Single Board Computer Solutions

The Single Board Computer (SBC) is the ideal technology platform to drive embedded applications. Based on standard PC hardware but in an ultra compact form factor and with no moving parts, SBCs offer reliability with powerful cost-effective processing capacity.

There is now no need to develop custom motherboards for many embedded applications, greatly reducing NRE cost and development time.

Importantly the SBC is 100% compatible with WinCE and Open Source operating systems such as Linux. The use of standard operating systems and toolchains also contribute to lower risk development.

Abelon use SBCs for embedded application development, where hardware and software reliability are mission critical requirements. Our solutions are at work in military and financial deployments.

Abelon offer a turnkey embedded application design service, from initial requirements gathering, through to system design and deployment.

Off the shelf SBCs are assembled with a range of carefully selected peripherals. Custom FPGA based I/O processing can be designed to your requirements. Our embedded software and communications engineers can then design and build your embedded application.

Specifications

Abelon work with PC/104 SBCs from DSP Designs Ltd. These offer industry leading performance, reliability and cost. Our FPGA designs are based on Altera and Xilinx parts.

We can specify custom or off-the-shelf enclosures at environmental protection ratings up to IP66, and either with or without an internal PSU.

All software is written in C/C++ and assembler, providing board support packages, device drivers, protocol stacks, driven by applications with graphical and Web server based user interfaces.

We can offer support for operating systems such as WinCE, WinCE.NET, Linux with real-time extensions, VxWorks, QNX, eCOS, and custom executives.

Case Study

See also our secure communications link case study which made use of an SBC solution.