The Bay Area Maker Faire is just around the corner, but I find myself casting my mind back to something eye-opening I saw at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremburg this February.

BeagleCore were showing an industrialized SoM version of…

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 step and examine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO…

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 layer count increase the cost of a bare board, but…

This is the first in a four part series on the ARM® Wall of Boards at Embedded World 2016. Today, I’ll introduce the ready-to-deploy Industrial System on Modules (SoMs) and Single Board Computers (SBCs) that we’re featuring on the booth at…

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-modules, custom baseboards, and complete ground…

The most advanced System on Chip in the world is only so much inert silicon without the printed circuit board that supplies it with power, connects its interfaces and otherwise gives it a home where it can do its job. Vendors of Embedded Computing Board…

I recently met up with Vasu Madabushi, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Inforce Computing (Silicon Valley).  I found out to my surprise that InForce is one of the few Qualcomm partners worldwide that designs and manufactures embedded…

As part of the preparation for the launch of the ARM Embedded Computing Board (ECB) resource guide I spoke to Thomas Aubin of Microchip about their approach to the market.  Thomas is a product marketing manager focusing on the SMART ARM Cortex-A based…

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 SOMs and embedded computing boards.

Yves told me…