New Life for Aging Electronic Products
Many Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's) struggle to continue shipping aging or obsolete electronic products. Electronic products designed five to ten years ago are still relevant in the marketplace. Often these venerable old products have gained particular acceptance amongst a select group of customers. In many cases these old products fulfill a need in a unique manner. Examples include: designs that are grandfathered into an application due to regulatory considerations; designs having unique form-fit-and-function; designs running special software; designs subject to contractual support and service requirements; designs in which a new contract stipulates delivery of older gear as part of a larger system offering. Any one or all of these reasons can lead an OEM to continue the production of electronic equipment well into its end of useful component life.
From Quality Assurance to Total Quality Management: the Future of Automated Test Standardization
Design verification and quality assurance processes are the backbone of successful product development. Whatever the product, the ultimate goals are the same: to reduce development costs and accelerate time to market without affecting product quality.
Micron 32GB e-MMC Embedded Devices
Micron Technology, Inc. (NYSE:MU) recently introduced their 32GB e-MMC embedded devices. The 32G e-MMC devices feature an extended temperature range (-40C to +85C) for automotive and industrial applications. Micron's e-MMC products give consumers a significant increase in storage capacity for songs, pictures, and video, while also providing advanced NAND management features for application designers to simplify product designs and speed time-to-market. The 32G embedded devices are sampling now.
MEN Micro A19 6U VMEbus Single Board Computer
The rugged A19, from MEN Micro Inc., is a 6U VMEbus single board computer (SBC) that supports several Intel processors, from the 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo T7400 down to the single core Celeron M. The A19 features the Intel’s low-power 945GME Express Chipset, an integrated 256-bit graphics engine providing up to 250 MHz for exceptional graphics performance, and ability to connect two monitors with either the same or different displays. The A19’s processor and chipset combination makes the SBC ideal for use in a wide range of industrial, medical engineering, robotics, infotainment and transportation industries with high computing requirements found in monitoring, control, automation and security functions. Pricing for the A19 starts at $3,942. Delivery is two weeks ARO.
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