New group to push through embedded board standards in Europe
The SGET will be holding its inaugural meeting at the beginning of March. The group is committed to developing and maintaining embedded computing specifications which will be applicable worldwide, in order to promote new embedded technology standardizations meeting the requirements of the markets.
congatec has already donated its Qseven specificaiotn and Kontron is contributing its ULP-COM ultra lowpower specification.
Manufacturers have been dismayed by the length of time it has taken to get changes to standards suchas COM-express and want to speed up the process. The new group will have seperate voting and observer status to avoid companies blocking changes.
With the founding of the SGET, a globally-operating, manufacturer-independent consortium has been created, which is in a position to react to the accelerated speed of technological progress and changing market demands in a fast and flexible manner. The founding members of the SGET are confident that more than one hundred ventures worldwide will join the group within a year – underlining the great need for improvement in market orientation and fast specification implementation. Other companies and institutions working in the area of embedded computing are invited to join the new Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies. In particular, the SGET welcomes embedded computer manufacturers on board- and system-level, research and educational institutions as well as embedded system integrators, OEM solution providers and industrial end-users.
"The goal of the founding members of the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies is to create a new, powerful, worldwide committee for embedded computer specifications which will operate at greater speed and with far less bureaucracy than comparable organizations. To achieve this, the SGET has, amongst other things, established simplified rules and shorter objection periods, enabling specifications to be passed at greater speed," said Dirk Finstel of Kontron.
"The fast pace of technological progress in the embedded market requires cooperation even between competing companies. This can only succeed if we follow overall regulations. A committee which can act rapidly enables us to jointly and instantly react to market demands. This is why we very much welcome the founding of this new consortium," said Christian Eder of congatec.
"From the new Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies we expect major input in the area of SFF processors, as not only Computer-on-Modules, but also motherboards and SBCs, i.e. 3.5" or IO boards of embedded systems, are in need of standardization. Until now, we have lacked a powerful consortium which addresses these issues permanently and efficiently,“ said Carsten Rebmann of Taiwanese manufacturer Advantech.
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