Electronics Weekly
“The board is positioned for applications requiring greater computing performance in space constrained smart manufacturing setups like industrial control, PLC automation and remote monitoring, where the installation of a board based on the larger Mini ITX form factor could prove challenging,” according to the company.
Called EPIC-RPS7, it stands ~50mm tall with its top-side fan installed, needs space above that for air flow and, “to achieve the best performance, keeping the EPIC-RPS7 operating with 0.5m/s air-flow when DDR5 is installed on bottom side is recommended”, said Aaeon. Up to 64GB of DDR5 (4800/5200) can be fitted via two SODIMM slots.
Communications include 2.5Gbit/s Ethernet, 1Gbit/s Ethernet, 4x physical USB 3.2 Type-A ports, backed up with 4x USB 2.0 connections via pin header. Then there are two RS-232/422/285 ports, two more just for RS-232, an 8bit GPIO, SMBus and I2C.
Up to three displays can be used simultaneously through connections for DP 1.2 (3,840 x 2,160 60Hz), VGA (1,920 x 1,080) and a dual-channel LVDS. There in no provision for audio.
For add-on cards there are slots for: full-size Mini Card/mSATA, a Nano SIM, M.2 2280 M-Key for NVMe memory and M.2 2230 E-Key for a Wi-Fi module.
An 8pin power socket accepts either 19 to 24V, or 12V (at 22A for full performance).
Operation is over 0 to +60°C.
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Last year, the same company announced an even smaller platform – 85.6 x 90mm, but only with Processor N97 or N100 (Alder Lake-N) CPUs, or slower.
