Embedded Computing Design

I recently attended a roundtable discussion held by Texas Instruments to talk about their latest technology, a wireless battery-management system (BMS) for electric vehicles (EVs).

New version of IoT IDE adds lots of features.

Should you fear the quantum security apocalypse? Do you even know it is and what it means and how it can occur? If you have any doubt, I suggest you listen to this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

“One of the major advantages of the COM-HPC architecture is that you can share the same module and use it across different applications,” offers Joel Finkel of Intel.

The beauty of an open standard like COM-HPC is that it’s interchangeable between different vendors and also between different technologies,” says Christian Eder, congatec.

“By using this computer and module philosophy, you end up with a very flexible system," said Chris Engels of Avnet Integrated. "The result is a system that’s widely usable over a long period of time."

An interview with Burrell Best of Samtec, an overview of the signal integrity and platform integrity subgroup activities enabling COM-HPC.

The COM-HPC specification consists of two basic components, the server and the client. Here, I’m going to focus on the client side by referencing a recent interview with Max Chi of Advantech.

The new PICMG COM-HPC specification includes both client and server implementations. Here, I look at the server side based on an interview with ADLINK Technology, Inc.

With technologies like Gen 5 PCI Express (32 Gtransfers/s) and 5G on the horizon, the time is right for a new COM spec, and COM-HPC is, in essence, an upgrade to—but not a replacement for—COM Express.