congatec COM-HPC and COM Express computer-on-modules

congatec has announced 12 computer-on-modules in parallel with the launch of the 11th Gen Intel Core processors. Based on the low-power, high-density Tiger Lake SoCs, the modules offer high CPU and GPU performance, along with PCIe Gen4 and USB4 support.

The congatec COM-HPC and COM Express computer-on-modules should accelerate performance-hungry, fanless edge applications in harsh industrial and embedded environments. Typical edge computing tasks include industrial and tactile IoT, machine vision and situational awareness, real-time control and collaborative robotics, as well as real-time edge analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) with inference workloads enabled to run across all four CPU cores, or on up to 96 graphics execution units of the Intel Iris X^e graphics.

Product performance has nearly tripled compared to predecessor modules based on 8th Gen Intel Core processor technology, according to the company. This opens up opportunities in the graphics-intensive medical imaging and immersive digital signage sectors as well as in the industrial machine vision and AI-based public safety sectors, where capturing and analysing several video streams in real time is critical for object recognition.

For demanding IoT applications like collaborative robotics, autonomous vehicles, AI or contactless retail markets, congatec’s 11th Gen Intel Core processor-based modules take advantage of the ‘total compute’ capabilities of the CPU and GPU. In combination with Intel Time Coordinated Computing technologies, extensive virtualisation and in-band error correction, the platforms help minimise jitter and are suitable for meeting the demands of critical real-time computing applications.