Farnell signs Gateworks for Arm industrial single board computers

“The family of SBCs is an important addition to Farnell’s portfolio as Gateworks products are ideal for use in rugged conditions. Designed from the ground up with components that can withstand shock, vibration, electrostatic discharge and transient voltages in harsh and high temperature environments.”

The products can include voltage rail and board temperature monitoring circuitry, and an external watchdog timer that can hard power cycle the board if its application software becomes unresponsive.

Initially, the ‘Venice’ range is being stocked, which has 64bit Arm processing, Mini-PCIe slots, multiple Ethernet ports. “Mini-PCIe slots allow a variety of wireless options, including WiFi6 or 6E, sub-1GHz 802.11AH HaLow, 5G cellular, Bluetooth LE, Iridium satellite and various 802.11,” said Farnell.

Operation is over 8V to 60V (3 to 8W) and -40 to +85°C.

Processing comes from NXP’s i.MX8M Mini 1.6GHz quad Cortex-A53, with DDR4 memory. The boards support Ubuntu and Buildroot, and have a coin-cell-backed RTC (real-time clock).

Examples:

• GW7200 70x100mm
  1Gbyte LPDDR4, 8Gbyte eMMC flash
  2x Mini-PCIe, 2x Gbit Ethernet, PoE, GPS, MIPI-CSI and MIPI-DSI
• GW7400 140 x 100mm
  As GW7200, but i.MX8M Plus IC with 2.3Top/s NPU (neural processing unit), 1080p60 video, GC7000UL GPU, Tensilica HiFi 4 DSP, 6x Gbit Ethernet (1x WAN, 5x switched wired LAN)
• GW16141 adapter for above
  Supports B-key M.2 cellular modems in sizes 1630, 2230, 3030, 2242, 3042, 3050, 3052 with USB 3.0 signalling

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