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Selecting a Platform Source
 Choose a source with a full range of customizable platforms that enable you to bring low-end, middle, and high-end solutions to market, quickly and cost effectively.
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Platform Design at WIN Enterprises
 WIN Enterprises produces high quality x86-based designs quickly and economically by using a platform architecture approach to its product designs. Rapid time-to-market results from:
1) A broad range of existing WIN products, many based on standard form factors, which serve as reference designs and provide a starting point for new OEM product platforms.
2) A library of hardware design modules that are incorporated into existing designs to meet the specific application requirements of the OEM customer.
This approach of using existing designs modified with functional design modules provides customers with fast time to market, high quality, and differentiated products that are economically designed and produced.
Software Vendors: Choosing a Hardware Platform
 You have developed a successful software solution and would like to go to market with a full solution—a combination of your software on a hardware platform. To ensure smooth marketing of your ultimate solution and to avoid incurring undue costs you should be careful to select an embedded Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) who is committed to long-life products.
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Managing the End-of Life (EOL) Process
 WIN Enterprises has long-standing customers who rely on it as an integral part of their manufacturing process. This requires that we carefully manage the life cycle of the products they market as the basis of their solutions. Managing a motherboard’s or appliance’s life cycle ultimately requires managing the process of component obsolesces. Product obsolesce is a natural process and is just as often a friend as a foe because the general trend in components is towards cheaper, better, faster solutions. WIN does share any savings it sees with its customers.
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Green Computing
 Green computing is an issue that impacts everyone; and, it’s an issue shaped by nearly everyone in the developed and emerging economies. The three publics that define the challenges, and hopefully, the solutions of green computing are the consumers, regulatory agencies, and manufacturers. These three entities must all do their parts in order to solve the major problems caused by the production and use of computing devices.
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The MB-64000 Gaming Board
 The MB-64000 is a dedicated entry-level gaming board that offers high reliability and excellent price performance. It achieves this by integrating several features on a single board rather than using multiple cards, as is typical with gaming boards. The single-board approach enables reduction of overall system size and adds to reliability by reducing the number of contacts. In both casino and arcade gaming, machines are continually rearranged to present a fresh look on the gaming floor.
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Computer-on-Module
 Computer-on-module (COM) is an approach to x86 embedded computer design whose goal is reusability; and through reusability, fast time-to-market. This design approach features the use of a custom baseboard and plug-on / swappable computer card.Having a swappable computer card enables easy system upgrades and an easy way for OEMs to go to market with a full product line that can range from low-end to high-end and which reuse the same baseboard, hence, a savings in time and money.
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The Marriage of Atom Z5xx-based Processor and PC/104-Plus Form Factor
 The PC/104-Plus form factor and Intel Atom Z5xx series processors both offer attractive attributes that can be applied across a broad variety of embedded applications. However, marrying the two to maximize the potential of both concepts is not straightforward. The WIN Enterprises MB-73200 accomplishes this gaol.
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Modular Optimization Design (MOD)
 This white paper looks at the development of the PL-60700, a converged communications platform as an example of how new board- and platform-level products with unique features can quickly and efficiently be developed using WIN’s extensive library of core design modules and Modular Design Approach (MOD).
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Vertically Integrated Services (VIS)
 There are various definitions of vertical integration. The common theme, however, is the integration of the various functions required to bring a product from concept to the market place. These functions can include management and control, product design, acquisition of raw materials, manufacture, and distribution of a finished product.
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