Datasheet: Single Board Computers

Delivering Intelligence to the Edge

- By Curtis Franklin, Editor-In-Chief

Single-board computers have become more flexible, more powerful, and more compact than ever before. Now, they're also becoming the vehicle to deploy artificial intelligence to the network's edge. Which modern option will be the basis for your next creative embedded solution?

The single board computer (SBC) market has traditionally been driven by several factors. First, of course, is size—you always expected that a computer on a single board would have a smaller footprint than a business workstation. Next comes I/O. SBCs have generally come with a variety of ports and pins beyond those available on a standard business workstation. Integration ease has been a third driver, since all of the processing and I/O capability is packaged in a, well, single board that doesn’t require the kind of system building discrete components might.