AX-238BT — 4-Display Fanless Industrial PC

Yes. The four outputs — LVDS 24-bit, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, and USB4 Type-C with DisplayPort Alt Mode — each carry an independent framebuffer from the Intel Iris Xe 80 EU graphics engine. There is no mirroring, splitting, or software compositing: each screen runs its own resolution and content.

Note that LVDS/eDP is a build-time selection, and the second USB4 port can be used for data instead of display if the deployment needs three screens plus a high-throughput peripheral.

Both are full CAN channels on 2.0 mm pitch headers and they are electrically independent. The typical deployment pattern is to dedicate one channel to the safety-critical or motion-control bus and the other to diagnostics, battery management, or body electronics — keeping non-real-time traffic from adding jitter to the control path.

For deployments where the CAN bus crosses ground references — vehicle chassis segments, motor drives, or long cable runs — galvanically isolated CAN rated to 4000V withstand is available as an ODM configuration.

Two reasons. First, bandwidth: 40 Gbps handles high-bitrate camera capture or external NVMe storage that would saturate USB 3.2.

Second, cable count: USB4 Type-C carries display, data and power on one connector, so a docking station or camera module that would otherwise need three separate cables runs on one. In a vehicle cabin or a cramped control cabinet, cable count often matters more than raw bandwidth.

DC 9–36V at 120W, via either a Φ5.5×2.5 mm jack or a locking Phoenix terminal, with a 2-pin remote power on/off terminal block. This covers 12V and 24V vehicle systems across their full charge and discharge range.

For 48V systems — where charging can spike to 58V — an external DC-DC step-down or an ODM variant with a higher-tolerance input stage is required. A 9–36V module cannot ride through 48V charging transients.

Five. COM1 and COM2 are BIOS-selectable between RS-232 and RS-485, so they can serve either a point-to-point instrument or a multi-drop RS-485 network. COM3 through COM5 are RS-232.

This covers deployments integrating legacy PLCs, barcode scanners, weighing terminals, printers and instrument controllers on a single unit — without USB-to-serial adapters. Galvanically isolated COM is available as an ODM configuration.

Yes, fanless as standard. The unibody extruded-aluminium chassis acts as the heatsink — no fans, no vents to admit dust, no bearings to fail. The platform is verified at 100% CPU and 2D/3D graphics load with no thermal throttling in this configuration.

The 3.5-inch SBC does carry fan headers on the board (1× 4-pin PWM CPU, 1× 3-pin system) for OEM customers integrating the SBC into their own actively-cooled enclosure. These are unpopulated in the standard boxed AX-238BT.

Two configurations:

• • Standard: −20°C to +60°C — verified at 100% CPU and 2D/3D graphics load with no thermal throttling under PassMark BurnInTest. Suits temperature-controlled cabins, indoor HMI stations and general industrial deployment.
• • Extended-temperature: −40°C to +80°C — industrial-grade storage and extended-range peripherals, chamber-verified per unit with cold-soak boot at −40°C and sustained full-load operation at +80°C.

Storage range is −40°C to +85°C in both configurations. Extended temperature is a build-time selection, not a field upgrade.

Two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 64GB with 12th Gen Intel Core processors and up to 96GB with 13th Gen.

The higher ceiling on 13th Gen suits in-memory workloads such as large vision buffers, multi-stream video capture, or virtualized OT and IT separation on a single box.

They are different branches, not upgrade steps.

The AX-234BT is the edge AI platform: 13th Gen i5-1345U with Iris Xe for OpenVINO inference, one CAN channel and two COM ports, sized for vision and AOI workloads.

The AX-238BT is the multi-display and multi-port platform: four independent displays, two CAN channels, six COM ports, dual USB4 at 40 Gbps, and DDR5 up to 96GB, sized for HMI walls, vehicle cockpits and legacy serial integration.

Choose the AX-234BT when the workload is inference-heavy; choose the AX-238BT when port count and display count are the binding constraint.

Compare with AX-234BT

The AX series modular x86 platform carries 7+ years availability, backed by Fixed BOM Control with no silent component substitutions, and formal Product Change Notification issued 6 months in advance with a last-time-buy window.

Light customization — I/O layout changes, wireless module pre-integration, storage upgrades, front-panel branding and preloaded system images — is supported from MOQ 100 units, with NRE quoted upfront and refundable at 2,000 units, and approximately 35-day lead time.