DFI EHL051 Intel Elkhart Lake Atom x6000 and Celeron Pico-ITX SBCs with Dual GbE and Extended Temperature Options

Some enclosures leave room for little more than a 100 x 72 mm board: a door controller, a small operator panel, a sensor gateway on a pole. The DFI EHL051 series fits Intel Elkhart Lake processors onto a 2.5″ Pico-ITX board of exactly that size, with a fanless heatsink, dual GbE and a display pair for a local panel, so the compute sits inside the product rather than in a box beside it.

Every EHL051 board takes one DDR4 3200 MHz SO-DIMM of up to 32 GB. On the six Atom x6000 builds DFI lists in-band ECC, which adds error correction without special ECC modules. Intel UHD Graphics drives HDMI at up to 4096 x 2160 at 24 Hz and dual-channel 18/24-bit LVDS at up to 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz, two displays at once. Hardware decode covers H.264, H.265, VP9 and MJPEG, which helps with camera viewing and signage playback.

The range has eight builds. Six Atom x6000 boards run from -40 to 85 °C. EHL051-TCD-6425RE (four cores, 1.9 GHz, 12 W), EHL051-TCD-6416RE (four cores, 1.7 GHz, 9 W) and EHL051-TCD-6214RE (two cores, 1.4 GHz, 6 W) use Intel’s RE parts at a single listed clock. EHL051-TCD-6425E (four cores, up to 3.0 GHz, 12 W), EHL051-TCD-6413E (four cores, up to 3.0 GHz, 9 W) and EHL051-TCD-6211E (two cores, up to 3.0 GHz, 6 W) add burst frequency. Two standard temperature builds run from -5 to 65 °C: EHL051-BCD-J6412 with the quad-core Celeron J6412 at up to 2.6 GHz and 10 W, and EHL051-BCD-N6210 with the dual-core Celeron N6210 at 6.5 W.

Across the series, two GbE ports on Intel I226 controllers separate a machine network from the uplink. Two rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and two internal USB 2.0 headers handle cameras, scanners and storage, while two RS-232/422/485 headers and 8-bit DIO connect PLCs, sensors and relays. An M.2 E-key (2230) takes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, an M.2 B-key (2242/3042) takes a 4G or 5G module with its SIM slot or an SSD, and one SATA 3.0 port adds a drive.

Power is 12 V DC on a 2-pin terminal block, with a 2-pin vertical connector as an option. The boards are cooled by a fanless heatsink and carry CE, FCC, UKCA, RoHS and KC compliance, TPM 2.0 and a watchdog programmable from 1 to 255 seconds. DFI lists Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 11 and Linux, with UEFI boot. For newer processors in the same Pico-ITX size, see the ASL051 series on Intel Amston Lake.