Preface
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Preface
As a member of PHYTEC's new phyBOARD
®
product family, the phyBOARD-Regor AM335x is
one of a series of PHYTEC System on Modules (SBCs) that offer off-the-shelf solutions for a
huge variety of industrial applications. The new phyBOARD
®
product family consists of a
series of extremely compact embedded control engines featuring various processing
performance classes. All phyBOARDs are rated for industry, cost optimized, and offer long-
term availability. The phyBOARD-Regor AM335x is one of currently six industrial-grade
carrier boards which are suitable for series production and that have been realized in
accordance with PHYTEC's new SBCplus concept. It is an excellent example of this concept.
For easy implementation into industrial control system racks, the
phyBOARD-Regor AM335x comes in a housing with integrated DIN-Rail sockets.
Furthermore, the board is equipped with connectors allowing for interconnection to
commonly used industrial interfaces.
SBCplus Concept
The SBCplus concept was developed to meet many slight differences in customer
requirements with little development effort and thus greatly reduce the time-to-market.
The core of the SBCplus concept is the SBC design library (a kind of construction set) that
consists of a great number of function blocks (so-called "building blocks") which are
constantly refined. The recombination of these function blocks allows PHYTEC to develop a
customer specific SBC within a short time. Thus, PHYTEC is able to deliver production-ready
custom Single Board Computers within a few weeks at very low costs.
The already developed SBCs, such as the phyBOARD-Regor, each represent an intersection
of different customer wishes. Because of this, all necessary interfaces are already available
on the standard versions. This allows the user to integrate the phyBOARD in a large number
of applications without modification. For any necessary detail adjustments, extension
connectors are available to enable adding a wide variety of functions.
Customized Expandability from PHYTEC
Common interface signals route to standard connector interfaces on the carrier board such
as Ethernet, CAN, RS-232, and audio. Due to the easily modifiable phyBOARD design
approach (see "
SBCplus concept
"), these plug-and-play interfaces can be readily adapted
into customer-specific variants according to end system requirements.
