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    Electronic Components

    xTCA Front-Panel Innovation

    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

    Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) out of Randolph, MA has released a video providing an overview of their innovation in xTCA products.
    Steve Richardson and Matt Travers discuss how this has been applied to their AdvancedTCA, AMC, MicroTCA, and Ruggedized MicroTCA products.
    The link to the video is here.

    Embedded Systems Q&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    1. What is an “embedded system”?
    An embedded system is basically any device that has an internal computing architecture designed to handle a specific application.  This applies to any type of processor and operating system, so can be anything from an ARM platform running Linux or an RTOS to a full x86 implementation running Windows.  This contrasts [...]

    What is Price Masking?

    Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

    What is price masking and who benefits from it? To answer these questions, let’s start by exploring the contract manufacturer’s (CM’s) supply chain practices.
    Because of their size, volumes, and component spends, large CMs wield considerable power in negotiations with their component suppliers. This power is often translated into special pricing for the CM. When a [...]

    BOM Intelligence

    Thursday, November 8th, 2007

    One of the challenges that faces OEM buyers of manufacturing services (electronic, pharmaceutical, etc.) is getting the best price from their contract manufacturer (CM). The price from the CM is composed of many different elements including:

    Component or raw material cost (also know as Bill of Materials, BOM, or ingredients)
    Overhead
    Labor
    General & administrative costs
    Margin

    Each of these elements [...]