NAS Storage Choices: How to Split Work Between SATA HDDs and NVMe
The question that stalls most self-hosted NAS builds is whether to go with spinning disks or all-flash. The answer is usually not either/or but a division of labour…
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Designing a SoM Carrier Board: Power, Clocks and Routing for SO-DIMM Modules
Building a product on a system-on-module means handing the hardest parts — SoC, memory, storage — to the module vendor and designing only a carrier board. That saves…
Thermal Design for Edge Boxes: Fanless, Active or Passive Cooling
When an edge device fails, the leading cause is usually not software but thermals. A box that performs beautifully in an air-conditioned server room may not survive…
Multi-Camera MIPI Vision Design: Matching Interfaces, Bandwidth and Compute
In machine vision projects the camera count is usually fixed during requirements, but bandwidth rarely gets calculated first. The result is a board that drops frames…
Deploying Models on the RK3588 NPU: From the RKNN Toolchain to Real 6 TOPS Throughput
Between the “6 TOPS” on a specification sheet and the frame rate you actually get lies an entire toolchain. Plenty of teams buy an RK3588 board only to discover that…
Inside the RK3518 Platform: An Android 14 + GMS Foundation for Entry-Level TV Boxes
The most overlooked thing about entry-level TV boxes is that users do not care about the SoC model at all. They care whether it boots quickly, whether the apps they…
Choosing a Box for Digital Signage and Enterprise Info Display: Stability, I/O and 24/7 Playback
Enterprise information display and digital signage look like a simple requirement: one screen, one box, content on loop. Once live, though, problems tend to surface…
RK3576 for Edge Computing: Finding the Middle Line Between Performance and Power
When an edge computing project moves toward deployment, the question that comes up most is not “which chip” but “why can’t we just use an industrial PC”. Behind that…
System-on-Module or Single-Board Computer? Choosing an RK3588 Platform for ODM
One of the most underrated decisions at the start of a hardware project is whether to use a system-on-module or a single-board computer. Early on it looks like a que…
Inside the RK3539 Platform: A55 @1.92GHz, Mali-G310 and AV1 Hardware Decode
If you had to summarise the technical through-line of the 2026 TV box market in one sentence, it would be this: AV1 hardware decoding has moved from a bonus feature…