Avalue EMX-TWLP-N355-A1R 8-Core Intel Core 3 N355 Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard with 12 to 24 V DC Input and Dual 2.5GbE

Once a small industrial PC has to handle two or three camera streams, run a vision library and still serve an HMI, a quad-core 6 W processor starts to run out of headroom. The EMX-TWLP-N355-A1R is the eight-core build in the Avalue EMX-TWLP series of Thin Mini-ITX motherboards, keeping the same board, I/O and power input as its quad-core siblings.

Its Intel Core 3 N355 is a Twin Lake processor with eight cores, eight threads and a 15 W TDP, twice the core count of the N150 and N250 builds, which suits multi-stream video, image pre-processing, protocol gateways and containerised services. One DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM slot takes 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 an internal eDP or dual-channel LVDS connector, up to three independent displays.

Two 2.5GbE ports on RJ45 give a camera or machine network its own port beside the plant uplink. Two rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports suit USB cameras and fast storage, with an internal vertical USB 3.2 port and four USB 2.0 headers besides. Six COM headers, two RS-232/422/485 and four RS-232, and 16-bit DIO reach PLCs and triggers. An M.2 M-key takes an NVMe or SATA SSD, an M.2 E-key takes Wi-Fi, an M.2 B-key with a SIM slot takes 4G, and a SATA port and PCIe x1 Gen 3 slot add a drive and a card.

The EMX-TWLP-N355-A1R runs from 12 to 24 V DC on a lockable barrel jack or 4-pin connector and operates fanless from 0 to 60 °C with 0.5 m/s airflow, with TPM 2.0 and CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. Where the workload is lighter, the EMX-TWLP-N150-A1R and EMX-TWLP-N250-A1R run four cores at 6 W for less heat in a sealed enclosure.