MYIR Targets Industrial Automators on a Budget with the MY-EVC700S-V2 IPC Box

Shenzhen-based embedded computing specialist Make Your Idea Real (MYIR) has announced the launch of a rugged gadget designed to act as a gateway for industrial automation projects: the MY-EVC700S-V2 IPC Box.

"MYIR has introduced the MY-EVC700S-V2 IPC Box," the company says of its latest device launch, "which uses Allwinner's T113-i MPU [Microprocessor Unit] to provide a cost-effective solution for industrial gateway applications with stringent operating conditions, stable reliability, and isolation protection performance. Pre-installed with Linux operating system, the device is supported by MYIR's complete BSP [Board Support Package] package containing full source code for u-boot, a customized kernel, and hardware drivers. Additional development resources include associated development tools, and detailed technical documentation to facilitate application customization and system integration."

The rugged system is powered by the Allwinner T113-i system-on-chip, which features a pair of Arm Cortex-A7 CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz plus a single HiFi4 digital signal processing (DSP) coprocessor. There's 512MB of DDR3 memory, 4GB of on-board eMMC storage, and 32kB of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM). While those aren't the most powerful of specifications, there's a clear focus on reliability and connectivity — and MYIR is aiming to keep the cost down for the industrial automator on a budget.

Elsewhere in the housing you'll find connectors for two USB 2.0 Host ports, a single Fast Ethernet port, two RS232 ports, two isolated RS485 ports, two isolated CAN bus ports, two digital inputs, and two digital outputs. There's an LVDS interface plus a second converted to a full-size HDMI connector for video plus an analog audio output, a built-in real-time clock (RTC), and a physical reset button. There are also two antenna connectors: one for the integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module, and another for a bundled Quectel EC200MCNLF-I03-MN0CA 4G LTE cellular modem. Finally, there's a microSD Card slot for expandable storage.

The EVC700S-V2 is available to order on the MYIR website, priced at $129.