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MPL AG Product Guide

MPL AG Product Guide
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MPL AG Product Guide

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About MPL
MPL has been a leader in rugged, fanless electronics and embedded systems since 1985, emphasizing high reliability, low power consumption, and long-term product availability. They maintain strong partnerships with major chip suppliers and offer global distributor support.
Product Specifications
MPL products are designed for low power consumption, fanless operation, and extended temperature ranges (-40°C to +85°C). They offer long-term availability and are repairable for over 20 years. MPL products are certified for various industries, including maritime, railways, and defense.
PIP Embedded Industrial Computers
The PIP family offers consistent design with all connectors on the same side, wide input voltage range, and fanless design. They are available with various expansion options to meet specific application needs.
CEC Compact Embedded Computers
CEC computers are ultra-compact, fanless, and designed for rugged environments. They offer low power consumption, modularity, and long-term availability. They are suitable for industries like automation, communication, and transportation.
Housing Options
MPL provides rugged housing options, including standard industrial housings and fully IP67 protected military housings. Customization is available for specific customer requirements.
Expansion and Networking Options
MPL offers a variety of expansion modules, including PCI, PCIe, and mPCIe expansions, as well as networking options like Gigabit Ethernet controllers and managed switches.
Industries & Certifications
MPL products are used in automotive, avionics, defense, maritime, and medical industries, among others. They meet certifications such as IEC 60945, EN50155, and MIL-STD-810.
OEM & Customer Specific Solutions
MPL offers customized solutions to meet specific customer needs, ensuring high quality and long-term support.
Overview
MPL AG offers a range of rugged, industrial-grade networking and computing solutions designed for harsh environments. Their products are known for reliability, low power consumption, and long-term availability, making them suitable for various industries including automotive, defense, maritime, and railways.
Product Specifications
  • Cooling and Housing: Products are mounted on cooling plates with passive cooling, adaptable to customer needs. Housings are chromated for EMI protection and powder-coated for durability. Options include IP67 MIL outdoor housing and various interface connectors.
  • Networking Solutions: Includes GUARD firewall/VPN router, TX2FX media converter, UNIGET Ethernet controller, MAGBES Ethernet switch, and MAXBES 10-port switch. These solutions support extended temperature ranges and are designed for rugged environments.
  • Embedded Systems: Designed for extreme temperatures (-40°C to +85°C) and meet various certifications (IEC 60945, EN50155, MIL-STD-810). They are fanless, noiseless, and available in stainless steel or aluminum housings.
Special Features
  • Extended temperature solutions and fanless designs.
  • Customizable options including touch screens, wide DC input voltage, and integration of additional cards.
  • Long-term availability with consistent form, fit, and function.
Application Areas
MPL products are used in automotive, food industry, communication, defense, maritime, railways, traffic, medical, and healthcare sectors.
Certifications
Products are certified for maritime (IEC 60945), railways (EN50155), defense (MIL-STD-810), and other standards. MPL offers testing for additional certifications as needed.
Customization and Support
MPL provides OEM and custom product solutions, with a focus on fast, cost-optimized design. They offer direct technical support from design engineers and have a global distributor network for local sales and support.
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MPL AG Product Guide-4

Worldwide more than 1000 companies use MPL products on a daily basis. Maintaining a close customer partnership is our goal for successful collaboration. We support and monitor our products for full life-cycle management. Continuity Since 1985, MPL has been the industry leader in developing and manufacturing rugged, fanless electronics, and embedded systems for customers demanding best quality. MPL's commitment to design, high reliability, low power consumption, extended temperature, and longevity products are the cornerstones of our success. Reliable Partnership MPL offers its customers and business...

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MPL AG Product Guide-5

Our low power Designs – increase MTBF We only design products and solutions that have the lowest possible power consumption in the industry. It generates less MPL climate chamber test environ- heat, less stress, and therefore a higher MTBF value and bet- ter reliability rate is the result. Unparalleled Quality MPL products are designed from inception to insure high reliability when operating in rugged and tough environments. A further development focus is to produce a consistent, stable, Measuring test setup for design verification long-term available product, which will lower your TCO. Extended...

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MPL AG Product Guide-6

Why buy an MPL embedded computer? MPL embedded computers are based on common PC technology without the known limitations of normal PC platforms. MPL computers have long life-cycle management, they are ruggedized by design, they have extended temperature capabilities and they are based on more than 30 years of MPL embedded design experience. MPL embedded computers represent the most unique and clever designs in the industry. Specialties • Low power consumption -> less stress & higher MTBF • Fanless operation under all conditions • Customized and/or locked BIOS versions • Operation temperature...

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MPL AG Product Guide-7

Customized PIP37 solution for vehicles MPL Embedded Computer Characteristics Since 1998 the MPL Embedded Computer Family (PIP) has been offering: • Same foot print / same size • All connectors remain over the years on the same side • Graphics, Ethernet, USB on board • 4 serial lines on board • Wide input voltage range • Various internal expansion buses • Use of standard connectors • Fanless design, even in extended temperature range 1998 - First introduction of the PIP Concept, PIP5 - 5x86 CPU We constantly invest in new and innovative technologies for our products. Our close partnerships with...

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MPL AG Product Guide-8

The modularity of MPL products are unique and make the product a perfect fit for basically any function and application. MPL embedded expansion modules are designed and produced to withstand the high quality expectation in MPL embedded computers. These optional products are tested The advantage of the MPL expansion products is in the variety of options to meet the various requirements of different applications (Industry, Defense, Railways, Medicine...). MPL expansion products are designed to meet both, the specific customer function, as well as maintaining operations in extended temperature and...

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MPL AG Product Guide-9

Universal 3U 19” rack solution with PIP39 used as passenger information server Power Options BOLERO Redundant power input Expansion for standard PMC modules Mass storage Options HSRAID Hot swap RAID expansion SATA-REMOVE External mass storage access Expansion Options PIPPCI PCIe slot expansion XMC/PMC expansion MXM graphic expansion Integrated hot swap capable RAID1 Networking Options UNIGET MAGBES Integrated managed Gigabit switch 10-port Gbit switch with 2x 10Gbit SFP+ Fiber optical converter Gigabit Ethernet controller with PoE+ Dual Display expansion Sound module External removable disk drawer...

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MPL AG Product Guide-10

MPL offers various rugged and flexible housing options for its embedded computers to give customers the best possible solution for their specific application. All housings can be adapted according to the customer requirements. The customer can choose between: • Use of MPL's standard industrial proven rugged housing, either with DIN-rail, or flange mount option. Various heights are offered to create the most compact system according to your I/O requirements. OEM versions are readily available with customer logo and colors. • For the harshest environments use our fully IP67 protected military or...

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MPL AG Product Guide-11

Standard housing in 62, 83, 120mm heights PIP Standard Housings Version Footprint Height Standard DIN-Rail 270 x 162mm Standard Flange Rugged DIN-rail clamp Case characteristics: robust, rugged aluminum, internally chromated, externally powder coated. Detail of flange mounting solution Case characteristics: for harshest environment, up to IP67 protected, connectors according requirement. Open Frame Case characteristics: mounted on cooling plate with passive cooling concept, adaptable to customer case. Cooling plate Lockable power connector can be adjusted to your needs. 19” Rack Solution MPL...

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MPL AG Product Guide-12

The name CEC stands for the ultra compact, robust, fanless, and low power Embedded Computer Family with Intel processors. The systems are offered with long term availability guarantee and in a rugged housing with different mounting options. CEC units are available according to your requirements, even with your logo. Specialties • Ultra compact embedded Box-PC without any internal wiring • Fanless solutions for extended temperature -40°C to +85°C • Customized and/or locked BIOS versions • Low power embedded designs • Designed for rugged & tough environments • Long-term availability guarantee,...

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MPL AG Product Guide-13

CEC12 with flange mount MPL Compact Embedded Computer Characteristics • Extreme low power consumption • Compactness and modularity • Graphics, Ethernet, USB on board CEC with integrated WLAN • 9-36 VDC input power • Load dump and reverse polarity protection • Serial ports (RS232/422/485) • All status LEDs and user buttons on the front • Fanless design, even in extended temperature range Customized CEC with fiber optic • Same foot print / same size since 2010 We constantly invest in new and innovative technologies for our products. Our close partnership with the world leaders in chip technologies...

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