With each new innovation in the wider market, embedded systems must also progress to match the latest expectations and performance standards.
However, they may now be reaching a tidemark in terms of connectivity speeds - both within each card in its own right and between multiple embedded systems working as part of a larger unit.
To enable greater speed of data transmission, serial bus connectors could be the solution, but Frost & Sullivan suggests incorporating them into designs could prove troublesome for some developers.
"Design engineers are having a difficult time finding the problems in the design, let alone fixing them," the analyst observes.
Serial buses transmit data sequentially, one bit at a time, unlike parallel buses where multiple channels are used at once.
However, modern serial connectors have achieved speeds on a par with parallel ports, but with the simpler data handling of a single transmission channel.
