Now COM Express 3.1 is ratified, here are the CoMs
Welcoming the ratification of the COM Express 3.1 standard, congatec has introduced 10 compliant Computer on Modules (CoMs) based on 12th Gen Intel Core processors (formerly codenamed Alder Lake).
The modules will be equipped with the new updated 16Gbits per second COM Express connector and support high-speed interfaces such as PCIe 4.0 and USB 3.2.
The 3.1-compliant modules are upgrades of the COM Express Type 6 modules, and offer up to 14 cores/20 threads. According to congatec, these new modules empower customers to give designs a performance boost that is compliant to the officially ratified COM Express 3.1 specification. The standard delivers maximum design security and safeguards reliable high-performance roadmaps for existing COM Express designs long into the future, commented congatec.
“The launch of the COM Express 3.1 specification is a huge step in future-proofing this established standard that has been on the market for nearly 18 years,” said Christian Eder, director of product marketing at congatec. “All existing high-performance embedded designs based on COM Express Computer on Modules can now receive further performance upgrades in compliance with the standard,” he said.
“Accomplishing this has been one of the most important recent tasks of the PICMG organisation, as customers need to sustainably secure their existing investments in COM Express compliant carrier board designs in these challenging times,” he added.
In addition to support for PCIe 4.0, the 3.1 COM Express specification allows features which were not previously supported, such as USB 4, MIPI-CSI connectors, signal integrity and loss budget information for SATA Gen 3 and SoundWire support.
Despite these upgrades, the COM Express 3.1 Type 6 modules are fully backwards-compatible with 3.0 modules and carrier boards. In this way, even older designs can be equipped with the latest processor technologies, noted congatec.
congatec focuses on embedded and edge computing products and services. Its high-performance computer modules are used in a wide range of applications and devices in industrial automation, medical technology, transportation, telecommunications and many other verticals.
It specialises in the COM segment and its customer base includes start-ups and international blue chip companies.
