In recent years, building, maintaining, and evolving proprietary network systems for telecom-grade applications that are highly available and “always on” have become increasingly prohibitive from the perspective of cost, risk management, time to revenue, and so on. The custom-built approach becomes even less cost effective as Communications Service Providers (CSPs) move toward offering cloud-based services, where they have to compete with non-traditional providers that offer such services on networks built using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) building blocks.

A change in market dynamics is causing a fundamental paradigm shift in industry’s thinking: Instead of continuing to invest precious Research and Development (R&D) resources and dollars to build expensive, special-purpose proprietary systems with the hope that they will never fail, industry leaders are now assuming that there will be hardware and software failures and thus designing systems and applications that continue to provide end-user service in the presence of such failures. 

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refer to : http://xtca-systems.com/articles/engineered-cots-network-systems/

In vehicle PC, single board computer, Industrial PC

3D audio assistance blades

HARTING Mitronics AG, Switzerland, a company of the HARTING Group, Germany, is noted for its expertise in Molded Interconnect Device (MID) technology, a 3D contour-following electromechanical embedded technology. A hearing aid (Figure 2) currently in production at Siemens Audiological (Medical), Germany, using MID technology was runner-up for the Hermes Award for product innovation at the Hannover Messe Fair, and won the MID Industrial Prize at Productronica in Munich. With MID technology, Siemens Medical can use three directional stereoscopic microphones and ear-to-ear wireless communication to enable simultaneous 3D hearing with optimized adaptive noise cancellation in a device smaller than traditional hearing aids, so it is practically embedded in the human ear. HARTING Mitronics used a laser system from LPKF, Germany, in a laser direct structuring process to produce the MID devices.

refer to: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/embedded-medical-biological-applications/#at_pco=cfd-1.0

in-vehicle pc, Industrial PC, single board computer

the new Atom series solutions that include AMB-D255T1 Mini-ITX industrial mainboard and AMB-N280S1 fanless 3.5-inch single board computer. AMB-D255T1 is equipped with Intel D2550 Atom processor and Intel N2800 Atom processor is on AMB-N280S1 both have 5~7 years product life cycle for longevity support.

Contact：
http://www.acrosser.com/inquiry.html

The embedded world Exhibition&Conference is the world’s biggest exhibition of its kind and the meeting-place of the international embedded community.

Now for the eleventh time in 2013. Exhibitors from all over the world present the entire spectrum of embedded systems: hardware, software, tools and services. “The embedded world Exhibition&Conference is growing continuously and rapidly in the same way that the embedded sector is gaining in importance – the embedded community can look forward to a record event,” says Alexander Mattausch, Exhibition Manager of embedded world.

Acrosser ——> Booth Hall 2 2-519

The embedded world Conference is Europe’s top gathering for all embedded system developers. It is also the mirror and flagship of a community that more than almost any other has become the innovation driver for a whole society.

The Steering Board of international experts has assessed the many papers submitted and assembled a top-class conference programme, which is intended primarily for embedded hardware and software developers.It presents proposals for solutions to present and future challenges. This will provide in-depth coverage of methods that will succeed in shortening the development time of Embedded Systems drastically and reduce the error rate again – an important and pioneering issue that will be tackled at the conference for the first time in an extra session,” says Sturm.

Besides other key themes, the embedded world Conference 2013 focuses on:

• Multicore
• Cryptography and Embedded Security
• Managing Embedded System Development and Life Cycle
• Software Development in High Level Languages
• Internet Technology
• M2M

More information about the programme for the embedded world Conference 2013 and registration is available at: http://www.embedded-world.eu/

refer:
http://www.embedded-world.de/en/press/

 AMB-D255T1, which carries the Intel dual- core 1.86GHz Atom Processor D2550. AMB-D255T1 features powerful graphic performance via VGA and HDMI, DDR3 SO-DIMM support, mSATA socket with USB signals and SIM slot, and a DC jack for easy power in. AMB-D255T1 also provides complete I/O such as 4 x COM ports, 6 x USB2.0 ports, 1 x GbE RJ-45 port, 1 x SATA port with power connector.

AMB-D255T1 can support dual displays via VGA, HDMI or LVDS. AMB-D255T1 has one MiniPCIe type expansion slot with SIM card socket for customer’s expansion.

acrosser designs AMB-D255T1 as the slim type with single layer I/O ports to make the board total height less than 20mm, with external AC/DC power adaptor which is very suitable for applications with limited space likes Digital Signage, POS or thin client system.