Shrinking Computers

NPant — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:59 GMT

The need for embedded system portability is driving the evolution

(170x170mm) form factor. Just as mobile Internet devices (MIDs) are beginning

to proliferate in consumer markets, we are also seeing the need for small embedded

devices expand to support real-time decision making with business intelligence.

Whether a health care professional is accessing tests and records, or a field service

representative is accessing troubleshooting data, the needs for data, communications

and a small platform device are immediate.

New products from Intel and Kontron enable embedded computer

computer-on-module, which packs low power processing performance and high-end

graphics capabilities, as well as PCI Express and Serial ATA interfaces on a

credit card footprint of merely 55x84mm. board, Kontron's high speed, digital logic with

a 12-layer stacking PCB design,ensures signal integrity, reduces radiation, improves

signal quality, and aids in the decoupling of the power bus, all resulting in high quality

electromagnetic compatibility needed to support new Intel Atom based small, low

power system designs.

Kontron's high quality electromagnetic compatibility, lowpower processing performance

the Intel Atom processor's capabilities. Kontron would like to know which of the capabilities

of the Intel Atom processor that you think will propel the processor to the greatest success

in the embedded world. Hyperthreading? LVDS? The simultaneous independent use

of 2 displays? The small form factor?

Why?

topic Shrinking Computers in Embedded Intel Atom® Processors