Introduction

The rugged system HORUS428A powered by 6th Gen Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE, which is designed and tested to meet the demand of a military level of ruggedness (MIL-STD-810G) and proven that the system are reliable (Anti-vibration & Shock, wide extended range operating temperature [0℃~50℃]) enough to operate under harsh environments. Also, the abundant I/O gives maximum flexibility on integrations and configurations with a wide variety of subsystems. Moreover, HORUS428A can  build in Areca ARC-1226-8i SAS RAID Card supports up to 8 bays SAS/SSD drives. HORUS428A is a system with outstanding CPU performances, rich and functional I/O, and maximized ruggedness, and certainly improves a quality of all ground, maritime, and aerial operations.

Unique Features

Advanced CPU (6th Gen Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE)

HORUS428A is applied with one of the newest CPU, 6th Gen Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE which is a micro architecture using 14mn as same as its predecessor Broadwell. This 4 core 8 threads CPU runs at 2.4GHz clock speed as an average, yet it is able to process as 8 cores by the 8 threads architecture and accelerates up to 3.4 GHz by Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 during peak loads. As well as the incredible computing performance of Intel® 6th generation CPU.

The Best Thermal Design for the High-end CPU

7starlake is a R&D oriented solution provider specializes in developing ruggedized systems that support high resistance to shock and vibration, and wide range extended operating temperatures from subzero to unusual high temperature. In order to handle the high TDP of Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE (35W), we apply a special thermal design to HORUS428A called “dual-sides thermal design”. And three different types of thermal modules (copper heat-spreaders, liquid-vapor heat-pipes, aluminum heat-sink) are applied on each side to achieve effective and efficient heat dissipation on both right- and left-sides.

Massive Storage Capacity

The feature of HORUS428A is not only its extraordinary performance, but also abundant I/O interfaces are another key feature of this rugged rackmount server. HORUS428A is equipped with 6 x USB (4 x USB3.0, 2 x USB2.0), 4 x LAN, 1 x display output. Additionally, 8 x massive storages (up to 2TB) are installed as removal SSDs by SAS RAID that can easily be swapped the storages without dismantling the system.

The System Main Board: ATX IMB-AB20

The Backbone of Rugged Server HORUS428A

The system main board AB20 is applied in HORUS428A has been developed by 7starlake which specializes in developing both ruggedized embedded boards and systems. This ruggedized ATX motherboard AB20 is powered by 6th Gen Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE processor and supports rugged memory XR-DIMM 64GB DDR4 and abundant I/O interfaces. It is powerful and rugged enough to operate under harsh environments as military uses.

1. Support 6th Gen Intel® Xeon E3-1268L v5, i7-6700TE
2. 4 x XR-DIMM DDR4 up to 64GB
3. Expansion: 1x PCIe(x16), 4 x mPCIe (Supports 2 x mSATA), 6 x SATAIII
4. 2 x USB 2.0, 4 x USB 3.0, 4 x GbE, 6 x COM
5. Multi Display: Supports VGA, HDMI, DisplayPort
6. Extended Operating Temp.: -40°C~85°C

 

MIL-STD-810

 Operating

Reference	Test	Condition
Method 502.5 Procedure 2	Low Temperature	5°C, 4 hours, ±3°C
Method 501.5 Procedure 2	High Temperature	+55°C, 4 hours, ±3°C
Method 507.5	Humidity	85%-95% RH without condensation, 24 hours/ cycle, conduct 10 cycles.
Method 514.6	Vibration	5-500Hz, Vertical 2.20Grms, 40mins x 3axis.
Method 516.6	Shock	6 Grms, 11ms, 3 axes.
Method 500.5 Procedures I and II	Altitude	25°C, 15,000ft
		12,192M, (40,000 ft) for the initial cabin altitude (corresponding pressure in a standard atmosphere: 18.8Kpa or 2.73 Psia).

 

Non-Operating

Reference	Test	Condition
Method 502.5	Low Temperature Storage	-33°C, 4 hours, change rate:≦20°C/ Hour '-15°C, 72hours (By request)
Method 501.5 Procedure 1	High Temperature Storage	+71°C, 4 hours, change rate:≦20°C/ Hour '+63°C, 240 hours (By request)
Method 514.6	Vibration	5-500Hz, Vertical 2.20Grms, 40mins x 3axis.
Method 516.6	Shock	6 Grms, 11ms, 3 axes.
Method 500.5 Procedures III and IV	Altitude	25°C, 15,000ft
		15,240, (50,000 ft) for the initial cabin altitude (corresponding pressure in a standard atmosphere: (14.9Kpa or 2.16 Psia)

 

Test Method/Specification:

Test method:                            Reference to MIL-STD-810G, Method 500.5, Test Procedure I: Storage, Air Transport

Temperature:                           25°C

Altitude:                                   4.572m (15.000ft) for the cabin altitude

Altitude change rate:               7.6m/s