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Industrial ATX motherboard is scalable for AIoT

Mon, Oct 03, 2022

Equipped with an LGA1700 socket for the 12th generation Intel Core i9 / i7 / i5 / i3 processors (code named Alder Lake-S), the IBM540 is the latest industrial ATX motherboard from Axiomtek.

It has quad displays and dual GPU expansion for AIoT applications. The IMB540 is built with the Intel R680E chipset and the Alder Lake-S CPU options. It also has four DDR4-3200 ECC/non-ECC un-buffered long-DIMM slots with a total capacity of 128Gbyte. There are five PCIe slots, two 4.0 x16 slots and three x4 slots for GPU, AI acceleration, frame grabber, NIC and motion control card configurations. 

The networking interfaces consist of a 2.5GbE LAN port with time-sensitive networking (TSN), a GbE LAN port, as well as a PCIe mini card slot with SIM slot for Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / LTE connectivity. The Intel Iris Xe Graphics allows for support of up to four independent displays via HDMI, DVI-D, VGA, and DisplayPort++.

For storage, there are four SATA 3.0 ports with integrated RAID 0 / 1 / 5 / 10 and additional storage is available via an M.2 Key M 2280 slot with PCIe x4 signal for NVMe SSD. The USB interface support includes four USB 3.2 Gen2, four USB 3.2 Gen1 and five USB 2.0 ports. The board is further equipped with four RS-232, two RS-232 / -422 /- 485, eight-channel programmable digital I/O, one HD codec audio, one SMBus, and one PS/2 keyboard and mouse. 

The industrial ATX motherboard can withstand a wide operating temperature range from 0 to 60 degrees C. It also supports onboard Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM) to provide hardware-based data protection. Operating systems are Windows 10 and Linux.

The IMB540 drives AI computing performance and includes sufficient I/O, high-speed interfaces, multi-display connection capability and flexible expansion slots for medical imaging, video surveillance, computer vision and data analysis, said Kasper Tsai, the product manager of the AIoT team at Axiomtek. “Moreover, we have the capability to assist with any customer’s industrial integration requirements and achieve fast time to market,” he added.

http://www.axiomtek.com 

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Display Technology adds Aaeon’s Boxer-8221AI to linecard

Mon, Oct 03, 2022

The latest box PC designed by Aaeon which is powered by Nvidia’s Jetson Nano for AI applications.

The Boxer-8221AI Box PC is intended for mid-level deployment of AI and edge computing applications, confirmed the company. The Jetson Nano SoC combines the quad-core Arm Cortex-A57 MPCore processor with Nvidia Maxwell GPU architecture featuring 128 Nvidia Cuda cores.

The fanless embedded Box PC allows processing speeds up to 472GFLOPs (floating operations per second) and is capable of operating multiple neural networks or processing several high resolution images at the same time. The Nvidia Jetson Nano also provides the Boxer-8221AI with 4Gbyte RAM and 16Gbyte eMMC storage.

The Boxer-8221AI is certified to CE and FCC class A. It has one LAN and two RS-232 ports as well as one M.2 E-Key 2230 port for Wi-Fi.

The power input is 12V DC.

Established in 1996 as Display Solutions and acquired by Display Technology in September 2018, the UK subsidiary of Fortec Elektronik. Display Technology delivers the latest technical innovations in displays, touch screens and embedded computing backed by services from initial consultation through to sample design, volume manufacturing and immediate-response after-sales support. 

In the UK, the company specialises in embedded computing market sectors, including industrial instrumentation and control, transportation, retail/point of sale, outdoor signage, medical, marine, audio and lighting control and energy management.

http://www.displaytechnology.co.uk

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Space-qualified quad core processor enhances imaging

Mon, Oct 03, 2022

Qualified flight models of Teledyne e2v’s LS1046-Space processor, based on Arm’s Cortex-A72. It targets compute-intensive space applications, including high throughput satellites and data compression, as well as artificial intelligence and imaging. According to the company, it outperforms existing alternatives by a factor of 30. 

The LS1046-Space processor has minimal power consumption with a data processing performance that makes it suitable for deployment in power constrained Cubesat and Microsatellite platforms where an advanced data path design and access to multiple integrated peripherals are required. 

“With its advanced processing capabilities, powerful feature set, and ease of use and implementation in space systems – it is an important enabler for artificial intelligence and machine learning. It especially suits future, low earth orbit (LEO) operations,” commented Thomas Guillemain, marketing and business development manager for digital products at Teledyne e2V.

Clocked at up to 1.8GHz, the 64bit LS1046-Space processor delivers 30k DMIPs and has a fast, 2.1Gtransfers per second, 64bit DDR4 SDRAM controller with embedded eight-bit error corrected code (ECC). There is also a 2Mbyte L2 cache shared across the four Arm cores. L1 and L2 caches also benefit from ECC-protection, providing a high degree of in-flight immunity to data corruption, said the company. 

A range of embedded interfaces include 10Gbit Ethernet, three PCI-Express (PCIe) v.3.0 lanes, SPI, I2C and multiple UARTs. The device is supplied in a compact 23 x 23mm, 780-ball BGA package.

The LS1046-Space has a wide operating temperature range (-55 to 125 degrees C) and achieves 100krad total ionising dose tolerance. Immunity to single event latch-up (SEL) and upsets (SEU) is being validated in qualification. The processor is qualified up to NASA level 1.

Teledyne e2v’s supplies standard, semi-custom or full custom devices to customers in healthcare, life sciences, space, transportation, defence and security and industrial markets. 

The company will be exhibiting at electronica in Munich (15 to 18 November) with a stand in Hall C4-215; and at Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen (15 to 17 November) stand number M52 in Bremen, Germany. 

http://www.teledyne.com

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Low power cascadable gain blocks can be used in 4G/5G infrastructure

Fri, Sep 30, 2022

The CMX90G301 and CMX90G302 low power cascadable gain blocks have positive gain-slopes of +1dB and +2dB respectively and an operating frequency range of 1.4 to 7.1GHz. Both devices are suitable for a range of RF applications, including 4G/5G infrastructure and devices operating in unlicensed frequency bands, advised CML Microcircuits.

The CMX90G301 and CMX90G302 positive gain slope amplifiers were developed using CML’s SµRF RFIC / MMIC design capability. These general-purpose gain blocks use GaAs pHEMT technology to achieve an optimal combination of low DC power, low noise, and high gain. 

The CMX90G301 has +1dB positive gain slope, while the CMX90G302 offers a +2dB gain slope for applications requiring more gain slope compensation. Both devices deliver a small signal gain of 14.8 to 16.0dB, a P1dB output rating of +11.5dBm at 3.5 GHz and a low noise figure of 2dB.

As is the case with other devices in the SµRF family, the CMX90G301 and CMX90G302 gain blocks have a high level of integration and support minimised component counts and reduced PCB footprints, said CML. The two cascadable, gain blocks eliminate the need for passive equalisation circuits within the system design. An on-board active bias circuit allows the devices to operate over a wide supply voltage of 2.7 to 5V, with a typical current of 22mA. The RF ports of each device are matched to 50 Ohm, which supports rapid product development cycles, particularly for mass-market applications, said the company.

The CMX90G301 and CMX90G302 address the growing market requirement for high-performing mmWave devices, said Matthew White, marketing manager, RF and mmWave. 

CML Microcircuits is a world-leader in the design, development and supply of low power analogue, digital and mixed-signal semiconductors for telecommunications systems globally.

The company’s varied portfolio means that CML devices are used in an extensive range of industrial and commercial products for licensed and unlicensed wireless voice and data systems.

SµRF is a CML Microcircuits product portfolio of RF front end components with design capability from 1.0 to 100GHz.

In addition to a range of devices, the company is able to offer bespoke solutions to customers. This service includes design assistance, advice, and first-class technical support.

http://www.cmlmicro.com 

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