DFI ADS101 Intel Bartlett Lake and 14th Gen Core Thin Mini-ITX Motherboards with R680E, Q670E or H610E Chipset and 12 V DC Input

A panel PC or slim kiosk leaves little height for a motherboard, yet the application may still need a socketed desktop processor, a full-length PCIe x16 card and four screens. The DFI ADS101 series is a Thin Mini-ITX board of 170 x 170 mm with an LGA1700 socket and a 12 V DC input. DFI gives a top-side height of 33.3 mm, which suits slim enclosures on a single 12 V supply.

The processor is chosen against the workload: the ADS101 takes 12th Gen Alder Lake, 13th Gen Raptor Lake and 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh Core processors, Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S) in hybrid and P-core-only versions, and Intel Processor 300, Pentium and Celeron parts, from two to 24 cores at up to 65 W TDP. Two DDR4 3200 MHz SO-DIMMs take up to 64 GB in dual channel, with ECC support on the R680E builds. Intel UHD Graphics drives two DP++ outputs at up to 4096 x 2304 and 60 Hz, an internal LVDS or eDP panel, and a fourth display through DFI’s optional extension port for DP, HDMI or VGA.

The series has four builds, set by chipset and LAN. ADS101-R680DB pairs the R680E chipset, with ECC memory support, Intel vPro and RAID, with one 2.5GbE and one GbE port and six rear USB 3.2 Gen 2. ADS101-Q670DB keeps that I/O on the Q670E chipset with vPro and RAID, for designs that don’t need ECC. ADS101-R680IB adds a third Ethernet port on an Intel I210AT controller and has four rear USB 3.2 Gen 2. ADS101-H610IB is the H610E build with three Ethernet ports, a smaller rear USB set and PCIe Gen3 x1 on its M.2 M-key, for designs that need neither vPro nor RAID.

Across the series, two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO sit on internal headers. Storage comes from two SATA 3.0 ports and an M.2 M-key 2280 for NVMe, running PCIe Gen4 x4 on the R680E and Q670E builds. An M.2 B-key (2242, 3042 or 3052) with a Nano SIM slot takes a cellular module or SSD, and an M.2 E-key 2230 takes Wi-Fi. The PCIe x16 slot supplies up to 75 W to a card and runs at Gen5 on the R680E and Q670E builds.

Power is 12 V DC on a DC jack or a 4-pin connector, and the boards operate from -5 to 65 °C with CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance. A discrete TPM 2.0, a watchdog programmable from 1 to 255 seconds and Realtek ALC888 audio are on every board, and DFI offers 35 W and 65 W thermal solutions. DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 LTSC and Linux. Where the supply is a 24 V rail, the ADS103 series is the same board with a 15 to 36 V DC input.