Standardisation for NUC addresses consumer options

At the event at the Munich airport, external experts from other SGET working groups participated, providing valuable professional content. The ideas and concepts of the SDT.03 members were submitted into a ‘version 0.9’ document, that will now be at the centre of discussion over the coming weeks and months. This should shortly lead into a publishable version 1.0 of eNUC.

The small and compact Intel NUC system once again combines multiple PC functions into a more streamlined format. With a base board size of only 10x10cm, Intel wants to primarily address consumer applications, ranging from home theater systems, digital jukeboxes and gaming appliances to space-saving solutions for the home office.

This kind of PC power in such a compact format is, of course, interesting for industrial applications. Therefore, the SDT.03 was founded within the standardisation consortium SGET e.V. to ensure NUC is operational for the embedded industry.

The foundation of the SDT.03 around four months ago inspired several companies such as Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH and Pentair to join the SGET e.V.

“When there is an embedded standard evolving around NUC, then we simply have to be part of it,” said Peter Hoser, Director, OEM Sales Motherboard, Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

Uwe Rieger, Head of New Product Development, Pentair, stated: “We need standards for the next, embedded NUC, so that customers can rely on a specification.”

“For our customers, the publication of such standards is of great importance, because they can rely on product characteristics such as long-term availability and functionality of standardised industrial products like embedded NUC,” explained Martin Steger, Chairman, SDT.03 and CEO, ies. “To achieve this, SGET is essential.”

“The very intensive activities of the SDT.03 standardisation team in recent weeks and months have sparked a lot of interest in the embedded technologies industry,” added Engelbert Hoermannsdorfer, CEO, SGET. “Due to the new members, we now total over 50 industry representatives in the SGET. Above all, I am pleased that almost all the new members have immediately become involved and made active contributions to the appropriate standard development teams.”

At electronica 2014, SGET will hold a press conference detailing recent activities with a focus on results to date on the embedded NUC by the SDT.03. The press conference is scheduled for 11^th November at 3.30pm.