If you are working on an embedded design project and looking at circa 200 off unit volume, chances are you have already ruled out developing a custom board. It's a lovely idea but the cost and development timescales blow it out of the water. Or does it - not when you use a COM board.

Think of a COM as an off-the-shelf building block with all of the functionality if a typical single board computer - CPU, main chipsets, RAM etc but without the usual IO connectors, eg: PS2, D-type etc. Instead the COM plugs into a custom host board using defined interface connections. The host board footprint, connector layout, GPIO and any application specific electronics are all tailored to your target application.  Decoupling the custom aspects of your design onto the host board keeps your design fast and relatively simple. Using a COM design. a custom solution becomes commercially viable for relatively low volume projects and we have customers who have seen the cost advantages of adopting this approach for projects as little as 50 units per annum. Blue Chip Technology can design and build your host board, our COM Design Service typically takes 30 working days from brief to prototype through to production. With over 10 years experience in designing and manufacturing host boards we have an established cost base to tackle any new design quickly and efficiently. Alternatively we can provide you with all the technical guidance and documentation you need to bring up your host board and are happy to review customer schematics.