Giada IB3-281-N97 Intel N97 (Alder Lake-N) 3.5″ Industrial Motherboard with 12 to 24 V DC Input and -20 to 60 °C

Self-service kiosks and vending machines combine a touchscreen application, payment and printer peripherals and a network link, often in an unheated lobby or forecourt. The IB3-281-N97 suits that mix as the quad-core build of the Giada IB3-281 series, a 3.5″ industrial motherboard rated from -20 to 60 °C.

The Intel Processor N97 is a quad-core Alder Lake-N part at 12 W, cooled passively. It has 8 GB of LPDDR5 at 4800 MHz soldered on the board and an M.2 M-key 2280 socket for an NVMe SSD on PCIe 3.0 x4. Intel UHD Graphics drives HDMI and DisplayPort at up to 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz plus dual-channel 24-bit LVDS at up to 1920 x 1200, with two displays active at a time, such as a customer screen and a service display. Windows 10, Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux are supported.

Four RS-232 and two RS-485 ports on headers connect receipt printers, card readers, meters and drives, with four inputs and four outputs of GPIO for door switches and lamps. A 2.5GbE port on an Intel I226-V and a GbE port on an Intel I210-AT separate the device network from the uplink. Two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports sit on the edge, with one USB 3.2 Gen 1 and four USB 2.0 ports on headers, an M.2 E-key 2230 socket for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a rear headset jack. An optional TPM 2.0 and a watchdog timer are listed.

The IB3-281-N97 runs from 12 to 24 V DC through a lockable DC jack or an internal 4-pin header, with auto power-on after a supply interruption, and operates from -20 to 60 °C with 0.7 m/s of airflow. For lower power and heat, the IB3-281-X7211E uses the dual-core Atom x7211E at 6 W on the same board.