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PC/104: The Embedded PC Mezzanine
The rapid growth of embedded PCs used for industrial applications demanded a way to expand SBC features without a large cost or space penalty. Sometimes the changing demands of an application, the end customer, or a designer's own marketing department dictated that another serial channel
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EPIC: The New Mid-Size, Open-Standard for Embedded SBCs
platform, one. PC/104 and EBX are two industry-. requirements. Therefore a gap exist-. that can't be ignored is standardiza-. standard boards that address this. ed for compact applications bet-. tion. Standards for single board. stackable embedded market. ween these two platforms. computers (SBC
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EPIC + PCI Express = EPIC Express. The Next Generation Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing.
PCI Express is the wave of the future for high performance I/O in both desktop and industrial/embedded applications. This hierarchical, point-to-point interconnect works well with on-board and slot oriented architectures. Yet the stacking style architecture employed with EPIC, PC/104, and EBX
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Designing Electronic Medical Devices for Extended Lifecycles Using Off-the-Shelf-SBCs (.pdf)
of a given product with an extended. a long life expectancy are only desirable as long as they. lifespan. Today in this highly specialized industry there. continue to assist medical professionals in providing. are a handful of industrial grade SBC manufacturers who. superior patient care. have built
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Increasing Bandwidth and Connectivity in Small Form Factor, High-Performance Embedded Applications:The I/O-Centric, High-Speed SUMIT Interconnect Standard (.pdf)
. growing array of small board form. factors and interfaces. As I/O has. stackable platform is more likely than. updating only the interfaces, lets. proliferated, designers are faced with. a larger-footprint SBC with everything. form factor standards and interface. two choices. The first is to build
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Designing for Harsh Environments Using COTS Products (.pdf)
. The need for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) single. strategies, such as aggressive thermal management. board computer (SBC) products continues to grow. and virtualization of some hardware functions, can also. as higher processing, smaller footprints and lower. have a great impact on performance
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PC/104 Technology Expands to Embrace ARM Processors
on the SBC board. cally, a bootloader is stored in onboard. These power consumption figures, even on. Figure 2. The Arcom Viper, based on the. flash, which allows the user to download. the low end, are beyond the range of four. Intel PXA255, has an integrated. applications and run them. With Linux, the. LCD