MEN Mikro Elektronik CB71C COM Express Module

The CB71C is an ultrarugged COM Express module for rail, public transportation and industry applications, eg, data acquisition, infotainment, transcoding and live 3D. It is 100% compatible with COM Express Type 6 Pin-Out and conforms to the VITA 59 standard, which specifies robust mechanics to ensure operation even under harsh environmental conditions.

The module is based on the AMD Ryzen Embedded family and can now be equipped with the Ryzen Embedded R1000 dual-core SoC in addition to the Ryzen Embedded V1000 quad-core SoC. The R1000 SoC features a Radeon Vega graphics engine with three compute units and support for up to three displays with a resolution of up to 4K without additional graphics hardware. The strength of the SoC lies in its low power consumption, combined with its high single-thread performance and high clock with dual core and quad thread performance.

Modules featuring the V1000 SoC meanwhile provide passive cooling and a temperature range from -40 to +85°C is possible with the low-power versions. With up to four powerful ‘Zen’ processor cores when using the SoC, the module is suitable for virtualisation.

The module can be equipped with up to 32 GB directly soldered DDR4 main memory and a 16 GB eMMC; PCI Express 3.0, DDI (DP, eDP, HDMI), SATA 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 are available as high-speed interfaces. The module has a board management controller with monitoring functions and a trusted platform module. It also uses the Secure Memory Encryption capability in the R1000 SoC — an important feature for security-critical applications such as payment and ticketing terminals, fleet management or monitoring.