Introduction

The COM Express® Compact Type 6 module COMe-cTL6 offers variants up to quad-core, Intel Core i7 processor, together with Dual Channel DDR4-3200 memory up to 48 GB and the second channel is also designed as soldered memory with up to 16 GB. This enables along with the industrial temperature range from -40 to +85 degrees Celsius applications in rugged and physically challenging environments. Moreover, an NVMe SSD can be equipped onboard, so that external storage media can be omitted. This storage can be attached to the 1 x4 PCIe 4.0 port of the CPU. In addition, there are also five PCIe 3.0 lanes available.
 
The on-board Intel I225 Ethernet controller offers up to 2.5GbE and supports, SKU-dependent, the TSN real-time standard (Time-Sensitive Networking). Thus, the Kontron COMe-cTL6 module is suitable for time-critical applications that require very low transmission latencies, such as in the Industry 4.0 / IIoT environment of edge computing, machine and robotic control, as well as for digital signage and medical imaging. The COMe-cTL6 adopts the pin assignment and functions of existing solutions and can thus be implemented as a powerful successor without any major additional effort.