The Advantech AIMB-723 offers the industry’s most highly integrated and capable AOI solution. Because of the performance enhancements offered by AMD RYZEN™ Embedded 7000 series processor, our customers are satisfied with choosing this new motherboard for production deployments.—Henry Tu,Product Manager, Advantech 

As industrial applications continue to grow in capability and complexity, they are driving the need for the use of increasingly more powerful processors in manufacturing. One such application, Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), is an important aspect of a robust industrial manufacturing strategy, used in the production of all kinds of products but especially critical for monitoring printed circuit boards (PCBs) and integrated circuits (ICs) for defects and accurate measurements.  

While PCBs and ICs are shrinking in size, they are packing more complex capabilities. Even a relatively simple board can be made up of literally thousands of soldered components, making detecting and monitoring for defects by the human eye virtually impossible and therefore making AOI-based systems an absolute necessity in today’s production environment.

Advantech’s new AIMB-723 industrial motherboard powered by the AMD Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processor enables AOI-based visual inspections In this article, we will discuss how Advantech is helping customers to take advantage of AOI for the production of PCBs and ICs. We will highlight the new capabilities of Advantech’s AMD-powered AIMB-723 industrial motherboard that is enabling a new era of AOI-based visual inspections. 

AOI Computing Requirements

The ideal AOI solution requires high CPU frequencies and industrial-grade durability. It demands that GPU processing be complemented by the appropriate amount of compute power from an embedded CPU. To date, computing power has been too expensive for AOI machine makers to properly utilize.

More specifically, the ideal solution is a single board that integrates both vision (GPU) and compute (CPU) processing capabilities, and that ideal is now a reality. Advantech has brought to market the AIMB-723, powered by the AMD Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series processor, the first industrial-grade motherboard integrated with an AMD Socket AM5 chipset. The new board enables manufacturing equipment suppliers and electronics manufacturers to use AOI to perform visual inspections of PCBs and ICs during manufacturing in which a camera is used to meticulously scan the board for any defects or failures. AOI monitors the quality of PCB and IC production and corrects them in the process flow, which is a key to success in today's competitive production environment. 

Advantech AIMB-723 Features 

The Advantech AIMB-723 offers the industry’s most highly integrated and capable AOI solution. In addition to accelerating performance-demanding AOI applications, it features an optimized form factor design through PCIe placement for GPU card installation – to support the high-performance that is demanded for vison and compute intensive industrial applications. It is scalable to support a three-slot width GPU card and an additional three-frame grabber card for machine vision applications, enabling it to cater to legacy requirements for PCI expansion while accommodating a wide range of communication protocols and I/O interfaces. The Advantech AIMB-723 also provides extraordinary heat dissipation and industrial-grade durability. 

It satisfies the requirements of lightning-fast memory and streamlines data transfer and processing. Specific features include:

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