congatec COM-HPC starter set

congatec’s COM-HPC starter set is optimised for modular system designs, utilising the latest high-speed interface technologies such as PCIe Gen4, USB 4.0 and up to ultrafast 2x25 GbE connectivity as well as integrated MIPI-CSI vision capabilities.

The starter set is based on the company’s PICMG COM-HPC computer-on-module conga-HPC/cTLU, which leverages 11th Gen Intel Core processor technology (code name Tiger Lake). The high-end embedded module generation targets system engineers working on the broadband connected edge devices that are emerging in industrial IoT. Target markets include medical, automation, transportation and autonomous mobility, as well as vision-based inspection and video surveillance systems.

The starter set’s various Ethernet configuration options range from 8x 1GbE switching options and 2x 2.5 GbE, including TSN support, up to dual 10 GbE connectivity. The company’s comprehensive AI support for MIPI-CSI connected cameras from Basler adds further application readiness to IIoT and Industry 4.0 connected embedded systems.

AI and inferencing acceleration can be achieved with Intel DL Boost running on the CPU vector neural network instructions (VNNI), or with 8-bit integer instructions on the GPU (Int8). Useful in this context is the support of the Intel Open Vino ecosystem for AI, which comes with a library of functions and optimised calls for OpenCV and OpenCL kernels to accelerate deep neural network workloads across multiple platforms to achieve fast results for AI inference.