Compact motherboard features Intel Gen9 graphics engine

28th February 2017

Alice Matthews

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Axiomtek has introduced PICO312, a palm-sized fanless pico-ITX motherboard built with the latest 14nm quad-core Intel Pentium processor N4200 or dual-core Celeron processor N3350 (codename: Apollo Lake SoC). One 204-pin DDR3L-1867 SO-DIMM socket supports system memory up to 8GB.

The 2.5” pico-ITX embedded board features Intel Gen9 graphics engine bringing a true high definition visual experience with dual display configurations through one LVDS and choice of one VGA or HDMI.

In addition, it was designed for special needs of fanless operation under temperature from -20 to 60°C. Its compact size also suits the PICO312 to various space-constrained embedded applications. This embedded SBC is suitable for any media editing, imaging, graphics and video intensive applications popular in industrial IoT field.

“The newest Intel Apollo Lake-based 2.5" embedded motherboard, PICO312, features a full-sized PCI Express Mini Card slot in support of mSATA and a pair of expansion connectors with additional signals including one PCIe x1 lane, one LPC, one DDI, four USB 3.0 ports, one SMBus and one HD audio, giving this SBC high expandability to meet all requirements,” said Ken Lin, Product Manager of Product PM Division, Axiomtek.

The PICO312 comes with advanced connectivity including one USB 2.0 port, one Gigabit Ethernet (built-in Intel Ethernet controller i211AT), and one SATA-600 interface. To ensure reliable operation, the Pico-ITX 2.5-inch motherboard also utilises advantages of watchdog timer to detect and recover from computer malfunctions; and that of hardware to monitor temperature, voltage, fan speed, and more. Moreover, the I2C connector is available as a communication protocol to connect Axiomtek’s different battery solutions with AXView - Axiomtek’s intelligent remote management software - to monitor battery status.

Key features:

Intel Pentium processor N4200 and Celeron processor N3350 (Apollo Lake SoC)
1 DDR3L-1867 SO-DIMM max up to 8GB
1 USB 2.0 and 1 Gigabit LAN port
1 Full-size PCI Express Mini Card slot with mSATA supported
Expansion connectors for I/O board (one PCIe x1 lane, LPC, SMBus, DDI, USB 3.0 and audio signals)
Fanless yet noiseless operation
Wide operating temperature range supported from -20 to 60°C