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SoC vendors to build boards to this
specification. This is an evolution
from previous successful community
boards where the external ecosystem
is tied to a particular SoC. The
96Boards CE specification is designed
to enable an ecosystem to evolve
that will support multiple SoCs over a
period of years.
There are two Form factors: Standard
CE and Extended CE:
The Enterprise Edition (EE
) targets
the networking and server segments.
The fundamentals of this specification
are the same as in case of the CE
spec. The additional interfaces and the
more board place is coming from the
target application differences. These
boards are populated with high speed
interfaces like SATA, Gigabit Ethernet,
PCI-e, USB3 etc…
The 96Boards IoT Edition (IE)
platform is designed to support
development in the Internet of Things
(IoT) space. The 96Boards IE hardware
platform key features are low cost
and small footprint suitable for edge
device prototyping as well as other
embedded products with size and
cost constraints. Supplier independent
hardware implementation supporting
the ARM Cortex-A/R/M SoCs
Image 4:
IMX8-HMI 96Board (CE Extended)
Image 5:
Chameleon96,
imx7 96 Boards (CE)
Image 6:
IOT-LS1012A-OXALIS (EE)
Image 7:
4IoT – Geniatech (IE)
Mezzanine product line lets you
expand your Consumer Edition or
Enterprise Edition 96Boards with new
interfaces for IoT, industrial control,
and other embedded applications.
Such as: Security, Camera, NB-IOT,
Sensors, Fingerprint, Adapterboard,
PoE and many more…
Attila Ambrus
54 l New-Tech Magazine Europe