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ATX Motherboard

The ATX standard for industrial boards is the most widely used worldwide

The ATX motherboard for industrial PCs are sizable board and are a popular standard worldwide; Digimax’s ATX motherboard can withstand places where temperatures are highest and environments subject to noise and vibration.

Within its own sotck, Digimax has ATX motherboards from well-known companies in the industry, such as Advantech, AAEON and IEI.

The ATX format (Advanced Technology eXtended) represents the standard format (12x9.6’’, 244x305 mm) par excellence allowing manufacturers to include all important components within it, increasing application versatility of this pc board. Indeed, they can be housed in compact chassis, equipped with very high-performance processors, and feature great expandability and the presence of various on-board interfaces.

ATX motherboard main features

The ATX standard is widely used in the assembly of personal computer from component of various manufacturers that, although different from each other, are compatible and interchangeable. In this way the components situation is easier and don’t impede future upgrade using the same case. A motherboard is responsable to managing and powering all the various component related to it: processor, RAM memory, hard disk, video card, ect.

The motherboard ATX standard is the most widespread and popular format in industry. One of the principal differences from other formats is the number of slot RAM on it. ATX embedded board, compared to the ITX standard, offer a higher slot RAM number and in some cases can go up to 4 or 8 slot.

Other differences are the socket used (Intel or AMD), which allows the chosen processor to be connected to the board in question, and the CPU (Central Processing Unit) that manage processed data.

Digimax has ATX motherboard compatible with the industry's highest performing CPUs, including Celeron, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Pentium and Xeon.

All industrial motherboards are built to offer maximum reliability within harsh environments and are designed to be customizable and easily integrated. Find out the dedicate industrial service consulting.

EATX MOTHERBOARDS

INDUSTRIAL MOTHERBOARD EATX

What characterises EATX-format embedded boards?

EATX PC boards represent the largest format of the standard ATX. This motherboard family is designed to provide more space and functionality.

The large size allows for board expansion and generally higher performance.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of EATX boards?

EATX boards offer high performance, but also cost significantly more than standard formats.

The huge amount of space available for memory installation and expansion ports means more GPUs, hence a better working experience; due to the larger size the components can be cooled more easily with fantastic overclocking.

Micro-ATX MOTHERBOARDS

Micro-ATX Motherboard

The features and functionality of the Micro-ATX format

The Micro-ATX boards represent a variant of ATX motherboard format, within which the short side dimensions of 244 mm coexist; the maximum size of a Micro-ATX is 9,6’’ x 9,6’’ (244mm x 244mm), a square form factor popular in industrial and consumer applications.

Despite being smaller than the ATX standard, the Micro-ATX boards are a popular format of purchase choice, because they offer high performance and functionality for housing in compact industrial chassis.

The Micro-ATX intermediate standard represents the middle format of the ATX family and offers the perfetc compromise between performance, size, price and connection interfaces.

Where Digimax’s Micro-ATX embedded boards can be used

In recent years, Micro-ATX boards have had great use in desktop solutions.

The wide availability of configurations, coupled with the guarantee of optimal performance and best value for money have ensured its success within fixed gaming computers, workstations and dedicated design PCs.

The presence of PCIe slots, coupled with the large area for RAM management, makes the Micro-ATX board the more desiderable solution than the Mini-ITX format, wich is more compact and miniaturized but more expensive and poorer in expansion slots.

Digimax is an official partener of the most innovative international Micro-ATX motherboard producers, such as Advantech, AAEON and IEI. Digimax’s Micro-ATX motherboards support the latest Intel and ARM processors and offer extensive I/O support and expansion capabilities to provide flexibility for the most demanding embedded applications.

You can customize the board’s features with the Digimax consulting service, which allows you to configure specific embedded application.

Mini-ITX MOTHERBOARDS

MINI-ITX Motherboard

The most compact format of ITX boards: Mini-ITX

Mini-ITX motherboards represent the smallest and most compact format of ITX motherboard, their big sisters are, therfore, the ATX and Micro-ATX boards.

With a size of 6.7’’x 6.7’’ (170mm x 170mm), Mini-ITX standard offers the perfect combination of compact dimention and high performance. The miniaturized square form factor makes the Mini-ITX boards versatile and adaptable to small case.

In fact, this form factor is highly integrated, designed for small devices.

The main features of industrial Mini-ITX boards

The Mini-ITX pc board owes its great success to its small size, and it is because of this feature that it is distinguished by its fanless passive cooling system. Loss noises, silence and high performance complete the presentation of this efficient and polyvalent motherboard.

The advanced features and available connection interfaces of the Mini-ITX standard are many, and while they do not reach the levels of ATX boards, they maintain solid performance and a small footprint.

Mini-ITX boards are among the most popular solutions when the combination of performance and compact size is essential, without having to compromise economically.

With the “Build your kit” consulting service it is also possible to identify and configure a kit consisting of pc board and matching TFT monitor, customizing CPU and touch technology.

FULL-SIZED SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

Digimax full-sized Single Board Computer boards have the latest Intel or AMD processor and deliver high performance with low power consumption.

We also have full-sized SBC backplane motherboards. These boards adapt to multiple uses in the industrial sector, as well as the possibility of being customized according to the specific needs of the customer.

HALF-SIZED SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

The half-size SBC features a compact design, only features short PCI slots and does not support the full I / O capabilities of full-size SBCs. However, half-size SBCs are a flexible and ideal solution when frame space is limited.

BACKPLANE PASSIVI E RISER CARDS

The backplane is an electronic card whose main purpose is to electrically connect multiple electronic cards.

Unlike the active backplane, the passive backplane has only the bus connectors and very little or no additional circuitry.

In a passive backplane system, one or more expansion boards that have been connected to the backplane handle all the communication. Digimax has a wide range of products belonging to the major brands on the market such as Advantech, AAEON and IEI, and offer up to 20 ISA, PCI, and PCI Express expansion slots

2,5" Pico-ITX SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

Motherboard Pico-ITX

The Pico-ITX format for industrial motherboard

The industrial motherboards are printed circuit board use to connect various types of components and thus represent the PC central unit. These motherboards are fundamental in industrial applications through to their versatility.

There are different types of industrial motherboards and Pico-ITX standard is an ultra- compact, low-power motherboard format, measuring 10 cm x 7,2 cm, marked since 2007.

The Pico-ITX format results the more compact standard on the market (75% smaller than Mini-ITX) and represents the best choice for miniaturize applications, opening up a new possibility for IoT applications and integrated M2M.

Pico-ITX format characteristics

The extremely small size is the most attractive advantage of this format, but not the only one. Achieving these miniaturize levels has brought improvement in terms of energy efficiency, thermal management and integration.

Digimax’s Pico-ITX single board (SBC) represent innovative and ultra slim solutions, through to fanless cooling and high energy efficiency.

Miniaturize applications through Pico-ITX standard

The use and spread of Pico-ITX SBC has given rise to a small size boards trend for miniaturize IIoT solutions. The spread of Nano-ITX has paved the way for more compact and embedded applications.

With the “Build your Kit” consulting service it is also possible to identify and configure a kit with motherboard and combined TFT monitor, customizing touch tecnology and CPU.

3,5" SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

Digimax has a vast assortment of 3.5 "Single Board Computer motherboards from two of the largest brands on the market, AAEON and Advantech.

These cards are extremely compact (146x102mm), fanless and low power consumption.

The 3.5" SBC motherboards distributed by Digimax are able to withstand shock and vibration, have a wide temperature range of operation and can be included in the LCDs Custom kits, designed in the laboratory according to the customer's needs.

Thanks to the consulting service "Build your Kit" it is also possible to identify and configure a kit consisting of pc board and TFT monitor, customizing CPU and touch technology.

5,25" SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

The 5.25" boards proposed by Digimax measure 203 x 146 mm and feature-rich I / O choices and a super-thin compact design with multiple expansion options (PC / 104-Plus stackable ) and extended temperature options.

They also offer scalable x86 performance for low-power Intel Atom ™ processors up to high-performance Intel Core ™ I processors.

PC-104 SINGLE BOARD COMPUTERS

SYSTEM ON MODULES - SOM

System on Modules

Feautures of SoM format for embedded system

The acronym SoM (System On Module) is used to group a set of compactly sized embedded systems, characterized by construction on a single fixed module.

System on Module solutions proposed by Digimax provide all software and hardware functionality for use in on-the-edge miniaturized applications with high modularity.

SoMs differ from the main System on Chip (SoC) in that unlike the latter they are not placed on a single chip, but rather on a Single Board Computer (SBC) which therefore allows for additional components such as processors, interfaces and memory slots. The complete, preconfigured design ensures their full and rapid operation within finished products such as industrial robots and machine vision cameras.

Ready-to-use nature, coupled with low power consumption make it a complet and versatile embedded system.

The advantages of System on Module for industrial applications

The advantages of embedded SoM or CoM (Computer on Module) solutions are many and have enabled their widespread adoption and development throughout the world. Here are the main strengths:

- Compact sizes, perfect fot edge computing applications;
- Embedded solutions ready to use;
- Excellent trade-off between performance and flexibility;
- Rapid design and low production costs;
- High possibility of integration within finish products.

Digimax has an extensive catalog of up-to-date and innovative SoMs, through collaboration with the most established and well-known manufacturers within the industrial and IIoT market including Advantech, AAEON, and IEI.

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EPIC MOTHERBOARDS-UTX BOARDS

Industrial motherboards with EPIC factor

What is the EPIC standard for embedded boards?

The EPIC (Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing) form factor for industrial embedded boards is a relatively young standard; it was first used in 2004 thanks to the combined efforts of several manufacturers.

EPIC modules have a compact size of 165 mm × 114 mm (6.5" × 4.5"), making them one of the most compressed formats for mid-sized motherboards. The main size advantage is the ability to accommodate the size of PC/104-Plus and EBX standards. The flexibility of the EPIC Single Board Computer format allows support for high-speed serial buses such as PCI Express, while I/O connections can be either pin header or PC-type connectors. There are many functions that can be implemented, including Ethernet, serial ports, video, wireless, digital/analogue I/O and various application-specific interfaces.

What are the advantages of the EPIC motherboard format?

The EPIC format offers a platform compatible with the PC/104 and PC/104-Plus standards, positioning it as the de facto standard format for medium-sized SBCs between the PC/104 and EBX formats: a connecting line between current technology and the future.