DFI ADS101-R680IB Intel 14th Gen Core Thin Mini-ITX SBC with R680E Chipset, Triple LAN and 12 V DC Input

An edge server in a machine cabinet often sits between several networks while holding data that must not be corrupted, so ports and memory integrity both count. The ADS101-R680IB is the R680E build of the DFI ADS101 series with three Ethernet ports, bringing ECC memory support and a third LAN port together on a Thin Mini-ITX board of 170 x 170 mm.

The LGA1700 socket takes Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S), including P-core-only parts such as the 12-core Core 9 273PE, plus 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core, Intel Processor 300, Pentium and Celeron, from two to 24 cores at up to 65 W TDP. Two DDR4 3200 MHz SO-DIMMs take up to 64 GB with ECC support, and Intel vPro allows remote management. Intel UHD Graphics drives two DP++ outputs at up to 4096 x 2304, internal LVDS or eDP, and a fourth display through DFI’s optional extension port.

Three Ethernet ports, one 2.5GbE on an Intel I226V and two GbE on Intel I210AT and I219LM controllers, keep the plant, camera and uplink networks apart. The rear panel has four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports rather than the six on the DB builds, with two USB 3.2 Gen 1 and four USB 2.0 on internal headers. Two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO serve field devices. NVMe runs at PCIe Gen4 x4 on the M.2 M-key, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 work across M.2 and two SATA ports, and the PCIe x16 Gen5 slot supplies up to 75 W to a card.

The ADS101-R680IB runs from 12 V DC on a DC jack or 4-pin connector and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance, TPM 2.0 and a watchdog programmable from 1 to 255 seconds. ADS101-R680DB trades the third LAN port for six rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and ADS101-H610IB keeps three LAN ports on the H610E chipset without ECC or vPro.