Product Description

The Beckhoff CX1020-0121 is a member of the CX Series Embedded PC family which is area efficient, small and light weight. It contains an Intel® Celeron® M ULV processor at a clock frequency of 1 GHz which makes it applicable in real time control processes. This is a one core processor making it excellent for smooth and steady automation work.

The device features 256MB DDR RAM, which goes to an upper level of 1GB. The expansion ends enable the users to cater for applications that are more intense in memory need. It also has a Compact Flash card slot which includes 128MB of memory and additional slots for extra capacity if needed. Two RJ45 10/100 Mbit/s ports equipped with an internal switch out of two used are available in the CX1020-0121 with as good performance where communication is required. This device relies on passive cooling, but for certain applications where more power is needed extra active cooling can be factory-fitted.

The diagnostic LED’s which comprise power LED, LAN LED and twin cat operating status LED amongst others current all present information about flash power and activity, flash information access type and flash information access speed. The module incorporates a non-volatile clock chip, hence keeps referring the correct date even when the switch board is powered off. The CX1020-0121 has Windows Embedded Standard 2009, hence is well fitted for present automation needs. The unit supports TwinCAT 2 PLC run time, an industrial control software, and internally interfaces to industrial I/O devices through power supply modules via a 16bit ISA (PC/104) system bus.