Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board

by Ben Ames Military & Aerospace Electronics, March 2006

Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool. Engineers are trying to balance increasing speed and rising heat as they boost the performance of single-board computers. They often use combinations of dedicated processors and field-programmable gate arrays, as well as commercial electronics like the powerful Cell processor and other multi-core integrated circuits.

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