Advantages

Maximized Features: Board-level pin-out and features are above all a function of pin-out of the processor and other active logic devices that populate a SOM. Increasingly complex devices have populated PHYTEC SOMs across the past three decades, from 144-pin 16-bit microcontrollers to advanced 64-bit Arm applications processors with over 1,000 pins. Small-scale components like Microvias and other layout advancements are the foundations of PHYTEC design rules that support increasingly large pin-count chips and maximum functionality within ever smaller PCB space.

Minimal Form Factor: The high interconnect density of circuitry on PHYTEC SOMs is augmented by high-density external connectors which interface our SOMs to Carrier Boards and other target hardware. These connectors offer scalable length and pitch. External connector count is specifically calibrated for each SOM to maximize break-out of CPU functionality within an optimized PCB space. PHYTEC SOMs are not constrained by pre-defined standards or form-factors.

PHYTEC’s optimized combination of maximum features and minimal size is illustrated when plotting pin-count as a measure of functionality to form-factor. PHYTEC is positioned in the upper left “high pin count, minimum size” quadrant among a sample set of commercially available SOMs in support of the 486-pin NXP i.MX 8M mini processor in LBGA (Low Profile Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array) package.