By Steve Bush 25th August 2022
Advantech has announce ARM-based touch screen panel PCs aimed at machine automation.
Advantech has announce ARM-based touch screen panel PCs aimed at machine automation.
Available with 7, 10.1 or 15.6inch screen sizes, TPC-100W panel PCs have a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 that supports Linux Yocto and Android operating systems – details below.
The screens have capacitive touch and resolution to suit their size: WSVGA, WXGA or ‘full HD’ respectively.
Processing comes from an NXP 1.6GHz i.MX 8M Mini with 2Gbyte of DDR4 ram and 16Gbyte of eMMC flash.
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are available via a mini PCIe interface which “ensures real-time connectivity for data transmissions”, according to the company, and the series feature a serial port with a 120Ω termination resistor that supports CAN 2.0 and up to 1Mbit/s.
The LAN port offers 10, 100 and 1,000Mbit/s operation and includes Power-over-Ethernet hardware allows the PC to be run without a separate local power source.
The computers are fan-less and the screens are sealed to IP66 for protection against dust, oil and water ingress. Operation is over -20 to 60°C.
Physical mounting options include VESA.
Android 10 and Linux Yocto 3.0 are supported with with GUI toolkits, Qt WebBrowser and OPC UA.
Installed with Android OS, the computers support Chromium Embedded Framework – an open-source software framework for embedding a Chromium web browser to allow browsing to be added to applications, and it allows HTML, CSS and JavaScript to be used to create user interfaces.
Tagged with: Advantech industrial PC touch screen
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
Download the Elektra Awards 2022 media pack and book your sponsorship package to be part of the most prestigious awards event celebrating its 20th anniversary this year!
Get our news, blogs and comments straight to your inbox! Sign up for the Electronics Weekly newsletters: Mannerisms, Gadget Master and the Daily and Weekly roundups.
Read our special supplement celebrating 60 years of Electronics Weekly and looking ahead to the future of the industry.
Read the Electronics Weekly @ 60 supplement »
Read the first ever Electronics Weekly online: 7th September 1960. We've scanned the very first edition so you can enjoy it.
Read the very first edition »
Electronics Weekly teams up with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest young electronic engineers in the UK today.
Read our special supplement celebrating 60 years of Electronics Weekly and looking ahead to the future of the industry.
Read the Electronics Weekly @ 60 supplement »
Read the first ever Electronics Weekly online: 7th September 1960. We've scanned the very first edition so you can enjoy it.
Read the very first edition »
Tune into this Xilinx interview: Responding to platform-based embedded design
Tune into this podcast to hear from Chetan Khona (Director Industrial, Vision, Healthcare & Sciences at Xilinx) about how Xilinx and the semiconductor industry is responding to customer demands.
By using this website you are consenting to the use of cookies. Electronics Weekly is owned by Metropolis International Group Limited, a member of the Metropolis Group; you can view our privacy and cookies policy here.