Earlier this 12 months Intel indicated that it was launching its new Jasper Lake platform very quickly, constructed on a basis of 10nm manufacturing with the most recent Tremont Atom cores. While Jasper Lake is geared in direction of shoppers and business use circumstances, Intel additionally has the same line of processors constructed for the commercial and IoT markets, additionally utilizing Tremont on 10nm, referred to as Elkhart Lake. Onlogic, a enterprise constructed round supplying the commercial and IoT markets, is introducing new fanless designs constructed round Elkhart Lake.
The 4 new fanless industrial designs from OnLogic are the Helix 310, Helix 330, Karbon 410, and Karbon 430 – all customizable passively cooled methods for ‘Industry 4.0’. The processors on the coronary heart are all of the variants of Elkhart Lake, with the Helix fashions specializing in twin core Celeron N6211 or quad-core Pentium J6425, whereas the Karbon fashions go for dual-core Atom x6211E and quad-core Atom x6425E, the primary differentiation of those final two fashions being the broader thermal assist from -40ºC to 70ºC.
OnLogic’s predominant promoting level right here is the coupling of its ModBay enlargement know-how, permitting clients further connectivity by the M.2 and PCIe slots (successfully making the M.2 a easy PCIe x4 hyperlink), with Intel’s Programmable Services Engine, or PSE. Intel’s PSE is described by OnLogic as a devoted offload engine for IoT constructed from an Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller, enabling real-time compute and knowledge monitoring. Combined with the compute energy of Atom cores, the intention is to supply an entire real-time monitoring and communication system for a big selection of business deployments. OnLogic supplies answer companies enabling customized OS deployments, branding, imaging, fulfilment, and lifecycle assist.
The Helix 310 and Helix 330 are constructed on the identical platform however afford totally different ranges of customization. Both fashions embody assist for 32 GB of DDR4, no less than one M.2 slot, Three USB 3.2 ports, Three USB 2.zero ports, three DisplayPort outputs and two COM ports. Where they differ is that the Helix 310 is the bottom mannequin, that includes 1-2 gigabit Ethernet ports and two M.2 slots with optionally available 4G/DIO/COM/CAN assist, however the Helix 330 makes use of a type of M.2 slots for twin further gigabit Ethernet by default.
The Karbon 410 and 430 are equally on a singular platform collectively, construct for a wider temperature window in addition to MIL-STD-810H shock and vibration requirements. The base platform has as much as 32 GB of DDR4, assist for M.2 and mSATA storage, twin gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.2 ports, two USB 2.zero ports, 1 Display Port, 1 CAN bus, 1 micro-SIM slot, twin M.2 slots, 1 mPCIe slot, and optionally available 4G/DIO/COM/PoE/TPM. The Karbon 410 is the bottom mannequin, and the Karbon 430 provides in one other pair of M.2 slots, a second micro-SIM slot, and permits for added networking or USB.
In the final couple of years, when Intel had document demand for its silicon, the primary market segments to lose out have been the low-end compute market, particularly Intel’s Atom portfolio. Now that Intel has ample capability for its demand, together with elevated manufacturing of its 10nm manufacturing node, it’s refocusing its efforts on this embedded compute market with product traces equivalent to Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake. This additionally signifies that OEMs like OnLogic can redesign their portfolio utilizing the most recent updates, equivalent to PSE, in addition to the most recent applied sciences at low energy, enabling a brand new era of fanless designs.
OnLogic states that the brand new Elkhart Lake embedded methods shall be obtainable for buy in Q2, with pricing updates obtainable to clients that get in contact.
Source: OnLogic
