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NovaEmbed™ “mounts” the operating system in RAM while Yocto and other similar systems mount it on microSD or eMMC flash (both serial SDIO). Apart from the obvious and enormous difference of performance in terms of speed (64bit DDR3 at 866 MHz versus a SDIO serial (4bit at 25 MHz), there is the big problem of the MTBF writing cycle on “static” storage (µSD e flash) which can be anywhere between 10.000 and 100.000 after which it doesn’t work anymore. Each irregular shut off of the board causes an operating system rebuild and therefore of the writing cycles and due to the size in bytes of these systems, these “limits” aren’t as forgiving as they seem at first sight. And you mustn’t forget the environmental or vibrational problems that can inhibit communication with the microSD.
The NovaEmbed™ tool comes complete with everything it needs and is (intentionally) completely offline. This might seem like a disadvantage in an era where everything “cloud” is seen as the best solution. In reality Yocto and many other similar tools are being continually updated, without your input and while you are developing, with no guarantee that what you are using is still out there or works like it did yesterday. In these conditions is it really better with a “cloud” system?
The memory dimension of the Novasom Industries SDK is approx., 85% less than that of Yocto. This means that if the building of an application using Yocto requires 1GB of space, the same application with the Novasom Industries SDK requires only 150MB. Not only for storage, but for “moving” the user application to the RAM.
Our kernel, settable by the NovaEmbed™ in a visual way, “made to measure” to contain what it needs and not packed to capacity (typical of a community kernel), is light, takes up little of the system resources and, to keep away the nasty surprises from the end user, has been tested accurately at every interaction with our hardware, not just the most obvious “visible” peripherals, like the Wi-Fi, but above all with the lesser visible but equally insidious like the I2C.
Our guarantee of across the board functionality between different Novasom Industries models is absent in the “cloud” versions used by the rest of the world where, in order to pass from a dual to a quad core, you have to rebuild a new kernel and start all over again with your old troubles still to be solved again.
Federal ID Number 811523802
VAT RO36203804
R.C. N. J40/8303/14.06.2016