DFI ADN171-CB-N200 Quad-Core Intel N200 Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboard with Dual 2.5GbE, DP and HDMI

Inspection benches, self-service terminals and lab instruments tend to collect USB devices: cameras, scanners, printers, licence dongles and external storage. The ADN171-CB-N200 is the industrial Mini-ITX motherboard in the DFI ADN171 range built for that, with four USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports on the rear where its siblings have three.

The Intel Processor N200 gives four Alder Lake-N cores at up to 3.7 GHz within a 6 W TDP, so the passive heatsink has little heat to move. Intel UHD Graphics handle hardware decode of HEVC, VP9, AV1 and AVC, and memory is one DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM of up to 16 GB. For twice the cores, the ADN171-CB-i3-N305 steps up to eight at 15 W; for 32 GB of memory in a quad-core build, look at the ADN171-CB-N97.

DisplayPort and HDMI 2.0 sit on the rear, and a third display can be added with DFI’s optional M2A module in the M.2 A-key socket. Two Intel I226V 2.5GbE ports, four USB 2.0 headers, six COM ports (two RS-232/422/485 and four RS-232) and an 8-bit DIO complete the I/O. An M.2 B-key with Nano SIM, an M.2 E-key with CNVi support for Wi-Fi, two SATA 3.0 ports and a PCIe x4 slot wired at x2 Gen3 give room for storage, wireless and a specialist card.

DFI quotes an MTBF of 478,716 hours at 25 °C for the ADN171-CB-N200. It runs from 12 V DC on a barrel jack or 4-pin connector, operates from -5 to 65 °C, and carries CE, FCC, UKCA, RoHS and KC compliance, with support for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB, Windows 11 and Linux.