In addition, it was designed for special needs of fanless operation under temperature from -20°C to +60°C. Its compact size also suits the PICO312 to various space-constrained embedded applications. This embedded SBC is excellent for any media editing, imaging, graphics and video intensive applications popular in industrial IoT field.

“The newest Intel Apollo Lake-based 2.5-inch embedded motherboard, PICO312, features a full-sized PCI Express Mini Card slot in support of mSATA and a pair of expansion connectors with additional signals including one PCIe x1 lane, one LPC, one DDI, four USB 3.0 ports, one SMBus and one HD audio, giving this SBC high expandability to meet all requirements,” said Ken Lin, product manager of Product PM Division at Axiomtek.

The PICO312 comes with advanced connectivity including one USB 2.0 port, one Gigabit Ethernet (built-in Intel Ethernet controller i211AT), and one SATA-600 interface. To ensure reliable operation, the Pico-ITX 2.5-inch motherboard also utilizes advantages of Watchdog Timer to detect and recover from computer malfunctions; and that of hardware to monitor temperature, voltage, fan speed, and more.

Moreover, the I2C connector is available as a communication protocol to connect Axiomtek’s different battery solutions with AXView - Axiomtek’s intelligent remote management software - to monitor battery status.