Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design

June 23, 2020

Embedded Boards

Size-Optimized SMARC 2.1

Carrier Board Rolls

Congatec has announced its conga‑SMC1/SMARC-x86 3.5-inch carrier board. The new size-optimized SMARC 2.1 carrier board in 3.5-inch form factor is optimized for the Gen 5 Intel Atom, Celeron and Pentium processors (codenamed Apollo Lake) as well as future low power x86 generations.

Mini-ITX SBC Sports 8th Gen Core Processor

WIN Enterprises has announced the MB-50040, a high performance Mini-ITX SBC for graphically-oriented factory process monitoring and IoT applications that require high performance. Three independent displays are supported for factory-line visualization. One display has DP++ resolution up to 4096 x 2160 at 60Hz.

Raspberry Pi 4 gains 8GB RAM Version

Raspberry Pi Ltd. has launched a version of the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB DDR4 for $75. It also released a beta of Raspbian—now called Raspberry Pi OS—with a 64-bit architecture that can fully exploit the 8GB RAM.

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Datasheet: Mini-ITX and

Pico-ITX SBCs

Product roundup of representative SBCs with links to their datasheets. Based on the small-sized versions of the ITX motherboard form factor, Mini-ITX and Pico-ITX keep growing in popularity and in embedded market share.

3.5-Inch Coffee Lake SBC has Four USB 3.1 Gen2 Ports

Advantech has launched a semi-rugged 3.5-inch SBC that supports Intel’s 9th and 8th Gen Coffee Lake/Refresh processors. The Linux-ready MIO-5393 shares some features with the company’s less feature-rich, 3.5-inch MIO-5373, which runs on 8th Gen Whiskey Lake CPUs.