BC50R - IP65 Box PC for In-Vehicle Applications (AMD)
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20BC50R00 E1 – 2015-09-07
BC50R - IP65 Box PC for In-Vehicle Applications (AMD)
The BC50R is a maintenance-free box computer that has been designed, e.g., for
data acquisition applications in rugged environments in vehicles, e.g. in trains,
commercial vehicles, mobile machines or ships.
All interfaces are implemented on rugged M12 connectors (USB, digital input and
output, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN and legacy serial I/O). The housing is compliant to
the IP65 protection class.
On the inside, the system offers two PCI Express® Mini card slots with two SIM
card slots for WLAN, GNSS or 3G/4G functionality. The necessary antenna
connectors can be made available at the front panel.
It is powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series APU (Accelerated Processing Unit),
the T48N, running at 1.4 GHz. The use of the Embedded G-Series makes for high
scalability in CPU (single/dual core) performance.
The BC50R is equipped with 2 GB of DDR3 SDRAM and offers SD card and
mSATA slots. The system is designed for fanless operation at temperatures from -40
to +70°C (+85°C for up to 10 minutes), its special aluminum housing with cooling
fins serves as a heat sink for the internal electronics and in this way provides
conduction cooling.
The BC50R supports a 24 VDC and 36 VDC nom. (10 to 50.4 V) class S2 power
supply in compliance with EN 50155 or power supplies which comply with ISO
7637-2 (E-mark for automotive) (nominal input voltage 24 V) or with EN 60945
(ship). The power can be switched on and off using an ignition signal on the power
connector, and a shutdown-delay time after switching off the power can be adjusted
by software.
The combination of the various CPU/GPU options with the available selection of
external interfaces (realized via separate graphics and I/O interface boards within
the system) makes for an extremely flexible system design that can quickly be
tailored to a vast number of applications.
