2008 PC104 Resource Guide
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For Single Pnt For Single Pnt www.smallformfactors.com www.pc104online.com Volume 12 • Number 1 Audio/Video .................39 COLUMNS Frame grabber/Codec Frame grabbers 8 Focus on Form Factors: StackableUSB USB, minus the cables, connects boards Board level ..................41 By Susan Wooley DSP resource boards System boards 10 European Technology SFF-bots handle heavy lifting By Hermann Strass Carrier boards................42 106 Editor’s Insight ETX A new SIG in town By Chris A. Ciufo Communications ..............43 Datacom: Serial controller GPS FEATURES Modem Modem/Fax modem EXECUTIVE VIEWPOINT Wireless 12 Economies of scale helping low-volume design and manufacturing Q & A with Wade Clowes, RadiSys Industrial automation ..........47 14 Got any Gumstix? A look at shrinking SDR Fieldbus: CAN Q & A with Steve Jennis, PrismTech, and Gordon Kruberg, Gumstix Image processing/machine vision DESKTOP TRENDS SHRINK TO SMALL FORM FACTORS 16 Wi-Fi By Don Dingee Mezzanines ..................50 PMC XMC 18 A big future for small rugged devices By Herb Turzer, Psion Teklogix For Single Pnt 22 Wireless loggers self-adjust temperature monitoring data Packaging ...................56 By Ana Carmona-Rodriguez, Gemini Data Loggers Connectors Enclosures 26 USB Power supplies By Don Dingee 28 UMPCs get a direct connection to users’ primary PCs Processor boards/SBCs.........59 By Alex Chow, PLX Technology BitsyX COM Express 32 Portable fuel cell powers PC/104 platforms COM/SOM EBX By Amar Ganwani and Ted Prescop, UltraCell EPIC ETX Fanless JRex DEPARTMENTS Mini-ITX PC/104 PC/104-Plus PCI-104 23,36,37 Editor’s Choice Products Stand Alone Board System boards By Don Dingee XTX 102 New Products By Robin DiPerna Ruggedized/Mil-Spec . 94 ARINC Avionics ON THE COVER: MIL-STD-1553 Desktop technologies like Wi-Fi and USB are expanding their influence by shrinking to fit small form factor devices. Coverage of these prolific design trends starts on page 16. 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Max Component Height = 4.83 (.190) 0 00 ( 0 00) Sponsors: 90 805 (3 575) 85 73 Micro/sys Inc., Samtec (3 375) 82 55 (3 250) 3 175 Specification release:April 2007 (0 125) 5 08 ( 0 200) 17 78 I/O Connectors may overhang in this area (0 700) 5 08 (Includes Mating Connector) ( 0 200) Specification information: 0 00 Free download available at StackableUSB.org. ( 0 00) Product royalties apply for usage. See www.stackableUSB.org. 3 81 (0 150) 5 08 (0 200) Unshaded Area Top Clearance 15 24 mm Stack 8 76 ( 345) Dimensions: Top Clearance 11 mm Stack 6 17 ( 243) Available on 3.550" x 3.775" PC/104 format; half and quarter Bottom Clearance 4 83 ( 190) 64 50 size formats available. Implementation on other form factors (2 9) Shaded Area 74 93 Top Clearance 15 24 mm Stack 11 05 ( 435) (2 950) in progress. Top Clearance 11 mm Stack 8 46 ( 333) 77 47 Bottom Clearance 2 54 ( 100) (3 050) 80 01 2 5 (0 984) ( 15 ) Mandatory features: 85 0 (3 350) 97 79 On approved form factors, connector locations, connector pinouts, (3 8 0) and mounting hole locations are specified and required. Mounting: One SBC and one peripheral card are I/O Connectors may overhang in this area stacked together to produce a “brick.” For Single Pnt (Includes Mating Connector) StackableUSB supports up to 16 USB peripherals stacked on top, on bottom, or both top and bottom of a single SBC USB, minus the cables, connects boards without the use of a hub card. With the use of hub cards, By Susan Wooley, Micro/sys, Inc. 76 peripherals can be connected to a single SBC. StackableUSB was created to take advantage of USB’s growing popularity as an I/O channel. With USB 2.0 as its foundation, StackableUSB incor- Power input: porates all of USB 2.0’s advantages while also providing new benefits in +5 VDC, Samtec Q2 single bank connector. expansion, power supply, and ruggedness. StackableUSB specifies the interconnection between a USB host SBC and Expansion bus interfaces: USB devices without the use of any cables. It is based on stacking and At least one USB port must be present on the SBCs and bolting boards together to form a rugged “brick.” one I2C port. Support for up to 16 USB ports, 8 on top and The architecture uses a pair of connectors to route up to 16 USB pairs to 8 on bottom. Peripherals usually consume one USB port StackableUSB devices mounted both above and below a StackableUSB SBC. This innovative signal routing maintains the USB star topology but can use more if desired. (point-to-point) while preserving the signal integrity required by the high- speed serial links called for in USB 2.0. Up to 10x more power is available for devices in both 5 V and 3.3 V, elimi- nating the need for regulators on StackableUSB devices. Removal of the standard USB cable is the key to making StackableUSB so robust. Standard USB cables do not have a retention mechanism and are therefore suscep- tible to inadvertent disconnection when exposed to rugged environments.