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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
 Embedded computing products differ from consumer electronics because of their longer life. Original Design Manufacturers (OEMs) develop these solutions for vertical markets. Once established and successful, they do their best to turn them into cash cows. However, even cash cows eventually succumb to product obsolescence. After a good run in health care, industrial control or serving the military, etc. they go obsolete.
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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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On-board Integration of Embedded Gaming Products
 The casino/amusement gaming industry can be shortsighted in its approach to product design. Often OEM products are based on motherboards and embedded appliances built with commercial-grade components -- commercial-grade versus embedded grade components. Commercial-grade products have their place; they are typically lower in cost than comparable embedded components. But because they are not guaranteed for long life, they present a risky choice if one of the OEM’s goals is a reasonable long life for the product.
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Defining the Embedded Industry
 The embedded industry has always been hard to define. In the traditional sense, it addresses computing products produced by Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) that are incorporated into solution-level products by Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs). In other words, the ODM makes a component-level product and the OEM embeds this component in a solution-level product.
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Intel® Atom™ Pineview-based Platforms from WIN Enterprises
 The Atom processor is a striking success for Intel. Without detracting from their efforts in the highend of the microprocessor market, the company has been able to develop a significant presence in the market’s low end. From the Intel perspective, the Atom processor has enabled a highly desired expansion of its overall exposure in both B2B and B2C market arenas.
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The MB-80100 PICMG 1.3-style High-performance SHB for Intense Computing Applications
 The purpose of this white paper is to discuss the MB-80100 ultra high-performance motherboard from WIN Enterprises. WIN Enterprises is a designer and manufacturer of board- and appliance-level embedded products. OEMs integrate our products to serve as the central components of their solutions across a broad range of environments including medical, military, scientific, networking, industrial control and others.
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Selecting a Networking Product Platform
 This paper is written for OEMs that market networking, telecom, and network security solutions to Information Technology (IT) departments in companies of all sizes and industries. For our purposes here, OEMs are organizations that combine hardware computing platforms and software applications into solution-level products.
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Non-recurring Engineering (NRE) Projects for Embedded Platforms
 Non-recurring engineering (NRE) projects cover the research, development, design, and testing of new products. NRE is synonymous with Research and Development (RD) and Product Development and can be performed internally by an organization or outsourced. This paper focuses on outsourcing the development of embedded computing platforms by an electronic Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM).
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Embedded Platforms for Medical Equipment Manufacturers
 WIN Enterprises manufactures embedded board- and appliance-level computers for use in OEM solution-level products. Offering a wide range of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) designs that can be modified when ordered in OEM quantities. WIN delivers a range of services spanning board and appliance design through to drop-shipping to end-users. This paper covers the products WIN offers relevant to the medical industry. It spans specific computer-on-modules,high performance boards for imaging, and secure networking platforms for secure medical record transmission.
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