The VM6103 is the first member of a full range of High-Performance, Low Power dissipation Kontron range of products featuring QorIQ ‘Layerscape’ multicore ARM processors.
The VM6103 Connectivity Engine provides a flexible off-the-shelf method for quickly developing and deploying cost-conscious high-performance with low power dissipation tailored systems.
The low power consumption of the powerful Dual-Core 64‑bit ARM Cortex-A53 makes the VM6103 well-suited to critical environments such as industrial, transportation and defense applications.
The VM6103 features a highly scalable computing performance as it is available either with a dual-core or quad-core ARM processor clocked at a frequency from 1 GHz up to 1.6 GHz.
The outstanding flexibility of the design of VM6103 provides numerous I/O expansion slots and the processing upgrade using pinout compatible 4-core processors.
| Processor | LS1023A Dual-Core or LS1043A Quad-Core 1 GHz / 1.6 GHz 64-bit ARM based Processor speed from 1.0 GHz up to 1.6GHz |
| Cache | 1Mbyte |
| DRAM DDR4 | 4GB running at 1600MT/s |
| Expansion Slots | Dual PMC and Dual XMC mPCIE slot Dual M.2 slot |
| I/O Features | 2x 10/100/1000 BASE-T(X) on P0 2x high-speed USB Ports on P0 1x SATA Ports on P0 4x EIA-232 null-modem Tx/Rx Serial Ports rear panel on P2 3x GPIOs on P0 and 5 x GPIOs on P2 depending on build option I/Os available on P2 32 I/Os available on P2; 32 I/Os available on P0 |
| Cooling | VITA 47 Standard air-cooled (0/+55°C) VITA 47 Conduction-Cooled CC-4 (-40/+85°C) |
| Storage | 32 GByte 4-bit eMMC 4.5 MLC flash |
| Frontpanel | 2x 10/100/1000Base-T(X) on RJ-45 connectors 1x RS-232 UART interfaces on RJ-12 connector 1x USB 2.0 port One Reset button Bicolor LEDS |
VM6103 Datasheet
[ vm6103_20210202_datasheet.pdf, 1.57 MB, Feb.02.2021 ]
VME-VPX shortform catalog
[ shortform-vme-vpx.pdf, 889.98 KB, Mar.20.2025 ]
VM6103 User Guide
[restrictions apply]
[ cadtb38-2e-vm6103-ug_v2.pdf, 5.41 MB, Mar.30.2020 ]
General Safety Instruction
[ vpx-360-manual.pdf, 5.67 MB, Dec.02.2025 ]
Kontron Modular Computers S.A.S. Service and Support Offering
This data sheet contains a detailed description of all the support and service offering from Kontron Modular Computers S.A.S, including the Long Term Supply (LTS) Services.
[ long-term-supply-offering.pdf, 2.35 MB, Feb.25.2025 ]
All other downloads such as drivers, bios, drawings etc. are available on Kontron’s Customer Section
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