DFI CS103-Q370 Intel Coffee Lake Core Thin Mini-ITX SBC with Q370 Chipset, Dual LAN and 9 to 36 V DC Input

Fleet terminals, depot kiosks and machines shipped to customer sites need to be reachable when something goes wrong, and many of them run from a 24 V supply rather than mains. The CS103-Q370 is the Q370 build in the DFI CS103 series of Thin Mini-ITX SBCs, and it brings Intel vPro, triple display and NVMe storage to a slim board on 9 to 36 V DC.

The LGA1151 socket accepts 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors, from four to eight cores, in standard, T, E and TE versions at up to 65 W, plus the Pentium G5400 and Celeron G4900. With a Core i5 or i7 fitted, Intel vPro and AMT run through the I219LM port. Two DDR4 2666 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 32 GB, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives an internal LVDS panel and two DP++ ports, three at once.

A second GbE port runs on an Intel I210AT. Four USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports sit at the rear with four USB 2.0 ports inside, and two RS-232/422/485 and two RS-232 ports on internal headers sit beside 8-bit DIO. The M.2 M-key 2280 slot takes an NVMe drive at PCIe x4 or a SATA drive, two SATA 3.0 ports add capacity, and RAID 0, 1 and 5 can mirror the system drive. An M.2 E-key takes Wi-Fi and a PCIe x4 Gen3 slot takes a riser card.

The CS103-Q370 accepts 9 to 36 V DC on a barrel or 4-pin connector and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with a TPM 2.0 and CE, FCC and RoHS compliance. CS103-C246 keeps the same I/O and adds ECC memory, while CS103-H310 suits single-application HMIs that need neither vPro nor a third display.