Kontron KTA70M/mITX embedded Mini-ITX motherboard

The embedded Mini-ITX motherboard KTA70M/mITX based on the AMD embedded R-series accelerated processing unit provides accelerated processing capabilities and graphics with the ability to drive up to four displays simultaneously, either as independent displays or as a single large surface.

This makes the device suitable for mid-range to high-performance rich media applications in vertical markets such as medical, industrial automation, gaming and digital signage.

The motherboard delivers scalable performance from soldered dual-core up to quad-core APUs at an optimal balanced performance per watt ratio and maintains a low thermal design power of 25 W.

It also enables digital signage applications with support for large displays with resolutions up to 4096x2160pixels. Developers can also use the accelerated processing capabilities of the APU with up to 426 Gflops, to accelerate both graphics- and compute-intensive applications while using industry-standard libraries such as OpenCL, DirectX 11 and DirectCompute.

The device is based on the AMD A70M controller hub and offers a maximum of 16 GB RAM. It is available with the quad-core AMD embedded R-series APU R-460L (2.0 GHz, 2.8 GHz in turbo mode) and R-452L (2.0 GHz, 2.4 in turbo mode) as well as the dual core R-252F APU (1.9 GHz, 2.4 in turbo mode).

Connections for video include 2x DisplayPort (DP) and 1x VGA. Additional displays can be connected either via DP ‘daisy chain’ or with an optional DP add-on card.

For expansion cards it features 1x Gen 2.0 PCI Express x8 PEG port and 1x Gen 2.0 PCI Express x4 slot, 4x USB 3.0, 10x USB 2.0 and 2x GbE-LAN allowing for peripheral and networking options.

A wide range of storage media can be connected via the five SATA600 interfaces with RAID 0/1 functionality and one mSATA (mini-SATA) socket for onboard SSD.