Embedded engineers working in industries such as avionics, rail and healthcare have to design to challenging life cycles - it's not uncommon to need to support 10+ years availability. We understand this and typically roadmap our board product for a minimum of 5 years. However using a COM board in your design will secure product availability for 10, 15 years and beyond.


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. So in the event of your core COM module reaching end of life you can simply swap in a later COM using the same host board design. 

  
The Computer on Module design concept is an open standard first introduced into the marketplace in 2000. Since then COMs have been universally adopted by embedded board manufacturers, representing one of the biggest growth segments in the embedded sector. So you have the security of working with an established open standard, widely available across the embedded board manufacturer base. 
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