 Hi, so what's the latest here at the Embedded World 2023? Hi there. Well today we're showing our many new things. This is one of them. This one is called our Jasper Commix Press Carrier Board. What you see here is the top side of the board which has all the IO and all the expandable sockets, things like that. And on the back side of the board is the Commix Press sockets. You can see here the standard Commix Press connectors. This supports a Type 6 Commix Press, both compact and basic form factor. And this metal plate around it is a mounting plate and what happens is the Commix Press and its own heat spreader fit in the middle of it. So this thing is a general purpose platform and you can work with any Commix Press Type 6 module. And then the idea of this is that it's meant to be put inside of a rugged system. So it performs a scalable platform for a rugged computer system. And what we have here is the whole board is designed for rugged applications. All the connectors are rugged and latching. The board PCB is thicker. If you can see that it's a thicker PCB. It's a 0.093 or 2.3 millimeter thick PCB. And then we have latching connectors for everything. We have M.2 and PCIe mini card for IO expansion. We also have PC104 Express socket here for IO expansion as well. It has PCIe by 1 and by 16. So if you have a Xeon Comm or a later generation Commix Press then you get the PCIe by 16 lanes. And so this can allow access to those lanes for high performance rugged IO like video capture or graphics or other 10 gigi-threads and so on. When you talk about the Commix Press Type 6 basic and compact, there's a lot of stuff that use that? Yeah it's pretty much the sweet spot of Commix Press, the two sizes. The compact is more popular because it's smaller 95 by 95 millimeter. The larger size, basic size usually will have higher Xeon processors or more memory larger, more memory capacity because it has more room for memory sockets and so on. So but this work was both of them. So it was designed to be general purpose so that it can fit either the mainstream or the high-end Commix Press. And so it's like a com port with much more speed than an old-style com port. Well it's whatever the Commix Press can offer. So you know Commix Press comes in many different levels, right? The whole value of Commix Press was two values. The first one is that you can design one carrier board like this and then you can plug in any Commix Press module so that you get scalable performance. So if the customer wants to improve performance you can pick a different com that has a higher performance and put it on there. Or if they want lower performance or lower cost you can pick a different one. So it fits the application precisely. The other thing is that because they're all interchangeable, if one Commix Press module goes on to life or becomes obsolete or hard to buy, you can switch to a different module. And so it gives you the ability to maintain a product lifecycle much longer than normal. This is really critical for anybody in a long-life application such as military or railway or medical. Those are the typical applications where they need very long lifetime. And so what Commix Press or any any con-based solution does is it gives you access to a solid platform where the platform itself remains the same but the performance can increase or decrease with time and it can last longer. The product can stay life longer. This is Intel? This is all Intel X86 technology. Where does the Intel go? Where does Intel go? And how do you design around it? Thermally everything is smooth. So it's so the idea that we do is it's all conduction cooling. So the module goes on here. Unfortunately I don't have one to show you. Oh here's the module but I'll show you this. This is the module. It doesn't have the heat spitter. So here you can see the Commix Press. So this is the actual Commix Press module. It's mounted on top of or underneath rather in this case the carrier board. The same Jasper carrier board that you see here is actually here. Now it's upside down and this plastic cover would normally would be a metal heat sink cover so that it's for heat dissipation. So all the heat is going through the heat spreader and into this case upper surface with heat sink fins on it as normal. That's how the heat dissipation works. So then you can just throttle it a little max speed just depending on the thermal characteristics of the enclosure. You can you can max out performance right. So it all depends on what the enclosure can handle. And what are the applications like two or three? What does that look for? Well so this is a rugged system that's really targeting military applications because of the size and ruggedness. This is a typical box PC you would see or mission PC mission computer you would see in a military vehicle where it's got the rugged connectors that are all sealed and super rugged. You can step on them and kick them and so on. They've been around for for decades. They're very solid, very popular. And so this is designed, this is intended to be a rugged computer system that offers scalable performance. So it has Commix Press inside of it so that you can pick the performance level you need, pick whatever processor the customer wants, and also you can maintain a long life cycle. Because again in military programs they want the products go for a very long time. They don't want to risk that the product has to be redesigned if the CPU goes out of life. So with the Commix Press based solution and the product can last longer. That's the whole purpose of this platform. And sometimes when something is military spec, military spec, it's not necessarily military, it could be all kinds. Sure. This could also be used in any rugged application like for example mining. So we have here an example of mining, right? These vehicles also require computers and they also require extreme ruggedness, high shock and vibration tolerance. So mining is another very common industry where products like this are used. And how about these oil rigs out in the sea? Those usually have a lot of demand for wide temperature and ceiling for rain and water and that kind of thing. Maybe not as much shock and vibration. Although we have a new program now for an oil rig where they're talking about high shock and vibration because they are drilling and the pipes are very heavy and sometimes they drop the pipes on the platform and they said when the pipe drops it's super high shock. So there's another application where the shock and vibration protection is needed. Are you in rockets? We have a few projects and satellites. Yes. And we are actually in some satellite networks that are going up. Our use is one of our products in them. But it's not this different product family. It needs to work up there. It needs to work for the whole different set of issues. The launch for sure is a high shock and vibration environment. Once you're up in space the issues become temperature extremes as well as radiation tolerance. Those are the other issues. And also zero pressure. So there are other issues with components when you're talking about high pressure or low pressure environments. And this is cutting edge in terms of what people need and what people want in the industry. What's special about Jasper, in our opinion, is that it has a lot of IO and a single board and a lot of expandability. So that if you just use this as a platform for your application, then you're pretty much guaranteed not to run out of space and not to run out of time. You can add whatever IO you want to expand it in many different form factors, either mini-card M.2 or PCIe 104, as well as you can have your choice of common express modules from dozens of manufacturers. And so you have long lifetime as well. And you can pick whatever processor you want. This is going to be a common available for it. So that's what this gives you. So we're pushing it as a platform for high performance applications that need a lot of IO. And this metallic plate is required? This is the mounting plate that is used to mount it into the enclosure. It's not required. You don't have to have it. It's just a convenient mounting plate. Because the actual cooling is from the ComExpress heat spreader, which is inside the middle here. So this is only a structural member. And it could be done your own way. We just offer this for convenience. But the real thermal dissipation is coming from the ComExpress heat spreader, which is in the middle here. And on the piece of paper right here, you talk about some of them, the other specs? These are just the general IO features that it has, right? So you can get a quick view there. Another nice thing about this product is that we come from the analog IO world. So Diamond actually started making analog IO data acquisition boards. And so to this day, we still sell a lot of analog IO, and we embed the analog onto the SBC. So we have a whole line of SBCs where we have integrated analog IO on them. So it saves the customer an extra board. Instead of having to buy an analog IO card and plug it on the board, it's all built into the main board. And so this board has it also. But this board has the same circuit right here. This particular model is the low cost model, so it doesn't have it. But it's available with a complete data acquisition system here. FPGA based data acquisition with analog and digital. And it has auto calibration to maintain high accuracy over over wide temperature range. Do you want to show the whole the whole range of the same of the other products that are similar? Sure. So here we have another product that this product is called Saturn. This is more of a mainstream, typical single board computer. Everything's on one board here. It's got PCIe 104 expandability. It's got M.2 and mini card expansion as well. And the com CPUs on the backside, you can't see it because it's under the heat spreader. But on the other side of these thermal pads is the processor. And so this is the single board computer and a more traditional form factor. Again, with the heat spreader mounting plate for efficient cooling and then expansion and IO are on the top side. So then here again, we have the same analog IO circuit as you saw on the other board. And again, this board comes both with and without not everybody needs it. So we make it in two versions. This is the model without the analog IO and the people who want the analog IO, they wanted for what's the real world, real world, right? So if you I mean, it's easy to have a thing serial port ethernet, everybody has that. But a lot of times you have things like you have to monitor pressure or you're monitoring at water flow, or you're measuring light intensity, or you're measuring gases in a system because you have some kind of like icy manufacturing, you need to have measure the gases, the gas flow and the gas purity, that kind of thing. So our boards are very common where air quality, air quality is a big application for us. All right. Yeah, so all these boards pretty much have an analog IO on them. Even this little tiny one called Zeta here. This one I'll bring closer so you can get a better view. Zeta also has analog IO right over in this area. That's a pretty nice lens you have there. And over here you can see again it's ComExpress. It's a two layer two board solution where you have the carrier board with the IO and the expansion. And you have the com with has the CPU on it. So that's how we're able to put analog IO on a board this small. This is called our Zeta board. So are you famous for supporting that analog IO? I think we're pretty well known. If you ask people about Diamond, they would say oh, Diamond is the PC-104 IO company. We're trying to divorce ourselves from being seen as a PC-104 company because we do so much more now. We actually have four complete product lines that analog IO is part of the IO part, which is again part of the Singapore computer product line, which is here. Then we have a very successful line of even switches, which I think you've talked about in the past. So here we have a single board switches, expandable switches with other boards with more ports on them. Here we have a switch module, which is very much like a com, but the switch module is basically a switch instead of a computer and the same thing where you plug it onto a carrier board and the carrier board completes the circuit and has the rest of the IO. So what these are are carrier boards that break out the IO and the switch module. So this one is this is the actual switch with a processor and a firmware and the power supply and everything is built in application software. And this one is the IO. So it's got the magnetics and the connectors and the SFP and so on. So it just breaks it out to a full solution. Typically what customers will do is they will buy the switch from us, which is the hard part because it's the whole the high high engineering and software development and they'll make their own carrier board. This is the easy part. So it divides the solution into hard and easy so they can get to market much faster and they can make a custom solution without doing all the work. When you say analog IO and you have a history in doing that. You're right. When did you start doing that? Diamond was started in 1989. So I've been with the company since the beginning as some of the founder and so we've been making analog IO, digital IO, ethernet serial boards for 33 years now. What are you doing in 89? Sorry. What was the product in 89? We were making slot boards actually, PC1 slot boards, isoboards. And then we moved to PC104. When it first came out PC104 was just the isobus. And so we took all of our existing circuits and moved them into PC104 factor. And then that became very popular. So from there we went to make x86 single work computers, then ethernet switches and so on. And it's fun to see all the markets that adopt your technology. You know, we have the craziest applications, applications I would never even imagine. People do all kinds of crazy things. One interesting application was the company making potato chip packaging. They had to measure the thickness of the material being made. The aluminized plastic film, they had to measure it at high speed when it's being manufactured. And so they would zigzag a radioactive sensor across the material and the amount of scattering dictates the thickness of the material. And they would use our analog IO board to measure the scattering. So that was an interesting application. That was a very big one for a long time. So we were helping to make potato chip bags. I hope the chips aren't radioactive. It's just the packaging. It's just the packaging. Then it goes onto a roll and goes off to wherever. But you get all kinds of... When you make IO, you see all crazy applications around the world and things you never even knew about existed. But it's just amazing. So a little slice of life. We have something like 500 active customers, which is pretty amazing for a company our size. We have 500 customers and they all do different things. You know, we have UAVs, we have submarines, we have military vehicles, we have potato chip manufacturing, we have medical. One of our big customers also makes a lung simulator. So all the respiratory equipment in America has to be calibrated so that you don't blow out someone's lungs. So that's be calibrated for different body types. And you know, baby, adult, woman, man, that kind of thing, different conditions. And so they have a lung simulator that they use to calibrate their equipment. And that uses our computer board with integrated analog IO as well. So it's a really interesting application for analog. And here they embed a world, lots of meetings with all these non-stop meetings. Well, we have a lot of sales partners that come to visit us here. So typically we have sales meetings going on all day. This is a small, lucky break in our meeting schedule. So I think the guys off to lunch right now will be back and having more meetings soon. So yeah, we have meetings here and we have some customers come to see our newest products. And we're going to do a second video right now. Let's do a second one. Well, let me show you one more thing, though. We mentioned this product here. This is called Geo, right? Our Geo is our rugged system. What I didn't mention is I mentioned the fact that it uses the common stress module for performance scalability in long life. But what's also interesting, if you look inside here, if you can get in there, you can get way inside there, you can see that there's a board to board connection. So the IO board doesn't have cables. All the IO connectors are mounted on a circuit board, and that plugs directly onto the main board. So it eliminates the cables in the box. And what that does is, number one, it makes the box more compact because you don't need the room for the cabling. And number two, it allows you to get higher shock and vibration because you don't worry about the cables. And even number three, it makes it easier to manufacture it because quicker and easier and more reliable to build a circuit board than to build cables. That when you build rugged systems like this, the number one sticking point is always the cable manufacturing. So you get the parts to build it, to get them to build right, you know, have them come out right and not make mistakes. It's much easier to build a circuit board. So better. You've solved cables. We try to solve the problem, right? And only that, but also we have built-in expansion connectors. So all of this is for the standard X86 board. All of the IO on this board comes out these three connectors. And if you want to add more IO, remember that on here, we have two mini-cars, these two on a four socket. So if you want to add even more IO, all of these could get cabled out to these connectors on the backside of the panel board. So the case and the connector design remains exactly the same. So there's no custom design required. So we eliminate custom design, which eliminates anti-recharges, reduces time to market and provides a more rugged, compact product. So it basically solves every single problem that you could think of. And you provide this amazing solution and maybe there's a big team that then goes on customizing some software or whatever they need. So this is a big application, right? The customer will basically buy a platform like this. They will write their own application and they may add additional IO like a radio or some other sensor they have or some like military bus interface or whatever it's going to be right? They have some other kind of IO they need and they can put that inside the box and they don't have to do anything with customization. It's all it's all ready to go. Just plug the board in and cable out. You're done. Nice. So it's great for quick turn, easy custom customized solutions with no NRM recharge. Cool. And then we're going to do another video. Okay. Okay. Sure. Okay. Let's go to the next video. That's right there right now. Okay. Okay.