Compact Industrial PCs with new PCI and PCIe card extensions

Beckhoff C69xx series control cabinet PCs are extremely small with a robust aluminium housing. The C69xx IPC features up to three independent Ethernet interfaces, making it ideal for use as a compact central processing unit in EtherCAT control systems. For applications that additionally require PCI or PCIe cards, the C6920 and C6930 control cabinet PCs are now available with plug-in card extensions. This makes the PC housing only 70 mm (2.76-in) wider, but increases the device’s flexibility.

The Beckhoff C6920 and C6930 control cabinet PCs are optionally extendable using two plug-in card slots and can accept conventional PC plug-in cards of up to 190 mm (7.5-in) in length. The 70 mm (2.76-in) wider PC housing includes a backplane that provides a choice of two PCI slots, two PCI Express slots or one PCI and one PCI Express slot. The plug-in card connections are located on the top side of the PC. An aluminium cover on the front of the slot expansion permits easy installation of the plug-in cards without having to open the housing of the computer core. As a result, all Beckhoff PCI fieldbus cards can now be used in the C69xx series. The plug-in card extension can be ordered as an option.

The C69xx Industrial PC series is equipped with 3½-inch Beckhoff Motherboards. The C6920/C6930 variants have powerful Intel^®Core^™2 Duo processors. The C6930 additionally has a SATA RAID controller for mirroring two hard disks. Extensions via additional PCI or PCIe plug-in card slots are also possible for the Beckhoff Panel PCs from the CP62xx series and for the C6525 “built-in” Industrial PC.