Freescale introduces embedded board solutions initiative
4 April 2012
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To help manufacturers lower hardware engineering costs, speed time to market and reduce design and software complexity associated with advanced multicore processors, Freescale Semiconductor is working with its extensive ecosystem of board vendors to broaden availability of its processors based on Power Architecture and ARM technologies in standardised, off-the-shelf single-board computing (SBC) and system-on-module (SOM) form factors.
The highly flexible solutions resulting from this initiative are expected to allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) to focus on differentiating IP instead of lower-level printed circuit board (PCB) hardware and board support package (BSP) software development tasks. The programme is intended to provide OEMs and ODMs with board bring-up services, as well as early access to documentation, BSPs and silicon.
Recently at Embedded World, two leading board vendors outlined plans for forthcoming boards based on advanced Freescale multicore processors. Mercury Computer has introduced an OpenVPX system incorporating two QorIQ AMP series T4240 processors, and Kontron plans to have a computer-on-module based on Freescale’s i.MX 6 series technology later this year.
Other board vendors at Embedded World 2012 supporting Freescale QorIQ communications processors and/or i.MX applications processors included Advantech, Boundary Devices, Compulab, Congatec, Digi International, Emerson, iWave Systems, Microsys, MSC, Novtech, Seco and TQ Group.
Find more information about SOM and SBC solutions based on advanced Freescale processors at www.freescale.com/SBC.
For more information visit www.freescale.com/SBC
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