Boards/Backplanes

A 3.5” SBC and a COMe compact module, powered by the Intel Atom processor E3800 family and the Intel Celeron processor J1900 family, have been introduced by Avalue Technology. Based on the 22nm Silvermont microarchitecture, these processors are designed for intelligent systems and applications with low power consumption and high performance requirements.

  Advantech has announced the release of its low power, fanless COM Express Mini Module, the SOM-7568. It is equipped with the latest Intel Pentium N3700, Celeron N3150 and Celeron N3000 single-chip processors, which are manufactured on new Intel 14nm process technology.

Based on the 2nd gen AMD Embedded G-series SoC, two COM modules have been introduced by Hectronic. The H6071 (Qseven form factor) and H6068 (COM Express form factor) are suitable for embedded applications that require powerful CPU and graphics performance in combination with low power consumption and extremely compact size.

Offering outstanding graphics performance and power efficiency for embedded systems, the BE170, BE171 and BE173 APU-based Mini-ITX boards have been introduced by DFI. The AMD R-series APUs feature AMD Radeon HD9000 Graphics technology providing immersive HD multimedia interactivity, and delivering up to 55% improved 3D graphics performance than the previous-generation.

The latest two Virtex-7 FPGA carriers, from VadaTech, which come in the AMC format have been annouced. The carriers utilise the 690T device providing over 693,000 logic cells and 3600 DSP slices. The AMC527 has three banks of 114Mb QDR-II memory and the AMC516 has banks of 64- and 16-bit DDR3 memory and an on-board P2040 PowerPC.

The Multisense Evaluation Kit from Rohm is an add-on sensor platform, opening up hot swappable sensor capability to projects.  Customers can test and interchange six of the most popular sensors from Rohm for portable applications on most platforms with USB host support. It is on sale at Farnell element14.

A Mini-ITX motherboard designed to support DC power input has been introduced by IBASE Technology. The MI808 can be powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Pentium N3700 or 1.04GHz Celeron N3000 processor and is paired with two DDR3L SO-DIMM sockets that accept up to 8GB of memory. Featuring triple independent displays, the device is scalable to adapt to various applications in transportation, mobile, POS and industrial automation markets.

A motherboard which supports the 5th Gen Intel Core processors has been released by IBASE Technology. The MI985 Mini-ITX supports Mobile Intel QM87 Express Chipset for processing and graphics. It has Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel Active Management Technology 9.0, for use in kiosk, medical, factory, industrial automation and control markets.

  Adding to the Qseven family, congatec has announced the conga-QA4 module. The module features the latest Intel Pentium and Celeron processors based on 14nm technology. It has Intel Gen8 graphics with up to 16GEUs (Graphics Execution Units) and 4K (3840x2160px) resolution.

An FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) per VITA 57 for high-speed networking has been released by VadaTech. Alongside quad SFP/SFP+ transceivers for 10GbE in copper or fibre formats, the FMC109 features four re-timers, which provide tuning for the Tx and Rx signals.