Freescale initiative supports board designers

  
Embedded World, NUREMBERG - Freescale Semiconductor is to increasingly work with its ecosystem of board vendors to broaden availability of its processors based on Power Architecture and ARM technologies in standardized, off-the-shelf single board computing (SBC) and system-on-module (SOM) form factors.

Meera Balakrishnan, global segment marketing manger, who is leading the initiative said, "There has been a change challenges as now only 25 percent of engineering resources are hardware, with the remaining doing software and system engineering and there are also increasing complexities of processors with advances such as  multicore and higher-speed I/O of 2.5 GHz to 10 GHz. There is also a need to get a more robust product portfolio in the market faster."