It’s designed for demanding commercial, defence and aerospace applications, and supports AI processing at the edge.
“As defence systems evolve toward greater autonomy and data-driven operations, the demand for AI-enabled SBCs is accelerating,” said the company’s Director of Product Management, Simon Collins.
“With real-time AI processing, sensor fusion, and advanced signal handling at the edge, the SBC3518 offers a new level of capability for embedded AI performance across a wide range of applications.”
Note the board works with both Windows and Linux.
Processing
Breaking down the CPU, GPU and NPU processor elements, the CPU has 16 cores in total (“4 Performance cores, 8 Efficient cores, 4 Low Power cores”).
The NPU (Neural Processing Unit) sees an integrated NPU5 for dedicated AI performance. Abaco says it can deliver up to 100TOPS.
Specification
In terms of memory, it has two channels of soldered LPDDR5x SDRAM with ECC, up to 64 GB. And up to 1TB NAND Flash (NVMe SSD). And the networking component is a 40/100G Ethernet Data Plane, with x4 PCIe Expansion Plane, and network speeds are 1/10/25G.
Rear I/O? There are 1x 2500BASE-T, 1x SATA, 1x DisplayPort, 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.2, and 2x Serial ports. Also, 4x GPIO connections (3.3V tolerant).
For security, there is Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ (ZU5EG) for users who want to embed their own application specific features.
You can read more about the board on the company’s product page.
Abaco Systems has its headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama.
Image: (top) Abaco Systems (bottom) A Gemini 3-generated image of the SBC3518 block diagram shown above:
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