Renesas — US178 Universal SMARC Carrier Board

Renesas has introduced a reference design for a universal carrier board which supports the SMARC 2.x standard for compact embedded computing modules.

The SMARC carrier board is the latest in a series of ‘Winning Combinations’ of components from Renesas and Dialog Semiconductor, now a Renesas company. It features multiple power supplies and supports various interfaces, including video and audio, to enable its use in a diverse set of applications.

The Smart Mobility ARChitecture (SMARC) standard defines a versatile, small form-factor computer module for applications which require low power, low cost, and high performance. SMARC modules’ power consumption is typically less than 6 W. A SMARC module has a footprint of either 82 mm x 50 mm or 82 mm x 80 mm.

The Renesas universal carrier board supports multiple capabilities to enable its use across a variety of embedded computing applications. These capabilities include: