The EPC-40XA is the largest configuration of CESIPC’s XA-series fanless embedded industrial PC. It measures 337 × 160 × 79.5 mm and weighs 2.49 kg, and it is the only chassis in the family that carries six DB9 serial ports and an i-Door expansion bay at the same time. It is a headless box PC: the control software runs inside the cabinet while the operator display is provided by a separate panel PC or monitor.

Same 337 mm width and the same six DB9 serial ports (four RS-232 and two RS-485). The EPC-40XA adds 32 mm of height — 79.5 mm instead of 47.5 mm — which brings an i-Door expansion bay and a larger thermal mass for higher continuous loads. It also weighs more: 2.49 kg against 2.11 kg.

Eight configurations across four families: Celeron J1900 and J6412; 10th Gen Core i3-10110U, i5-10210U and i7-10510U; and 12th Gen Core i3-1215U, i5-1235U and i7-1250U. Celeron builds suit gateways and data acquisition, the 10th Gen suit machine control, and the 12th Gen adds Iris Xe graphics for vision and edge AI.

Six DB9 ports: four RS-232 and two RS-485. The RS-485 pair handles multi-drop buses such as Modbus RTU, while the four RS-232 ports cover point-to-point devices — weighing indicators, barcode scanners, temperature controllers and PLC programming ports. All six are on the board, so no external converter is needed.

The i-Door slot takes a pluggable function card over a board-to-board connector. Available cards include a CAN bus interface, an additional 5-port Gigabit LAN card, extra isolated serial ports and a 5G module. Because the bay is internal, the sealed enclosure stays intact and there is one less DIN-rail device to wire and power.

Yes. Every EPC-40XA configuration is passively cooled. Heat is conducted from the processor through the board-to-board stack into the 6063 high-strength aluminium alloy enclosure, which is finned to radiate it. With no fan there is no filter to clean and no moving part to wear out, which is one reason the platform reaches a 60,000-hour MTBF.

The chassis measures 337 (W) × 160 (D) × 79.5 (H) mm and weighs 2.49 kg. Installation dimensions are 327 × 100 mm — identical to the EPC-30XA, so an existing 30XA cutout does not need rework if you move up to the 40XA. It supports bracket mounting and VESA mounting.

It is built for installations that need both serial density and expandability: machine and process control with six live serial links, multi-protocol gateways that also carry a CAN or 5G card, SCADA and energy monitoring cabinets, and vision or edge-AI workloads where the larger thermal mass matters.

BlockCore™ is CESIPC’s modular architecture. On the EPC-40XA it means the chassis, mounting, i-Door bay and I/O layout stay the same across every processor tier, so a Celeron unit can be upgraded to a 12th Gen Core board without changing the enclosure or re-qualifying the cabinet layout. Function modules are added through the i-Door slot instead of replacing the base unit.