Beckhoff C6043 compact industrial PC

Beckhoff has added the C6043 to its range of ultra-compact industrial PCs. This series is characterised primarily by the second board level for an NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) integrated in the factory.

With the ex-factory assignable slot for a GPU, the C6043, which measures 132 x 202 x 127 mm, can be equipped with highly parallelising and long-term available NVIDIA GPUs in addition to its Intel Core processors. This makes it suitable as a central control unit for applications that place high demands on 3D graphics or with deeply integrated vision and AI program modules with minimal cycle times. The TwinCAT 3 automation software can map these functions fully integrated alongside the classic controller, without additional software or interfaces.

The Intel Core i5, i7, and i9 processors have been installed in a hybrid architecture. As with the previous processor generations, Intel Celeron, Pentium and Core i3 offer classic performance cores; Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9, on the other hand, also have 4, 8 and 16 efficient cores, respectively. This combination of performance and efficiency cores allows applications to be implemented on a total of up to 24 real processor cores. While performance cores are primarily suitable for high-performance, single-thread applications, many additional threads can be executed in real time or in user mode on the additional efficiency cores. Each individual core can be configured individually via TwinCAT.