DFI ADS106-R680E Intel 14th Gen Core Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboard with R680E Chipset, Dual LAN and 15 to 36 V DC Input

Inspection systems that buffer frames from several cameras, or run inference on them, lean on memory bandwidth and on memory that doesn’t silently corrupt a result. The ADS106-R680E is the R680E build in the DFI ADS106 series of industrial Mini-ITX motherboards, combining DDR5 with ECC support, Intel vPro and a PCIe x16 Gen5 slot on a 170 x 170 mm board with a 12 V or 15 to 36 V DC input.

The LGA1700 socket takes Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S) hybrid processors such as the 24-core Core 7 251E, plus 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core, Intel Processor 300, Pentium and Celeron, at up to 65 W TDP. Two DDR5 5600 MHz SO-DIMMs take up to 64 GB in dual channel with ECC support. Intel UHD Graphics drives two DP++ outputs at up to 4096 x 2304, an internal LVDS or eDP panel and an optional fourth display through DFI’s extension port, and Intel vPro allows remote management.

One 2.5GbE port on an Intel I226V and one GbE port on an Intel I219LM connect the camera network and the plant. Six rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports suit USB3 Vision cameras and removable drives, and internal headers add two USB 3.2 Gen 1 and four USB 2.0. Two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO handle triggers and reject signals. The M.2 M-key runs NVMe at PCIe Gen4 x4, RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 cover the M.2 and two SATA ports, and the B-key and E-key take cellular and Wi-Fi. The PCIe x16 Gen5 slot supplies up to 75 W to a frame grabber or I/O card.

The ADS106-R680E runs from 12 V DC on a DC jack or from 15 to 36 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. ADS106-Q670E keeps this I/O and vPro where ECC is not needed, and ADS106-H610E offers three Ethernet ports on the H610E chipset.