Computer-on-Module Solutions
COMe or called System-on-Module (SOM) is a quick time-to-market solution for embedded applications.
COM Express, computer-on-module (COM), is a very compact and highly integrated embedded computer module that works with compatible carrier boards. Separating the design of the carrier board and COMe module makes design concepts more modular, cost effective, and faster time-to-market.
COMe is an ideal solution for applications that require upgrading CPU performance, while keeping the carrier board’s input/output interfaces to avoid additional developing time and cost. Generally, the adopters already need to spend a lot of resource on a product design, verification, certification, field test, etc. When the CPU or some key components go end-of-life after a few years, the adopters need to spend all this effort again. COM is the answer: the ability to plug a CPU board onto a carrier board reduces the time and cost to update a product. The product lifetime can easily be extended since a newer CPU board can simply be replaced on the carrier board to improve performance or lower cost as they become available.
Benefits of using COM Express Solutions
ARM and x86 Cross-Compatibility
Design Efficiency & Investment Limited to the Carrier Board
Consolidated Standard Form Factor
Scalable and Feature-Proof
Multi-Vendor Solution
Highly Configurable, Flexible & Upgradeable
Long-Term Availability
Accelerated Time-To-Market
Advantages of COMe Standard
Advantages of QSEVEN® Standard
COMe Sizes Overview
COM Interface
COM Express Type 6
COM Express Type 7
COM Express Type 10
QSeven
Services for COM Express Solutions
We offer a wide range of options, starting with standard modular solutions such as COM Express™ & Qseven®. Our competent services cover all your questions, from the design-in process and volume production, to product life-cycle management. Once you kick-off a COM carrier board project, we will provide engineer-to-engineer services like functional block-diagram to schematics review, placement and layout review services, design training for modified BIOS, and also advanced embedded OS customization.
We convert complex COM development into easy tasks, so our customers can better meet new market challenges. COM Design-in Service is focused on real-time response to customers’ issues. We offer proactive services with pre-validated technology to ensure project success and time-to-market.
COM Competence Service for Design-Win
Design Quality Validation Test
Functionality Test
Hardware Compatibility Test
Software Compatibility Test
Reliability Engineering
Thermal Test
Transportation Simulation
Safety Test
Electro Magnetic Compatibility
Life Time Calculation MTBF
COM Express Product Category
COM Express Type6
COM Express Type 6 offers additional PCI Express, USB 3.0, and up to 4 digital display interfaces to support diverse application requirements.
COM Express Type 10
COM Express Type 10 is an ultra-small solution for the embedded market. We offer long life-cycles and customized service for customer demands.
QSeven
Qseven is an ultra-small form factor, which at just 70 x 70 mm, supports low-power processors, networking, PCIe and USB ports. Long product life and service available.
Evaluation Carrier Board
Evaluation Carrier Board for COM Express Type6, Type7, Type10 modules are available, allowing embedded computing users to develop and accelerate their solution for quick time-to-market.
Applications uses for COM Express Solutions
Measurement & Testing Instruments
Measurement and test equipment require a long service life in order to ensure proper investment, and the success of its designs are highly dependent on the quality of the product. The highest level of scalable performance must have the best reliability. The COM modular design concept can meet highly interactive graphical user interfaces, use special I / O connectors, and easily maintain COM modules that have been upgraded for decades.
Military & Marine
We have successful experience in joint projects of COM computing modules for some military-grade I / O carrier boards used in ships and ship automation. Modular computers like COM Express are mainly used in applications where shock, vibration, and temperature are not the main issues. System integrators who want to use COM technology in harsh environmental conditions must look for modules specifically designed for harsh environments. This requires different design, testing, and qualification processes.
Transportation
In view of its wide application in the transportation market, the integrated systems in the transportation field can be roughly classified into the fields of railways, subways, parking POS, automobiles, avionics, logistics, in-vehicle infotainment systems, and passenger infotainment systems. Embedded systems are typically micro-controller platforms with a limited number of dedicated functions and real-time computing functions. Systems that are perfectly integrated into the vehicles increase their capabilities by contributing to improve performance levels, operational efficiency, and providing services related to navigation, safety and diagnostics.
Multimedia & Gaming
There is a wide range of embedded computing applications in the booming entertainment and professional gaming arena. The market spans from cost-sensitive systems for lottery, arcade, and pinball games, to high-end gaming and entertainment systems in gaming centers with the highest graphics and interaction requirements. The COMs engine could range from plug-in solutions from Intel® Atom™ COM module, to many high-end Intel® 3rd generation Core™ i7/ i5/ i3 processors in order to fulfill multimedia demands of video-streaming applications, POI/ Kiosk, and gaming applications. With its scalable and application-ready platforms, the modular embedded computer concept is a perfect match for the requirements of the gaming industry, enabling applications to be upgraded to the latest technologies with higher performance in the shortest possible time, often without costly recertification.
Automation
The application of industrial automation requires increasingly powerful intelligence in its products. The PC-based automation will be the modular COM design with custom I/O carrier for dedicated long-term availability control of machinery. By keeping COM standard I/O interfaces, designers don’t need to worry about CPU SKU changes. This is why embedded systems are employed more and more frequently in industrial equipment, devices, and processes, with the number of applications growing as industrial devices become more connected. Along with associated software, COMs with Carrier board may be customized in different shapes and forms to fit wide ranges of various automation tasks such as control of image processing machines, networking of system components, data acquisition, and processing or logistics systems.
Healthcare & Medical
IoT is gradually changing the health industry, opening up new scenarios in terms of safety and rigorous requirements for quality and longevity. Our COMe servcies help adopters customize carrier boards and a family of different Type modules. At the high-end, modules with Intel® Core™ processors technology meet the most demanding medical imaging requirements. For the value-line, there are dual cores Intel®ATOMTM or Celeron® to meet entry level solution. The market is segmented on the basis of device size (from portable platforms to ultrasound machines), the presence of sensors, display, CPU and memory, and numerous applications (imaging, monitoring, diagnostics, therapy and assistance).
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