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Motherboard with on-board power supply

In the FAWN system, there are used motherboards with onboard power supplies.

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"I'm not sure if the FAWN units are custom boards or not -- but from one of the photos, it seems they use AMD Geode SC1100 CPUs; beyond that I can't really find out much about them.
Those motherboard don't so much have ""onboard power supplies"" -- as they accept straight DC (possibly 12V?) from a wall power adapter with a barrel connector.

Most power supplies convert wall AC power to DC power used inside your computer. Typical ATX computers use a larger ATX power supply that supplies hundreds of watts, are larger and generate more heat. These FAWN units only sip power, thus they can get away with a small wallwart and don't need a typical ATX power supply.

ZOTAC makes an nVidia ION board that similarly doesn't require an ATX-style power supply, but use a power brick that you usually see with laptops.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3562

(see the barrel connector for power on the far-right edge next to the audio, and under the Wi-Fi antenna connector)"