Axiomtek introduced its new IMB500, an industrial ATX motherboard powered by the 6th generation Intel Core, Pentium and Celeron processors (formally codename: Skylake) in the LGA1151 socket with Intel Q170 chipset.
The IMB500 supports four 288-pin DDR4-2133/1866 SO-DIMM sockets with a memory capacity of 64GB to enhance overall system performance. Designed especially for customization and flexibility, the industrial-grade ATX motherboard comes with rich expandability options including one PCIe x16 slot, two PCIe x4 slots, four PCI slots, one PCI Express Mini Card and SIM slot. Furthermore, the embedded board features triple-display capability through DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA interfaces.
“The upcoming IMB500, a multi-function ATX embedded platform for a wide array of applications, adopts the high performance 6th generation Intel Core processor with Intel HD Graphics 530/510. Its design concept is to satisfy customers who need an industrial grade solution with high-level processing and graphics and a wide range of storage, I/O and expansion connectivity,” said Ken Lin, product manager of Product PM Division at Axiomtek.
To fulfill users’ different needs, the Axiomtek IMB500 is equipped with multiple high-speed I/O connectors including two RS-232/422/485 ports, four RS-232 ports, one PS/2 keyboard & mouse, four USB 3.0 ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, five SATA-600 with RAID 0/1/5/10, one mSATA, two Gigabit LAN ports, and eight channels digital I/O, HDMI, DisplayPort and VGA interfaces. To ensure reliable operation, the high-performance Intel Skylake-based industrial ATX motherboard supports watchdog timer and hardware monitoring features.
