Hardware news

March 24, 2026

Hardware news for 10 Gbps Ethernet switch, Serial server for legacy integration, and sensor IO for high-performance systems.

New hardware updates

10 Gbps support on the Ethernet Switch

We’ve recently released a new revision of our Ethernet Switch. The new revision is fully backwards compatible but introduces the capability of supporting 10 Gbps SFPs.

This ensures that even if all network ports consume max bandwidth, there’s capacity to transfer all data onwards to an upstream system – enabling all kinds of AI and machine-learning use cases.


Key features:

  • Managed network switch
  • User friendly web Interface
  • 1 / 2.5 / 5* / 10* Gbps SFP interface
  • Individually configurable port speed/duplex
  • Modbus TCP/UDP
  • Ixys Control System master
  • Stackable with other CS PCBs
  • VLAN support
  • Spanning Tree support for loop detection
  • LED Indicators for each port
  • PC/104 dimensions


More product information, datasheet and stepfile

New Serial server

While Ixys believes that more and more devices will move to Ethernet-based interfaces, we acknowledge that there is still a large number of serial devices already in the field, which need to be supported for time to come.

To make such devices easier to integrate in modern systems, we’ve developed our own Serial server.

This gives us a more robust product which is easier to manufacture, and also enables us to for instance support timestamping serial sensor data at the source – especially useful for demanding survey applications.


Key features:

  • LED Indicators for Diagnostics
  • PC/104 hole pattern
  • Telnet and web interface for configuration
  • Modbus for diagnostic
  • RS232/485 Software configurable
  • Termination Resistor Software Configurable


More product information, datasheet and stepfile

Sensor IO

Sensor IO

In systems with a large number of sensors, it’s easy to run out of analog inputs when using our Remote IO boards. For those applications, we’ve developed a dedicated Sensor IO board, with 8 channels, each with a dedicated power supply, one 4-20 mA analog and two digital inputs.

Each channel’s supply power can be turned off with full isolation, ensuring that a ground fault in any sensor can be isolated, and hence not affect the rest of your system. 


Key features:

  • 8 high resolution analog 4-20 mA ports
  • 8 ports with dual digital inputs,configurable as NPN or PNP
  • Ports are galvanically isolated from the board when disabled
  • Dual Ethernet ports with built-in switch
  • Modbus UDP/TCP protocol
  • Web server for easy configuration
  • LED indicators for diagnostics
  • Compact design
  • Pressure tolerant
  • Water detect input


More product information, datasheet and stepfile


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