DFI ASL051-BCD-N97 Intel N97 Pico-ITX Board with Dual 2.5GbE, HDMI and LVDS

An HMI that must respond instantly to an operator, or a controller running a single busy thread, gains more from a steady base clock than from extra cores. The ASL051-BCD-N97 is the quad-core Alder Lake-N build of the DFI ASL051 series, a 2.5″ Pico-ITX board with the highest base clock of the four-core options.

The Intel N97 runs four cores from 2.0 to 3.6 GHz at a 12 W TDP. A single DDR5 SO-DIMM socket supports up to 16 GB at 4800 MHz, and Intel UHD Graphics drives the display outputs with hardware decode of HEVC, VP9, AV1 and AVC, so video content does not tie up the CPU.

Displays connect over dual-channel 18/24-bit LVDS at up to 1920 x 1200 and HDMI at up to 4096 x 2160 at 24 Hz, and the two can run independently. Networking is two 2.5GbE ports on Intel I226V controllers. The board has two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and headers for two USB 2.0 ports, two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO for barcode readers, PLCs and indicator lamps. Three M.2 sockets take Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 4G or 5G with a nano SIM, and a PCIe or SATA SSD.

The ASL051-BCD-N97 runs from 12 V DC on a terminal block, cools passively and operates from -5 to 65 °C. It supports Windows 10 and 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC and Linux, with a discrete TPM 2.0 and CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance. For lower heat, the ASL051-BCD-N150 runs four cores at 6 W; for eight cores, the ASL051-BCD-N305 uses the Core i3-N305 at 15 W.