Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design

March 24, 2020

Embedded Boards

Four-Slot Raspberry Pi Cluster Board Starts at $80

IPTerra’s “CloverPi” cluster board starts at $80 on Kickstarter, supporting up to 4x Raspberry Pi SBCs with power, switches, LEDs and network headers for each, plus a 5-port Gbit Ethernet switch with uplink port.

Compact Networking Board has Dual Mini-PCIe Slots

Gateworks’ compact Newport GW6903 SBC runs Linux on a dual-core Marvell OcteonTX and offers USB 3.0 and GbE with PoE ports plus dual mini-PCIe slots and -40°C to 85°C support.The SBC adds a second mPCIe slot, upgrades the USB port to 3.0, and expands the board length from 100mm to a 110mm x 35mm x 21mm footprint.

Whiskey Lake Thin Mini-ITX Board has PCIe

Avalue has announced an industrial Thin Mini-ITX board that runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s 8th Gen Whiskey Lake U-series processors. The EMX-WHL-GP has much in common with its 6th or 7th Gen EMX-KBLU2P thin Mini-ITX model, but adds a third GbE port and a PCIe gold finger interface among other enhancements.

Special Feature: Modular Solutions Enable Embedded AI

There’s a big difference between AI in the abstract sense and AI implemented in embedded systems. Smoothing the way, processing technologies including FPGAs, GPUs, NPUs and dedicated AI SoCs are being designed into a variety of solutions in board, box, development kit and chip IP formats.

Upgraded Arm-Based Board Sports 8GB eMMC Flash

VersaLogic has added a new model to its “Swordtail” product family, the latest in their line of production-ready Arm-based embedded computers. It's available with either the NXP i.MX6 Quad (quad core), or the i.MX6 DualLite (dual core) processors. The new model adds on-board eMMC storage functionality.