Pico-ITX SBC with Dual-Core iMX6 SoC, Box PC for Mobile Comms, Signage-Oriented SBC Taps Ryzen V1000 and a Raffle for Free Stuff!
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| Pico-ITX and 3.5-inch SBCs Feature Dual-Core i.MX6 SoCs
IBASE Technology has announced two SBCs, both powered by an NXP i.MX 6Dual Cortex-A9 1.0 GHz high performance processor. The IBR115 2.5-inch SBC and the IBR117 3.5-inch SBC are designed for use in applications in the automation, smart building, transportation and medical markets.
IBR115 (right) and IBR117 (left) are highly scalable SBCs with extended operating temperature support of -40°C to 85°C and an optional heatsink. Supporting 1 GB DDR3 memory on board, the boards provide a number of interfaces including HDMI, single LVDS, 4 GB eMMC, Micro SD, COM, GPIO, USB, USB-OTG, Gbit Ethernet and M.2 Key-E. These embedded I/Os provide connection to peripherals such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, storage, displays and camera sensors for use in a variety of application environments while consuming low levels of power.
Both models ship with BSPs for Yocto Project 2.0 Linux and Android 6.0. They both run on dual-core, 1 GHz i.MX6 SoCs, but the IBR115 uses the DualLite while the IBR117 has a Dual with a slightly more advanced Vivante GPU.
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Compact Apollo-Lake Box PC Targets Mobile Comms
MEN Micro has announced its BC51M box PC based on the Intel Atom E3900 series, optionally with two or four cores, up to 1.6 GHz. The fanless and maintenance-free device is used in graphics and memory intensive applications in trains, buses or commercial vehicles and, thanks to its numerous communication interfaces, is highly variable.
With 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM memory, a rear accessible SD card, an integrated eMMC memory and an optional SATA HDD/SSD, the box PC has the necessary storage capacity for entertainment servers or video surveillance systems. The BC51M was designed for mobile use in vehicles and takes over wireless on-board functions such as Internet-on-board, positioning via GNSS, entertainment or predictive maintenance.
The box PC supports up to two DisplayPort interfaces with a maximum resolution of 4K, as well as two Gbit Ethernet interfaces, one USB 2.0, one HD audio and two variable connections for serial I/O, CAN bus, MVB or IBIS. Two PCI Express Mini Card slots and two micro-SIM slots provide flexibility in implementing mobile service standards up to 4G LTE or WLAN
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SDR Meets AI in a Mash-Up of Jetson TX2, Artix-7 and 2Ã2 MIMO A Philadelphia based startup called Deepwave Digital has gone to Crowd Supply to launch its "Artificial Intelligence Radio - Transceiver" (AIR-T) SBC. The AIR-T is a software defined radio (SDR) platform for the 300 MHz to 6 GHz range with AI and deep learning hooks designed for "low-cost AI, deep learning and high-performance wireless systems," says Deepwave Digital. The 170 mm x 170 mm Mini-ITX board is controlled by an Ubuntu stack running on an Arm hexa-core powered Nvidia Jetson TX2 module. There's also a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA and an Analog Devices AD9371 RFIC 2Ã2 MIMO transceiver.
The AIR-T is available through Aug. 14 for $4,995 on Crowd Supply with shipments due at the end of November. Deepwave Digital has passed the halfway point to its $20K goal, but it's already committed to building the boards regardless of the outcome.
The AIR-T is designed for researchers who want to apply the deep learning powers of the Jetson TX2's 256-core Pascal GPU and its CUDA libraries to the SDR capabilities provided by the Artix 7 and AD9371 transceiver. The platform can function as a "highly parallel SDR, data recorder or inference engine for deep learning algorithms," and provides for "fully autonomous SDR by giving the AI engine complete control over the hardware," says Deepwave Digital. Resulting SDR applications can process bandwidths greater than 200 MHz in real-time, claims the company.
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