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ISSN: Print 1096-9764, ISSN Online 1550-0373 @sff_mag 4 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors ADVERTISER INFORMATION PC/104 and Small Form Factors Editorial/Production Staff Page Advertiser/Ad title Monique DeVoe, Assistant Managing Editor Brandon Lewis, Associate Editor [email protected] [email protected] 16 ACCES I/O Products, Inc. – USB embedded I/O solutions – Len Crane, PC/104 Consortium President Paul Rosenfeld, SFF-SIG President [email protected] [email protected] rugged, industrial strength USB Sales Group 2 Diamond Systems Corporation – EPSILON – 8-port Gigabit Dennis Doyle International Sales Ethernet switch Senior Account Manager Elvi Lee, Account Manager – Asia [email protected] [email protected] 11 Excalibur Systems, Inc. – Tom Varcie Regional Sales Managers Dragon – it’s not a myth Senior Account Manager Barbara Quinlan, Midwest/Southwest [email protected] [email protected] 19 Fastwel Group – PC/104 and EPIC boards Rebecca Barker Denis Seger, Southern California Strategic Account Manager [email protected] 5 RAF Electronic Hardware – [email protected] Sydele Starr, Northern California RAF male-female stacking Eric Henry [email protected] spacers Strategic Account Manager Ron Taylor, East Coast/Mid Atlantic [email protected] [email protected] 3 RTD Embedded Technologies, Ann Jesse Inc. – Modular, stackable and Strategic Account Manager Reprints and PDFs mezzanine solutions [email protected] Christine Long [email protected] 9 Technologic Systems – Director of Online Development TS-WIFIBOX-2 [email protected] 47 UBM Electronics – OpenSystemspy Media Editorial/Production Staff DESIGN West – center of the engineering universe 13 WDL Systems – The power Mike Demler, Editorial Director Sharon Hess, Managing Editor inside tomorrow’s technology DSP-FPGA.com VITA Technologies [email protected] Military Embedded Systems 48 WinSystems, Inc. – 1 GHz PC/104 SBC supports networking Joe Pavlat, Editorial Director [email protected] and communications CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, Monique DeVoe & MicroTCA Systems Assistant Managing Editor [email protected] PC/104 and Small Form Factors Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director DSP-FPGA.com VITA Technologies [email protected] [email protected] Brandon Lewis, Associate Editor Warren Webb, Editorial Director CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, Embedded Computing Design & MicroTCA Systems Industrial Embedded Systems [email protected] [email protected] Curt Schwaderer John McHale, Editorial Director Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Steph Sweet, Creative Director [email protected] David Diomede, Art Director Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor Joann Toth, Senior Designer Embedded Computing Design Konrad Witte, Senior Web Developer Industrial Embedded Systems [email protected] Matt Jones, Web Developer Editorial/Business Office Patrick Hopper, Publisher Rosemary Kristoff, President Tel: 586-415-6500 [email protected] [email protected] Wayne Kristoff, CTO Subscriptions 16626 E. Avenue of the Fountains, Ste. 201 Karen Layman, Business Manager Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 www.opensystemsmedia.com/subscriptions Tel: 480-967-5581 Q Fax: 480-837-6466 Tel: 586-415-6500 Q Fax: 586-415-4882 30233 Jefferson, St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 PC/104 and Small Form Factors Y 2012 Resource Guide Y 5 Small Form Factor www.sff-sig.org SIG By Paul Rosenfeld, SFF-SIG President More standards, please ndustry trade groups that address standardization issues We don’t believe that continuing standards development in facing the small form factor and stackables marketplace tend other technologies dilutes our efforts, nor will offering multiple Ito come in two flavors. Some groups, like the CompactFlash standards to solve the same technology problem compromise Association, are focused on a single technology and drive that our integrity (hence we offer both the COMIT and CoreExpress technology across multiple markets through an evolutionary COM standards). This wider focus can actually have a positive process over time. Other groups, including the SFF-SIG, slice effect. Standards subject to peer review and published by an horizontally across a single market (small form factor boards independent trade group offer a better and more robust long- and systems), addressing multiple technologies that might be term solution than standards tied to a single company, even if necessary to drive a complete solution for that market. there are multiple sources for that company’s products. Expanding our focus The SFF-SIG started with a single board-to-board interface We’ve been fortunate during standard – SUMIT, or Stackable Unified Module Interface Technology – and quickly realized that, short of endless the first few years of the SFF-SIG to tweaking and twiddling, we were done with our standard- ization efforts. We asked ourselves what other technologies have some members willing to bring constrained the growth of the small form factor market, and products to the table and subject their whether we had anything to contribute to standardization efforts for these technologies that might solve problems in the efforts to industry peer review as part of SFF space. the process of standardization. As happens with the vast bulk of standardization efforts today, it is rare for a group to start working on a standard with a blank sheet of paper. Every participant brings something to the table Moving forward we’d like to offer the SFF-SIG as a home for and some bring quite a bit – in some cases a fully developed Kontron’s recently introduced ARM-based COM standard product with documentation ready to be “blessed” by the and Advantech’s MIOe interface for SFF mezzanine cards. industry and turned into a standard. Publication by an independent industry trade group such as the SFF-SIG goes a long way in building system OEM confi- Reviews, risks, and rewards dence in the longevity, vendor-neutral control, and breadth of We’ve been fortunate during the first few years of the SFF-SIG support for these standards. Yes, there are risks