New-Tech Europe | February 2019

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 5: Chameleon96, imx7 96 Boards (CE)

Image 4: IMX8-HMI 96Board (CE Extended)

Image 7: 4IoT – Geniatech (IE)

Image 6: IOT-LS1012A-OXALIS (EE)

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

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