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Security is capitalized.

The new PICMG 1.3 Server Board SPCIE-C246 from ICP Deutschland is ideal for high-performance and security-relevant applications. CPUs of the 8th generation Intel® Xeon® E3, Core™ i3/i5/i7, Pentium® or Celeron® are available, which can be combined with up to 64GB DDR4 SDRAM memory. To ensure particularly high data integrity, ECC memory with integrated error correction coding can also be installed.

Six SATA 6GB/s interfaces with RAID 0,1,5,10 provide additional security by mirroring or distributing useful and parity data on different hard disks during data storage. The Trusted Platform Module 2.0, on the other hand, protects the transmission of sensitive sensor or machine data.

As additional mass storage the SPCIE-C246 offers an M.2 M key interface for PCIe x4 based NVMe SSDs. Two LAN GbE (Intel® I219LM PHY + I211-AT...

Mobile data acquisition.

For mobile data acquisition in logistics, hospitality or service and maintenance, comprehensive functions such as a fully protected housing, wireless communication, sufficient data storage and a 1D/2D barcode scanner are essential. With the MODAT-550, ICP Deutschland offers an industrial PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) with a 5.5" capacitive touch display in full-HD resolution. Its extremely robust design consists of an all-round IP65 housing, resistance to shocks from a height of 1.5m and an operating temperature...

PoE upgrade for existing IP infrastructure.

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is playing an increasingly important role for applications such as machine vision, surveillance and access control. On the one hand, the number of PoE-enabled devices is constantly increasing, while on the other, the technology enables simplified installation, lower costs and higher power savings.

The new 2- and 4-port Power-over-Ethernet GPOE expansion cards from ICP Deutschland combine these advantages in a compact 130/160x65mm format. They are based on a PCI Express x1 interface. The physical Ethernet interfaces are certified according to IEEE 802.3az standard, making them particularly energy-efficient with low data activity and saving unnecessary power...

Deep learning inference at the edge.

The realization of deep learning inference (DL) at the edge requires a flexibly scalable solution that is power efficient and has low latency. At the edge mainly compact and passive cooled systems are used that make quick decisions without uploading data to the cloud.

The new Mustang-V100 AI accelerator card from ICP Deutschland supports developers by integrating AI training models successfully at the edge. Eight Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X MA2485 Vision Processing Units (VPUs) are integrated on a PCIe based expansion card. Due to its low power consumption of 2.5W per VPU, it is suitable for particularly demanding low-power KI applications at the edge. Each individual VPU can be assigned a different DL topology. The reason for this is the multi-channel execution capability of the VPUs, which enables the simultaneous execution of calculations. This allows different applications such as object recognition or image and video classification to be executed...

DevKit for inference at the edge

Deep Learning consists of the sub-areas training and inference. In the training phase, a training model is developed, tested and refined to the desired accuracy using a comprehensive dataset of images and videos. While in the inference phase a rapid and reliable deployment of the training model in the target environment is the focus.

For this purpose, compact edge hardware is recommended that features high-performance, flexible expansions and pre-installed ready-to-use software tools. The new inference system TANK-870AI from ICP Deutschland offers software developers such a platform, namely AIoT Developer Kit. The hardware itself is based on a 6th / 7th generation Intel® Core i5 / i7 or Xeon® E3 CPU with maximum 32GB pre-installed RAM and 1TB SSD mass storage. In addition to numerous common interfaces, two PCIe x8 slots are available to extend functionality and boost the system via FPGA and VPU based AI accelerators. On the software side, the TANK-870AI...

Flexible data acquisition through vertical modularity.

The interaction of sensors, actuators and controls forms the foundation for smart automation in factory environments such as robotics. In order to be able to acquire sensor and machine data flexibly, it is necessary to combine interface diversity and performance in confined space.

ICP Deutschland has achieved this with the new ultra-compact ITG-100-AL Embedded PC through vertical modularity. Equipped with Intel® Atom™ x5-E3930 Apollo Lake SoC and 2GB pre-installed DDR3L memory, the palm-sized embedded PC has the following interfaces as standard: Two LAN GbE, one VGA, two RS-232/422/485 and two USB 3.0 interfaces. A second modular...

Save energy and retrieve performance with RISC.

The demand for compact, energy-saving embedded boards that are highly efficient on the same time continues unabated. One reason for this is the wide range of applications, from digital signage and POS to KIOSK applications in the retail sector, which require precisely these seemingly contradictory characteristics. ICP Deutschland is expanding its existing PICO-ITX series with the new compact embedded board HYPER-RK39. Primary characteristic is the RISC based SoC Rockchip 3399 consisting...

Five years have passed since the market launch of the 4th generation of Intel® Core^TM i CPUs.

A large number of industrial PCs are still equipped with this technology today. Industrial and embedded PCs with the 8th generation, on the other hand, are only gradually starting off.

ICP Deutschland's product portfolio already offers a whole series of industrial PCs with Coffee Lake CPUs. They range from Mini-ITX and ATX motherboards via a PICMG 1.3 CPU card to a modular embedded PC that can be used “headless” or combined with a display kit as a panel PC. What all these products have in common is a multi-core architecture of up to six cores with high performance. This is clearly demonstrated by PassMark's various benchmark performance tests. Compared to the i7-4770T CPU, the i7-8700T CPU achieves a 45% performance increase with a 28% reduction in waste heat or in other words a 10W...

Modular „headless“ Embedded PC.

The new "headless" embedded PC from ICP Deutschland FLEX-BX200 impresses primarily with its modular and compact design and many expansion options. The FLEX-BX200 is modular as far as the flexible configuration levels of the "heart" - namely the CPU - are concerned. Depending on the power requirement, Intel® CPUs of the eighth generation Coffee Lake range from Core^TM i9/i7/i5/i3 to Pentium® and can use up to 64GB DDR4 DIMM RAM.

In addition, the 2U embedded PC offers three modular mounting...

High performance slot-CPU card.

Anyone who appreciates the design flexibility and combination variety of the PIGMG 1.3 standard backplane will love the high-performance PCIE-Q370 slot CPU card from ICP Deutschland all the more. Designed for the eighth generation Intel® Coffee Lake CPUs, the PCIE-Q370 can be equipped with a CoreTM i9/i7/i5/i3, Pentium® or Celeron® CPU and max. 64GB DDR4 SDRAM memory. The integrated Intel® HD Graphics Gen 9 engine has 16 low-power execution units supporting DX2015, OpenGL 5.X, and OpenCL2.x. An M.2 M key interface for PCIe x4 based NVMe SSDs is available for extended mass storage. Six SATA ports with RAID 0/1/5/10 functionality...