Single Board Computers

Aaeon has released its first development kit for Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX AI system-on-module. Boxer-8654AI-kit is a carrier board equipped with either an 8Gbyte or 16Gbyte Jetson Orin NX module – respectively these have a hex-core or octa-core Arm 64bit Cortex-A78AE (ARMv8.2) CPU. Its IO includes six USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, an OOB (out-of-band) management box header, and four ...

Ditronix has announced a multi-phase power and energy monitoring board in the form of a ‘Hat’ for Raspberry Pis. Called ‘IPEM PiHat’, it is based on Microchip’s M90E36A monitoring and power computation IC. “The board may be used as a stand-alone controller-monitor, or integrated within an IoT in-house or IoT cloud MQTT monitoring platform,” according to the company. “Safety is ...

Congatec has added Intel Core S (Bartlett Lake S) processors to its 120 x 160mm COM-HPC Client Size C modules. “Conga-HPC/cBLS has been specially developed for power-hungry edge and infrastructure applications,” said the company. They “are based on the hybrid architecture of Core S processors, with up to 16 E [‘efficient’] and up to 8 P [‘performance’] cores for up ...

Congatec is updating its 82 x 50mm SA8 SMARC computer-on-modules by adding Intel’s Core 3 N355 processor as an option, which includes eight 1.9GHz cores, 6MBbyte of cache and is rated at 15W dissipation. “As with previous versions, the AI instruction sets, Intel AVX2 [advanced vector extensions 2] and VNNI [vector neural network instructions] ensure processing of deep learning inferences,” ...

Raspberry Pi has announced a second-generation of its computer-in-keyboard, and a branded monitor. Aimed at home computing and based on RP5 technology, the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer has a quad-core 64bit Arm Cortex-A76 processor (with 8Gbyte of ram), wireless networking, dual display outputs, and 4K video playback. It comes with a 32GB Raspberry Pi SD Card pre-loaded with Raspberry ...

Tria Technologies, Avnet’s embedded computer boards brand, has partnered with Finnish software company, Qt Group to develop new products for OEMs building human machine interface/graphic user interface (HMI/GUI) designs. Design, prototyping, system assembly and product integration by Tria will be combined with software development by Qt to build user interfaces for different platforms (i.e., embedded, mobile and desktop). The Qt ...

For embedded processing Raspberry Pi has revealed the 55 x 40mm ‘Compute Module’ form of Raspberry Pi 5. Processing come from a Broadcom BCM2712 with four 2.4GHz Cortex-A76 cores. All connections to Compute Modules are via two high in count connectors – there are no ‘standard’ interface connectors. There are multiple ram and flash options, and an optional wireless module ...

Raspberry Pi has announced the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth version of its 21 x 51mm Pico 2 microcontroller board. Called ‘Pico 2 W’, it shares the dual 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores, which can be replaced at boot by dual Hazard3 RISC-V processors. Memory remains 520kbyte of on-chip SRAM plus 4Mbyte of on-board QSPI flash. The added wireless interfaces are 2.4GHz 802.11n ...

MSI will unveil its latest AMD EPYC 9005 series CPU-based server boards and platforms at SuperComputing today. “As AI continues to reshape the landscape of data centre infrastructure, MSI’s servers, powered by EPYC 9005 Series processors [are] ideal for modern data centres,” said MSI general manager Danny Hsu. “Our servers optimise thermal management and performance for virtualised and containerised environments.” ...

Variscite is developing a 55 x 30mm system-on-module around NXP’s i.MX 91 processor IC, which has a 1.4GHz Cortex-A55 core. Named DART-MX91, the board will be equipped LPDDR4 memory between 512 Mbyte and 2Gbyte depending on options selected, and eMMC storage between 8 and 64Gbyte. Interfaces include: dual CAN-FD, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual USB, Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi6 802.11 ax/ac/a/b/g/n. ...