Ensure performance scalability
Because of manufacturing limitations or the drive to save power and space ICs are typically not backward compatible nor pin drop replaceable. Quite simply, if you want to increase performance you need to redesign your board. With AKA's modular approach, any specific PRISM with the same footprint can be scaled up or scaled down in performance. AKA ensures that customers will be able to meet or exceed future performance demands as system specifications change or next generation products are introduced.

Save space and power
In today's market performance is being measured in frequency, miliwats, and cubic inch. The demand for more performance in a smaller package with the same or lesser power is greater than ever. By selecting the smallest components available with equal performance and utilizing smart system design, AKA is able to develop modules with a very small form factor that optimize the amount of power necessary. Often AKA's miniaturized PRISMs, as small as 2"x2", can replace entire boards which leads to major space savings while significantly reducing the power requirements.

Protect against obsolescence
Switching existing functionality onto an AKA PRISM with guaranteed pin drop compatibility ensures that customers will not fall victim to obsolete parts. Through extensive life cycle management AKA is able to extend a 10-year guarantee on all of its modules. AKA will provide a functionally equivalent form factor fit part replacement to any module with obsolete IC. For example, if one or more of the components becomes obsolete AKA issues the qualified pin drop replacement that is completely interchangeable. Customers no longer need to redesign an entire system because one specific component is obsolete or requires a new replacement.

Reduce costs
In the world of embedded systems low volume applications are generally unable to benefit from high volume cost breaks when purchasing individual components. Through high volume shipping AKA can pass lower cost through to the customer for any size application. Customers can purchase a module at a single price that has bundled all of the reduced costs into one sizeable savings. Now factor in the cost of development beyond the actual components themselves, and include the cost and time needed for procurement, design, production, test and support and customers will recognize the greater overall cost savings.

Accelerate time-to-market
With today's complex development cycles and lengthy manufacturing cycles it is taking longer than ever to bring solutions to market. The amount of hours necessary for system and logic design continues to grow while the pressure to deliver products to market faster mounts. AKA has already done the system design and each PRISM provides generic functionality so customers can focus on their application. Customers can forgo the countless hours needed from inception and design to prototyping and testing by simply integrating a fully functional, fully tested PRISM into their solution.

Simplify operations
By providing a fully functional module, AKA significantly reduces the part count from hundreds of discrete components into a single part that does it all. Customers are no longer burdened with chasing numerous vendors and managing complicated BOMs. Instead they get one component from one vendor which significantly simplifies operations.

Maintain commonality across platforms
Managing multiple platforms with multiple designs requires a great amount of effort and often requires additional resources. But often times similar applications can utilize similar platforms and similar designs and could be addressed with a single solution. AKA's PRISMs are intended to maximize reuse across designs . Customers that chose to base several different systems around the same PRISM can speed development time, simplify design and repair efforts, and lower costs.