Single Board Computers

Systems integrator, Direct Insight, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has partnered with German SoM and SBC provider, MicroSys Electronics. The partnership covers the UK and Ireland. The minority of embedded designs are in-house, said Direct Insight’s CEO, David Pashley (pictured), often prohibited by NRE costs. The company’s strategy is to advise development teams to upgrade hardware (SoCs, FPGAs) and software, by ...

Distributor Fortec is aiming medical markets with a PC and COM Express Type 6 module from Axiomtek – both based around Gen 12 and 13 Intel processors (Alder Lake and Raptor Lake respectively) mBOX602 is the PC, for i7, i5 and i3 processor processors up to 65W supported by 2x DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM up to 64Gbyte. “The mBOX602 is IEC 60601 ...

Review Display Systems is stocking a pair of industrial mini-STX (140 x 148mm) motherboards from Kontron, built around Intel Alder Lake-N processors with in-built graphics. K3921-N (pictured) has two DisplayPort v1.4, one DisplayPort via front USB type-C, an embedded DisplayPort and a dual-channel 24bit LVDS interface. A total of two 4K UHD and one FHD can be driven. There are ...

To meet the increased demand for generative AI in embedded and edge applications, Nvidia has released the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU. According to the company, it offers up to 1.5 times the performance of the earlier RTX A2000 12GByte processor. It enhances AI-powered design tools and high resolution visuals in industrial 3D design, such as structural analysis in civic ...

Moxa has created a family of industrial PCs around Intel’s Tiger Lake (11th gen) processors. There are 75 models, all fanless, covering wall-mountable, rack-mount and DIN rail shapes (see photo). All can accept a single SODIMM DDR4 ram module up to 32Gbyte, but come with 8Gbyte pre-installed. All are rated to work across -30 to 60°C. BXP series has box-type ...

Erqos has announced a phone and cloud connected programmable logic controller backed by an AI-based semi-automatic control code generator, and a similar tool for making matching phone apps. The DIN-rain controller, dubbed EQSP32, is built around an ESP32S3 microcontroller with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and the unit offers digital and analogue inputs and ouputs as well as serial busses. “EQSP32 lets ...

Congatec is to ship an installed hypervisor with many of its x86 computer-on-modules as standard. The hypervisor in question is related to RTS Hypervisor from Real-Time Systems – a company owned by Congatec, and installed as part of the BIOS. “It uses the same technology as RTS Hypervisor, but it is integrated in the modules” the company told Electronics Weekly, ...

For those of you wanting to design with Raspberry Pi’s much-awaited Compute Module 5 (CM5), the organisation has created a forward guidance document to help engineers get started. Electronics Weekly cannot publish any of it here, but you can download the CM5 forward guidance document from this web page – a sign-in is needed for this – creating a Raspberry ...

Advantech has announced a fan-less edge computer for kiosks and robotics, built around Intel’s 12th and 13th generation Core ix desktop processors up to 35W. ARK-3533, as it will be known, measures 200 x 75 x 215mm and workd from 9 – 36Vdc/ It “has a shock-resistant design that can also withstand temperatures from -20 to 60°C,” according to the ...

Aaeon is aiming at robotics with a mini-PC built around Intel’s Core i3-N305 or Processor N97 CPUs, “chosen due to their balance of power consumption and performance”, it said. “The platform provides the sensor data processing, integrated graphics and resources required for path planning and control algorithms needed to bring automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots to market.” Xtreme ...