LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce publication of The Linux-friendly Embedded SBCs Quick Reference Guide. The new guide provides a tutorial and perspective on the rapidly diverging shapes, sizes, and architectures for embedded single-board computers (SBCs), and highlights the growing importance of Linux to the embedded SBC market. Popular embedded SBC form-factors are defined and described, and sources for product are identified. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to the new Quick Reference Guide . . .

“Prior to the embedded SBC market coalescing around a handful of PC-compatible standards, it was nearly impossible to locate two SBCs that bore much similarity with to other. The PC architecture brought a degree of order (in several shapes and sizes) to that chaos, by serving as a unifying force — a situation which persisted for nearly two decades.

“Today, with the established norms disrupted by new interfaces (USB, FireWire, wireless, . . .), architectures (MIPS, PowerPC, ARM, . . .), and operating systems (Linux), the embedded SBC market is entering a new phase of its lifecycle — one that will initially be characterized by expanding diversity in operating systems, processor platforms, peripheral interfaces, and physical form-factors.”

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