Arestech MEVA-3111E Intel Coffee Lake Core i3/i5/i7 Machine Vision PC with 1x PCIe Slot

A single-camera inspection station usually needs one card with plenty of bandwidth and nothing else, and a full-length PCIe x16 slot covers frame grabbers and graphics cards alike. The Arestech MEVA-3111E is the PCIe model in the MEVA-3111P/E series of machine vision PCs, with one PCIe x16 slot.

Compute comes from 9th or 8th Gen Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 desktop processors in the LGA1151 socket on an Intel Q370 chipset. Two DDR4 2400/2666 SO-DIMM sockets hold up to 64 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives VGA and DVI-D at up to 1920 x 1200 plus DisplayPort at up to 4096 x 2160, so the MEVA-3111E can run image processing and an operator display together.

The MEVA-3111E carries one PCIe x16 slot in its expansion module, which takes a frame grabber, a GigE or USB3 camera interface card or a graphics card for inference. Three GbE ports on RJ45, an Intel i219-LM and two Intel i210-AT, support Wake-on-LAN and PXE, six RS-232/422/485 DB9 ports with auto flow control and 8x isolated DI plus 8x isolated DO handle triggers and machine signals, and six USB 3.2 plus two USB 2.0 ports serve cameras. Four removable 2.5″ SATA bays support RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and four full-size mini-PCIe sockets with four SIM holders take LTE or Wi-Fi modules.

With a 35 W processor the MEVA-3111E runs fanless from -40 °C to 70 °C, and with a 65 W processor and Arestech’s external fan kit it is rated to 60 °C. Power enters through a terminal block at 9 to 48 V DC, or 24 to 48 V DC with a GPU card fitted, with ignition sensing and over-voltage, reverse-voltage and over-current protection. Vibration is rated at 5 Grms and shock at 50 G, and the machine vision PC measures 127 x 241.5 x 231 mm and weighs 5.2 kg. For a legacy PCI card, the MEVA-3111P offers one PCI slot in the same enclosure.