DFI VC700-ASL-x7433RE Intel Amston Lake Atom x7433RE Rugged Embedded PC with ITxPT and -40 to 70 °C

A bus that runs from early morning to late at night keeps its computers on for most of the day, so power draw and heat matter as much as speed. The VC700-ASL-x7433RE is the middle build of the DFI VC700-ASL series: a rugged embedded PC with a quad-core Atom at 9 W, GNSS, CAN, M12 Ethernet and ITxPT among its approvals for public transport networks.

The Atom x7433RE (Amston Lake) has four cores at 1.5 to 3.4 GHz within 9 W, with 4 GB of LPDDR5-5200 soldered down. That suits ITxPT services, ticketing, telematics and driver terminals, with headroom over the dual-core build. Intel HD graphics drive HDMI 1.4b and DP++, storage is removable 64 GB or 128 GB eMMC, and TPM 2.0 is built in. DFI out-of-band (OOB) management gives remote power on/off, reset and BIOS update over the network, without an OS agent. The VC700-ASL-x7433RE runs Windows 11 or Ubuntu 22.04.

Both GbE ports (Intel I210) use M12 X-coded connectors, one shared with OOB, beside four USB 3.2 Type-A, HDMI 1.4b and DP++. The rear carries two RS-232/422/485 ports and two CAN 2.0B ports with J1939 on DB9 (CAN FD by request), isolated 8-bit DIO at 2.5 kV, a 10 W speaker amplifier and line-out/mic-in. M.2 slots take optional 4G/5G (with nano SIM), optional Wi-Fi and an NVMe or SATA SSD, beside two mini PCIe slots and Fakra antenna connectors. A u-blox NEO-M9N GNSS receiver and a 9-axis IMU for motion and heading data are built in.

Power is 9 to 36 V DC on a three-pole terminal block with ignition control. The VC700-ASL-x7433RE runs fanless from -40 °C to 70 °C, is shock and vibration tested to MIL-STD-810G and wall mounts; DFI lists CE, FCC, E-Mark (E24) compliance, ITxPT, RoHS and UKCA. We supply it configured and tested, with storage, the OS image and any wireless module fitted. For eight cores, see the VC700-ASL-x7835RE-4G; for the lowest power draw, the VC700-ASL-x7211RE.