Exploring Total Cost of Ownership: Single Board vs SOM Solution

Following on the heels of a recent post highlighting trade-offs in HDI technology and layer count of a single-board versus a som solution and how that drives bare_board costs, we wanted to take the next...
PoP technology makes wearables viable market for board makers.

Embedded Computing Boards is much more than industrial PCs. In fact there are unique and differentiating technologies such as PoP, which stands for Package on Package technology that can be offered by...
NFC Locker with Android phone application (Missing LLCP Layer)

Hyperintelligent NFC Locker of the Future Abstract The team's idea behind the Hyperintelligent NFC Locker of the Future was to reinvent the currently outdated system of rental lockers. Current rental...
How to bring the mobile, PC development experience to embedded

If you haven’t been in the embedded space long, it’s difficult to appreciate the sector’s technological evolution in recent years. Back in the day, 4-, 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) ruled the...
The three embedded market trends you should be considering

We at Critical Link have worked on some pretty complex applications for nearly 20 years, and so we’re exposed in real time to trends in the embedded systems market. Our work creating mitysom system-on...