampling and control time intervals: Beckhoff BC9000. 
 
 
 
Beck-IPC (PC-on-a-chip) DK-40 Very compact, Ethernet, 8 bit IO's 
 
 
 
For very compact servocontrol and flexible I/O, some FPGA have been originally configured in order to augment DK-40 possibilities(re. our Lodur and Walter robots). (Click to see a reference for our FPGA design) 
 
Alternate solutions 
 
Sony Vaio UPC-3 Compact, Ethernet 
 
(actually, any PC is allright, for quasi-static operation and development) 
 
Past solutions (with unmatched integration and reactivity): 
 
Toshiba Libretto 100 Compact, parallel-serial IO,  
 
Toshiba Libretto 50 Compact, parallel-serial IO, obsolete 
 
Solution not retained:  
 
PC-104 Compact but no keyboard, display, batteries, etc.