Advantech announces the launch of MIO-6300, a 3.5” (146 x 120 mm) System-on-Chip (SoC) slim SBC that incorporates a quad core Intel Celeron N2930 processor and an EtherCAT Master Controller for intelligent robotics applications. MIO-6300 is a SoC board-to-board solution that offers low power consumption and high graphics performance and is targeted at the robotics automation industry.
MIO-6300 comes bundled with Advantech’s value added smart software suite WISE-PaaS/RMM, which brings the benefits of cloud computing within reach of many embedded application developers. This tool provides the ideal solution for industrial applications and helps to speed up time-to-value for intelligent systems designers.
EtherCAT is a popular industrial standard for robotics and motion control systems because of its high-precision, performance/throughput, open structure, ease of integration and cost effective features. EtherCAT is highly suited for robotics requirements that require flexibility, adaptability, highly synchronized I/O, and time-deterministic control. Customers can implement EtherCAT effectively on MIO-6300 with its triple Intel i210 Gigabit Ethernet controller. Triple Gigabit Ethernet is the general requirement for robotics automation – one Gigabit Ethernet can be used for EtherCAT, another for the tech pendant of the robot controller, and the other can be for general purpose use.
MIO-6300 delivers excellent CPU performance with its quad core processing. This Intel Celeron N2930 processer version almost doubles the performance compared to previous generations of Intel Atom N2800 processers. The graphics on MIO-6300 is based on Gen 7 Intel Graphics Architecture with support for DirectX 11, Open GL 4.0, and OpenGL 1.2; and it has full HD video playback, video transcoding and encoding functionality. MIO-6300 comes with abundant connectivity for multiple I/O including 3x Gigabit Ethernet, 1x VGA, 1 x LVDS ,1 x USB 3.0, 3 x USB 2.0, 2 x COM, 1 x mSATA (F/S) and 1 x MiniPCIe (F/S) for verified CANBus module expansion. It also offers two kinds of power input options (12V/24V) especially for the robotics automation industry.
MIO-6300 complies with the IEC standard for Electro Static Discharge protection for the COM port transceiver with15kV air gap protection/8kV contact protection for RS-232. MIO-6300 was verified to pass the military standard (MIL-STD-202G/MIL-STD-810G) certifications for better vibration resistance. MIO-6300 is also designed with 100% solid capacitors which give better reliability than electrolytic capacitors and its high Tg PCB value (TG-170) means the PCB is more stable under high temperature operation.
