General theory on EFI

[Arnaud Westenberg]

Dennis Grisez wrote:
> 
> I have seen PC104 based equipment live for quite a while in
> service as in-vehicle test instrumentation.  A certain system I've
> worked with runs two PC104's, one for video capture, one for
> data, both write to removable hard drives on the fly.
> That having been said, I still avoid using any PC based equipment
> in durability tests where bump courses are involved.

Could someone enlighten me about wich parts/subsystems of the PC/PC104
are likely to break in these kind of environments? I understand the
disks with their moving parts would be likely suspects, but when using
flash this should be solved.

I don't see any difference in a (homebrew) microcontroller board versus
a PC board, but thats probably why I'm a _mechanical_ engineering
student :-)

I'd like to know this because I think it's easier for _me_ to obtain a
pc104 board than building my own (efi332) board. Besides, I like the
'extra' functionality like a serial port to aid in debugging.

Thanks,

Greetings Arnaud
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