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System Customization
Streamline Your Embedded System Production Process

At Technologic Systems, it is our goal to freeze the parameters of each product we ship. We recognize that in many cases, the perpetual cycle of software and hardware upgrades can wreak havoc with an embedded design, greatly increasing costs by forcing exhaustive regression tests whenever any component in the system changes. Therefore it is our policy to try to minimize changes to our boards to necessary bug fixes. Barring these fixes, the software that we ship on a particular board remains the same.

Many times, because of this attention to the embedded developer, software enhancements are not available "out of the box". While a competent engineer can always apply any desired enhancements, it is sometimes not cost effective for this to be done on a large scale. For this reason we offer system customization options which allow customers to specify software changes to be made especially for them whenever they receive a shipment matching the parameters they specify.

On our newer boards we have also put extra effort into minimizing the amount of work a customer must do to customize their board. By taking advantage of these easy self-customization features where available, a customer can eliminate even the small costs of us performing the customization for them.

Custom Installation

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Would you like Technologic Systems to install your software? If you have a small production staff, this can be a cost effective way to prepare your products for shipment to your customers. Boards will come from the factory functionally tested, with your software pre-installed, ready to include in your product.

Here is how it works.

Contact us to set up this service. Then we will ask you to send us an image of your software either on a CD or uploaded to our ftp site. We will load your image on a First Article for your approval. Once you let us know you are satisfied, we will complete the order according to your delivery schedule.

What does it cost?

There is a one time fee of $300 to setup your software in our production system. Each delivery order will be assessed $50 and $2 per unit configured. For many of our customers, this service represents a significant savings in manpower and added efficiency.

What is Technologic Systems' responsibility?

Technologic Systems is responsible for insuring the functionality of the SBC running with standard software. We will be responsible for the proper installation of your software on a functioning board.

We cannot be responsible for the functionality of your software. To proof your software we will provide a First Article for your approval. When you are satisfied with the First Article we will ship the balance of your order according to your schedule.

Easy Self-Customization

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Our newer boards which utilize our "fast boot" process search for the presence of a USB flash drive in the lower USB slot during the boot process. If a USB flash drive is found, an attempt is made to mount the first partition on the drive. If a "tsinit" script (or executable) is found in the root of the flash drive it is immediately executed. The automatic nature of this process provides an easy mechanism for a customer to perform a mass customization of multiple boards. The customer only need create the appropriate script with any files to install on the USB flash drive, which can then be replicated as needed and applied automatically to any unit without needing any user interaction.