Embedded Technology A powerful combination


Direct Insight, the UK-based technical systems integrator and reseller of system-on-module (SoM) and other embedded systems, recently announced a partnership with German system-on-module (SoM) and Single Board Computer (SBC) maker MicroSys Electronics GmbH in the UK and Ireland market. Direct Insight will now offer its customers the MicroSys miriac MPX module technology, which is designed to offer all the advantages of SoM-based designs, such as application-ready core technology, faster time-to-market, high design reliability, lower NRE costs, and better-priced carrier boards thanks to less layers. miriac application-ready SoMs are based on NXP S32G and Layerscape processor technology. They support all processor-integrated features with a comprehensive, perfectly-matching, functionally-validated solution. CIE spoke to Direct Insight CEO David Pashley and MD of Microsys Ina Schindler to find out more about the synergy of both companies, how this deal will benefit original equipment manufacturers (OEM), and the trends and developments driving these embedded technologies.


CIE: David, could you explain more about what Direct Insight does? David Pashley: Direct Insight is a small company founded in 1992 and based on


14 March 2024


the North Oxfordshire-Northamptonshire border. We enable our customers to get to market with embedded systems, focusing on 32 to 64 bits. In other words, the high


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end of that market where you will always use an operating system such as Linux, QNX and historically Windows CE. We focus on platform-based design.


The reason that's important is that in our higher end area of embedded design, with complex microprocessors within even more complex system-on-chips, only a small


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