[rozzie]

It's PTCRB-certified as an "End Product", so it doesn't require the customer's product to be further PTCRB-certified.

It operates in 135+ countries.

It's an embeddable component that is to be installed in product manufacturers' end products. It is not just a reference design.

You can think of the "notecarriers", though, as OSS reference designs or accelerators. They're intended to make it quick to prototype and deploy pilots, before designing the m.2 connector into your own design.

[sim5132]

The definition of an End Product by the PTCRB is that it must utilise one of these physical interfaces:

"Physical Interface - If a physical control interface is required for the End Product, it shall utilize one of the following: USB, PCMCIA, Compact Flash, MMC, RS-232 (DE9), or IEEE-1394. No other physical control interfaces are acceptable."

http://www.ptcrb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PTCRB-PPMD-3...

Curious how an M.2 based connector was allowed here as they are explicitly called out as connectors allowed for PTRCB modules, not end devices.

[tudorw]

Nice :) The dollar pricing on the front page made me think this might be US only, thankfully not the case, this is a very exciting piece of the jigsaw :)