Smart Mobility Architecture

[4] Computer-on-modules integrate the core function of a bootable computer, as well as additional circuitry, including DRAM, boot-flash, voltage distribution, Ethernet and display transmitter.

The SMARC specification outlines both the dimensions of the module and the positioning of the anchor points as well as the connector to the carrier board and the executed interfaces with the pin-out.

SMARC is based on the ultra-low power (ULP-COM) form factor which was introduced by the companies Kontron and Adlink in February 2012.

This is to ensure that the SMARC specification can flexibly accommodate up and coming technical developments which today are not foreseeable while remaining fully compatibility to previous designs.

On the one hand, extended versions of the SMARC specification can assign new standard functions to these 20 AFB signal lines.

On the other hand, the SMARC specification 1.0 lists the Media Oriented System Transport (MOST) bus, dual Gigabit Ethernet, Super Speed USB, or industrial network protocols which could be imagined as or might be assigned as interfaces of the AFB.