Orlin Technology focusses on projects based on ARM and XScale processors

There are a huge variety of ARM-based modules and evaluation boards available from suppliers like Gumstix, Toradex, Embest, LPD, Advantech etc.

These feature processors from Intel, Marvell, NXP, ST, Atmel, Samsung, Netsilicon, Sharp, Winbond, Greenchips and others. Developers find these modules ideal for 'proof of concept' work and early access to hardware for software development.

However, when it comes to actual product deployment, it is often not ideal or cost-effective to build these modules into a system. The "one size fits all" base-board typically offered, seldom suits a particular application. This is where Orlin (www.orlin.com) reckons it can help.

The company's design engineers can take a whole prototype system and integrate it onto one single PCB or alternatively develop a custom expansion board for a specific situation, giving the customer exactly the peripherals required.

In this way, reliability is typically increased, while size and cost are reduced.

Some examples:

* A wearable SBC with GPS and Bluetooth

* A Geophone expansion board using the AD1555/AD1556 chipset

* A combined GSM/GPRS/WiFI/GPS expansion board

See: www.orlin.com for details