Bespoke custom carrier board

Laser technology provider Luxinar has partnered with BVM to develop a bespoke PC solution for its MULTISCAN range of CO₂ laser marking systems.

Luxinar’s MULTISCAN systems are used in a range of applications such as high-speed bottle and label marking, and traceability marking of leather for the fashion industry.

At the heart of one of Luxinar’s laser systems is a Single Board Computer with custom I/O cards. This SBC typically needs replacing every few years because the manufacturer obsoleted the current SBC. The recent problem facing Luxinar’s design team was that any available replacement SBCs required adaptors to maintain backwards compatibility with their existing proprietary measurement cards.  The BVM and Luxinar design teams worked together to develop an alternative to the original design, that reproduced the original SBC whilst fitting in the limited physical space available.

The resulting solution used a COM-Express module from DFI to provide the computing power and a custom carrier board designed by BVM to house both the COM-Express module and slots for the specialist I/O modules. The use of the COM-Express module simplifies future upgrades as the CPU technology moves forward. The finished result provides a stable, scalable, future-proofed platform. BVM’s design for Luxinar provides a computing sub-assembly with integral I/O and cooling that exactly fits the allocated space. It provides full backwards compatibility to Luxinar’s proprietary cards without additional adaptors and has significantly improved system stability and reliability in use.