Preface
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Preface
As a member of PHYTEC's new phyBOARD
®
product family the phyBOARD-Wega 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-Wega 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.
SBCplus Concept
The SBCplus concept was developed to meet fine differences in customer requirements with
little development effort and thus to greatly reduce the time-to-market.
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
refined constantly. The recombination of these function blocks allows 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-Wega, each represent an intersection
of different customer wishes. Because of that all necessary interfaces are already available
on the standard versions, thus, allowing to integrate them in a large number of
applications without modification. For any necessary detail adjustment extension
connectors are available to enable adding of a wide variety of functions.
Cost-optimized with Direct Solder Connect (DSC) Technology
At the heart of the phyBOARD-Wega is the phyCORE-AM335x System on Module (SOM). As
with all SBCs of the phyBOARD
®
family the SOM is directly soldered onto the carrier board
PCB for routing of signals from the SOM to applicable I/O interfaces. This “Direct Solder
Connect” (DSC) of the SOM eliminates costly PCB to PCB connectors, thereby further
reducing overall system costs, and making the phyBOARDs ideally suited for deployment
into a wide range of cost-optimized and robust industrial applications.
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
in customer-specific variants according to end system requirements.
