New-Tech Europe Digital Magazine | Feb 2016

New-Tech reports from EMBEDDED WORLD2016

processors. MSC is the first to launch the new SMARC 2.0 and more companies are on the way to release similar products. Congatec Congatec, a leading technology company for embedded computer modules, single board computers (SBCs), embedded design & manufacturing (EDM) services presented at its booth its new innovations. Later at the press conference Congatec appointed a design service company named Technagon as a sales technology partner to strengthen its portfolio of customer-specific system design & manufacturing services for point-of-sale (POS) and ticketing systems, vending machines and systems, digital signage and eMobility applications. Samtec At Samtec's booth I got to see some of their innovations starting from the advanced IC Packaging division, the Z-Ray ® micro array interposers which are ultra-low profile, high density, highly customizable solutions for board-to-board, IC- to-board, and cable-to-board applications. I was introduced to the FireFly™ Micro Flyover System™, the first interconnect system that gives a designer the flexibility of using micro footprint optical and copper interconnects interchangeably with the same connector system. NXP NXP’s Smarter World Tour Started its journey in Europe, Paris on Jan.07. The Smarter World Tour is a highly visible, 36 ton,

Hila Bazari, New-Tech Europe

2016 Embedded World Exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany was the world's biggest exhibition of its kind for the international embedded community. As I traveled through the aisles I saw a variety of new products that just got launched by the hundreds of exhibitors, I chose a few to focus on in this article. MSC MSC introduced us for the first time with the SMARC 2.0. The SMARC 2.0 module MSC SM2S-IMX6 is based on the NXP™ i.MX6 system-on-chip and ranges from quad-core to single- core performance. The MSC SM2-MB-EP1 platform board comes in the popular Mini-ITX format and allows access to most features of the new SMARC 2.0 standard. MSC Technologies is a member of the SGeT (Standardization Group for embedded Technologies) and has worked with other leading embedded companies to create SMARC 2.0 (Smart Mobility ARChitecture) which is intended to be the best and most future-proof standard for small form-factor embedded modules, and equally suited for ARM/RISC CPUs and x86

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