Product Description:

The CX2030-0100 embedded PC is produced by Beckhoff within the CX Embedded PC Systems series. It serves as a DIN-rail-mountable controller that hosts user logic, I/O coordination, and HMI services at the machine level. By integrating computing, storage, and network interfaces in a 99 mm-tall housing, the device gives original equipment manufacturers a single point of control for conveyors, packaging lines, and process skids, eliminating the need for a traditional cabinet-mounted industrial PC and separate PLC.

Its processing section uses an Intel Core i7 2610UE that operates at 1.5 GHz across 2 physical cores, providing deterministic multitasking for motion, fieldbus, and visualization threads. The controller comes with 2 GB of DDR3 RAM, allowing large TwinCAT tasks or SQL logging while maintaining cycle times. All electronics are supplied from a single 24 V DC power rail, so integration into standard control panels is direct. The low-power internal design lets the CPU sustain its base frequency without throttling in cabinet air at 55 °C. Nonvolatile data, such as counters or recipe values, are stored in a 128 kB NOVRAM block that retains information after power loss, avoiding the need for battery-backed SRAM.

Total power consumption peaks at 27 W, which simplifies passive ventilation in compact enclosures. Visual output is handled by the Intel HD Graphics 3000 controller, which uses 128 MB of shared video memory and can increase its engine speed to 850 MHz for HTML-based HMIs or simple 3D diagnostics. The electronics provide up to 500 V of dielectric strength between the power circuits and protective earth. The housing measures 144 mm wide and 91 mm deep, enabling dense placement alongside I/O terminals. The platform comes without a preinstalled operating system or TwinCAT, allowing licensed runtime images to be loaded according to the project requirements.