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Designing for Harsh Environments Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf Products
Overview The need for Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Single Board Computer (SBC) products continues to grow as higher processing, smaller footprints and lower power requirements become more critical. For design engineers in medical, military, industrial, aeronautics and other fields, the desire for reduced size and heat projection parallels an additional requirement for fanless operation. In this environment, engineers are constantly faced with the challenge of exchanging various aspects of functionality to stay within a particular form factor. Finding COTS products that have all the desired characteristics and are rated to perform in extremely harsh environments creates an additional challenge. However, there are a number of industrial-grade SBC manufacturers who have been successful in designing and manufacturing COTS products specifically for use in these conditions.
| Publisher | VersaLogic | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2008 | ||
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