Avalue EMX-PTLP-H484-A1R Intel Core Ultra 7 356H Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard with 12 to 24 V DC Input, Dual LAN and PCIe Gen5 x8

A machine vision cell with several GigE or CoaXPress cameras usually needs a frame grabber or a multi-port network card, plus enough cores to pre-process images before inference. The EMX-PTLP-H484-A1R is the Core Ultra 7 build in the Avalue EMX-PTLP series of Thin Mini-ITX motherboards, and the only one with a PCIe x8 Gen 5 slot for that card.

Its Intel Core Ultra 7 356H is a Panther Lake processor with 16 cores, 16 threads and a 25 W TDP, twice the cores of the Ultra 5 325, rated at 50 TOPS of AI performance for inference beside the CPU. Two DDR5 7200 MHz SO-DIMM slots take up to 64 GB for image buffers and models. Intel Xe3 graphics drives HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a at up to 7680 x 4320 at 60 Hz, two USB-C ports with DisplayPort Alt Mode and an internal eDP or dual-channel LVDS panel, up to four independent displays.

The PCIe x8 Gen 5 slot takes a capture, network or I/O card. Two M.2 M-key NVMe slots run at PCIe x4 Gen 5 and Gen 4 for image logging, an M.2 B-key with a SIM slot takes 4G or GNSS, and an M.2 E-key takes Wi-Fi. One 2.5GbE port on an Intel I226LM controller and one GbE port on an Intel I210AT controller connect cameras and the plant network. Four USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports suit USB3 cameras, and five COM headers with 16-bit DIO reach PLCs, triggers and reject gates.

The EMX-PTLP-H484-A1R runs from 12 to 24 V DC with AT or ATX power modes, operates from 0 to 60 °C with 0.5 m/s airflow on an active CPU cooler, and carries TPM 2.0 with CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. Where eight cores and 47 TOPS are enough and no card is needed, the EMX-PTLP-H404-A1R uses the Core Ultra 5 325 with DDR5 at 6400 MHz.