DFI CMS100-W480IB Intel Xeon W and 10th Gen Core Mini-ITX Mainboard with W480E Chipset and Dual LAN

Some embedded workloads cannot tolerate a flipped bit: a test system logging results for traceability, an inspection cell that must not drop a frame, or a small edge server holding data for a line. The CMS100-W480IB is the W480E build in the DFI CMS100 series of Mini-ITX mainboards, and it is the only CMS100 board that takes Intel Xeon W processors with ECC memory.

The LGA1200 socket accepts Intel Xeon W-1290E, W-1270E and W-1250E processors at 80 to 95 W with ECC support, their 35 W TE versions, and 10th Gen Intel Core i9, i7, i5 and i3 E and TE parts, from four to ten cores. Two DDR4 2933 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 64 GB. Intel UHD Graphics handles HEVC, VP9 and H.264 encode and decode in hardware, and drives DP++, HDMI 1.4b or a second DP++, DVI-I, LVDS and eDP, with four displays at once.

A 2.5GbE port on an Intel I225LM controller and a GbE port on an I219LM, with Intel vPro when the processor supports it, separate a camera or instrument network from the plant uplink. Six rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and four internal USB 2.0 take cameras and storage, and two RS-232/422/485 DB9 ports and 8-bit DIO reach older equipment. The M.2 M-key runs NVMe at PCIe Gen3 x4 or SATA, the B-key takes a cellular module with its Nano SIM, the E-key takes Wi-Fi, and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 spans the M.2 and SATA drives. The PCIe x16 slot runs at Gen3 for a GPU or frame grabber.

The CMS100-W480IB draws power from a 24-pin and 8-pin ATX supply and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with CE, FCC, UKCA, UL, CB and RoHS compliance. CMS100-Q470IB keeps the same I/O and vPro for Core, Pentium and Celeron processors without ECC, and CMS100-H420IB suits fixed-function designs that need neither.