Connectors drive many of the key gaming platform in standards used in open architecture embedded computing platforms as many types of connectors are used in a typical critical embedded system (such as backplane connectors, mezzanine connectors, I/O connectors, and specialty connectors). They also hold the key gaming platform to realizing advancing system capabilities, and in this regard they have run into problems. This feature discusses the trends, challenges, and future of connectors for critical Embedded Systems.
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