• Effect of HDI and layer count on bare board cost
    Critical Link is often asked to help cost-out the differences between a single-board chip-down solution and a solution that incorporates a som .  It’s well known that HDI (high density interconnect) and...
  • 25 years of SOMs and now all in with ARM; interview with Phytec’s Yves Astein
    PHYTEC is a German company which has been producing system on module boards (SOMs) for over 25 years so I connected with Yves Astein, a product manager at PHYTEC to get his take on the rise of ARM based...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Exploring the ARM CoreLink™ CCI-500 performance envelope – Part 2
    Introduction In Part 1 of this blog series (found here ) we introduced the ARM CoreLink TM CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect and described some of the new configurable features which are available over...