Avalue EMX-TWLP Intel Twin Lake N150, N250 and N355 Thin Mini-ITX SBCs with 12 to 24 V DC Input and Dual 2.5GbE

A slim all-in-one, a kiosk or a signage player usually has only a few millimetres to spare behind the panel, and the board has to drive that panel directly while still talking to the rest of the installation. The Avalue EMX-TWLP series puts Intel Twin Lake processors on a 170 x 170 mm Thin Mini-ITX board with an internal eDP or LVDS panel connector, fanless heatsink cooling and a 12 to 24 V DC input, so it fits low-profile enclosures that take power from a standard industrial supply.

Every EMX-TWLP board takes one DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM of up to 16 GB. Integrated Intel Graphics drives HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a at up to 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz, a DP++ output and the internal eDP or dual-channel LVDS connector, with up to three independent displays. TPM 2.0 is fitted on the board, and a hardware watchdog resets the system if the application stops responding. Avalue lists Windows 11 and Linux.

The range has three builds. EMX-TWLP-N150-A1R uses the quad-core Intel Processor N150 at 6 W, a good fit for signage players and HMI panels where low heat matters most. EMX-TWLP-N250-A1R is the other quad-core 6 W build, on the Intel Processor N250, for projects standardised on that processor. EMX-TWLP-N355-A1R uses the eight-core Intel Core 3 N355 at 15 W, doubling the core count for multi-stream video, vision pre-processing or gateways running several services.

Two 2.5GbE ports on RJ45 keep a plant network and a camera or device network apart. Four rear USB 3.2 Type-A ports (two Gen 2, two Gen 1), an internal vertical USB 3.2 Gen 1 port and four USB 2.0 headers cover peripherals. Six COM headers, two RS-232/422/485 and four RS-232, plus 16-bit DIO connect PLCs, meters, sensors and relays. An M.2 M-key (2242/2280, PCIe x1 or SATA) takes an NVMe or SATA SSD, an M.2 E-key (2230) takes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and an M.2 B-key with a SIM slot takes a 4G module. A SATA port and a PCIe x1 Gen 3 slot add a drive and a card.

Power is 12 to 24 V DC on a lockable barrel jack or a 4-pin internal connector, with AT or ATX power modes. All three EMX-TWLP boards operate from 0 to 60 °C with 0.5 m/s airflow and carry CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. For the same board size on Intel Alder Lake-N and Amston Lake processors, see the EMX-ASLP series.