Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor
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Social shock and big acquisitions
See www.linkedin.com/ groups/PC104-Small-Form-Factors-PC-1854269 for a precursor to this column.
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PC/104 stacks up against COMs for next-gen medical applications
Just as the Small Form Factor (SFF) market provides a wide range of options for medical system designers, the health field offers an array of applications for SFFs. As J.C. Ramirez and George Ruano of ADL Embedded Solutions Inc. explain, the medical successes of SFF technologies to-date may be attributed to their legacy heritage, but that is not keeping established standards from sowing new seeds. Edited excerpts follow.
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Qseven COMs take healthcare mobile
Increasing numbers of patients, shrinking numbers of physicians, and rising costs are pushing the medical field further into the age of telehealth. Unlike traditional clinical platforms, however, telemedicine demands portability, flexibility, and long lifecycle support from Small Form Factor (SFF) technologies. Targeted at low-power mobile applications, Revision 2.0 of the Qseven Computer-On-Module (COM) specification added support for ARM CPUs and defined a "micro" form factor, making it good Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) medicine for next-generation telehealth systems.
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SFFs and the scope of medical demands
The breadth of small form factors is a healthy plus for the wide range of applications in the medical field.
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Power and programming
Multicore processors – they’ve been here for some time now, and it appears as though they’re here to stay. So perhaps a better question than “what’s after multicore?” is “what comes next for multicore?” ...
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