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Google for PC/104 its exactly what you're looking for although its aimed at industrial control users (and unfortunately priced accordingly) Of course if you co
by VLM 11y ago
Google for PC/104 its exactly what you're looking for although its aimed at industrial control users (and unfortunately priced accordingly)
Of course if you could guarantee a production run of 5 million then a contemporary PC/104 board could probably cost as little as a ras-pi.
Note that there's PC/104 the concept and form factor, and another concept with the same name was a 104 pin header that was vaguely a PC/AT bus. After all, S-100 can do almost anything so an extra 4 pins shouldn't hurt anything LOL. Anyway my point is if you find references to the 80s era 286-AT level of performance bus, don't worry for a decade there's been stackable PCI equivalents and all that.
Something to think about WRT "limited" PC/104 bus speed is its not like spec-ing gamer graphics cards... if the purpose of the bus is to connect a 4 kilosamples/sec 12 bit A/D converter, even something as slow as RS-232 would not be a limiting factor, for example.
- Natanael_L 11y agoNeat. Not exactly what I imagined but probably a lot more practical OTOH. I'd just like a standardized high speed interconnection port with power supply and a shared router of some form. Probably would be more plausible when high speed optical links becomes cheap and ubiquitous enough so that a single thin cable can be drawn from each module to an PoE equipped router, so there's not a large mess of wires. Then the on-chip pinouts could be used independently of the networking.
- pjc50 11y ago"Optical" and "PoE" do not go together?
- Natanael_L 11y agoOne cable can hold both fiber and copper wires. I think some thunderbolt cables do that.