DFI RPS101-R680E Intel 14th Gen Core Thin Mini-ITX SBC with R680E Chipset, Dual 2.5GbE and 12 V DC Input

A panel PC on a clinical cart or beside a production cell is often expected to run for years with little attention, and it usually sits somewhere awkward to reach. The RPS101-R680E is the R680E build in the DFI RPS101 series of Thin Mini-ITX SBCs, and it brings two things to that brief: ECC memory support, so memory errors are corrected in place, and Intel AMT for out-of-band management over the network.

The LGA1700 socket takes Intel Core Series 2 (Bartlett Lake-S) processors, 14th, 13th and 12th Gen Intel Core, Intel Processor 300 and Pentium and Celeron parts, from two to 24 cores at up to 65 W TDP, so the processor can match the cooling behind the panel. Two DDR5 5600 MHz SO-DIMMs hold up to 64 GB, ECC or non-ECC. Intel UHD Graphics drives the internal eDP or LVDS panel, HDMI 2.0, DP++ and a USB-C port with DisplayPort Alt Mode, plus DFI’s display extension port, with up to four displays at once.

Two 2.5GbE ports on Intel I226-LM and I226-V connect the hospital or plant network and a local device. Five rear USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and four internal USB 2.0 cover the touch controller, a camera and a service port, and two RS-232/422/485 ports and 8-bit DIO reach older equipment. The M.2 M-key runs NVMe at PCIe Gen4 x4, 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 two SATA drives. The PCIe x16 slot runs at Gen5 as one x16 or two x8 links.

The RPS101-R680E runs from 12 V DC on a DC jack or 4-pin connector and operates from -5 to 65 °C, with CE, FCC, UKCA and RoHS compliance and a Nuvoton TPM 2.0. RPS101-Q670E keeps AMT and the same I/O without ECC, and RPS101-H610E suits panels that need neither.