 So we're here at Technicion, so hi! Hello! So who are you? I'm Cathy, nice to meet you! And who are you? I'm Henry! And so what do you do? Well, we are doing arm-based systems and modules. That's one of our arm-based systems. It's a box PC with an NXP IMX6 CPU inside. So you get the VGA for the industrial automation, you get HMI, you have various GPIOs, of course galvanic-isolated available, you have a CAN bus for the stepping motors and stuff like this, and you have the LAN interfaces, which can be, by the way, power-based on it, if you need. So this is IMX6? Yes. Different IMX6 you can put inside? Of course, we are starting with ultra-light, we are going to the solo, dual-light, dual-quad core, and soon we will have the quad plus. So what do you need? And you're also showing IMX7 over here? Yes. Right here, what is this? That's our modules, we call them the Pico modules, because they are extremely small. So they are only 40 millimeters times 36, you have the IMX7 processor, you have the RAM, you got the EMMC on the back, and you also have options for Wi-Fi. Here is no Wi-Fi, but if you go here, that's the IMX7. IMX7 dual-core, it's on Cortex A7, with some Cortex M4, so you've got three cores, and what we are showing here is that it's not getting hot, when it's running on a 5-inch display, multiple videos, it's perfect for automation, you know? It's not getting hot at all. So, where does the M4 kick in in the CPU? There's M4, what does that do, and what does our Cortex A7 do? The Cortex A7 is for the heavy calculating, if you need to have any graphics or number crunching, and if you don't need the number crunching, it's on the Cortex A7, and the M4 keeps the system alive with very low power, so you can cut down all the power and have less power for the whole system. So that means smaller, better devices? Perfect, especially for industrial automation, imagine some outside application where a user is coming to have interaction with the screen, most of the time the user is not here, so only if the user comes in touches, the M4 registers the touch, the system and sends the system acts and reacts very fast. Is this automatic? It can be, yeah. Is this part of your software solution or who's making the software? We are providing all the BSP and all the source code for the Linux, Yocto and Android, and of course we are providing for the Cortex M4 some software, and then the interaction between the Cortex M4 and the Cortex A9 sets up to the user, but there are already basic samples how to do it inside of the source code. Nice. Which one is the most popular solution right here? Well, it's extremely difficult to say everyone is popular, especially those little modules getting more and more popular. We introduced them one year before, and you know, you got an USB Type-C, you got an SD card on it if you want, so that's quite nice. What is the advantage of using USB Type-C on this? It's just in the latest technology and you know in industrial automation you're normally always a little bit behind, but if you have this now, imagine in a few years you only will have USB Type-C and that just will be better. Let me show you this board. Sets are all in one solution, so you have ratchetized power supply that's clickable, it's not falling off if you connect it. You have HDMI, you got the USB, as well as the VGA, and you got of course the Gigabit LAN, and this again with the module, so you can change the module and if you need a quad, you have a quad, if you just need a solo, you have a solo or extreme low power and ultra light, that's all possible. And you got an LBDS for your connection, you have a MIPI interface for a camera, and on the back side it's amazing, you got a mini PCI Express, you get the SIM card holder for it, then you get of course some storage for microSD and we have an M.2 connector for storage for other stuff. And again, USB Type-C of course. Again, of course. That sounds cool. I mean it sounds like you are in front of... Definitely. One in the ARM based systems, we are definitely one of the leaders. So we're here in Taiwan. Yes. Where is your company based? Our company is based in Taiwan, however our owner and founder is from European Netherlands, so we are a Taiwanese company under European management. Where are you from? What do you guess? What do I guess? Yes. I think it's probably, it sounds like something that could be Switzerland. Almost. Germany. Very close, our neighbors. Cool. Let's go around over here. Sure. Cool. So there's all these boards you were talking about. We put some on the walls. Lots of them, so they stick easily on the wall. And what do you have over here? Here we are starting with the systems. So we have the Toucan, it's a 7-inch system. It gets again the IMX-6 processor inside. Here we have the inside of the Toucan. So inside you need to see we have the CAN bus, we have RS2-3-2, HDMI, GBIO, we got the power, so you've got really everything in the sport. Cool. And what about the Ethernet? What are those? These are our newest modules we introduced in last this year of February. It's TC10 and also the TAP series. So it's a 7-inch, 10-inch, 15-inch and soon we will have a 21-inch family. And inside we have again this great modular system. So the modular system allows you to change the IOs. For example the power IO, you can have 12V, 24V, wide voltage range. What's the connector system here? That's a special connector for a high, for a ratchetized bracket. So is the performance when you connect as if it was on the PCB? Exactly. Exactly the same? Exactly the same. And that's one of the advantages. The same performance and you can connect your system like you need. So it's a standard system of the shelf but you still can customize it to your needs because everyone needs something else. But this is the TechnXion system? Yes, that's our own module. So you can buy a bunch of different future upgrades or something like that? Exactly. And if customers need different IOs you can make your own IOs. You can make their own? Yes. Yeah, lots of customers who make their own stuffs? Half-half. Half of the customer using our existing standard solution. The other half is going and is using something by their own. So where are your customers? The customers are everywhere. We have big market in Europe. We have a big market in America and of course in Japan. So the customers ranging from small customers with 10 pieces, 100 pieces, up to 1,000 and then the premium customers having like 30,000, 50,000 modules a year. So we are really having everything. And that's why all our software is on our web page. Free to download, no registration needed. You just go there, you download the source code and you play with it. Open source? You want to enable every customer. Yes, open source. Open source, people can help you patch your stuffs. They can submit. Yes, actually we get patches from the customers but what we are trying, we are trying to stay as much as possible with the mainline Linux and with the mainline, you know, kernels. So our customers have it even more easier to integrate other stuff. So every year a lot of things are happening in the ARM world, right? It's getting better and better. Definitely. A few years ago ARM was really some niche solution but now ARM can compute with all the x86 systems. It's amazing where you needed an x86 before. Now you are putting in an ARM and instead of 40 watts you only have 5 watts but even more performance than with the old systems. You were doing ARM for how long? Ah, that's a good question. Long while, right? We started in 1999 and we are doing the ARM for at least 10 years and I guess it's around 12 years already. So again, in advance of the trend. And now everybody is always focused, always concentrated on the right solution. And what does it get manufactured, all these boards? We manufacture by ourselves in Taiwan. We have our own facilities. So we just upgraded, we have two brand new lines. Hey, you are invited to have a look at our lines if you have time. So that sounds like a great SMT solution, right? Yes. You buy the latest stuff from Japan or something. From Panasonic, of course. So we even can make the POP, the package on package where you put the memory on top of the CPU. Our equipment can do us no problem. Nice. POP is very cool for smart glass, for small things. Yes, exactly. Smartwatch maybe. Yeah, we are planning for the future. You know, our modules are now really tiny on the market with 40 x 36 mm. But give us a little bit time and check back. The machines can do even smaller and we will have something cool coming up.