A Raptor Lake-P 3.5-inch SBC System for Embedded Applications

Single-board computer systems within the 3.5-inch form-factor have grow to be extraordinarily common for embedded purposes involving a mixture of excessive efficiency necessities in addition to prolonged peripherals assist. Typical use-case eventualities embody digital signage, edge inferencing options, retail purposes, and IoT gateways. The necessities in these deployments name for processors and parts that may function in a large temperature vary. The chassis and cooling answer deal with different duties akin to ruggedness and avoidance of transferring elements.

The Supermicro X13SRN-H-WOHS is a 3.5-inch SBC with a soldered-down Intel Core i7-1370PE – a Raptor Lake-P embedded processor with vPro assist. It has loads of I/O assist, together with a SlimSAS PCIe enlargement slot. Supermicro additionally affords a ready-to-deploy answer utilizing the SBC within the actively-cooled SYS-E102-13R-H field PC. A majority of the motherboard ports are left un-used on this configuration, however the uncovered ones ought to suffice for the most typical use-cases.

The evaluate beneath takes an in depth take a look at the options and efficiency profile of the SYS-E102-13R-H, together with an analysis of the thermal answer.

Introduction and Product Impressions

Supermicro’s SYS-E102-13R-H field PC is predicated on the corporate’s X13SRN-H-WOHS 3.5-inch SBC board. WOHS stands for ‘With out-Built-in-Warmth-Sink’. The board can be accessible in a model with an built-in warmth sink for customers needing entry to the entire motherboard’s I/O options. The SYS-E102-13R-H field PC takes the WOHS board variant and locations it within the CSE-E102TF2 – a compact enclosure with a single 40 x 40 x 15 mm fan on one facet. The chassis gives assist for exterior WLAN antennae, together with cut-outs for all of the exterior I/O ports on the board. The entrance of the case has the ability button alone, with all the opposite options relegated to the rear.

Regardless of the SYS-E102-13R-H being tagged as an IoT SuperServer, the system doesn’t assist ECC reminiscence or in-band ECC. There isn’t any separate BMC, however that isn’t a shock for a machine primarily based on a 3.5-inch SBC board. Nevertheless, to make up for that, the SYS-E102-13R-H does assist vPro and distant administration capabilities use AMT. The system additionally helps Supermicro’s monitoring utility ‘SuperDoctor’ – this permits Nagios integration for centralized infrastructure monitoring.

The field PC forsakes most of the fascinating I/O capabilities of the inner board (such because the multitude of USB and SATA ports, in addition to the PCIe SlimSAS port that can be utilized for added enlargement). The consumer will get two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-A ports and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-C ports (10 Gbps every). Two NBASE-T RJ-45 connectors (as much as 2.5 Gbps) can be found.

Along with the principle unit, Supermicro provides a lockable 12V 7A (84W) DC energy adapter and mounting {hardware} for the system.

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Entry to the SSD and RAM slots are through a detachable panel on the underside saved in place with the help of 4 screws.

The underside has three M.2 slots – two for M.2 2280 SSDs, and one for a M.2 2230 WLAN / BT card. A nano-SIM slot can be simply accessible close to between the primary two M.2 slots.

Our evaluate system got here pre-installed with 2x 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMMs and a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive (regardless of the system supporting PCIe 4.0 x4 drives within the M.2 slots). The total specs of the evaluate pattern are supplied within the desk beneath.

The SSD and RAM equipped together with the evaluate pattern are each rated for wide-temperature operation. These are vital for particular deployment eventualities.

Within the subsequent part, we check out the system setup and comply with it up with an in depth platform evaluation.