Embedded Industry is the Developing Tendency of Electronic Devices

Published:2012/2/22 3:05:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The embedded industry makes the electronic devices smaller, less power-hungry. There are so many advantages of lower power consumption and better energy efficiency. It is not only the obvious benefit of longer battery runtimes with mobile ultra-mobile devices, but also it can male the device work in adverse environment.

When compared with typical power consumption of well above 10W for Intel’s current Atom chipset with HD capable graphics, the ARM system with 2W has bigger boost. While the traditional ARM based systems has its specific purpose, the standardised interface of Intel brings so much profit. With the interfaces, their ecosystem can have new design quickly to the market. Using the pre-integrated COMs is very essential for the success, which is able to release the system developers from the painful task of design the tiny and tedious parts around processor and DDR-RAM. COM works by itself and save a lot time.

Embedded industry is the trend of standardised ARM processors. All major chip vendors now have ARM based processor in their product portfolio, for example, the embedded legend Freescale has released a new i.MX6 family which features on chip such standard PC interface like USB, PCI express and Gigabit Ethernet. The i.MX6 family is scalable. With its excellent expertise, Freescale adds scalability and long term availability to i.MX6 family; therefore, these processors are suitable for ARM-based COMs.

Oseven is another example, which is new. It is designed to support very low-power platforms and to be opened to further processor architectures. Oseven was introduced last year. It can be applied in the mobile and ultra-mobile industrial devices. All in all, more and more vendors are following the trend, so the competition will be fiercer in the world of high performance general purpose embedded processors.

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