ASRock Industrial IMB-1007J Intel N97 Mini-ITX Motherboard with Dual GbE, Triple Display and 12V DC

Factory systems that talk to older serial devices still need plenty of COM ports, and a rear panel with them already on DB9 connectors saves cabling time. The ASRock Industrial IMB-1007J is a Mini-ITX motherboard on the Intel N97 (Alder Lake-N) with six COM ports, four of them on the rear, plus two Gigabit LAN ports and a PCIe x1 slot.

The N97 has four cores at up to 3.6 GHz within a 12 W rating, with Intel UHD Graphics. One DDR5 SO-DIMM socket runs at 4800 MHz and takes up to 32 GB. Windows 11 and Linux are supported, so the IMB-1007J can run a standard image for control or signage software.

Serial I/O is COM1 RS-232/422/485 and COM2 to COM4 RS-232 on rear DB9 connectors, with COM5 and COM6 RS-232 on internal headers and four GPI and four GPO. Networking is two Realtek RTL8111H Gigabit ports. Displays run from two HDMI 2.0b outputs at up to 4K and an LVDS or eDP connector, with up to three screens at once. The rear panel adds two USB 3.2 Gen 2 and two USB 2.0, and an internal header adds two USB 2.0. A PCIe x1 Gen3 slot takes an add-in card, an M.2 Key M socket takes a PCIe or SATA SSD, one SATA3 port adds a drive and an M.2 Key E socket takes an optional Wi-Fi module.

Power is 12 V DC through a four-pin power cable, with AT and ATX power-on modes. The board is rated from -20 °C to 70 °C operating and -40 °C to 85 °C storage, carries CE and FCC marks and has Intel PTT for firmware TPM. We supply the IMB-1007J configured and tested, with memory, storage and the OS image fitted. The IMB-1009J uses the same layout with a 6 W N150, and the IMB-1011J-WV adds VGA, MIPI CSI-2 and a 9 to 28 V DC option on the N97.