Congatec bases COM Express module on AMD’s Ryzen
Designed for the industrial temperature range (from -40 to +85 degrees C), the conga-TR4 COM Express Type 6 module uses AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 series processors. Congatec offers the module with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening service for highest reliability.
According to congatec, the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight graphics processing unit (GPU) compute units deliver processing throughput for demanding graphics and compute workloads using AMD’s Zen microarchitecture. The TDP is scalable from 12W to 25W enabling truly immersive 4k UHD system designs with passive cooling only.
Typical applications are in rugged edge computing with embedded vision and artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, railcars and wagons, outdoor equipment in the oil and gas industries, mobile ambulance equipment, broadcasting vans, or in security and video surveillance, as well as base station equipment for 5G.
The maximum performance of the conga-TR4 COM Express Type 6 module depends on the environmental conditions but it is specified with 1.6 to 2.8GHz turbo boost in the sub-zero temperature range and 2.0 to 3.6GHz in the positive temperature range.
The conga-TR4 COMs’ performance has been made available in a real-time capable design and also includes real-time hypervisor support by Real-Time Systems for virtual machine deployments and workload consolidation in edge computing scenarios.
The conga-TR4 module with COM Express Type 6 pin out supports up to 32Gbyte energy-efficient and fast dual-channel DDR4 memory with up to 3200 memory transfers (MT) per second and optional error code correction (ECC) for maximum data security. The integrated AMD Radeon Vega graphics with eight compute units supports up to four independent displays with up to 4k UHD resolution and 10-bit HDR, as well as DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 for 3D graphics. The integrated video engine enables hardware-accelerated streaming of HEVC (H.265) video in both directions.
HSA and OpenCL 2.0 support enable deep learning workloads to be assigned to the GPU. In safety-critical applications, the integrated AMD Secure processor helps with hardware-accelerated RSA, SHA, and AES encryption and decryption, adds congatec.
The conga-TR4 allows a complete USB-C implementation on the carrier board including USB 3.1 Gen 2 with 10Gbits per second, Power Delivery and DisplayPort 1.4. Further performance-oriented interfaces include a PEG 3.0 x8, four PCIe Gen 3 and four PCIe Gen 2, three USB 3.1 Gen 2, a USB 3.1 Gen 1, eight USB 2.0, two SATA Gen 3 and one Gbit Ethernet. I/Os for SD, SPI, LPC, I²C as well as two legacy UART from the CPU and High Definition Audio are also included.