Introduction:
Gas station is a highly competitive market. The constantly rising labor costs affect the corporate profits. As a result, all gas station owners are trying to innovate in the business practices so as to enhance their competitive advantage. The introduction of self-service gas station not only can achieve the purpose of saving labor costs and expanding the profit margins, but also allows owners to create special offers to attract consumers, thus cultivating long-term loyal customers.

In general, gas station has spacious space. However, the main space is left for the driveways in order to allow cars and motorcycles to pass through smoothly, so the available space for pump islands that provide refueling services is quite limited. Besides, it has long business hours and some gas stations even open 24 hours a day. All facilities installed in the outdoors have to withstand the severe tests of hot summer and cold winter. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a compact and rugged industrial-grade System on Module (SoM) for the electronic payment terminal handling plastic money to ensure the system stability when implementing the self-service gas station.

Artila’s Product & Advantage:
The latest M-A5D35 of Artila Electronics is an ultra-small Linux-Ready ARM SoM. Its excellent performance and easy integration features enable System Integrators or equipment manufacturers to complete project development in a short time. The SoM is also suitable for space-constrained harsh applications through careful hardware layout planning at the beginning of the design stage. Due to the high degree of integration, its dimensions are only half the size of a business card (50 x 30 mm). The wide operating temperature range (-20°C~80°C) keeps the system running normally in severe environments.

The M-A5D35 adopts ARM processor and 4.9.x Linux Operating System while pre-installing many useful utilities and drivers to meet the needs of high performance, low power consumption and high stability. This cost-effective SoM also includes 512MB of Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) and 8GB flash memory. Because of the larger memory capacity and having sufficient performance, the system can store more information and handle multiple windows and menus. Providing various interfaces (including Ethernet port, high-speed USB port, CAN port, SDIO/SD/MMC, UART, SPI, TWI, etc.) allows users to easily connect a variety of peripheral devices.

Features:

	Processor: ATMEL ATSAMA5D35 536MHz Cortex-A5 CPU
	Operating System: Linux kernel 4.9.x with file system
	Wide temperature range: -20 ℃~80 ℃
	Memory: 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
	Flash: 8GB eMMC Flash and 8MB DataFlash for system backup
	Network Ports: Dual Ethernet interface, 1 x Gigabit and 1 x 10 / 100Mbps, with on-board PHY
	Dimension: 50 x 30 mm (only half the size of a business card)

Description:
A System Integrator of electronic payment terminal was implementing self-service gas stations for a well-known Taiwan's oil company. In order to meet the economic benefits, the oil pump island usually needs to install multiple fuel dispensers. In the case where the remaining space on the island is quite narrow, the System Integrator has to specifically design a pillar-type and compact-size electronic payment terminal for this project. Plus, gas station is part of the harsh environments and outdoor applications, so the company hoped to choose a compact and durable computing platform to execute its system developed for the self-service gas station.

The M-A5D35 is an embedded computing platform which features ultra-small appearance and wide temperature range, and is able to meet the needs of System Integrator. The designers can easily integrate this palm-sized SoM into the electronic payment terminal. By using ATMEL ATSAMA5D35 processor, it is capable of running at a high speed of less than 150mW. Open architecture of Linux Operating System allows users to freely configure the required utilities and drivers with simplified kernels. Large-capacity memory ensures the application system to cope with multiple tasks at ease. Two Ethernet ports enable the designers to establish intranet and internet for the system at the same time, so that preventing enterprise data loss or website hacking by setting the access authority.

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