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Cover Story Developing software for XMC microcontrollers with greater efficiency
XMC4000 – Tackle Your Industrial Design Challenges
The XMC4000 family marks a cornerstone in microcontroller design for real-time critical systems. It is the result of Infineon’s world-leading microcontroller know-how now coupled with all the benefits of the ARM® Cortex™-M4. Featuring Infineon’s powerful peripheral set, configurable to specific application requirements, XMC4000 is the ultimate choice for today’s industrial control solutions. It is designed to tackle the imminent challenges of improving energy efficiency, supporting advanced communication protocols and reducing time-to-market. Striving for energy efficiency, DAVE™ 3 it greatly benefits from Infineon’s well-known set of configurable peripherals, fast Free Code Generation Tool embedded Flash technology, high quality standards, long product life times and the ability to provide high temperature ranges of up to 125°C, backed by Infineon’s background as a leading supplier in automotive.
Development tools complement the product family and provide comprehensive support. In addition to Infineon’s free DAVE™ 3 development environment, a full YELLOW PAGES 2015 range of tools is available including compilers, debuggers, software analysis and Flash programming tools, an extensive range of software solutions and consulting services
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Dear Readers,
In the recurring seasons of the year the months July and August mark the summertime with usually a lot of sunshine and tropical heat. And like the annual recurrence of the summer- time also the yellow pages of Boards & Solutions + ECE return again every year in the July/August issues. Like last year this year the edition of
Yellow Pages 2015 – e Embedded Companies Directory is year’s edition of our Embedded Companies Directory is split into 2 sections. e st part provides you with short company pro les, including a QR code which leads you to the full company pro le (including overview about products & services, contact information, product news,… ) on the embedded-control-europe.com portal. e second part of the Yellow Pages is a reference list showing in which product categories the companies are active.
But – as usual - beside the Yellow Pages 2015 this August issue con- tains much more information about actual trends in the embedded market place to keep our readers updated. If you look for example at microcontrollers a basic product in the embedded industry you´ll recognize the ongoing trend to increased use of ARM cores and customer speci c or application speci c peripherals. is means also you have to have the corresponding development environment to create the required so ware. For this reason In neon for example is providing an extensive peripheral- and application-oriented compo- nent-based code repository in its Eclipse based DAVE development platform. e company now has systematically further developed and expanded its development platform to Version 4 in order to allow abstracting scalable yet e cient hardware-level, component-based programming for its XMC microcontrollers. e adaptations and expansions include, among other things, improved data models and improved graphics, scalable so ware drivers for individual periph- erals, the device driver, the XMC Lib, and so ware components for dedicated applications so called DAVE APPs. e depiction, modularity, and abstraction in the development environment simplify the reusability and e ciency of the so ware development.
Another article explains in detail why the Internet of ings, as well as the ever-decreasing timescales in the embedded development is driving the industry to the development kit revolution. In recent years there has been a huge increase in the number of development kits from major semiconductor manufacturers that are available to hardware engineers designing all sorts of end products.
But do not forget the “good old oscilloscope” in the development of embedded products. ese instruments have passed through major innovations like the improvement of trigger functions and long segmented memory options to ful l the increasing challenges of complex embedded product design. is issue contains two corresponding articles.
Yours Sincerely
Wolfgang Patelay Editor
3 August 2015 CONTENTS
Viewpoint 3 Cover Story: Developing software for XMC microcontrollers with greater efficiency 6 Tools & Software Infineon has significantly improved Developing software for XMC its DAVE embedded develop- microcontrollers with greater efficiency 6 ment environment: Version 4 of DAVE focuses on improvement of Open source vs. proprietary: data models, methodology, and an embedded hardware issue 10 user-friendliness in order to allow What the development kit revolution much quicker software develop- means to design engineers 14 ment for XMC microcontrollers. The Yocto Project - your custom embedded Linux distribution 16 Open source vs. proprietary: an embedded hardware issue 10 Oscilloscopes Oscilloscope triggering: Fewer things ignite more passion in software the old way and the new way 20 geeks than the debate of open source versus proprietary code, but when going to market Analyzing long signal sequences with an embedded system, sometimes you with the oscilloscope 23 don’t get a choice. Boards & Modules Analyzing long signal sequences COM Express: reliable and robust solutions with latest Intel CPUs 26 with the oscilloscope 23 Yellow Pages 31 This article highlights a history and seg- mented memory option for an oscillo- Product News 47 scope which enables to analyze long signal sequences with long observation periods.
COM Express: reliable and robust solutions with latest Intel CPUs 26 COM Express is the leading form factor in the area of modular embedded PC solutions, covering performance classes from simple single-core designs to high-performance multi-core solutions. This article reviews the factors that need to be considered in implementing reliable and robust systems.
Yellow Pages 2015 The Embedded Companies Directory 31 boards & solutions+ This year’s edition of our Embedded Combined Print Magazine for the European Embedded Market August 04/15 Yellow Pages Companies Directory is split into Cover Story Developing software for XMC 2 015 2 sections. microcontrollers with greater efficiency The first part provides you with short company profiles, including a QR code which leads you to the full company profile (including overview about products & services, XMC4000 – Tackle Your Industrial contact information, product Design Challenges news,… ) on the ECE portal. The XMC4000 family marks a cornerstone in microcontroller design for real-time critical systems. It is the result of Infineon’s world-leading microcontroller know-how now coupled with all the benefits of the ARM® Cortex™-M4. Featuring Infineon’s The second part of the Yellow powerful peripheral set, configurable to specific application requirements, XMC4000 is the ultimate choice for today’s industrial control solutions. It is designed to tackle the imminent challenges of improving energy efficiency, supporting advanced communication protocols and reducing time-to-market. Striving for energy efficiency, Pages is a reference list showing in DAVE™ 3 it greatly benefits from Infineon’s well-known set of configurable peripherals, fast Free Code Generation Tool embedded Flash technology, high quality standards, long product life times and the ability to provide high temperature ranges of up to 125°C, backed by Infineon’s which product categories the com- background as a leading supplier in automotive.
Development tools complement the product family and provide comprehensive support. In addition to Infineon’s free DAVE™ 3 development environment, a full Cover Photo: panies are active. YELLOW PAGES 2015 range of tools is available including compilers, debuggers, software analysis and Flash programming tools, an extensive range of software solutions and consulting services The European Embedded byCompanies reputable providers. Directory Hexagon Development Kit Infineon
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TOOLS & SOFTWARE Developing software for XMC microcontrollers with greater efficiency By Matthias Ackermann, Infineon
Infineon has significantly improved its DAVE embedded development environment: Version 4 of DAVE focuses on improvement of data models, methodology, and user-friendliness in order to allow much quicker software development for XMC microcontrollers. Figure 1. With Version 4, In neon has modernized the DAVE development environ- ment, which now also includes new DAVE APPs (so ware com- ponents) for many applications
e DAVE professional Eclipse-based devel- range of MCU products. Abstractions such as environment (IDE), including GNU C com- opment platform guides and supports users those In neon planned for DAVE (version 4) piler, debugger, resource solver, and code gen- during so ware development – from evalu- are needed in order to keep pace with these eration. XMC Lib is a static device driver layer ation to the end product. For this, In neon is developments. ey allow the developer to in accordance with CMSIS and MISRA-C:2004, providing, among other things, an extensive focus on the actual application without hav- library of Application Programmable Inter- peripheral- and application-oriented, compo- ing to acquire comprehensive MCU hardware faces (APIs) for XMC microcontroller periph- nent-based code repository. In addition, DAVE knowledge; this ultimately shortens develop- erals. DAVE APPs are graphically con gurable, generates the necessary code for the periph- ment times and decreases the probability of abstracting application-oriented so ware com- erals of In neon XMC microcontrollers. is errors. DAVE in Version 4 is systematically ponents. DAVE SDK is the So ware Devel- complementary approach allows the user to further developed and expanded in order to opment Kit for the modi cation or expansion employ available commercial third-party tools allow abstracting scalable yet e cient hard- of existing DAVE APPs or the development for ARM to translate the C source code con g- ware-level, component-based programming of new DAVE APPs. ere is a collection of ured and generated in DAVE, link it, and load it for XMC microcontrollers. examples that are also intended for further use. to the microcontroller (MCU). is completely e examples encompass applications on the covers the development cycle from evaluation e adaptations and expansions include, basis of XMC Lib and DAVE APPs. ird par- to the rst prototype and the end product. Also, among other things, improved data models ties are also included: XMC Lib and the code the user has a maximum degree of freedom for and improved graphics, scalable so ware driv- generated with DAVE are suitable for use with fast and e cient platform-oriented so ware ers for individual peripherals (the device driver, a compiler of, for example, GCC, ARM, Task- and product development. the XMC Lib), and so ware components for ing, and IAR and can be used with standard dedicated applications (DAVE APPs). e development environments such as of Altium, e embedded industry is increasingly stan- depiction, modularity, and abstraction in the ARM/Keil, Atollic, IAR Systems, and Rowley. dardizing (ARM cores) while at the same development environment simplify the reus- In addition to improved operability and graph- time the integration density of manufactur- ability and e ciency of the so ware develop- ics, In neon has introduced novel functions er-speci c peripherals is growing, as is the ment. DAVE is an Eclipse-based development such as DAVE APP Tree Dependency and Pin
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Figure 2. DAVE abstracts from concrete peripheral modules. e combination of XMC Lib, DAVE SDK, DAVE APPs, and complete examples facilitates the writing of the users own programs for XMC microcontrollers Assignment View. e latter, for instance, pro- can also freely de ne user labels for the DAVE vides a clear graphical depiction of the manual APP instance in question. User labels serve pin assignment on the selected package. as handlers (a pointer to the object) that let DAVE APP methods (APIs) to be applied Figure 3. Typical development process: DAVE One of the measures to improve the reuse to the desired DAVE APP instance. DAVE and commercial ARM development tools of the so ware and components available in contains a resource solver that allows users to work hand in hand DAVE was the introduction of a static device easily program even complex applications on driver layer known as XMC Lib. It is subor- or near the hardware level by means of graphi- With the new, additional So ware Develop- dinated to the DAVE APPs, but can also be cal con gurations and combinations of DAVE ment Kit – the DAVE SDK – the user now used independently of DAVE APPs or DAVE APPs and XMC Lib. Here, the developer rst can modify and expand existing DAVE APPs in standard third-party development environ- de nes the necessary resources logically and also develop completely new ones. e ments. Both XMC Lib and DAVE APPs with (virtually) in the DAVE APP. users can thus construct their own mod- the graphical user interface o er optimized ular so ware repository. DAVE SDK is an so ware components that allow the user to e resource solver then assigns the logical independent Eclipse instance that is part of program quickly and with hardware abstrac- resources to the physical hardware resources the DAVE installation package. is allows tion. e new XMC Lib so ware layer means of the respective microcontroller. e resource the expansion of the features DAVE APPs that the DAVE APPs do not access the micro- solver follows the constraint logic program- have to o er – for example, the addition of controller registers and peripherals registers ming method while doing so. Based on communication stacks that the developer directly, but instead use the applicable XMC this, DAVE generates an easily readable and can simply incorporate into the application. Lib API. is not only increases reusability; it comprehensively documented source code In principle, DAVE SDK can also be used also improves the clarity and readability of the that includes header les, the initialization without XMC microcontroller resource de - source code generated. To further improve code, and the actual functions that In neon nition. For example, static libraries of any readability, scalability, and reusability, users provides for further license-free use. kind can be con gured using a graphic user
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the previous development environment and DAVE APPs. However, system performance and response have been improved on the basis of the optimized data models for chip con guration and resource management. With the launch of Version 4, In neon will provide an extensive package for a quick introduction or transition to DAVE (Version 4) development environment that includes sample projects for XMC Lib and DAVE APPs, videos, tutorials, application notes, and migration guidelines for the further use of con gured and gen- erated source codes with a third-party tool. DAVE and commercial ARM development environments will work hand in hand during this process.
Source code generated by DAVE and the XMC Lib made available are both suitable for use with compilers of GCC, ARM, Tasking, and IAR. It can be used with the Altium, ARM/Keil, Atollic, IAR Systems, and Rowley development environments. From evaluation to end product, the user can continue to use the free DAVE or the code con gured with DAVE with a commercially available ARM development environment. is forms the foundation for the so ware scalability and reusability, as well as for programming at a high level of abstraction and achieving an e cient development process without the necessity of acquiring exten- sive development knowledge of MCU hardware or real-time so ware.
Figure 4. e ARM-based XMC microcontrollers are suitable for vari- With its comprehensive code repository and modularity and scalabil- ous industrial applications, including factory and building automation, ity, DAVE supports an e cient so ware development process based transportation, power and energy, and simple motor controls, such as on established methods in the area of PC or server-so ware develop- those for the home and professional sector ment. On the one hand, this provides the user with a free of charge and extremely e cient tool for code generation and so ware development interface, thus simplifying their reusability. e far-reaching modi - for XMC microcontrollers. On the other hand, the user is also able to cations and optimizations carried out in the course of the introduc- optimally utilize the available peripheral performance and real-time tion of the Version 4 of DAVE have resulted in incompatibility with ability of what in the future will be more than 160 XMC derivatives.
Product News TriCore• PowerArchitecture Green Hills demonstrates secure platform for automotive consolidation on i.MX 6 RH850 • XC2000/XE166 Green Hills has extended its INTEGRITY Cortex M/R/A • ARM7/9/11 automotive consolidation platform to the Freescale i.MX 6 series Smart Application Blueprint for Rapid Engineering (SABRE) for automotive infotainment board, giving car- makers and their suppliers another processor choice on which to safely and securely consol- idate multi-domain cockpit so ware – digital instrument cluster, entertainment, navigation, HSIGH PEED driver assistance – into smaller, simpler and ROBUST less costly con gurations. FLEXIBLE News ID 3227
Mouser: SensorTag kit connects sensors to the cloud in minutes Mouser Electronics is now stocking the Sim- pleLink multi-standard SensorTag develop- ment kit from Texas Instruments. Enabling quick and easy integration of sensor data with wireless cloud connectivity, the Sen- sorTag helps jump-start development for Internet of Things applications by offering flexible development with multiple wire- less connectivity options, including Blue- tooth low energy (BLE or Bluetooth Smart), 6LoWPAN and ZigBee. News ID 3177
9 August 2015 TOOLS & SOFTWARE Open source vs. proprietary: an embedded hardware issue By Michael Parks, P.E., and Lynnette Reese, Mouser Electronics
Fewer things ignite more passion in software geeks than the debate of open source versus proprietary code, but when going to market with an embedded system, sometimes you don’t get a choice.
Source code has a lot to do with the con- what you are doing; open source is rarely turn- also be supported by proprietary development cerns that businesses have concerning control key in the embedded world. You also need to tools, as well, depending upon the processor. of their destiny and future costs. Source code have reasonable expectations of what the open Nevertheless, an open source movement is is a set of human-readable (mostly) instruc- source maintenance community can do with afoot, inspired perhaps by Linux. tions that tell a processor what to do. Before respect to your need-for-speed in going to it can be used by a computer it must be com- market, since open source may adopt a speci c Both open source and proprietary so ware piled or interpreted into binary object code. technology at a comparatively glacial pace. You have equal shares of misconception. Further If you have the source code, you can mod- can always roll up your sleeves and create and complicating matters for open source is the ify it and recompile it to meet your speci c contribute to the open source community for vast number of licenses that can confuse even needs. You can also do an independent review what you need, but even then the acceptance the savviest technologist. e Open Source to ensure there are no bugs or hidden back- into the formal repository (e.g. the maintained Initiative states, “Open source so ware is so - doors. Operating systems can also be open Linux “tree” for a speci c embedded processor) ware that can be freely used, changed, and source and therefore transparent, but work may not proceed as you would like. If you do shared (in modi ed or unmodi ed form) at a deeper level on the processor to provide not contribute your changes back to the com- by anyone. Open source so ware is made by interrupt handling, peripheral management, munity, which is entirely legal, no one will help many people, and distributed under licenses and more. you maintain it but you, no matter how good that comply with the Open Source De nition.” you think it is (this is known as “forking” the With open source, you are not beholden to code). Sometimes you don’t have a choice in Some of the most popular open source licenses another party to keep your product work- whether you use proprietary or open source, include the Creative Commons, Apache License, ing. Proprietary-based systems, if they are not however. BSD, GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT home-grown and thus belonging to you are License, and the Mozilla Public License. For a open to the possibility of getting “orphaned” A processor may not have an open source complete listing, you can head over here. Open if the proprietary so ware is abandoned. For operating system, so ware, or tools. e source licensing varies, but a typical license example, an operating system (OS) might be immediate choice is to use a proprietary ver- ensures that if you build or expand on an open purchased from and maintained by another sion, or if you have the time, start an open source project, you are given attribution and company, but what happens if that company source tree or library on your own. It would those who build upon your work must also gets bought by your competitor? Updates be remiss not to include a mention about release their code under the same license. is and bug xes would be done to their sched- open source hardware (OSHW). OSHW is prevents someone else from unfairly pro t- ule. Worse, you might be ordered to cease and similarly “open,” especially if source les for ing from your hard work, or at the very least, desist using the so ware immediately. On the the schematics are provided, but the openness making it much harder to do so. Open source other hand, if you go with an open source com- may stop at the doorstep of the SoC, processor, so ware is fundamentally about sharing and piler or operating system, you need to know or a support chip on the board. OSHW can gaining wisdom from the crowd. Many larger,
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Figure 1. Latest Texas Instrument (OSHW) Figure 2. e OSHW Nucleo is about $10, includes free mbed.org so ware tools and is also LaunchPad features the MSP432 processor supported by KEIL tools. STM32 Nucleo is compatible with most Arduino shields. and is aimed at the portables, wearables, smart grid, medical, and automation control markets. ready to go into production. Otherwise known the embedded electronics world has been as royalties, the fees associated with acquiring dominated by proprietary so ware, including non-corporately backed open source projects a license allow the developers to dedicate their things like the integrated development envi- rely on a small army of volunteers to develop, time to re ning and debugging their applica- ronment (IDE), real-time operating systems debug, and document source code. Some tion-speci c code. From a developer perspec- (RTOS), and rmware libraries. Platforms projects gather a signi cantly large enough tive, this means that proprietary OEM support such as Arduino are attempting to change community for developers to receive some should be prompt and the support will ideally that, but many professional platforms remain modest amount of funding via donations be there for a long time (in some cases, a main- locked behind proprietary license agreements. solicited from end users. e collaborative tenance and support agreement must be paid It’s not just open source communities that are nature of open source projects between the on an annual basis). pushing for change, the U.S Department of user community and developers can become Defense and NASA are also pushing for open quite a remarkable resource to entice new Since commercial and industrial embedded so ware architectures to enable collaboration users and coders alike. Recognition for partic- systems tend to have lifespans that last many and data sharing and prevent vendor lock. ipating in an open source project is another years, if not decades, the longevity of reach- alluring appeal for independent developers. back support can be crucial. Support for open Some established embedded-platform OEM source so ware might in some cases be more companies are beginning to respond to devel- In contrast, with proprietary so ware the unreliable in comparison to proprietary. But oper desire for more open source solutions. proprietor retains signi cantly more in legal at least you have access to the source code Others are at least rethinking the licensing. rights by enforcing copyright restrictions. and can make changes if you have enough From IDE (a development tool) perspective, Typically, proprietary so ware is closed source expertise, time, or money to hire someone to the open source Arduino IDE is rather spar- with no access to the source code even when do it for you. With proprietary code, there is tan when compared to other platform IDEs the application is purchased. e complete list no legal basis to access source code or make such as Texas Instrument’s Code Composer of limitations is typically contained in an End changes without the originator’s consent. Studio, which includes many signi cant pro- User License Agreement or other legally bind- fessional development features such as power ing document, and tends to involve restric- Just to make matters even more complex, it consumption monitoring. TI is also support- tions on modi cation, sharing, redistribution, is also possible to have so ware that contains ing an open source product called Energia as and reverse engineering. At the end of the day, a mix of both proprietary and open source an alternative, for various TI microcontroller proprietary so ware is about protecting Intel- code. For example, Apple OS X operating products. STMicroelectronics STM32 Open lectual Property (IP). system builds upon the open UNIX operat- Development Environment (STM32ODE) is ing system. However, the windowing system another example of a company that is adapt- It is important to note that open source does that drives the OS X GUI is not open source. ing to changing licensing models. not necessarily mean cost-free, and proprietary ere are many embedded systems that have does not necessarily mean that it costs money open source operating systems with custom e STM32 Open Development Environ- to use. Nor is it true that open source is only for adjustments. Google Android operating sys- ment includes their OSHW Nucleo boards.In amateur projects while professional products tem source code is taken and customized by the end game, TI and STM are chip makers are all proprietary. However, should you select carriers to install on their authorized phones, focused on providing cutting-edge integrated a proprietary platform, be sure to understand which is legal but is not necessarily supported chips, but they also understand that silicon is the licensing fee structure, if one exists, so that or maintained by Google. ( is customiza- not the whole embedded picture. Hardware you aren’t shocked with a bill when you are tion o en results in bloatware.) Historically is also undergoing an open source revolu-
August 2015 12 TOOLS & SOFTWARE tion. e discussion surrounding hardware Product News is perhaps unsurprisingly more complicated. So ware source code is granted copyright protection as soon as it’s written down. Fur- Alldaq: dynamic current Express Logic: Renesas selects X-Ware thermore, nothing tangible comes from measurement up to 50 A for use in Synergy platform source code. In the hardware world, that isn’t e ALLDAQ ADQ-412 is a CompactPCI Express Logic announced that Renesas Elec- true. CAD design les or 3D printer STL les board for dynamic current measurement tronics has selected Express Logic’s X-Ware eventually get turned into a physical product. from a few micro-ampere up to 50 A via shunt. exclusively as the cornerstone so ware solu- Does copyright apply to the design les only, Typical applications are the quality assurance, tion for its new Renesas Synergy So ware or does it also cover the eventual tangible especially the analysis of current spikes on the Package. X-Ware encompasses the popu- product? Even if conventional wisdom holds one hand and the measuring of leckage cur- lar readX RTOS, NetX IPV4 and NetX that copyright doesn’t apply to hardware, rents on the other hand or the evaluation of DUO IPv4/IPV6 TCP/IP stacks, USBX these are uncharted waters that haven’t been high-frequency current portion in switching USB Host/Device/OTG protocol stack, FileX tested in the courts yet. ere are special- power supplies. MS-DOS-compatible le system, GUIX ized open source hardware licenses, with two News ID 3167 graphical user interface and the TraceX of the most popular being the CERN Open graphical event-analysis tool. Hardware License and the TAPR Open Hard- Rohde & Schwarz to expand collabo- News ID 3149 ware License. ration with Avnet and EBV Elektronik e Rohde & Schwarz electronics group has Phaedrus: SSL/TLS implemen- With respect to the embedded development signed an extensive partnership agreement tation for single-chip systems world, the choice of using open source or pro- with Avnet and EBV Elektronik, two leading Phaedrus System is releasing a new version prietary so ware is o en driven by the hard- distributors for electronic components, in of Segger‘s emSSL secure sockets implemen- ware selection. If a microcontroller or FPGA order to ensure the optimal availability of its tation with both client and server capabil- that meets project speci cations only comes electronic components and the correspond- ity. Needing only 7KB of RAM to support a from a vendor that has locked their code ing technical support. e contract provides secure connection between browser and the behind a proprietary license, then you really a foundation that enables the companies to web-server makes emSSL suitable for opera- have little choice but to accept it. You might continue and extend their existing long-term tion on single-chip systems. try to negotiate additional data rights, but not partnership. News ID 3193 without adding signi cant cost to your bud- News ID 3157 get. With that said, as hardware becomes more Express Logic: ThreadX meets commoditized and multiple vendors o er simi- Lauterbach and GuruCE announce ISO 26262 requirements larly capable hardware solutions, the more so - official partnership Express Logic announced that its readX RTOS ware licensing may a ect the balance of overall Lauterbach and GuruCE, manufacturer of has been certi ed by SGS-TÜV Saar for use in the o erings and create di erentiation. ere- high quality Microso Windows Embedded highest integrity levels of ISO 26262, the interna- fore, it’s reasonable to assume that as products Compact BSPs, announced a deepening of tional standard governing automotive electronic become more commoditized, more vendors their relationship in the form of an ocial and electrical systems. SGS-TÜV Saar, the lead- will o er choices on the so ware side of things. partnership between GuruCE and Lauter- ing accredited, independent company for test- e licensing structure of the IDE, (RT)OS and bach. e experts at GuruCE and Lauterbach ing, auditing, verifying, and certifying embedded libraries may be enough to sway developers to already have a long working relationship that so ware for safety-related systems, analyzed and pick one platform over another. is now brought to an even higher level of veri ed the readX RTOS for use in the devel- cooperation. opment of such systems. For further information, visit the section News ID 3120 News ID 3115 Application & Technologies of www.mouser.com TOOLS & SOFTWARE What the development kit revolution means to design engineers By Shawn Silberhorn, Conrad Business Supplies
This article explains why the Internet of Things and ever-decreasing timescales are driving through huge changes in the electronics industry.
Figure 1. Conrad’s range of development kits includes amongst many others the WunderBar by relayr (top le ), Freescale Freedom Development Platform (bottom right), Texas Instruments SimpleLink WiFi CC3200 LaunchPad (middle le ) and the UDOO Prototyping-Board (top right).
Design and development engineers know happening as you read this. Companies that of end products. It’s fair to say that the value of that speeding up the process of creating and feel they do not need to develop solutions that such kits in helping to speed up and simplify the delivering new or upgraded products is the will be able to communicate in this way in the process from a research and development con- ultimate Holy Grail. However, an increas- future run the risk of being le behind. And cept to nished, full production item cannot be ingly competitive marketplace for solutions as every development engineer knows, such a overestimated. But it is perhaps the growth of that make this possible can leave engineers position is simply untenable. the Internet of ings that is the main driving confused and bewildered about which is the force here because it relies on easy-to-use and best route to take to reach that goal. Whether ere are many in the electronics industry accessible technology – and development kits designing, testing and building new products that have called the IoT the fourth industrial t perfectly into that category. According to from scratch, or improving existing products revolution, raising in some circles the accu- some estimates, by 2020 there could be close to through enhancements, with the aim of meet- sation that the ‘R’ word is in serious danger 50 billion IoT nodes around the world and this ing what seem to be ever-demanding customer of being overused. at may or may not be number is expected to be dwarfed in the years expectations, engineers are up against it. How the case. However, the key to rapid product that will follow. can it be possible to trim development times development and connectivity can genuinely over and over again to give a manufacturer a be called a mini-revolution in its own right – Not surprising, then, that some respected g- genuine competitive edge? And how can max- the growth of the development kit. In some ures in the electronics industry have expressed imum functionality, performance and reli- quarters, warnings have been issued that the concern that devices embedding processors in ability of the nished product be maintained development kit is not a panacea for every them for use in the Internet of ings are not while continually making such cuts? design and development engineer’s problems. being developed quickly enough. Indeed, in You can take alternative routes that o er more some sectors the increasingly popular feeling On top of this, as well as time pressures from exibility than an o -the-shelf kit. ose is that the industry can never have too many development to delivery, there is now the need design and development engineers who want starter kits when it comes to designing and to develop products that have extensive inter- to focus almost entirely on so ware function- producing devices that connect to the internet activity built into them. e reason for this is ality without having to concern themselves for – and there is little likelihood that this view will that they now need to be compatible for use too long with hardware matters are nding change. As part of its ability to ensure speedy within the Internet of ings (IoT), which that development kits are, indeed, the ideal product development, an important feature of aims to connect previously stand-alone devices solution to their requirements. any starter kit has to be that it is based around seamlessly to make them smart, intelligent and Open Source hardware and Cloud platforms, able to communicate with each other. What- In recent years there has been a huge increase making it not just exible and convenient ever you may have read or been told to the con- in the number of development kits from major but easy to use as well. One such develop- trary, the IoT has become a reality and in many semiconductor manufacturers that are avail- ment tool recently introduced to the market application areas, elements of it are already able to hardware engineers designing all sorts is the WunderBar IoT WiFi and Bluetooth
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be used with Android and Linux operating systems, the open hardware UDOO enables projects to be developed for the Internet of ings with minimum knowledge of hardware. All on the same board, the unit has an ARM i.MX6 Freescale processor and an Arduino Due compatible sec- tion based on ATMEL SAM3X ARM processor. Last but certainly not least, MikroElektronika accessory and add-on click-boards – based on application technology from leading manufacturers – o er a compact yet high-quality multimedia, sensors, and connectivity development solution. Various on-board ‘add-on’ modules make it easier for devel- opers to create various applications. e MikroElektronica click-board range embraces sensors, displays, audio, motor control, communica- tion and bre optics. Of course, since distributors serve the needs of customers in the design and development phase of products, it makes perfect sense for them to o er embedded engineering professionals as many development kits as possible. at’s why all of the solutions listed already are available from Conrad Business Supplies, which aims to simplify and accelerate the designs of new and innovative products in the electronics industry. Currently, the company o ers over 5,000 Figure 2. In combination with the WunderBar IoT Starter kit relayr development and prototyping products, accessories and tools which o ers an OpenSensor Cloud platform enabling device makers and support embedded processor-based applications and Open Source manufacturers, app developers and so ware companies to create new third party so ware and hardware. By expanding its range of devel- applications and services. opment and prototyping kits, Conrad intends to become the preferred sensor starter kit from relayr which is designed for so ware applica- partner for engineers looking to design and develop innovative new tion developers who are not familiar with complex wireless hardware technology within the shortest possible timescales but to the highest designing. e kit is intended to o er hardware design and application available standards. Companies like Conrad believe that the Internet engineers an ‘out-of-the-box’ development tool that enables them to of ings is most de nitely happening. It will be upon us and impact- build, invent, develop and experiment with IoT- based designs/appli- ing our day-to-day lives within a very short time, and the company is cations with minimum fuss. e WunderBar IoT starter kit features six determined to play a key role in its roll-out and in enabling businesses detachable smart sensor mini-modules, each of which features Blue- to reap maximum bene ts from the latest, innovative technologies. tooth low energy (BLE), a sensor or actuator, and an on-board battery. e mini-modules deliver light, colour, distance, noise, temperature and humidity sensing as well as an accelerometer, a gyroscope and infra-red remote control capability.
Another piece of kit on the market is the Freescale Freedom development platform. Ideal for rapid prototyping and the speedy development of microcontroller-based applications. is kit is built on the ARM Cor- tex-M0 + core and serves as an evaluation board for the KL1 and KL2 Kinetis blocks of the L-series. Meanwhile, the SimpleLink CC3200 wire- less link is the rst single-chip microcontroller (MCU) with built-in Wi-Fi for the LaunchPad system. Featuring a high-performance ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller which enables customers to develop an entire application with a single circuit, the link includes internet and security protocols which make design and development possible with no previous knowledge of wireless local area networks (WLANs). Another useful tool is the powerful UDOO Quad-core prototyping board for so - ware development and hardware design. A single-board mini PC that can
Figure 3. UDOO is a powerful board based on a dual or quad core ARM cortex-A9 CPU with a dedicated ARM processor.
15 August 2015 TOOLS & SOFTWARE The Yocto Project - your custom embedded Linux distribution By Jan-Simon Moeller, Consultant & Trainer, Linux Foundation Training Program
The Embedded Linux Platform provided by the Yocto Project has the ability to generate a Linux-based embedded system customized to the specifics of any given project. By customizing workflow and utilizing facilities which exist to assist licence compliance, Yocto can be even more valuable for custom distribution.
Figure 1. Components of the Yocto Project and its upstream projects
It’s not an embedded Linux distribution – it To build so ware, we need a (cross-)tool- named with the extension .bb (e.g. hello.bb) is creates a custom one for you. is is the head- chain - the sources and instructions on how as simple as adding a le with the same name line on the Yocto Project website (https://www. to compile the source les. at is enough for and the extension .bbappend (e.g. hello.bbap- yoctoproject.org/), and it really describes a single source. But with more components, pend). is drastically reduces maintenance its mission. Creating a custom Linux-based build-time and run-time dependencies, com- work as system integrators just have to track operation system tailored for the speci cs of plexity grows and additional steps are needed. the smaller amendment of the .bbappend le an embedded board and the requirements of ese steps form a recipe to build the so ware instead of a full copy. Maintenance updates of the future product can be hard, but it is here in question. Variants could be set up based the upstream projects are thus inherited by to help. Yocto Project, which is a collaborative, on policies like target architecture or target rebuilding the image without editing a single open source project managed by e Linux hardware. e conclusion is that OpenEm- metadata le. is is a clear advantage, which Foundation, supports multiple architectures bedded-Core is such a collection of recipes justi es the extra brain cycles necessary to including x86(32-/64-bit), PPC, ARM, and - it is actually the foundational set of recipes. create small .bbappend les instead of editing MIPS. An increasing number of boards are meta-yocto and meta-yocto-bsp are also col- copies of the original recipes. e recipes are supported through board support layers. lections of recipes and enhance the metadata kept in layers within subfolders for each func- of OE-Core. Bitbake is now the parser and tional topic. Multiple layers can be used at the To begin, let’s rst take a brief look at the core executor of the aforementioned recipes and same time. is concept is shown in gure components of the Yocto Project. As you can calculates the chain of tasks needed to build 2 – layers add hardware support, application see in gure 1, the Project is a collection of the de ned target and executes it. support and even local adaptations and can be multiple components. It integrates parts mixed and matched as needed. jointly developed with sister project OpenEm- To get started with Yocto, the user just needs bedded (http://openembedded.org), includ- to create a new project environment and edit To try out the Yocto Project reference plat- ing BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core and other the le conf/local.conf to choose the target form poky, you just need a machine running metadata. Components developed under board through the variable MACHINE before Linux, 80GB of free hard disk space, and to the umbrella of the Yocto Project, namely he simply executes bitbake followed by a tar- follow this short 5-step guide: the meta-yocto and meta-yocto-bsp, Eclipse get like bitbake-core-image-minimal. But the integration and additional tools are included. real strength of the Yocto Project lies in its [start Box, Font Courier] Combined, they enhance the tools of the exibility to add additional recipes, amend # Create a subfolder OpenEmbedded project with the Yocto com- existing recipes or change policies by adding >mkdiryocto ; cd yocto ponents and form the Poky reference platform. metadata in a so-named layer on-top of the You can say that Poky is an enhanced frame- existing stack of layers (OE-Core + meta- # Download poky: work to build Linux-based systems. ink of yocto + meta-yocto-bsp). An example of >wget -O poky.tar.bz2 -ndhttp://bit.ly/YCpoky it as Buildroot on Steroids. extending a recipe le which is by convention >tar -xf poky.tar.bz2
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# create new project environment folder. On the other hand, the PREMIRRORS >source poky-dizzy-12.0.0/ feature allows us to direct download cache oe-init-build-envmyproj misses to an in-house mirror.
# the default is qemux86 e other issue regarding scaling is the actual # as you can see in compile-time. You saw - or still see - how long # conf/local.conf it takes to download and build all bits and # we just run the build pieces for the core-image-minimal – now do # - needs network, a lot of disk the math for a workgroup of 10. Phew! What # and (cpu)time a waste of CPU-time. Yocto can do better, and o ers us the SSTATE_CACHE. is is a >bitbake core-image-minimal cache for build-results per target environment (combination of machine+compiler). We # output is in can point future project folders to an exist- # tmp/deploy/images ing SSTATE_CACHE folder and bitbake will # test it with pick up the existing binaries and the build will >runqemu speed up dramatically. ere is also SSTATE_ [stop Box, Font Courier] MIRRORS, which could be a URL in the local network (e.g. fed by an autobuilder or contin- As you will notice, the initial build takes quite uous integration). is would then provide some time as it needs to fetch the sources and recent binaries to all members of the work- compile everything including the cross-com- group. As you can imagine, this is just the piler/toolchain. A reasonable question is how tip of the iceberg in terms of customization that would scale across workgroups or even possible within the Yocto Project. work behind corporate rewalls? Yocto has answers to these questions. One feature is the Another important part is to know about use of a download folder (DL_DIR in local. the licences for the so ware used in the le conf) which is a cache for downloads, and is system, or even exclude so ware with cer- the rst place bitbake looks for sources. is tain licences. First of all every so ware built makes is possible to have a shared download with Yocto has to state its licence in the rec- ipe. Every package built with Yocto has a sub- folder in the directory
A nal word on updates: in a connected world and with the Internet-of- ings right in front of us, we need to care about timely and fre- quent updates. is means two things: a) you need to be able to adapt and import these xes (remember the continuous integration?!), Figure 3. Materials needed for the IP Camera and b) the devices need to fetch and apply using the Raspberry Pi A+ and the Yocto the updates. e Yocto Project can be con g- Project ured to output packages and package-feeds of
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various formats and sizes (rpm, dpkg, opkg) to and setup the environment, con gure,and ./2_setup.sh provide this. In case you now are thinking,“I’d build the lesystem. To support the Rasp- like to learn more...“ - Linux Foundation course berry Pi, we will have to include an addi- #Step 3: Build the sdcard image LFD405 (02 Mar 2015 in Stuttgart, see training. tional layer named meta-raspberrypi which ./3_build.sh linuxfoundation.org) might be a perfect t, as in turn depends on meta-multimedia. A er well as the Yocto Project Developer Days event. that, we need to set up a new project folder While the build runs it is time to assemble the and add the layers as well as con gure the le hardware. e camera needs to be connected e following example will guide you through conf/local.conf. For simplicity, a git reposi- to the socket between HDMI and sound - be the steps needed to create an IP Camera using tory with a couple of scripts is available here: careful with the cable and the connector. For the Raspberry Pi A+ and the Yocto Project. https://github.com/dl9pf/YoctoCamera . the antenna, we drill a hole in the case and Materials needed: Raspberry Pi A or B (A+ mount the extension cable there. and B+ with newer kernel), USB-Wi don- #Step 1: Download and setup gle with antenna connector/external antenna, git clone https://github.com/dl9pf/ e Wi dongle ends up in the USB port. e antenna extension cable, camera module, Yo ctoCamera board is powered as usual with a micro-USB micro-SD card, camera case, 5V power sup- cdYoctoCamera cable. We just use a standard cable and USB ply, FTDI serial cable, and a Linux PC. For the ./1_download.sh power supply. Once the build nishes, we so ware, we will use the current release of the can test-boot the system. You should attach a Yocto Project which is version 1.7 (dizzy). e #Step 2: Change the layer con guration and serial cable to the Raspberry Pi. e nal steps following command sequence will download # adapt conf/local.conf are documented in the le BOARDSETUP.
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Green Hills: RTOS multicore support for PragmaDev: system modeling listed Xilinx accelerates system verification OCTEON III SoC processors from Cavium as the main upcoming topic in 2015 with Vivado Design Suite 2015.1 Green Hills Software and Cavium PragmaDev latest survey indicates system Xilinx announced acceleration of system veri ca- announce the availability of Green Hills modeling, model simulation, testing, and tion with the release of the Vivado Design Suite Software’s multicore development solu- test generation are the top upcoming top- 2015.1, featuring major productivity advances tions for Cavium’s OCTEON III family of ics. Most popular modeling technologies are for the development and deployment of All multicore processors. UML, Matlab, SDL, and SysML. e survey Programmable FPGAs and SoCs. is release News ID 3180 also con rmed last year’s results indicating a includes the Vivado Lab Edition, accelerated substantial decrease in UML usage forecast Vivado Simulator and third party simulation Segger: SSL/TLS solution for for the h year in a row. ows, interactive clock domain crossing analysis, single-chip systems News ID 3048 and advanced system performance analysis with SEGGER is releasing a new version of its the Xilinx So ware Development Kit. emSSL secure sockets implementation with BittWare: new FPGA development News ID 2989 both client and server capability. e min- kit for Altera FPGA boards imized RAM usage allows operation on sin- BittWare announced the release of its new Altera announces Industrial Func- glechip systems. A secure connection between FPGA Development Kit (FDK) for Altera tional Safety Data Package (v.3) browser and the webserver supported by FPGA boards. Built with Altera‘s Qsys sys- Altera announced the availability of the latest emSSL requires only 7KB of RAM. With such tem integration tool, the FDK is a library of version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data small RAM requirements, even small embed- FPGA components that includes precon g- Package (Ver. 3), for systems designers using ded devices can send e-mail via encrypted ured physical interfaces, infrastructure, and Altera FPGAs. e safety pack provides TÜV connections or and retrieve or serve secure examples. e FDK drastically cuts develop- Rheinland-certi ed toolows, IP and devices web pages using HTTPS. e product works ment time and can be easily integrated into including Cyclone V FPGAs, enabling faster seamlessly with SEGGER’s embOS/IP, the existing FPGA development environments. time for market for industrial safety solutions high performance IP Stack, as well as with the By providing the underlying infrastructure to IEC 61508 up to Safety Integrity Level 3. embOS/IP Web Server extension. for FPGA development, BittWare‘s FDK lets News ID 3050 News ID 3166 customers focus on developing their unique at the TERATEC 2015 Forum the release of its TI: DesignDRIVE evaluation platform Data Translation: USB data new FPGA Development Kit for processing supports various motor types acquisition modules in versions components rather than on the infrastructure Texas Instruments announced DesignDRIVE from two to 48 inputs around it. — a single hardware and so ware platform that Data Translation o ers three USB data acqui- News ID 3162 makes it easier for engineers to develop and sition modules as complete high-accuracy evaluate solutions for many industrial drive temperature measurement solutions includ- Renesas: start product development at and servo topologies. e DesignDRIVE kit ing the easy-to-use QuickDAQ data logging API level with new Synergy platform and example so ware o er an easy path to so ware. e DT9828, DT9829 and DT9874 Renesas Electronics announced the Renesas begin exploring a wide variety of motor types, modules support the direct connection of Synergy Platform, a new, easy-to-use, qual- sensing technologies, encoder standards and thermocouples and thermistors, and provide i ed platform designed to accelerate time to communications networks, as well as easy highly accurate 24-bit A/D technology and market, reduce total cost of ownership and expansion to develop with real-time Ethernet galvanic isolation. Available in versions from remove many of the obstacles engineers face communications and functional safety topol- two to 48 inputs, the modules are designed for as they develop products for the growing ogies, enabling more comprehensive, inte- maximum ease of use. Internet of ings and industrial markets. grated system solutions. News ID 3152 News ID 3141 News ID 3041
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SEGGER: J-Link debugger software R&S presents its oscilloscope Arrow: development board design based now available as full version portfolio at Sensor & Test on Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor SEGGER has o cially released the full version At Sensor & Test 2015, Rohde & Schwarz will Arrow Electronics has announced the avail- of its J-Link Debugger so ware for embedded be showcasing its growing portfolio of oscillo- ability of the DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost applications. Users of the J-Link debug probe scopes, including applications and accessories development board design based on the now have a matching fully featured graphical for various embedded applications. Prod- Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor. e debugger at their disposal. J-Link Debugger is ucts range from three R&S HMO entry-level Snapdragon 410 processor is a product of the latest addition to the J-Link product family oscilloscopes with bandwidths of 50 MHz to Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of and further enriches the feature set and high 500 MHz and the powerful midrange R&S Qualcomm Incorporated. Arrow will manu- performance of the J-Link/JTrace debug probes. RTM2000 and R&S RTE with up to 2 GHz facture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c News ID 3012 bandwidth to the high-performance R&S to community developers and commercial RTO oscilloscopes with up to 4 GHz band- customers. LDRA and Green Hills deliver multicore width. News ID 3221 development and verification News ID 3033 LDRA and Green Hills So ware have part- SCIOPTA: Safety RTOS available nered to provide high-assurance application PLS provides optimized testing for Freescale i.MX6 development on multicore platforms used and debugging for Infineon’s SCIOPTA Systems has ported the safety certi- in safety- and security-critical markets. e XMC4700/XMC4800 SoCs ed SCIOPTA Real-Time Operating Systems growing emergence of multicore platforms PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme pres- to the Freescale i.MX6 processors. SCIOPTA and applications paves the way for new ver- ents Version 4.4.5 of its Universal Debug i.MX6 RTOS is speci cally tuned for the i cation tool capabilities needed to complete Engine (UDE). e UDE 4.4.5 provides devel- Freescale i.MX6 processors. is results in high-assurance safety- and security-critical opers with an optimized testing and debug- a very high performance and a low memory compliance activities. ging environment for the new XMC4700/ footprint. SCIOPTA i.MX6 is certi ed accord- News ID 3036 XMC4800 MCUs from In neon. ing to IEC61508 SIL3, EN 50128 SIL3/4 and News ID 3202 ISO 26262 ASIL D. IAR: static code analysis in News ID 3203 Atmel AVR32 tools Vector: VectorCAST test auto- IAR Systems has made major updates to its mation platform featured in Express Logic announces complete embedded development toolchain Wind River marketplace ThreadX MISRA compliance IAR Embedded Workbench for Atmel AVR32. Vector So ware announced the availability Express Logic announced that its readX e new version, 4.30, introduces the add-on of its VectorCAST Test Automation Platform RTOS is compliant with all required and product C-STAT for completely integrated in the Wind River Marketplace. e Market- mandatory rules of MISRA C:2004 and MIS- static code analysis. Also added is stack usage place oers customers an app store experi- RA-C:2012. MISRA C, a set of programming analysis and shortened build times through ence where they can research and evaluate guidelines developed by the Motor Industry parallel build. best of breed add-on so ware from trusted So ware Reliability Association (MISRA), pro- News ID 2990 partners. motes safety, reliability, ease of maintenance, News ID 3164 and portability for safety-critical systems coded Mouser: low-cost starter platform for using the ANSI C programming language. ADSP BF706 Blackfin DSP processor SOMNIUM: enhanced development tools News ID 3179 Mouser Electronics is now stocking the for Freescale Kinetis microcontrollers ADSP-BF706 EZ-KIT Mini Evaluation Board SOMNIUM Technologies announces general Lauterbach: TRACE32 support for from Analog Devices. e ADSP BF706 availability of Version 2.0 of its DRT (Device- C66x series of TI KeyStone EZ-KIT Mini Evaluation Board aids in the aware Resequencing Tools) so ware develop- Lauterbach has recently announced its new development and testing of the 32-bit, 400 ment environment to Freescale Kinetis MCUs. trace support for the C66x Series of TI Key- MHz ADSP BF706 Black n DSP that delivers DRT 2.0 brings further improvements to Stone. e C66x Series includes a wide range 800 MMACS of processing power at less than DRT‘s patented resequencing optimizations, of high performance microprocessors. e 100 mW. is mini evaluation board contains a signi cant revision in the Eclipse IDE, and processing capability of the multicore plat- all the communication interfaces and external full compatibility with the latest version of form is designed to be optimal for applica- connections needed for DSP audio applica- Freescale‘s Kinetis Design Studio IDE. tions in markets such as industrial automation, tion design, including an Arduino compatible News ID 3001 high performance computing, mission critical, interface. video infrastructure and high end imaging. News ID 2974 EUROS: RTOS support for TI News ID 3222 Hercules TMS570 MCUs NI acquires BEEcube, supplier of EUROS Embedded Systems announces the SYSGO announces PikeOS 4.0 high-performance FPGA proto- availability of its Real-Time Operating System for IoT and Industry 4.0 typing and deployment products EUROS including the eclipse based Stand- SYSGO announced the release of version 4.0 of NI announced its acquisition of BEEcube, a Alone Cross Development Environment the Hypervisor PikeOS. PikeOS 4.0 is designed technology innovator and leading supplier EUROS Embedded Studio for the Hercules as a platform for technology change and gives of high-performance FPGA prototyping and TMS570 microcontroller from Texas Instru- manufacturers of smart systems access to the deployment products for advanced wireless ments. e Hercules TMS570 family of micro- Internet of ings and Industry 4.0. To do so, research, wireless infrastructure and military/ controllers was specially designed to facilitate PikeOS 4.0 uses the most modern virtualiza- defense applications. e combination of the the implementation of safety-critical applica- tion technologies in hardware and so ware and two companies will strengthen NI’sl position tions according to the safety standards IEC focuses on new development as well as on the as 5G progresses toward commercialization. 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL D. migration of existing applications. News ID 2983 News ID 3190 News ID 3172
19 August 2015 OSCILLOSCOPES Oscilloscope triggering: the old way and the new way By Johnnie Hancock, Keysight Technologies
This article compares the old way of parametric-based triggering of oscilloscopes with the new way of zone-based triggering, using two examples of isolating random and infrequent signal anomalies.
As the complexity of signals increases now- transitions at a user-de ned threshold (trig- parametric Runt triggering will be based adays in many digital designs, oscilloscope ger level). And this is the oscilloscope trigger on using new Keysight In niiVision 3000T vendors have been keeping pace with advances mode that most engineers and technicians use. X-Series oscilloscope, the process is very in technology by adding advanced paramet- If you are attempting to observe simple and similar for oscilloscopes of other vendors. ric-based triggering in their oscilloscopes. exactly repetitive waveforms, such as a digital Some examples include pulse-width trigger- clock or sine wave, then edge triggering works e step-by-step process is: ing, rise/fall time triggering, setup and hold perfectly ne. However, if you are attempting 1) select the trigger menu that shows the avail- time triggering, serial bus protocol trigger- to view a complex digital pulse stream of data able trigger modes, ing, etc. But many engineers and technicians or need to synchronize on an infrequent sig- 2) select the Runt trigger mode, nowadays avoid using some of these advanced nal anomaly that may be buried within a dig- 3) establish a lower-level threshold that trigger modes and stick with the old tried and ital pulse stream, such as a glitch, then simple de nes the maximum low logic level, tested edge-based triggering. e primary rea- edge triggering can be very limiting. 4) establish an upper-level threshold that son engineers don’t use some of the advanced de nes the minimum high logic level, and trigger modes is because of unfamiliarity and Figure 1 shows an example of a scope using 5) select to trigger on either positive runts, ease-of-use issues. But there is a new and easier edge trigger to display a digital pulse stream negative runts, or runts of either polarity. way to trigger on complex and infrequent sig- of data that contains occasional positive and nal anomalies, called Zone triggering. negative “runt” pulses. Runt pulses are digi- Figure 2 shows the scope triggering on tal pulses that don’t reach their intended high positive runts using the above procedure. Let’s begin by rst de ning what oscilloscope or low logic levels. Setting up the scope to triggering is. Oscilloscopes basically take trigger on just the runt pulses — not just any continuous pictures (real-time acquisitions) edge crossing —may be bene cial in helping of electrical phenomena (signals) and then to nd the root cause of the errant pulses display/graph them as continuously updated with inadequate logic levels. voltage versus time waveforms. But when cap- turing repetitive signals, the picture-taking As previously noted, most mid-range and process of the scope must be synchronized higher-performance oscilloscopes nowa- to the input signal under test. Otherwise, days have parametric-based trigger modes, you will observe just a blur of unsynchro- including Runt trigger. So let’s see how to set nized waveforms on the oscilloscope display. up the scope to trigger on runt pulses using All scopes have the ability to trigger on edge Runt trigger. We’ll then show how to do it Figure 1. Attempting to trigger on a com- crossings of signals — either on positive-go- more quickly using Zone trigger. Although plex digital pulse stream of data using edge ing (rising) or negative-going (falling) edge the documented procedure of how to set up triggering.
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example: triggering on a non-monotonic edge. Figure 4 shows an example of a signal with an infrequent non-monotonic edge. is signal usually has a normal/continuous rising edge. But sometimes the rising edge exhibits a momentary stall, and then continues rising to its nal high logic level. A signal with an infre- quent non-monotonic edge such as this may appear as a “ghost” waveform if the scope’s Figure 2. Triggering positive runt pulses of waveform up-rate is fast enough to show it. any width using the scope’s parametric-based Runt trigger mode If you want to use one of the parametric-based trigger modes of the scope to uniquely trigger on just the signal that exhibits non-monoto- nicity, the rst challenge is determining which trigger mode to select. Figure 5 shows a list of parametric trigger modes that are available on many of oscilloscopes nowadays. If you happen to be an oscilloscope guru, you would know that the right choice is the Rise/Fall Time trigger mode. But if you are like most oscilloscope users, determining the appropri- ate trigger mode selection may turn into more Figure 3. Using Zone trigger to synchronize of a guessing game. And then even if you do on the widest positive runt Figure 5. Available parametric-based trigger know which mode to select, setting up all the modes quali cation parameters correctly may be more trouble than it is worth.
e following are the required set up steps to trigger on a non-monotonic edge using the Rise/Fall Time trigger mode. 1) Measure or estimate the rise time of “nor- mal” edge, 2) select the Rise/Fall Time trigger mode, 3) select Rising edge, Figure 4. While triggering on any rising edge, 4) establish a lower threshold level at approx- imately 10%, the scope displays a random and infrequent Figure 6. Using Zone trigger to isolate an 5) establish an upper threshold level at approx- non-monotonic edge. infrequent non-monotonic edge imately 90%, However, with repetitive acquisitions of the 2) select “must intersect”. e scope synchro- 6) select the “>” time quali cation, and scope, we can see that the scope actually trig- nizes on showing just repetitive occurrences 7) enter a time value that is slightly greater gered on two di erent runts. One is narrower of the wider positive runt pulse as shown in than a “normal” edge rise time. than the other. If we want the scope to trigger gure 3. uniquely on just one of the runts, we can then A more straightforward, easier method of further qualify the trigger condition by enter- With Zone trigger, if the scope waveform synchronizing the scope display on just sig- ing a speci c time quali cation that can isolate update rate is fast enough to show a random nals that contain the non-monotonic edge is either the narrower or wider positive runt pulse. and/or infrequent event while using conven- to use Zone trigger. Simply draw a box (zone) tional edge triggering, then Zone trigger can in the area of the “ghost” waveform, select Let’s now go through the set up procedure synchronize on it. And it’s a lot easier and “must intersect”, and then the scope isolates using Zone trigger mode to achieve the same more intuitive to set up than using one of the the non-monotonic edge as shown in gure results. advanced parametric trigger modes of the 6. e results are the same as using the Rise/ 1) Using the scope’s touch-screen (or mouse), scope. It’s basically as easy as touching what Fall time parametric trigger mode, but a lot draw a box (or zone) just in the area of the you want to trigger on, and then the scope fewer steps are needed to achieve the desired infrequent wider positive runt, and synchronizes on it. Let’s now see another synchronization.
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August 2015 22 OSCILLOSCOPES Analyzing long signal sequences with the oscilloscope By Philipp Weigell, Rohde & Schwarz
This article highlights a history and segmented memory option for an oscilloscope which enables to analyze long signal sequences with long observation periods.
Figure 1. Providing time, frequency, protocol and logic analysis plus a digital voltmeter in a single box, the R&S RTM2000 is suited for the development, production and servicing of embedded hard- ware.
e R&S RTM-K15 history and segmented packets from the sensor under test. e sec- makes it possible to analyze signal errors, but memory option is especially suited for analyz- ond step is to trigger a single-shot acquisition the probability of isolating the error is low ing signals with long communications pauses. in order to prevent the acquired signal from because only very few packets are recorded. A e large segmented acquisition memory of being overwritten by the next trigger event. much better solution is the new R&S RTM- 460 Msample is unique in this oscilloscope K15 history and segmented memory option. class and permits long observation periods, is process has two decisive disadvantages for example when debugging serial buses. e that make the analysis of sporadic errors espe- A smarter approach limits the acquisition to integrated history function permits perfectly cially di cult for pulsed signals with steep only the data packets. is requires the de ni- timed access to any waveform for analysis. edges. On the one hand, the large percentage tion of a dedicated protocol trigger, for exam- of irrelevant inactivity means that only a few ple for triggering on the start symbol of the Sporadic errors o en cost valuable time during of the protocol packets of interest are acquired I2C bus. the development of new products. Debugging (2 in gure 2). Another disadvantage arises protocol-based buses or other pulsed signals from the necessary limitation of the sampling is especially di cult and time-consuming rate, as seen in the next example. At 2 Msam- because the communications pauses between ple memory and 2 Gsample/s sampling rate, the individual data packets can be very long the maximum record length is only one milli- (1 in gure 2). In this example, a sensor trans- second, which is just enough for one protocol mits a protocol packet containing values over packet from the sensor under test. e sub- the I2C bus every 10 ms for duration of 400µs. sequent packet would be missed because of e errors that occur during this time are to be the 10ms communications pause. e desired analyzed. Oscilloscopes are the instrument of 200ms, i. e. 20 ms/div for 10 divisions, can be choice for debugging the I2C interface. Most acquired only by reducing the sampling rate to oscilloscopes in this class – with the exception 10 Msample/s – which is actually too low for of the R&S RTM2000 – have only a very lim- stable decoding of the I2C signal, never mind ited memory. e oscilloscope memory typ- for nding signal integrity errors. is is why ically limits the record length for analyzing this type of analysis requires an oscilloscope errors and their history to a few milliseconds. with deep memory, such as that oered by the R&S RTM2000 bench oscilloscope. With the Normally, the user acquires long recordings standard 20 Msample, the sampling rate in in two steps. e rst step is to select a su - this example can be increased to 100 Msam- ciently long time base, e. g. 20 ms/div, which ple/s, permitting seamless recording and Figure 2. Examples for acquiring and analy- in the example corresponds to 19 protocol analysis of all 19 protocol packets. is setup zing short-term signals from a sensor
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example. Just a few keystrokes are needed Application Serial standard Option Number of Record length to generate the mask from a correctly trans- Embedded R&S RT segments mitted clock signal, or it can be loaded from I²C / SPI M-K1 a USB ash drive. e history function’s play 20 Msample 23 command ( gure 5, bottom) automatically UART / RS-232 / RS- R&S RT 422 / RS-485 M-K2 starts a comparison of all 45,000 segments 10 Msample 46 against the mask. Violations are statistically Automotive R&S RT CAN / LIN evaluated and, if enabled, the test is stopped and industry M-K3 5 Msample 92 and the segment displayed when a mask is violated. Audio R&S RT I²S / LJ / RJ / TDM M-K5 2 Msample 230 e acquisition table that lists all segments Aerospace and R&S RT MIL-STD-1553 1 Msample 460 and their timestamps ( gure 5, bottom le) defense M-K6 permits fast access to the acquired segments R&S RT 500 ksample 921 positioned before the faulty segment. is ARINC-429 M-K7 makes it possible to isolate the e ects of pre- 200 ksample 2301 ceding signals quickly. Periodicities can be uncovered by means of a subsequent analy- Figure 2. Examples for acquiring and analy- sis of the trigger times for all faulty segments. zing short-term signals from a sensor 100 ksample 4591 All segments can be saved to a PC for oine
50 ksample 9183 analysis. Application Serial standard Option And if an error was detected during standard Embedded R&S RT 20 ksample 22 500 I²C / SPI operation and viewing the history would pro- M-K1 10 ksample 45 000 vide the necessary information for the solu- UART / RS-232 / RS- R&S RT tion? Not a problem: when equipped with the 422 / RS-485 M-K2 R&S RTM-K15 option, the R&S RTM2000 Figure 4. R&S RTM2000 segmented memory always saves all waveforms in segments with a Automotive R&S RT CAN / LIN setting timestamp so they are available via the history and industry M-K3 function at any time. Timestamps with a reso- Audio R&S RT lution of 3.2ns permit precise time correlation I²S / LJ / RJ / TDM M-K5 of signal events.
Aerospace and R&S RT MIL-STD-1553 defense M-K6
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Advantech: progressive IoT computing Figure 3. Options for triggering and decoding based on RISC technology Figure 3 provides an overview of the proto- Advantech announce the launch of UBC- cols supported by the R&S RTM2000 oscil- 220, an ARM-based compact box computer loscope. e history and segmented memory Figure 5. Decoded I²C signal with analog powered by a Freescale ARM Cortex-A9 option supports debugging in two signi cant waveforms and acquisition table. e history i.MX6 Dual Lite high-performance proces- ways. It expands the available memory for ana- function is accessed via the bottom menu. sor. Designed with compact size, high capa- log and digital channels to 460 Msample, which bility, and superior connectivity, UBC-220 is is unmatched in this oscilloscope class. In addi- packet, plus 50µs each for a bu er before and an ideal indoor computing gateway suitable tion, it divides the memory into equally sized aer the event ( gure 5). is 500µs along for smart buildings, parking lots, and public segments. e user can modify the number of with a segment length of 10 ksample – corre- spaces. segments to meet the speci c requirements of sponding to a sampling rate of 20 Msample/s News ID 3176 the task ( gure 4). – makes it possible to achieve stable decoding. With the 45,000 available segments, it is pos- Sierra Wireless acquires MobiquiThings e R&S RTM2000 ensures that the memory is sible to record eight minutes of communica- to accelerate growth of connectivity optimally used. For a serial protocol, for exam- tions. “Protocol Start” is used as the trigger services for IoT ple, the maximum packet length in the signal criterion for the serial protocol trigger. Sierra Wireless has entered into a defin- determines the record length. Starting at the itive agreement to acquire MobiquiTh- trigger point, the signal segment of interest is anks to the history mode, all acquisitions ings. The transaction is expected to close stored in memory. Time periods without activ- can be accessed at a later time. All oscillo- in August 2015. MobiquiThings is an ity are not acquired (3 in gure 2). scope tools, including the QuickMeas func- MVNO focused on managed connectivity tion, mask tests and protocol decoding, are services for the Internet of Things, with An important detail for subsequent analysis: the available for analysis (4 in gure 2). broad segment experience including the R&S RTM2000 saves the precise time of the trig- energy, transportation, security, retail, ger event at a resolution of 3.2 ns. For the sensor e mask test that comes as standard in the and healthcare markets. used in this example, the desired record length scope is ideal for nding a deviation in the News ID 3174 is 500µs per segment: 400µs for the protocol clock signal from the sensor under test, for
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Commell: new modules with Celeron INCOstartec: touch-operating terminal Hectronic: COMs with second generation J1900, N2930 & Atom E3845 processor with 128 MB of working memory AMD Embedded G-Series SOC COMMELL announces a new Industrial e TBT-A11-056TLC D2 consists of a 5,6 Hectronic has announced the COM mod- embedded platform based on the next gen- Inch VGA TFT touch display and a module ules H6071 (Qseven form factor) and H6068 eration Intel Celeron J1900, N2930 & Atom system from INCOstartec. e low-cost type (COM Express form factor) both based on E3845 SOC series processor, including the is equipped with the picoLILLY processor second generation AMD Embedded G-Series Mini-ITX LV-67O, Pico-ITX LP-173 & 3.5“ module with ARM1135 / 532 MHz – extend- SOC, also called Steppe Eagle. Steppe Eagle SBC LE-37D. ese embedded boards based able with Cortex A8/A9 with up to 1.2 GHz. processors o er increased computing and on the low-power Intel SoC that integrates the A working memory of 128 MB generates fast graphics performance. e modules are suit- next generation Intel processor core, 7th gen- data handling. In addition to a ash memory able for embedded applications that require eration graphics, Memory controller, and I/O of 32MB there is in the default type an inter- powerful CPU and graphics performance in interfaces into a single system-on-chip solution. nal μSD- and external a SD-Card slot, which combination with low power consumption News ID 3204 is protected by a movable cover. and extremely compact size. News ID 3182 News ID 3132 Sundance adds low-cost Artix-7 FPGA to PC/104 Sundance has taken full advantage of the current generation of lowest-cost Xilinx Artix-7 family, integrating four-lanes of Gen2 PCI-Express and re-programmable logic using the free Xilinx Vivado 2015 tools and designed it onto the latest PC/104 form-factor, called OneBank. News ID 3199
Artila: web enabled data acquisition and control module with MQTT support Artila Electronics released the enhanced RIO- 2010, the new generation of web enabled data acquisition and control module with MQTT support. MQTT is a lightweight publish / sub- scribe messaging protocol which is an OASIS standard and is ideal for sensor and device communication with low network bandwidth. News ID 3194
ADL selected by NIITEK as sole provider of rugged Embedded mission computing solutions ADL Embedded Solutions has been selected by NIITEK to be the sole provider of its embedded mission computing solutions for NIITEK’s Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS) next generation o ering to the U.S. Army’s HMDS A2 Program of Record. e HMDS A2 utilizes the NIITEK Time-Domain Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). In a par- allel/complementary project, ADL Embed- ded Solutions will also form the “brain” of the HMDS International Sales Variant utilizing the 3D-Radar Step-Frequency GPR. News ID 3191
A.R. Bayer DSP Systeme: low-profile PCIe board based on Arria 10 GT/GX FPGA BittWare has made its rst board based on the Altera Arria 10 GT/GX FPGA available to customers. BittWare‘s A10PL4 is a low-pro le PCIe board that integrates the 20nm process technology of the Arria 10 with a wide variety of features and supports a range of challeng- ing applications such as network processing and security, compute and storage, instru- mentation, broadcast, and signals intelligence. News ID 3184
25 August 2015 BOARDS & MODULES COM Express: reliable and robust solutions with latest Intel CPUs By Harald Maier, TQ-Systems
COM Express is the leading form factor in the area of modular embedded PC solutions, covering performance classes from simple single-core designs to high-performance multi-core solutions. This article reviews the factors that need to be considered in implementing Figure 1. COM Express Mini reliable and robust systems. board with Intel Atom E3800: supports extended temperature range and o ers exceptional reliability due to DDR3 ECC
Standardization is the key factor for inter- memory interface in particular is one of the for long-term reliability. changeability and long-term success. is greatest challenges in design and quali cation. applies wherever variance and diversity can Even the slightest inattention and quali ca- Although issues may have been resolved in be reduced to a common denominator, which tion gaps can lead to non-reproducible system the module plug connector area, big prob- is largely possible in the area of x86-based failures in the eld. e reverse argument is: lems may still arise when it comes to memory concepts. A powerful example of this is the systems with high reliability requirements in extension. On numerous COM Express mod- COM Express standard. A large number of particular can bene t from the use of mod- ules that are commercially available, the work- processor generations and a wide variety of ules that have already been tested extensively. ing memory is implemented in SO-DIMM performance classes have already been imple- modules. is means that plug connectors mented and designed into this form factor. It Plug connectors are considered distinct weak are used that do not score well with regard to bundles know-how, which in turn simpli es points in a system. erefore, the plug con- robust design – neither in the area of the con- reusability. At the same time, this reduces nectors that are used are an important deci- tact surfaces nor with regard to mechanical development and quali cation e orts. sion-making criterion in selecting the module attachment. Somewhat more rugged locking form factor. One consideration is signal qual- loops, such as those found on some plug-in Modern CPUs such as the Intel Atom and ity, while others include contact reliability and mounts, do not o er a satisfactory alternative the Intel Core processors place extraordi- robust design. COM Express scores highly in here when it comes to ruggedness. e only nary demands on developers. e high inte- all of these areas in many di erent ways: e e ective solution is to solder the memory to gration density, miniaturization of the silicon plug connectors that are used exhibit excellent the module. Although this limits the exibil- and increasingly higher clock frequencies high-speed behavior and are ideally protected ity of the system con guration with regard to require well-founded design know-how. It is from electrical and mechanical stresses such di erent memory sizes, this is clearly the bet- no wonder that data sheets and design guides as shock and vibration due to their full-cov- ter solution approach from the perspective of are more extensive than ever. A wide variety erage shielding. Environmental stress factors reliability. In addition, it assures that memory of voltage levels with very tight tolerances and such as dust and corrosive substances are kept that has been validated for the module is used the speci ed power sequencing must be gen- away from contact surfaces in the plug con- exclusively, and the module producer assumes erated. ey must be validated under many nectors. e screw joints between the main responsibility for this. In the COM Express di erent stresses and temperatures, in order board and the module are located very near to modules from TQ-Systems, this is a universal to assure system reliability. But requirements the plug connectors to minimize mechanical approach that is taken for all modules from for the layout have also become much more stresses and tolerances. Even the cooling solu- the Intel Atom to the Intel Core i7. stringent in terms of the high-speed signals. tions, which can have an e ect on mechanical Powerful tools are necessary to conform to stresses to the module, are optimally isolated Reliability and long life are closely interre- design requirements of CPU producers e - near the plug connectors and throughout the lated. High-end applications are designed for ciently and with su cient precision. e module. is is another important criterion long-term use, and their reliability must be
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better mechanical tolerances in the CPU area than the general height tol- erances speci ed by CPU manufac- turers.
Who has not expe- rienced sporadic system crashes and non-traceable outliers in appli- cations at some time or another. Countermeasures such as watch- dogs are o en used to prevent permanent sys- Figure 2. Modular embedded computing solution QBox with Intel Atom tem freezes. ey E3800 reboot the system when it no longer assured over their entire life. Statistics such as reacts. However, MTBF (mean time between failures) are o en this measure is just a drastic work-around, used as indicators. is also makes it easy to and it does not really correct the root cause determine the key factors a ecting long-term of the problem. In addition, a reboot is not reliability. One external environmental fac- permitted in many systems, because con- tor is temperature. e hotter components stant availability must be assured. It is much become, the shorter their life, and the more more ecient to prevent the potential causes susceptible to failure. Conversely, this means of errors. In ash memories, automated error that the power losses must be minimized correction measures are even implemented and heat rejection optimized. e lower the as standard features. In the area of working power losses, the easier it is to cool the system memory, this issue is o en le unaddressed. and minimize the temperatures that occur. Indeed, DDR3 memory technology is much Optimally suited here are processors that more reliable than ash memory, yet many are manufactured with the latest production millions of bits are exchanged between the technologies and have optimized power man- CPU and the working memory every sec- agement as well. In the entry-level segment ond. If just one bit is corrupt or transmitted these include the Intel Atom processors of the incorrectly, this can lead to a system failure E3800 series (former code name: Bay Trail) in which it is impossible to identify the cause as well as the h generation Intel core pro- of the failure. is issue is especially rele- cessors of the higher-performance segment, vant under extreme temperature conditions. which Intel presented in 2015 as all new sin- erefore, processors such as the Intel Atom gle-chip versions (former code name: Broad- E3800, which are designed for use in highly well-U). reliable systems, o er the option of DDR3 ECC (error correcting code). A supplemental When considering how to optimize heat rejec- DDR3 memory chip must be provided here to tion, special attention should be given to the store checksums. Nonetheless, the low addi- thermal bottleneck on the CPU die. e great- tional price pays for itself in terms of system est share of the total power loss occurs on just stability and high data integrity. is was a few square millimeters here, and it must be implemented in the TQMxE38M module, for distributed to a larger surface area via tran- example, which is based on the COM Express sitions with minimal heat resistance to avoid Mini. It is distinguished by very good reliabil- hot spots and unnecessary heating. In the ity and long life. case of COM Express, cooling solutions are de ned with a uniform height pro le, which e use of COM Express modules not only every manufacturer adapts to its particular o ers the bene ts of scalability and inter- modules. ey are securely mounted to the changeability. Customers bene t two-fold in CPU module to minimize tolerances between terms of system stability and robustness when the CPU die and the thermal connection. they choose manufacturers like TQ-Systems. Manufacturers such as TQ-Systems can strive e user gets mature and pre-quali ed mod- for special optimizations here: in-house man- ules, which are equipped with the features ufacturing of the CPU modules with stable, needed for robust and reliable designs, as well reproducible soldering processes leads to far as extensive design-in support.
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SECO launches open-source hardware designed for intelligent systems and applica- CES: avionic mission computer with 3’000 board UDOO Neo tions with low power consumption and high to 170’000 DMIPS processing power SECO launched UDOO Neo, a credit-card size performance requirements. Creative Electronic Systems announces (59.3 x 85mm) low-cost, low-power consump- News ID 3156 ROCK-2: a rugged, modular, open-architec- tion, open-source hardware board, able to run ture, pre-quali ed, application-ready, safe- Android or Linux and Arduino-compatible. Axiomtek: PoE Embedded system ty-certi able, Commercial-O - e-Shelf It can be used as a fully- edged computer, as for automated optical inspection (COTS), full-featured avionic system with an Arduino-compatible microcontroller or as Axiomtek announces the eBOX671-885-FL, a computing power scalable from 3’000 to an embedded computer to build new devices, its industrial-grade PoE embedded vision 170’000 DMIPS. smart objects and appliances. UDOO Neo system aiming automated optical inspection News ID 3136 comes in two versions: UDOO Neo Basic and (AOI). e high performance fanless box PC UDOO Neo. supports the LGA1150 socket type 4th gener- Rutronik: Fujitsu mainboard family News ID 3210 ation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 or Celeron processor supports future Intel microarchitecture to provide high computing performance and A new family of mainboards from Fujitsu is Vecow launches PE-2000 series 4K graphics. Coming with 4-port PoE and 6 supporting next generation Intel microarchi- frame grabbers USB 3.0 ports, the eBOX671-885-FL provides tecture with LGA 1151 sockets. Distributor Vecow launches the latest gigabit Ethernet the most dedicate solution for those who are Rutronik will o er the mainboards as soon as card, PE-2000 series PCI Express x4 PoE+ nding high-end fanless vision system with they are launched by fall/ winter 2015. expansion card, in her frame grabber family. multi-I/O connectivity and multi-camera News ID 3060 With up to 4 powered independent gigabit imaging. PoE+ channels, easy maintenance and less News ID 3154 EKF: XMC style mezzanine card Total Cost of Ownership, PE-2000 series PCI e DX4-BADGER is a XMC style mezza- Express x4 PoE+ expansion card is your smart powerBridge: high density Eurotech: nine card, equipped with a quad-channel choice for Gigabit Ethernet Intelligent Surveil- distribution agreement with IPC2U PCI Express to SATA 6Gbps controller, and lance, Machine Vision, Intelligent Transporta- Eurotech signed a comprehensive distribution three on-board sockets for mSATA solid state tion System, Industrial Automation, Logistic agreement with IPC2U one of Germany‘s lead- drives. With a capacity available of up to 1TB System, Industry 4.0 and any real-time video ing supplier of industrial computers which as of current, mSATA is a fast growing stor- analytics applications. covers Germany, Austria, German-speaking age module form factor. e Marvell SATA News ID 3171 Switzerland and Eastern Europe. IPC2U is 3.0 controller allows RAID or non RAID responding to the increasing demand of part- operation. A front bezel eSATA connector is ARBOR: 21.5” medical-grade workstation ners, systems integrators and enterprise cus- provided for attachment of an external SATA provides razor-sharp images tomers for rugged industrial communication storage device. ARBOR has introduced the ARBOR M2150 a solutions made in Europe. e new distribu- News ID 3049 high-powered 21.5” medical-grade workstation. tion agreement marks an important milestone Two versions of M2150 are available, one with concerning Eurotech’s aim to generate higher MSC: COM Express module families 4th generation Intel Core i5-4402E 1.6 GHz pro- revenues through business partners and pro- with latest Intel processors cessor, the second with i5-4422E 1.8 GHz pro- vides IPC2U the opportunity to enhance the MSC Technologies presents two COM cessor, both of which provide signi cant data portfolio of o erings to wider basis. Express Type 6 module families, which are processing and transmission performance. News ID 3223 based on the latest Intel 14 nm process tech- News ID 3051 nology. e MSC C6C-BW module with EKF: dual-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet NIC quad-core or dual-core Intel Pentium or Cel- IBASE: fanless system operates in EKF introduces the SN3-GONG, a periph- eron processors o ers outstanding graphics harsh industrial environments eral slot card for CompactPCI Serial systems. performance with low power consumption. IBASE rolls out the fanless CSB200-897 sys- e board is equipped with an Intel X540 e MSC C6B-8SB high-end module, which tem that comes with the IB897 3.5-inch SBC. 10GBASE-T Ethernet controller, and two RJ45 is equipped with quad-core 5th Generation e unit integrates the Intel Atom E3845 pro- front panel jacks for attachment of Cat 6 or Intel Core processors (Broadwell), features cessor that featuring 22nm microarchitecture Cat 6A cables up to 100m length. e ability a signi cant leap forward in computing and and 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. With unparallel to auto-negotiate between 100Mbps, 1Gbps, graphics performance. reliability, the 1.91GHz processor allows the and 10Gbps speeds provides the backwards News ID 3098 CSB200-897 to operate in wide temperatures compatibility for a smooth transition and easy at -30 to +60°C in harsh industrial environ- migration to 10GbE. VadaTech: quad 10GbE port FMC ments for 24/7 operation. News ID 3150 features signal conditioning News ID 3169 VadaTech has announced a FPGA Mezzanine ADLINK: palm-size EtherCAT master Card per VITA 57 for high-speed network- Avalue: cost-effective 3.5-inch SBC and controller based on Intel Atom quad-core ing. e FMC109 features quad SFP/SFP+ COMe compact module processor transceivers for 10 GbE in copper or ber Avalue is unveiling a new cost-e ective 3.5- ADLINK Technology released their Ether- formats. e mezzanine module has four inch single board computer – ECM-BYT2 and CAT solution, consisting of the Talos-3012 re-timers on the board which provide tuning the COMe Compact Module - ESM-BYT2. IEC 61131-3-compliant automation control- for the Tx and Rx signals. e re-timer ICs ECM-BYT2 and ESM-BYT2 are powered by ler and EPS Series time-deterministic I/O provide input equalization, clock and data the newest Intel Atom processor E3800 fam- and motion control system. Talos-3012 is a recovery, and output de-emphasis. is also ily and Intel Celeron processor J1900 fam- palm-size EtherCAT master controller based allows for the use of longer copper cables as ily, a system-on-chip formerly codenamed on the Intel Atom quad-core processor E3845 the distortion is cleaned across the farther “Bay Trail.” Based on the 22nm Silvermont 1.9GHz, with IEC-61131 compliant syntaxes. distances. microarchitecture, these new processors are News ID 3144 News ID 3101
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WynMax: fanless box PC with versatile new backplane is extremely useful an operating temperature between -40 and Intel Atom E3845 in environments that require various slot-to- + 85°C, the NM30 is also compliant to EN WynMax announces the new fanless Box PC slot optical or RF interconnects or that require 50155. Important switch protocols, e. g. Qual- WFBX-3016-E38451 which is equipped with optical or RF I/O together with a high speed ity of Service are included. Intel Atom E3845 1.91GHz quad-core pro- data plane connection to slot 1. News ID 3134 cessor. is system-on-chip supports system News ID 3082 memory DDR3L1333 SODIMM maximum ICOP: small Vortex86 Box PCs with up to 8GB. Moreover, WFBX-3016-E38451 Kontron: EN50155-certified HMI panel multiple I/O configurations comes with dual display outputs (VGA and PC for trains is EN50155-certified ere are two ways to satisfy all the varied I/O HDMI) and o ers wall mount for installation. Kontron announced its TRACe HMID104-CK, requirements, one is by packing multiple I/Os News ID 3045 an EN50155-certied fanless operational panel into larger systems the second is by designing PC display. Specically designed for trans- a range of smaller systems. ICOP technology VadaTech: new Mil/Aero embedded portation systems, Kontron’s new advanced has chosen the second solution and today has computing brochure touch-screen HMI o ers a exible building introduced the new small form factor EBOX- VadaTechhas announced a new brochure block platform enabling developers of train 3330/ 3332 box PCs series with DM&P Vor- on Defense & Aerospace Computing. e control systems to quickly adapt functional- tex86 processors. brochure includes products and applica- ity to di erent needs such as train functional- News ID 2997 tion-ready solutions utilizing modular open ity operational displays for drivers, passenger standard architectures. e VadaTech Mil/ information displays and onboard computers. congatec opens design center in Taipei Aero Brochure has sections on application News ID 3027 congatec continues its global investment in briefs, products/solutions, small form fac- R&D with the opening of a new design cen- tor solutions, so ware enhancement services, MEN: robust and compact managed ter in Taipei, Taiwan, to support its customer and background information on VadaTech. 8-port Ethernet switch base in Asia and help drive growth in the News ID 3029 e NM30 is a managed 8-port Ethernet region. e new design center is congatec’s switch that belongs to the MEN family of rst to be located in Asia and its h world- Elma: OpenVPX backplane provides extremely rugged compact network devices, wide. e company also operates a design cen- both optical and RF slots which come in Box PC format, and o er ter within its global headquarters in Germany, Elma Electronic now o ers a 3U 3-slot Open- a variety of conguration options for dif- two design centers in the Czech Republic and VPX backplane for use in either optical or RF ferent applications. Equipped with a wide one in the United States. applications. Designed to meet VITA 65, the range power supply, class 2 and designed for News ID 3104 BOARDS & MODULES
AAEON: Pentium and Celeron N3000 based hardware solutions AAEON unveils the upcoming GENE-BSW5 subcompact board and FWS-2260 network appliance, the company’s rst two o erings with the latest Intel SoC lineup. Manufactured with the cutting-edge 14 nm process, power consumption of both products has been further reduced to 6W, as compared to 10W of their predecessors which utilizes the previous generation SoCs. Support for greater memory speeds and I/Os are also incorporated in the new chips to introduce some of today’s most wanted technological features to the main- stream market. News ID 3095
Acceed: new industry box PC with LAN, WLAN and 3G e new Matrix-513 from Artila is now also available from the inde- pendent distributor Acceed in Germany and Europe. In addition to two Ethernet connections, the industrial mini PC provides various wireless communication options via WLAN, Bluetooth and 3G. e standard equipment includes the reliable operating system Linux 2.6.38 and a so ware utilities bundle such as Web server, PHP server, Python, Java, MySQL and SQLite. News ID 3075
GE: rugged 3U OpenVPX single board computer GE Energy Management’s Intelligent Platforms announced the SBC347A rugged 3U OpenVPX single board computer. Based on the latest ‘Broadwell’ processor technology from Intel, it delivers higher performance and greater functionality than previous generations of SBC while maintaining the same power envelope. e SBC374A is the rst in a number of Broadwell-based products that GE plans to introduce. News ID 3178
Vecow: ECS-7000 series Embedded system achieves VMware ready status Vecow announced that its in Client Solution with ECS-7000 Series Fanless Embedded System has achieved VMware Ready status. is designation indicates that Vecow’s in Client Solution with ECS- 7000 Series Fanless Embedded System has undergone detailed test procedures and is supported on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production environments. News ID 2988
Beaglecore: BeagleBoard as ultra-compact SoC on Kickstarter Raspberry Pi, Arduino and BeaglBone have shaped the market for development boards and created new demands for embedded com- puter technology. Originally, these credit card-sized single board computers had been developed and marketed to teach computer sci- ence in schools and universities in practice. One of the main advan- tages is the price at which these development boards are sold as well as the fact that there are already numerous forums and websites on the internet, where users nd extensive support, scripts, add-ons and much more. News ID 3208
IBASE Mini-ITX board features Intel H-processor line IBASE Technology announces the MI985 Mini-ITX motherboard that supports the 5th Generation Intel Core processors (H-proces- sor line) and Mobile Intel QM87 Express Chipset that deliver indus- try-leading processing and graphics performance. Based on the Intel microarchitecture, the MI985 provides the processing power and advanced features such as Intel Hyper- reading Technology and Intel Active Management Technology 9.0, power-management suit- able for high-end applications in kiosk, medical, factory, industrial automation and control markets. News ID 3113
August 2015 30 2Yellow 015 Pages YELLOW PAGES 2015 - COMPANY PROFILES
Yellow Pages 2015 The Embedded Companies Directory This year’s edition of our Embedded Companies Directory is split into 2 sections. The first part provides you with short company profiles, including a QR code which leads you to the full company profile (including overview about products & services, contact information, product news,… ) on the embedded-control-europe.com portal. The second part of the Yellow Pages is a reference list showing in which product categories the companies are active.
A.R. BAYER DSP Systeme Acromag
A.R. Bayer DSP Systeme GmbH was Acromag is a multi-million dollar founded in 2003 by Andreas Bayer, a international corporation that com- first hour DSP specialist, with a focus bines more than 50 years of process on DSP products and services. The monitoring and control experience company is a spin-off of Bayer DSP Solutions which began operations in with a solid background in high-tech computer design. Established in 1957, 1995. A.R. Bayer DSP Systeme GmbH is an ISO9001-2008 certified company. Acromag built its reputation designing critical measurement instrumentation equipment. Acromag, Inc. was soon recognized interna- tionally as a leading designer of analog and digital control products for the industrial I/O market.
www.dsp-sys.de www.acromag.com
AAEON Technology AdaCore
AAEON Technology, established in AdaCore provides open source tools 1992, manufactures and markets a and expertise for the development wide range of OEM/ODM Industrial of mission-critical, safety-critical, and PCs all over the world. AAEON’s com- security-critical software. AdaCore’s mitment to the customers is to provide reliable and high quality Fanless Box flagship products are the GNAT Pro and SPARK Pro development environ- PCs, Computer on Module (COM Express, XTX, ETX, Q7), Panel PCs, Rugged ments and the CodePeer automatic code reviewer and validator. Customers Tablet Computers, Embedded Computer Boards (5.25‘, around the world trust GNAT Pro and AdaCore. 3.25‘, Epic, PC/104), Industrial Motherboards (Mini-ITX) and related accessories.
www.aaeon.eu www.adacore.com
ACCEED ADL Embedded Solutions
Acceed is an internationally operating ADL Embedded Solutions is a leading distributor of industrial computers provider of customizable, embedded and components and is located in solutions for demanding thermal and Düsseldorf, Germany. Acceed offers rugged environments. ADL’s diverse its customers a carefully attuned product portfolio from the fields of Indus- portfolio of products range from SBCs based on the AMD Geode™ and trial Network Technology, Communication and Signal Processing for the Intel® Atom® processors up to 4rd generation Intel® Core™ processors built application areas of Automation, Test Management and in PC/104 and 3.5” form factors and full costom designe, Quality Assurance as well as Research and Development. all of which can be delivered as part of a full system, or individual boards.
www.acceed.com www.adl-europe.com
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ADLINK Technology Artila Electronics
ADLINK Technology provides a wide Artila Electronics is founded by pro- range of embedded computing prod- fessionals with more than 15 years ucts and services to the test & measure- of experience in industrial computer ment, automation & process control, field. Artila focuses on developing eas- gaming, communications, medical, network security, and transportation ily-accessible, flexibly-programmed industrial ARM-based embedded Linux industries. solutions, including embedded ARM9 Linux single board computers, box computers, system-on-modules, and serial-to-Ethernet embedded modules.
www.adlinktech.com www.artila.com
Advanced Micro Peripherals Avalue Technology
Advanced Micro Peripherals is a Avalue Technology is a professional leading manufacturer of embedded industrial computer manufacturing video solutions - offering the latest company with complete product MPEG-4 / H.264 (AVC) codecs and lines in embedded computers, single video overlay / annotation technologies on a wide range of embedded board computers, Systems-on-Modules-ETX (SOM-ETX), industrial motherboards, board form factors including PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI/104-Express, all-purpose Panel/Tablet PCs, and barebone products, etc. Having expanded, CompactPCI and mini PCI modules. Avalue offers its expertise on PCB / Assembly / BIOS version control and after-sales all type of services.
www.ampltd.com www.avalue.com.tw
Apacer Axiomtek
Apacer Technology Inc. was created Founded in 1990, Axiomtek is one of in 1997 in Taiwan and operates since the major design and manufacturing then as a global leader offering the companies in the Industrial Computer highest of quality products to satiate & Embedded field. Since our establish- the rigorous demands for reliable storage. Apacer Technology provides the ment, Axiomtek has successfully gained worldwide recognition for our most innovative Solid State Drive Solutions (SATA, PATA, Flash Cards & USB innovative designs and outstanding customer satisfaction. Our customers SDD) and DRAM Solutions (Desktop, Notebook, Server come to us when they want a single, reliable, and and Brand Specific) for the industrial and embedded valuable source for their industrial computer and embed- markets. ded platforms.
www.apacer.com www.axiomtek.com
ARBOR Technology Cadence Design Systems
With more than 20 years experience Cadence Design Systems is a leading in embedded computing, ARBOR con- global EDA company. Cadence cus- tinues to expand its expertise in indus- tomers use our software, hardware, trial computing making ARBOR a and services to overcome a range of leading supplier of computing platforms and solutions, which can be applied technical and economic hurdles. Our technologies help customers create globally in the healthcare, transportation, industrial automation, warehouse mobile devices with longer battery life. Designers of ICs speed their products management, and digital signage markets. to market using our hardware simulators to run software on a ‘virtual’ chip—long before the actual chip exists.
www.arbor.com.tw www.cadence.com
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CES - Creative Electronic Systems Data Modul
CES designs and manufactures rug- DATA MODUL offers perfectly tuned ged embedded computers engineered embedded computer systems based to meet the most demanding perfor- on x86 and ARM/Xscale-architectures. mance needs for optimal Size, Weight From the pre-configured kit up to and Power (SWaP) considerations. Our Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) the custom specific baseboard design, the whole bandwidth of Embedded products are made to withstand the extremes of temperature, shock and Solutions is available. vibration associated with deployment in Aerospace & Defense as well as Rugged Industrial markets.
www.ces-swap.com www.data-modul.com
Concurrent Technologies DFI
Concurrent Technologies designs and Established in 1981, DFI is a leading supplier of manufactures a wide range of modular high-performance computing technology world- products for use in critical embed- wide. With more than 34 years of experience, DFI ded applications. Our primary focus is focuses on innovative design and manufacture of to provide long-life, highly reliable CPU boards based on Intel® Core™ i7 leading-edge board and system level products for processors or low power Intel® Atom™ processors, NVIDIA® Tegra® GPGPU embedded applications requiring strict revision modules, switch fabric boards, XMC/PMC I/O modules, control and long life availability. mass storage carriers and development systems.
www.gocct.com www.dfi.com
congatec E.E.P.D.
congatec is a leading supplier of Since its foundation in 1988 E.E.P.D. industrial computer modules using has grown to become one of the the standard form factors Qseven, worldwide leading companies for COM Express, XTX and ETX, as well as embedded computing solutions. A single board computers and EDM services. congatec’s products can be used comprehensive product line, clear migration path, innovative roadmap and in a variety of industries and applications, such as industrial automation, overall development strategy has position E.E.P.D. as a recognize leader medical technology, entertainment, transportation, tele- for Custom, PC/104™, COM Express™ and Single Board communication, test & measurement and point-of sale. Computer solutions.
www.congatec.com www.eepd.de
Data Device Corporation (DDC) EBV Elektronik
Data Device Corporation (DDC) is the EBV Elektronik, an Avnet (NYSE:AVT) world leader in the design and manu- company, is the leading specialist in facture of high-reliability data bus EMEA semiconductor distribution. products, motion control, and solid- EBV maintains its successful strategy state power controllers for aerospace, defense, and industrial automation of personal commitment to customers and excellent services. 230 Tech- applications. For more than 45 years, DDC has continuously advanced the state nical Sales Specialists provide a strong focus on a selected group of of high-reliability data communications and control tech- long-term manufacturing partners. 110 continuously nology for MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, Synchro/Resolver trained Application Specialists offer extensive applica- interface, and Solid-State Power Controllers. tion know-how and design expertise.
www.ddc-web.com www.ebv.com
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EKF Elektronik embedded-logic
As an independent systems manufacturer, EKF concen- Embedded logic developes, and dis- trated, from the very beginning, on complete solutions tributes embedded computer boards, for industrial problems by using the latest in technology, ECB manufacture our core author- with a focus on high reliability and long-term availabil- ity out are the development and the ity of all products. In 1998, EKF started development selling of ECBs. By co-operation with hard and software producers leading and manufacture of CompactPCI® boards and systems. world-wide we set yardsticks in flexibility and efficiency. Our success lies in In addition, EKF is currently developing solutions for new the fast conversion of customer-oriented solutions and standards such as CompactPCI® Serial, incorporating the our standard products, those covers the entire power PCI Express® and other high speed technology. spectrum on the PC/104 and ETX market.
www.ekf.de www.embedded-logic.de/en/home
ELBACOM Germany ept
Elbacom GmbH is a specialised distribu- With our range of connectors and processing tech- tor with its core competences in Microsoft nology, we offer you comprehensive all-in-one Embedded OS, the industrial embedded solutions from a single source. Not only now. As an market and added value services. Elbacom independent family business with decades of expe- offers developing of customized Embedded Images, Training and support for rience, we can offer technical competence and an Embedded Operating Systems and Server Solutions All European Countries extremely high quality standard, combined with are served by Elbacom Local Sales-Companies/Organisa- creativity and precision, when it tions and supported from the Elbacom European Logistic comes to your individual product and machine solution. Center in Pamhagen-Austria (ISO certified).
www.elbacom.com/germany www.ept.de
Elma ERNI Electronics
The ELMA group is a global manu- ERNI develops and manufactures a wide variety facturer of products for housing elec- of connectors, backplanes and complete systems, tronic systems. The company provides soldering assemblies and Cable Assembly. ERNI is everything from components such a globally active enterprise with branch offices in as modular enclosures, Cabinets and Backplanes up to complete standard Europe, North America and Asia. or custom System Platforms. ELMA also manufactures precision Rotary Switches. The company offers a fast, flexible response to customer needs and extensive practical knowledge in tailoring solutions to specific applications.
www.elma.de www.erni.com
Embedded Office ETAS
Embedded Office GmbH & Co. KG ETAS provides innovative solutions for founded in 2003 is a specialist com- the development of embedded sys- pany for embedded systems that spe- tems for the automotive industry and cializes in safety-critical applications. other sectors of the embedded indus- The company, which is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001 standards, develops try. As a systems provider, ETAS supplies a multifaceted portfolio that covers and supplies high-tech software for embedded systems as either turn-key the range from integrated tools and tool solutions to engineering services, solutions or individual components, and, if required, consulting, training, and support. supports the integration at the customer’s through to the certification.
www.embedded-office.com www.etas.com
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EUROS Embedded Systems Green Hills Software
EUROS Embedded Systems is a pio- Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software neering vendor of real-time operat- is the largest independent vendor of ing systems (RTOS), protocol stacks, embedded software solutions span- middleware and development tools ning from embedded to enterprise. for embedded applications. The company’s products are widely used and Green Hills is the only company with an operating system certified and supported in all segments of the embedded ecosystem, including medical deployed to IEC 61508 SIL 3 (industrial), FDA Class III (medical), EN 51028 technology, military & aerospace, test & measurement, SWSIL 4 (railway), EAL6+ High Robustness (security), industrial automation, process control, automotive and and DO-178B Level A (avionics). traffic engineering.
www.euros-embedded.com www.ghs.com
Express Logic HCC-Embedded
Express Logic is a leader in royal- HCC has a unique position in the ty-free RTOS software. Our ThreadX® microcontroller market as a company RTOS is used in over 2 billion elec- almost exclusively focused on the tronic products. Our NetX™ IPV4 and development of embedded middle- NetX DUO™ IPv4/IPV6 TCP/IP stacks, USBX™ USB Host/Device/OTG pro- ware with no dependence on a proprietary operating system. Specializing in tocol stack, FileX® MS-DOS-compatible file system, GUIX™ graphical user middleware for USB, TCP/IP and Flash storage, the company has become a interface and the TraceX® graphical event-analysis tool leader in high value, reusable software components. support applications in consumer, medical, industrial, automotive and aerospace.
www.expresslogic.com www.hcc-embedded.com
Freescale HEITEC
Freescale Semiconductor enables Our 1000 employees, in 19 German secure, embedded processing solu- subsidiaries and various other global tions for the Internet of Tomorrow. sites with high level solution, engineer- Freescale’s solutions drive a more ing and industry competence guarantee innovative and connected world, simplifying our lives and making us safer. excellent industry knowledge in close proximity to the customer. Our business While serving the world’s largest companies, Freescale is also committed unit ‘electronics’ offers electronics system design, manufacturing and pack- to supporting science, technology, engineering and math aging solutions: requirement analysis, system architecture, (STEM) education, enabling the next generation of innovators. development, production and packaging solutions.
www.freescale.com www.heitec-electronic.com
GrammaTech iBASE
GrammaTech is the leading devel- Founded in 2000, IBASE Technology oper of software-assurance tools and is an ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO advanced cyber-security solutions. 14001 certified company that special- Our software analysis experts create izes in the design and manufacturing technologies that enable developers around the world to make software of industrial PC products. IBASE provides OEM/ODM services tailoring prod- that is secure and of the highest quality. We analyze both source code and ucts to customers‘ requirements. Our product offerings from include single binary code, which we apply to both static analysis and board computers, Mini-ITX boards, Disk-Size SBC, COM dynamic analysis techniques. Express CPU modules, embedded systems, panel com- puters and network appliance for various applications.
www.grammatech.com www.ibase.com.tw
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IEI Integration Innodisk
IEI Integration Corp., was founded in 1997, is one Innodisk is a service driven provider of the world’s leading industrial computer provid- of flash and DRAM products for the ers. IEI has gained the reputation of being fully industrial and enterprise applications. customer orientation from every aspect, including Our team has the experience and technology research, product design and devel- expertise that comes directly from our focus on the industrial segment, and opment, flexible production, marketing, sales and is bolstered by having our own firmware team and factory. customer service.
www.ieiworld.com www.innodisk.com
IMACS iSYSTEM
We have been developing and produc- iSYSTEM is a privately held company ing instrumentation, control and auto- founded in 1986, with offices in Munich, mation systems for various industries Germany and Ljubljana, Slovenia. We since 1991. Whether it is single com- maintain decades-long relationships ponents or complete embedded systems, our solutions are always individual with highly skilled distributors in major world markets. iSYSTEM special- and flexible. We employ a total of 30 staff at our two locations. Our head izes in embedded development and test tools especially for markets where office and centre for administrative and development functional safety and the appropriate standards do play activities is situated at Kornwestheim, near Stuttgart, a major role. Germany.
www.imacs-gmbh.de www.isystem.com
IMCOR Kontron
IMCOR GmbH, based near Stuttgart, Kontron, a global leader in embedded Germany was founded in 1993 as a computing technology and trusted system and software house for IT-ap- advisor in IoT, works closely with its plications in industrial areas. IMCOR customers, allowing them to focus on offers development and test tools focused on software developers and their core competencies by offering a complete and integrated portfolio of embedded systems engineers. hardware, software and services designed to help them make the most of their applications.
www.imcor.de www.kontron.com
Infineon Technologies Lauterbach
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Lauterbach is the leading manufacturer Germany, offers innovative semi- of complete, modular and upgradeable conductor and system solutions microprocessor development tools addressing three central challenges worldwide with experience in the field to modern society: energy efficiency, of embedded designs since 1979. At the headquarters in Höhenkirchen, near mobility, and security. Munich, the engineering team develops and produces highly proficient and specialized Development Tools, which are utilized all over the world under the brand TRACE32®.
www.infineon.com www.lauterbach.com
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LDRA Maxim Integrated
For more than forty years, LDRA has Maxim Integrated designs, manu- developed and driven the market for factures, and sells high-performance software that automates code analysis semiconductor products. The company and software testing for safety-, mission-, was founded 30 years ago with the security- and business-critical markets. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA mission to deliver innovative analog and mixed-signal engineering solutions is headquartered in the UK with subsidiaries in the United States, India and for the industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite.
www.ldra.com www.maximintegrated.com
LieberLieber Software MEN Mikro Elektronik
LieberLieber Software is specialized Since its founding in 1982 – and with in the area of model-based software more than 250 employees worldwide and system development. We offer – MEN Mikro Elektronik has focused individual project consulting, project on innovation, reliability and flex- management and know-how transfer and has years of experience in the ibility to develop and produce standard and custom computing solutions development of tailored software solutions. In the past years, we have realized that employ the highest technology levels. The company provides a robust large multitouch solutions, HTML5 applications for offering of highly reliable embedded COTS boards and smartphones and classic logistics solutions for mobile devices widely used in extreme environmental condi- industry PDAs. tions found in industrial and safety-critical applications.
www.lieberlieber.com www.men.de
Lynx Software Technologies MicroSys Electronics
Every day, millions of people world- MicroSys Electronics GmbH located wide are touched by products that in Sauerlach close to Munich, designs rely on Lynx Software Technologies and develops embedded system solu- software—from Internet and phone tions, for e.g. VMEbus, CompactPCI communications, to airline flight-control systems, office automation and and other common bus infrastructures. From the beginning in 1975, cus- medical devices. Lynx Software Technologies software provides the hidden tomized solutions offering longevity are a strong part of MicroSys business intelligence that empowers, protects and secures our as well. Successfully deployed products span from Com- modern world. puter on Modules up to fully integrated systems.
www.lynx.com www.microsys.de
MathWorks Mouser Electronics
MathWorks is the leading developer Catering to design engineers and buy- of mathematical computing software. ers demanding small to medium quan- MATLAB®, the language of technical tities of the latest products, Mouser computing, is a programming environ- requires no MOQ and fills orders by ment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric breaking packs, including one-piece shipping. This is especially attractive to computation. Simulink® is a graphical environment for simulation and Model- engineers working in the earliest stages of the prototype design cycle. Based Design of multidomain dynamic and embedded Mouser is dedicated to providing superior service and systems. support to customers worldwide with 20 global customer support centres.
www.mathworks.com www.mouser.com
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MPL Pentair
Since 1985, MPL has been developing We safeguard industrial controls, elec- and manufacturing embedded com- trical components, data communica- puters and systems for tough envi- tions and electronics in virtually any ronments and for applications with environment, anywhere in the world. highest reliability requirements. The success of the company is based on Our products help you keep your systems running smoothly for the long term, unique solutions: ruggedness, long-term availability, low power consump- backed by service and sales support around the world. We offer more than tion, extended temperature range, and passive cooling 12,000 standard products as well as tailored solutions. concepts (fanless).
www.mpl.ch www.pentairprotect.biz/en/emea
MSC Technologies Phaedrus Systems
MSC Technologies specialises in intel- Phaedrus Systems supports engineers at all stages ligent embedded and display. We rep- of embedded development. We specialise in support resent well-known manufacturers of for safety-critical and high-integrity projects. A port- TFT, touch and passive displays and folio of tools to provide all the elements required to offer customer-specific display solutions. In the embedded sector, we have create an integrated tool chain - from initial specifi- many years of development and production expertise that ranges from cation through to life cycle management – has been COM Express and Qseven modules through to complete assembled specifically for this systems. We also provide wireless, storage and lighting demanding area of engineering. solutions.
www.msc-technologies.eu www.phaedsys.com
N.A.T. PLS
N.A.T. is the expert in turnkey systems and high PLS is among the worldwide lead- performance connectivity products for data and ing suppliers of debugging solutions (tele-)communication solutions. The product port- and complete development tools for folio is dedicated to embedded markets such as 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers and medical, energy, communication, defense&aerospace, System-on-Chips (SoC). Important architectures such as TriCore, Power Archi- industrial controls, automation, transportation, tecture, RH850, ARM, Cortex, XC2000/XE166, SH-2A, XScale and C166/ST10 test&measurement, and research. as well as simulation platforms of different vendors are supported.
www.nateurope.com www.pls-mc.com
PEAK-System Technik PLUG-IN Electronic
Founded in 1999, PEAK-System The company PLUG-IN Electronic Technik is a leading provider of hard- GmbH based in Eichenau near Munich, ware, software, and services for the Germany, has been marketing hard- industrial communication. The focus ware and software for PC-assisted is on the field busses CAN and LIN. measuring and automation technology since being founded in December 1990. The core business focuses mainly on hardware solutions, with soft- ware solutions only being offered on the basis of graphic programming environments.
www.peak-system.com www.plug-in.de/en/
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PragmaDev RUTRONIK
PragmaDev is a privately held Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente company based in Paris France GmbH is third largest distributor in that provides a set of modeling Europe and the number ten world- and testing tools for the develop- wide. The broadline distributor offers ment of real time and embedded software: “Real Time Developer Studio” semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components in addition to and “PragmaDev Tracer”. boards, storage, displays & wireless products. The company’s primary target markets are the automotive, medical, industrial, home appliance, energy and lighting industries.
www.pragmadev.com www.rutronik.com
PRQA S.I.E System Industrie Electronic
Are you looking for sharp improve- System Industrie Electronic is a lead- ments in the quality of your static ing supplier of Embedded Computing analysis code? Congratulations, you Systems and modular HMI systems. The have just found the missing part of range of services offered by S.I.E arrays the puzzle! Become more productive and skilled through PRQA static anal- from modular HMI-components to the whole developmental responsibil- ysis solutions! We are specialised in static analysis products and services, ity of an embedded computing system – everything from a single source. promoting safe coding standards practices. Well-known companies in medical, analytical-, bio- & laboratory, industrial and security markets count on S.I.E in high-end-products.
www.programmingresearch.com www.sie.at
Rohde & Schwarz SCIOPTA Systems
For more than 80 years, Rohde SCIOPTA is a leader in system software for & Schwarz has stood for quality, safety-critical embedded applications. This precision and innovation in all includes real-time operating systems, net- fields of wireless communications. work software, file systems, software for The company is strategically based on five pillars: test and measurement, interface bus systems, board support packages and other system software. broadcasting, secure communications, radiomonitoring and radiolocation.
www.rohde-schwarz.com www.sciopta.com
Round Solutions SE Spezial-Electronic
Round Solutions develops hardware SE Spezial-Electronic AG, founded in and services for Internet of Things and 1970, is an internationally operating offers component solutions for wire- distributor of electronic components. less M2M communication. The compa- With 31 suppliers of active, passive ny’s modules, antennas and design-in services improve the value creation and electromechanical components, processes for customers of all sizes and industries. Round Solutions creates SE Spezial-Electronic is one of the leading service distributors in Europe. We the necessary technological preconditions for developing offer an extensive selection of logistics services and we new IoT-based business models. support customers in developing and manufacturing products.
www.roundsolutions.biz www.spezial.com
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SECO Syslogic
SECO is a world-leader in electronic embed- Syslogic supplies industrial computers ded solutions. Spanning its 35+ years of embedded PCs, single board comput- experience, SECO has shown the ability to ers and touch panel computers for adapt its know-how to new, challenging demanding industrial use. These are customers’ needs, and to provide cutting edge solutions to its partners. On used in areas such as machining and automotive engineering as well as the strength of its know-how and in contrast with recent outsourcing trends, traffic and train technology. Syslogic is one of the few companies in the SECO has always set the entire production cycle in-house, embedded branch that develops and assembles all of its from the development stage to mass distribution embedded computers and touch panel computers itself.
www.seco.com www.syslogic.de
SEGGER Telit
SEGGER Microcontroller develops and With over 12 years dedicated to the distributes hardware and software devel- m2m market, Telit has a network of opment tools as well as software compo- eight R&D centers around the globe. nents for embedded systems. SEGGER’s Telit continues to demonstrate a unique intention is to cut software development time for embedded applications ability to translate prowess in the various technologies it dominates, into by offering affordable, high quality, flexible and easy-to-use tools and soft- business breakthroughs. Telit’s portfolio of the highest quality cellular, short- ware components allowing developers to focus on their range, and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) applications. modules; all available in over 80 countries from 35 sales offices and 60 distributors.
www.segger.com www.telit.com
Sierra Wireless TenAsys
Sierra Wireless is the global leader in Software for embedded virtualiza- machine-to-machine (M2M) devices tion environments to support mixed and cloud services. We offer the indus- workloads on multicore Intel proces- try’s most comprehensive portfolio of sor-based PC platforms. The product 2G, 3G and 4G embedded modules and gateways, seamlessly integrated portfolio includes eVM® for Windows* and INtime®—which make use of with our secure M2M cloud services. Sierra Wireless has more than 850 embedded virtualization technologies to partition platforms while permit- employees globally and has R&D centers in North ting multiple diverse workloads to run simultaneously America, Europe and Asia. and independently on the same platform.
www.sierrawireless.com www.tenasys.com
SYSGO Texas Instruments
Since 1991, SYSGO provides operat- Texas Instruments is a global semi- ing systems and services for embed- conductor design and manufacturing ded systems. In the late 90’s, SYSGO company that develops analog inte- pioneered the use of Linux in the grated circuits and embedded proces- embedded market with the ELinOS distribution. For safety and security crit- sors. By employing the world’s brightest minds, TI creates innovations that ical devices, SYSGO offers PikeOS, the world’s first SIL 4 certified hypervisor shape the future of technology. TI is helping more than 100,000 customers for multi-core processors, which builds the foundation transform the future, today. for smart devices in the Internet-of-Things.
www.sysgo.com www.ti.com
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TQ-Group WIBU-SYSTEMS
Based on technologically sophisticated designs, WIBU-SYSTEMS AG is a technology TQ-Group provides highly-integrated, Embedded leader in the global software licensing Systems, such as: Minimodules, Mainboards, Evaluation market. In its mission to deliver unique, boards, Ready-to-use industrial systems and Customer most secure and highly flexible tech- specific solutions. Modular designs save time and nologies to software publishers and industrial manufacturers, Wibu-Systems money. In many industrial sectors, the use of modular has developed a comprehensive, award-winning suite of hardware- and devices is key to efficiency. software-based solutions incorporating internationally patented processes dedicated to the integrity protection of digital assets and intellectual property.
www.tq-group.com/ www.wibu.com
Trinamic Wind River
Based in Hamburg, Germany, TRINAMIC Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary provides integrated Circuits and Mod- of Intel Corporation, is a global leader ules for Motor and Motion Control to in delivering software for the Internet customers all over the world, most of of Things. The company has been pio- them leaders in their Industry. neering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT.
www.trinamic.com www.windriver.com
Vecow WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems
Vecow, a team of embedded comput- WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems ing experts, dedicates to designing, is an RTOS and Middleware company developing, producing and selling that specialises in safety, producing industrial grade computer products. and supplying Real-time Operating Vecow offers Fanless Systems, Panel PCs, In-Vehicle Computing Systems, Systems and Software Components to the Medical, Aerospace and Industrial Expansion Modules, Mainboards and Design & Manufacturing Services for sectors. WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems developed the first pre-certified Machine Vision, Video Analytics Surveillance, Intelligent RTOS to be ROM’ed in a main line microprocessor. Automation, Vehicle Computing, Industry 4.0 and IoT applications.
www.vecow.com www.highintegritysystems.com
Vector Informatik WynMax
Vector Informatik is the leading sup- Wynmax, founded in 2006, is a plier of software tools and compo- company specializing in the design nents for developing and networking and manufacture of highly reliable electronic systems based on CAN, LIN, industrial PC solutions. With more FlexRay, Ethernet, MOST, AFDX, ARINC 429 as well as on many different than 50% of the employees for R&D, Wynmax products are featured with CAN-based protocols. Vector’s expertise is passed on to customers in the 24 hours 7 days non-stop operation capability, wide range temperature form of its wide range of products as well as in com- durability, and wide voltage power input flexibility. prehensive consulting services with system and software Wynmax also provides professional customization engineering. services for OEM/ODM customers.
www.vector.com www.wynmax.com.tw
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Xilinx XiSys Software
Xilinx is the world’s leading provider XiSys Software GmbH is a provider of innovative of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, and leading edge Software Tools and Development MPSoCs and 3D ICs, enabling smarter, Environments for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). connected, and differentiated systems The products are dedicated to highly embedded, and networks. Driven by the industry-wide shifts towards Cloud Comput- reliable system solutions with typically long product ing, SDN/NFV, Video Everywhere, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G lifecycles of up to 10 years and more. The company Wireless, Xilinx innovations enable these applications was founded in 1994 and supports with it’s XiBase9 that are both, software defined, yet hardware optimized. product line, operating systems like Linux, Microsoft® Windows® or RadiSys Microware® OS-9.
www.xilinx.com www.xisys.de company Real Time Operating Systems Time Real SW Development Tools HW Development Tools Embedded Software Embedded Connectivity Micros & DSPs ASSPs & Memories ASICs & EDA PLDs, Analog & Power Embedded Computing Busboards & Mezzanines SBCs, COTS Boards & COMs Factor Small Form Motherboards Industrial Computing Racks & Connectors Backplanes, Data Acquisition Engineering Services Displays
A.R. BAYER •••••• •••• • •• DSP Systeme AAEON Technology • •• ••••••• • ACCEED •• ••••••••• • Acromag • •••• • • AdaCore •• •• • ADL Embedded •• •• •••••• • Solutions ADLINK Technology • ••••••• Advanced Micro •••• • • Peripherals Apacer •• •••• ARBOR Technology • • ••• • Artila Electronics • • • • • ••• • • •• Avalue Technology • •• •• ••• • Axiomtek •• •••••• Cadence ••• • • Design Systems CES – Creative •••••• Electronic Systems Concurrent •• •• •••• • Technologies congatec ••• •••• • Data Device ••••• • • Corporation (DDC) Data Modul • •• ••• •
43 August 2015 PRODUCT GROUPS REFERENCE LIST company Real Time Operating Systems Time Real SW Development Tools HW Development Tools Embedded Software Embedded Connectivity Micros & DSPs ASSPs & Memories ASICs & EDA PLDs, Analog & Power Embedded Computing Busboards & Mezzanines SBCs, COTS Boards & COMs Factor Small Form Motherboards Industrial Computing Racks & Connectors Backplanes, Data Acquisition Engineering Services Displays
DFI • ••••••• • E.E.P.D. •••• • EBV Elektronik •• ••• • • EKF Elektronik •• •• • ELBACOM Germany • • • • • • Elma Electronic •• •• • Embedded Office • • • • embedded-logic •• ••• • ept • •••• ERNI Electronics • •• ETAS •••• •• EUROS ••••• • Embedded Systems Express Logic, • • • • • Freescale •• •• • GrammaTech •• •• • Green Hills Software • • • • • • HCC-Embedded •• • HEITEC • • •• •• • IBASE • •• •••• • IEI Integration • • • • • •• ••••••• IMACS • •• • •• IMCOR ••••• • • Infineon •• •••• Innodisk • •• • • iSYSTEM ••••• • • •• Kontron ••••• ••••••••• Lauterbach ••••• • • LDRA •• • LieberLieber • •• • • Software Lynx •• •• Software Technologies MathWorks •• • • •• Maxim Integrated ••••• MEN Mikro Elektronik • •••••••••• MicroSys •• •••• •• •
August 2015 44 PRODUCT GROUPS REFERENCE LIST company Real Time Operating Systems Time Real SW Development Tools HW Development Tools Embedded Software Embedded Connectivity Micros & DSPs ASSPs & Memories ASICs & EDA PLDs, Analog & Power Embedded Computing Busboards & Mezzanines SBCs, COTS Boards & COMs Factor Small Form Motherboards Industrial Computing Racks & Connectors Backplanes, Data Acquisition Engineering Services Displays
Mouser Electronics ••••••••• •• MPL • •••• • • MSC Technologies •••• •••••• • •••• N.A.T. • • ••• •• •• PEAK-System Technik ••• •• Pentair •• •• • Phaedrus Systems • • • • • PLS •••• • PLUG-IN Electronic • •• •••••• PragmaDev •••• PRQA •• • Rohde & Schwarz • •• Round Solutions ••• • RUTRONIK ••••••••••••••••••• S.I.E System Industrie •• ••••••• •• Electronic SCIOPTA Systems •• •• • SE Spezial-Electronic ••• • • •• • SECO ••• •••••• • SEGGER ••••• • Microcontroller Sierra Wireless ••• • SYSGO •• •• •• • • Syslogic • • •• • • ••• Telit •• • • • TenAsys • ••• • • Texas Instruments ••• •••• • TQ-Group • •• •• ••• • Trinamic ••• • •• • • Vecow • • • •• • Vector Informatik • • • • •• WIBU-SYSTEMS • • • • • • • • Wind River ••••• •• • WITTENSTEIN •• • • WynMax ••• •• ••• •• Xilinx •••• • XiSys Software GmbH • • • • • •
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Vector Informatik: mobile ARINC R&S: decoding of 8b/10b buses PEAK-System and emtas decide 429 solution for testing of modern with RTO oscilloscope mutual cooperation multibus architectures e new R&S RTO-K52 decoding option helps PEAK-System Technik and emtas arranged Vector is extending the range of uses of its developers design, verify and debug modules a cooperation. e common characteristic CANoe and CANalyzer development and with 8b/10b encoded buses. At the push of a of the engineering work “Made in Germany” analysis tools to cover important avionic net- button, the R&S RTO uses the option‘s full and the corporate philosophies “Advantage works by o ering the .A429 so ware option autoset function to determine the channel, through Quality” result in a perfect symbiosis and a USB interface for ARINC 429. is decision level and bit rate settings, allowing of the two partners. e CAN/CAN FD prod- gives developers of Line Replaceable Units developers to quickly start measuring. All of uct portfolio by PEAK-System and the embed- (LRUs) in aircra s a exible and powerful these settings can be readjusted manually. ded so ware of emtas complement each other solution for testing and bus analysis. News ID 3071 and ensure a high degree of integration of the News ID 3096 coordinated and validated components in Lauterbach: advanced integration order to solve problems of customers quickly, Renesas simplifies sensor-less of VectorCAST with TRACE32 eciently, and e ectively. brushless DC motor control design Vector So ware announced an advanced inte- News ID 2995 Renesas Electronics announced the RL78/ gration with the Lauterbach TRACE32 prod- G1F group of multi-function microcontrol- uct. VectorCAST now enables development, test, Softing: complete PROFIBUS lers, adding 20 new members to its low-power and certication teams, to set and continuously DP Slave in FPGA RL78 Family of MCUs. Featuring enhanced collect, practically unlimited volumes of test So ing Industrial Automation is introducing peripheral functions and compatibility across data from RAM constrained embedded systems. a new PROFIBUS Slave subsystem that can be the RL78/G1x Series of MCUs, the new News ID 3069 fully loaded into an FPGA. e solution con- devices simplify sensor-less brushless DC sists of a VHDL-designed PROFIBUS con- motor (BLDC motor) control and deliver pre- Cadence: Allegro 16.6 portfolio troller and processor on which runs the entire cision operation at faster rotational speeds to make design cycles shorter protocol so ware. with high accuracy for energy-ecient home and more predictable News ID 2991 appliances and electric power tools. Cadence Design Systems unveiled the Alle- News ID 3081 gro 16.6 portfolio, which features several Embedded Office boosts new products and technologies. Included in sales presence in France GOEPEL introduces new test this release is the new Allegro PCB Designer Embedded Oce has announced the appoint- strategy for IoT devices Manufacturing Option, which can shorten ment of Neomore as a new distribution part- Under the name JEDOS (JTAG Embedded the time to create manufacturing documenta- ner in France. e company will be selling Diagnostics Operating System), GOEPEL tion by up to 60 percent, and several key tech- the Cert-Kits from Embedded Oce with electronics introduces a new technology for nology updates catered to increase eciency, immediate e ect for IEC61508-, IEC62304-, embedded test of complex electronic designs. control and productivity for designers, while EN50128- and DO-178B/C applications. e new test strategy has been developed in streamlining hando to manufacturing. With this move, the embedded so ware particular for diagnostic testing of devices for News ID 3065 specialist from southern Germany (Allgäu the Internet of ings. region) is looking to further extend its pres- News ID 3080 Cadence: Indago debug platform ence in the French market and to support cus- improves debugging productivity tomers locally more eciently with an expert Micrium and Validated Software Cadence Design Systems announced the Ind- sales partner. announce validation suites for uC/OS-III ago Debug Platform, a new debugging solu- News ID 2984 Validated So ware and Micrium announce tion which reduces the time to identify bugs the availability of VSC‘s new Validation Suites in a design by up to 50 percent compared Amplicon and Belden create partnership for Micrium‘s uC/OS-III. Validation Suites to traditional signal- or transaction-level Amplicon announce their new partnership o er the most cost-e ective means to secure debug methods. In addition to the Indago with Belden, a renowned High-Tech manu- the benets of uC/OS-III in a variety of safe- Debug Platform, Cadence also announced facturer. is new partnership will give Ampl- ty-critical products. three debugging apps that plug into the plat- icon customers access to the full Belden range News ID 3074 form and can be used with other verication which includes hundreds of connectivity and tools to provide a single integrated and syn- networking products for a variety of markets. Embedded Office: Safety-BSP simplifies chronized debug solution for testbench, ver- Belden were established in 1902 and one of MCU use in safety-critical applications ication IP, and hardware/so ware debug for their early customers was the world-famous Embedded Oce is taking part along with system-on-chip designs. inventor Mr omas Edison. other partners from industry and science in News ID 2973 News ID 2956 the fourth civil aviation research programme (LUFO IV.4) funded by the German Ministry Mouser launches enhanced open Vector: advanced integration with of Economics and Technology (BMWi). With source hardware technology site Lauterbach’s TRACE32 suite LUFO IV.4, the BMWi is providing support Mouser Electronics has announced the Vector So ware announced an advanced from 2007 to 2015 for research and technol- update of their Open Source Hardware integration with the Lauterbach TRACE32 ogy development projects with an applica- (OSHW) Technology site. Mouser‘s updated product. e Test Automation Platform, Vec- tion in civil, commercial aviation in Germany. technology site provides developers with the torCAST, now enables development, test, and is research project is designed to strengthen resources they need to quickly learn about the certication teams, to set and continuously the technological basis of aviation research in latest advances in open source hardware, and collect, practically unlimited volumes of Germany and underscore the signicance of the newest open source hardware products test data from RAM constrained embedded aviation as a high-tech sector. available from Mouser Electronics. systems. News ID 3097 News ID 3044 News ID 3025
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ADI: power-efficient multicore RUTRONIK: progressive IoT computing SHARC+ARM SoC from Advantech with RISC technology Analog Devices introduced eight SHARC pro- Rutronik presents the new palm-sized UBC- cessors as part of a new, high-performance, 220, an ARM-based compact box computer power-e cient, real-time series that delivers powered by a Freescale ARM Cortex-A9 peak performance greater than 24 giga- oat- i.MX6 Dual Lite high-performance processor. ing-point operations per second using two Designed with compact size, high capability, enhanced SHARC+ cores and advanced DSP and superior connectivity, UBC-220 is an ideal accelerators (FFT, FIR, IIR). indoor computing gateway suitable for smart News ID 3143 buildings, parking lots, and public spaces. News ID 3217 Mouser: EZR32 wireless microcon- troller assortment from Silicon Labs Wind River Simics advances Agile Mouser Electronics is now stocking the practices for IoT development 32-bit EZR32 Wireless Microcontroller fam- Wind River has introduced the latest ver- ilies from Silicon Labs. e EZR32 micro- sion of Wind River Simics. Simics accel- controllers are the latest in the Silicon Labs erates soware development by delivering assortment of wireless microcontrollers, ground-breaking development capabili- delivering a high-performance, low-energy ties and facilitates Agile soware practices wireless solution integrated into a small form through the use of simulation technologies. factor package. e latest updates to Simics include acceler- News ID 3140 ated simulation performance and expanded capabilities for enhancing access, collabora- Round Solutions: small wearable tion, and automation for soware developers. GPS tracking device News ID 3205 anks to its very small size, the MicroTracker is perfect for being set-in into clothes and Freescale: Kinetis portfolio delivers accessories. e purpose is to determine the multi-protocol Bluetooth Smart location of people solely for their safety and and IEEE 802.15.4 radios protection. erefore, the MicroTracker has a Freescale introduces the Kinetis KW40Z wire- panic button that can be pressed in an emer- less MCU family with support for Bluetooth gency situation, to send an emergency call Smart/Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and IEEE with the current coordinates. e Accelerom- 802.15.4 applications. e KW40Z wireless eter on the MicroTracker detects movement MCU integrates a 2.4 GHz multi-protocol and sets itself in a power saving mode when radio that provides the ability to access one no movement is detected. With a 1.35AH bat- BLE network and one 802.15.4 network from tery it reaches up to 24 working hours. us a single device while achieving strong RF per- the Microtracker provides a perfect comple- formance and low current consumption. ment in many safety-critical scenarios for the News ID 3161 protection of human lives. News ID 3215 Atmel: 5V Cortex-M0+ MCU family with integrated peripheral touch controller TI: revolutionize context save and Atmel introduced the 5V ARM Cortex-M0+- restore with MSP430 FRAM MCUs based MCU family with integrated peripheral Overcoming a design hurdle that has burdened touch controller. e new family of Atmel | engineers for decades, Texas Instruments today SMART ARM Cortex-M0+ MCUs innova- announced a revolutionary Compute rough tively combines 5V, DMA performance and Power Loss (CTPL) technology to enable con- a PTC with excellent moisture tolerance. e text save and restore across its MSP430 FRAM new devices also integrate advanced analog microcontroller family, including the new capability and oer EMI and ESD protection, MSP430FR6972 MCU. making them ideal for the rapidly expanding News ID 3064 smart appliance and industrial markets. News ID 3078 Silicon Labs: energy friendly USB micontrollers AAEON debuts in IoT arena with e latest addition to Silicon Labs’ EFM32 AIOT-X1000 subcompact board 32-bit MCU portfolio, the new Happy Gecko AAEON releases the AIOT-X1000 subcompact MCUs are designed to deliver the lowest USB board, the company’s debut into the burgeon- power drain in the industry, enabling longer ing IoT market. Referred to as “AAEON Inter- battery life and energy harvesting applica- net of ings”, the AIOT-X1000 is powered by tions. Based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ core Intel’s Quark X1000 Series SoC’s to drive cost and low-energy peripherals, the Happy Gecko down while delivering substantial performance family simplies USB connectivity for a wide for interconnectivity between the broad array range of IoT applications. of devices in an IoT environment. News ID 3037 News ID 3057
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FTDI bundles FT90x MikroE compilers ST: smart, high-power-density Round Solutions: PingPong IoT edge with free hardware motor driver for tomorrow’s node connects field devices to the cloud FTDI Chip has taken further steps to help industrial automation Round Solutions has launched its wireless engineers implement better embedded sys- Premiered at PCIM Europe 2015, STMicro- PingPong IoT edge node, a exible and pow- tems using its cutting-edge microcontroller electronics’ powerSTEP driver delivers the erful hardware platform for connecting eld technology. Working in conjunction with advantages of compact motor-control design devices to the cloud. e RTOS supporting MikroElektronika, the company is now mar- for applications at high power ratings. e small form factor board with powerful Micro- keting a cost e ective development package fully integrated stepper-motor driver sys- chip PIC32MZ 32-bit MCU and a high-speed based on the ground-breaking FT90x MCU tem-in-package o ers an unprecedented cellular Telit module is based on a modular series. What’s more, the company is exclu- power density of up to 500W/cm2, enabling hardware design principle that simpli es the sively providing customers with a free MikroE cost-e ective systems that deliver better per- integration of custom-speci c applications Clicker 2 board with every FT90x Compiler formance and reliability without sacri cing and communication standards into a single license purchase and furthermore o ers free exibility or ruggedness. solution platform. shipping worldwide on the package. News ID 3018 News ID 3054 News ID 3112 Advantech: out-of-the-box Intel u-blox joins M2M Alliance Acceed: ZigBee sensors with data logger IoT gateway development kit u-blox has become an ocial member of the Acceed has increased its portfolio with a Advantech announce an IoT Gateway Devel- M2M Alliance, the world’s largest not-for- comprehensive range of new ZigBee devices opment Kit bundle with Intel Gateway Solu- pro t M2M association of professionals and from the manufacturer Nietzsche Enterprise. tions for Internet of ings. is solution organizer of the annual M2M Summit. u-blox’ e new products include temperature and features a pre-integrated soware and hard- successful range of cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi humidity sensors with integrated series STH- ware platform containing a Linux operating and global positioning components allows the 01ZB data loggers. Nietzsche Enterprise is a system, security and management features. company to provide end-to-end connectivity big data specialist and a manufacturer of sen- is out-of-the-box solution simpli es cus- and location-awareness to any device in the sors, data loggers, controllers, routers and tomer deployment of IoT products and allows IoT, enabling future connected vehicles, con- other components for recording and treating secure data aggregation, ltering, and analysis nected cities and connected industry. measurement data according to the ZigBee from edge devices to the cloud through Wi-Fi News ID 3010 standard. and/or even 4G technologies. News ID 3142 News ID 3188 TI and SIGFOX collaborate on long-range, low-power IoT connectivity Innodisk: 16GB DDR3 memory Toshiba: partnership with SIGFOX, provider of a cellular network ded- for Atom servers Microsoft on IoT solutions icated to the IoT, and Texas Instruments Innodisk announces high capacity 16GB Toshiba and Microso have announced the announced the two companies are working DDR3 Memory modules for Intel Atom two companies have signed a memorandum together to increase IoT deployments using Avoton and Rangeley based servers with of understanding to jointly develop solutions the Sub-1 GHz spectrum. Customers can use speeds up to 1600MHz, making Inno- for the Internet of ings Leveraging Toshi- the SIGFOX network with TI’s Sub-1 GHz RF disk the first on the market with a 16GB ba’s IoT devices with Microso’s Azure IoT transceivers to deploy wireless sensor nodes DDR3 ECC UDIMM module capable of Cloud infrastructure, Toshiba will deliver that are lower cost and lower power than 3G/ 1600MHz. Available in UDIMM, SOD- state of the art sensor-data-driven applica- cellular connected nodes, while providing IMM , and ECC UDIMM. These high tions in various market segments starting in long-range connectivity to the IoT. capacity, high speed memory modules let calendar year 2015. News ID 2976 users easily maximize memory capacity News ID 3107 and performance for servers based on the Wind River: automotive software Atom C2000 Processor family. This means Sierra Wireless and PSA Peugeot Citroën solutions address IoT and connected car faster speeds and better performance for collaborate on services to connected cars Wind River has introduced Automotive networking systems, telecommunication ierra Wireless announced a new milestone in Profile for VxWorks, AUTOSAR-compli- infrastructure and more. its collaboration with PSA Peugeot Citroën, ant software to help customers develop ISO News ID 3090 with a next-generation design win for Sierra 26262 certifiable automotive safety-critical Wireless using AirPrime AR Series smart applications such as advanced driver assist Infineon: next gen CoolMOS with automotive modules, the Legato platform, systems (ADAS) to piloted and autonomous improved switching losses and the AirVantage cloud. driving. In neon Technologies has launched a new News ID 3100 News ID 2949 family of CoolMOS C7 series superjunction MOSFETs. e 600 V series o ers a 50 per- SYSGO: platform for joint safety IAR partners with Renesas for cent reduction in turn-o losses compared and security in the IoT complete IoT solutions platform to the CoolMOS CP, o ering a GaN-like Together with eleven international partners, As presented by Renesas Electronics, Renesas level of performance in PFC, TTF and other SYSGO starts the EU project SAFURE that Synergy is a complete embedded develop- hard-switching topologies. e CoolMOS aims at the development of a platform for ment platform designed to simplify the cre- C7 achieves an industry rst by delivering an integrated safety and security for critical sys- ation of innovative products in the embedded area-speci c on resistance (R DS(ON)*A) of tems in the Internet of ings. Main objective space, particularly for the growing Internet of just 1 Ω per mm 2, extending In neon’s port- of the project is to provide a framework for ings market. IAR Systems now announces folio of products with lowest R DS(ON) per integrated safety and security that identi es that the company, as the only commercial package to support customer e orts to further and avoids security threats for the functional tools vendor, will provide build and debugger increase power density. safety of networked systems. tools as part of the new platform. News ID 3056 News ID 2993 News ID 3146
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Acceed: programmable platform for device networks Apacer presents all-around value-added Industrial SSD e new programmable device server Artila Aport-212PG from Acceed Apacer has ranked the top in revenue market share of industrial SSD for 3 is well-equipped for the special communication tasks within future consecutive years, re ecting global market’s recognition of Apacer’s inno- device networks. e energy-saving ARM Cortex M3 processor is the vative spirit. Apacer will present brand new, upgraded industrial SSD solu- motor of the Ethernet serial converter. Its special feature is the inte- tions at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2015. Data security is enhanced through grated operating system FreeRTOS which supports 34 architectures protection mechanism triggered by NFC; SSD CoreAnalyzer is an inno- and various compilation environments. vative analysis technology to comprehensively record and analyze actual News ID 2962 usage scenarios of SSD operation, fully exploring behavior of applications, designing the most reliable systems and providing the top services. Cadence: Tensilica Fusion DSP sets low-energy benchmarks News ID 3088 Cadence Design Systems announced the new Tensilica Fusion digital signal processor based on the proven Xtensa Customizable Processor. Mouser: Digital Power Monitors with PMBus is scalable DSP is ideal for applications requiring merged controller Interface from Analog Devices plus DSP computation, ultra-low energy and a small footprint. It can Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ADM1293 and ADM1294 be designed into SoCs for wearable activity monitoring, indoor navi- Digital Power Monitors with PMBus Interface from Analog Devices. gation, context-aware sensor fusion, secure local wireless connectivity, ese high-accuracy, integrated digital power monitors provide digital face trigger, voice trigger and voice recognition. current, voltage, and power monitoring using an on-chip, 12 bit ADC, News ID 2954 communicated through a PMBus-compliant I2C interface. News ID 3083 TI: high resolution resistive sensing conditioner Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s highest resolution resistive Compact based on NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor sensing signal conditioner, enabling fast and precise 24-bit measure- SECOMExp-TK1 is the new SECO’s COM-Express Type 6 Compact ment of conditions such as pressure, strain, ow or liquid levels. e module based on the NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor. e board PGA900 integrates two low-noise 24-bit ADCs to enable high-resolu- integrates 192 CUDA GPU cores and NVIDIA Kepler graphics for tion signal acquisition, a 14-bit DAC to provide highly linear analog extreme performance and powerful computing with extraordinary outputs, and a variety of output interfaces, including analog voltage, power eciency. SECOMExp-TK1 supports OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL® 4-20 mA current loop, SPI, I2C, UART, and one-wire interface, to give 4.4, CUDA 6 and 2160p30 HW encoding and decoding, and is able to designers options for di erent application needs. e PGA900’s inte- support up to two independent displays. grated power management accepts external power supply voltages from News ID 3212 3.3 V to 30 V. News ID 3165
Sierra Wireless: new open interface standard for wireless and sensor technologies As part of its ongoing strategy to expand and accelerate innovation in the Internet of ings, Sierra Wireless introduced Project mangOH, an open hardware reference design, with an open interface standard devel- oped by Sierra Wireless and adopted by three leading industry partners – Freescale, Linear Technologies, and Texas Instruments. News ID 3147
Rutronik engaged as global distributor for Melexis Rutronik and Melexis have signed a global distribution agreement cov- ering Melexis’ entire product portfolio of sensors, sensor interface ICs, driver ICs and communication ICs. Melexis o ers an extensive array of highly integrated semiconductors that help the automotive industry to produce greener, safer cars and domestic appliance manufacturers to bring more energy ecient products to market, as well as enabling implementation of advanced industrial equipment, medical instrumen- tation and building automation systems. e company’s sensor portfo- lio includes magnetic (Hall e ect), optoelectronic and MEMS pressure sensors. News ID 3139
Microchip: smart hub with FlexConnect broadens application space of USB3.0 hubs Microchip announces the rst USB3.0 Smart Hubs that enable host and device port swapping, I/O bridging, and various other serial commu- nication interfaces. e USB5734 and USB5744 feature an integrated microcontroller that enables new functionality for USB hubs while lowering overall BOM costs and reducing soware complexity. e USB5734/44 family is USB-IF logo certied and features best-in-class signal integrity enabling more robust PCB designs and reducing sensi- tivities to cable, connector and layout variations. News ID 3099
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Swissbit: mSATA Gen III SSD with Maxim: high-side switch boosts MSC: 5.0-inch TFT LCD module capacities from 8 to 480 GB throughput and channel density family from Evervision Swissbit announced the launch of its next Maxim Integrated Products addresses the MSC Technologies presents a new family generation X-60m Series mSATA Solid-State need for higher throughput, smaller footprint, of 5-inch TFT-LCD modules, part number Drive product family. Compliant with the and lower power in industrial automation VGG804821-6UFLWx, from Evervision. MSC latest SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) interface speci ca- with the MAX14900E digital output switch. Technologies is an Evervision key distributor. tion, these drives deliver leading edge perfor- is eight-channel integrated circuit provides e price-optimized displays are suitable for mance and reliability to customers in the most up to 70x faster speed, uses over 20% less a wide variety of applications, for example, in demanding industrial, network and com- power, and occupies 40% less space than exist- an industrial environment in human machine munication and automotive sectors. X-60m ing solutions—all factors required in today’s interface solutions or applications in building drives are fully compliant with the JEDEC faster, more localized, smaller end products. automation for access control systems. Use in MO-300A Standard (50.8 x 29.85 x 3.5mm) News ID 3016 outside areas is also possible. and well suited for embedded applications News ID 2964 needing high performance, non-volatile SSD Xilinx: Zynq All Programmable SoCs storage in a compact, removable form-factor. selected for Intelligent transport systems TE Connectivity: interactive industrial News ID 3197 Xilinx announced that the Land Transport innovation platform “TE CONNECTED” Authority of Singapore has selected Xilinx TE Connectivity has launched a new inter- TI makes developing of 1080p pico Automotive (XA) Zynq -7000 All Program- active innovation platform called TE CON- display applications fast and easy mable SoCs for its Intelligent Transport Sys- NECTED. e new service, which is available Texas Instruments introduced the availability tems. e program was awarded to Xilinx by in both English and German, provides engi- of the TI DLP LightCra er Display 4710 evalu- the Land Transport Authority of Singapore on neers in factory and machine automation with ation module, a new developer tool that allows March 20, 2015, at a signing ceremony at LTA current information on the latest technology quick assessment of the DLP Pico 0.47-inch headquarters in Singapore. trends and industry developments. TRP Full-HD 1080p display chipset. Example News ID 3014 News ID 2959 applications include digital signage, mobile projectors (battery and AC-powered), screen- Digi-Key: TechZones simplifies online Renesas: flexible design for capacitive less TVs, control panels, interactive displays, part selection for design engineers touch-based HMI applications and wearables such as head-mounted displays. Digi-Key Electronics announced its new and Renesas Electronics announced its new News ID 3131 improved online TechZones, as part of a recent touch sensing starter kit for the RX113 series of web site updates. e TechZones are Group of 32-bit microcontrollers, which Infineon: intelligent power designed to give design engineers an at-a-glance incorporate capacitive touch sensor intel- module with smart protection aggregate view of new products, technical lectual property that enables high sensi- At this year‘s PCIM 2015 trade show In neon resources and application-speci c content. is tivity, high noise immunity, and excellent Technologies will launch a new Intelligent week, Digi-Key will debut its newest and most water resistance. Power Module (IPM). e MIPAQ Pro pro- comprehensive TechZone – Lighting Solutions. News ID 2952 vides an all-in-one solution for a wide spec- News ID 3006 trum of scalable and compact inverter designs INCOstartec: picoLILLY SOM based on to be implemented in wind, solar, and indus- Avalue: 5.25-inch SBC based on ARM 11 processor up to 532 MHz trial drives applications. MIPAQ Pro is a fully Intel Braswell processor With the new picoLILLY-1135 INCOstartec quali ed and tested IPM, integrating IGBTs, Avalue is introducing the 5.25-inch SBC – opens a new dimension of the long-estab- gate drivers, the heat sink, sensors, digital EBM-BSW, based on Intel Braswell – M/D lished and renowned LILLY processor range. control electronics as well as digital bus com- processor family. e Intel Pentium/Celeron e picoLILLY measures 51x40x6 mm and munication in one robust and reliable device. processor N3000 family are based on Intel’s combines a powerful ARM 11 processor up e high performance subsystem provides 14nm architecture for entry systems, which to 532 MHz with comprehensive multime- high power density combined with a large safe is proved 2x graphics performance improve- dia-functionality on smallest space. e scal- operating area. Innovative features o er a new ment, Up to 16% battery life improvement, ability of the processor o ers several solutions: approach for protecting the IPM in addition better I/O support, and better performance at With or without LCD controller, also available to high modularity, increased design exibil- low thermals with previous generations. with a 3D graphic accelerator and therefore ity and security. News ID 3067 compatible with OpenVG1.1. News ID 3047 News ID 3181 Sierra Wireless: device-to-cloud Microchip: A/D converters feature technology enables telematics Infineon and Google ATAP to low-power 14-/12-bit, 200 solution for Arval develop sensing solution Msps stand-alone ADCs Sierra Wireless announced that Arval has In neon Technologies announced that it is Microchip announces two families of new high- selected Sierra Wireless device-to-cloud tech- working with Google’s Advanced Technology speed A/D converters: the MCP37DX0-200 nology to build its new global telematics solu- and Projects group (ATAP) to develop a sens- and MCP372X0-200 families. ese families tion. e telematics on-board unit wirelessly ing solution. Potential applications include feature 12- and 14- bit pipelined A/D convert- connects to the cellular network with Sierra wearables, internet of things and automotive ers with a maximum sampling rate of 200 Msps. Wireless AirPrime embedded modules. Tar- applications. First implementations which e 12- and 14-bit devices feature high perfor- geted at enterprise eet managers, the service provide gesture recognition and presence mance of over 67 dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio enables them to track mileage, fuel consump- detection capability for a range of future and over 96 dB Spurious Free Dynamic Range. tion, driver behavior, and maintenance, as devices were demonstrated by Google ATAP is enables high-precision measurements of well as utilize usage-based insurance models this week at its Google I/O Developers Con- fast input signals. for cost savings. ference in San Francisco. News ID 3040 News ID 3198 News ID 3086
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Artesyn: MaxCore platform for DFI: Atom SoC processor-based Maxim: wearable galvanic SDN/NFV and carrier cloud 15” light industrial Panel PC skin response system Artesyn Embedded Technologies launched DFI launched the KS150-BT into its light Wearables developers can now immediately the MaxCore carrier cloud platform, which industrial touch panel PC product line today. evaluate galvanic skin response sensing with enables providers of networking equipment, e IP65-rated fanless Panel PC adopts low- the MAXREFDES73# reference design from and communications and cloud services to power Intel® AtomTM E3800 SoC processor Maxim Integrated Products. Applying GSR create NFV/SDN appliances quickly and eas- with 22nm process technology. e KS150-BT (measurement of skin‘s conductivity) is a chal- ily using industry-standard hardware and is available in both 5-wire resistive and pro- lenge because designers need to manipulate so ware building blocks. e versatile Max- jected capacitive 15” LCD true-at touch several discrete chips and calibration so ware Core architecture enables operators to create screen panel. before completing the sensor design. e either massively dense single-function appli- News ID 3061 MAXREFDES73# integrates DAC and ADC ances or to deploy multiple independent vir- converters, a microcontroller with advanced tual network functions on a single platform, Axiomtek: fanless vehicle Box power management, rmware, and an easy- or multiple clouds-in-a-box. PC endures up to 3Grms to-use Android app into the industry’s rst News ID 3123 Axiomtek has launched its eMark and ISO7637 GSR reference design. certi ed embedded computer, the tBOX313- News ID 3058 CES: COTS, safety-certifiable SBC 835-FL. e fanless in-vehicle box PC comes XMC mezzanine module with onboard quad-core Intel Atom proces- AAEON: BOXER-6403 to maximize Creative Electronic Systems announces the sor E3845 and 4 GB DDR3L system memory. performance-per-area MFCC-8557: the rst COTS, safety-certi able, e powerful tBOX313-835-FL features vehi- AAEON launches the award winning BOXER- rugged, Single Board Computer XMC mezza- cle-friendly power design (ISO-7637 certi- 6403 embedded box PC, one of the most com- nine module engineered for the most stringent ed) to prevent electrical transient damage. It pact embedded box PC on the market. By mission-critical & safety-critical Aerospace & supports isolated COM, LAN, CAN bus, and replacing the traditional heat sink in favor of Defense applications. Designed as an XMC DIO ports to enhance system operation reli- a full aluminum enclosure for cooling, the box mezzanine module, using a Computer On ability in vehicle applications. PC manages to achieve the dimensions of 158 Module approach, the MFCC-8557 provides News ID 3021 x 95 x 20mm. a powerful computing engine to bring safe- News ID 2970 ty-certi ability to VPX based systems. Pentair: 3D product data and services News ID 3109 for designers on TraceParts ADLINK: compact, military grade rugged Pentair announces its extension of additional systems for mission and payload SECO announce new part- 1,600 CAD drawings available on TracePart- computing nership with Solair sOnline.net, which include electronics cabi- ADLINK releases the compact, extreme rug- SECO is proud to announce the new part- nets, embedded systems, power supply units ged HPERC-IBR-H Series military grade nership with Solair, an application platform and backplanes. Up to now, there have been system in a sealed, IP67-rated enclosure fea- for the Internet of ings that makes cus- over 2,750 3D data records of Pentair’s Schro turing high speed MIL-DTL-38999 connec- tomers’ business smarter by connecting it to products available, from subracks and 19“ tors. At just 63.5/100mm x 150/178mm x their products through compelling IoT appli- chassis to desktop enclosures and front panels. 203mm, the HPERC-IBR-H Series is a highly cations. e SECO-Solair mission is to cre- News ID 3117 integrated, compact VITA 75 compliant unit ate innovation in the IIoT (Industrial IoT) almost 30% smaller than other leading com- market, a value proposition where product ARBOR: expert medical station with petitive products1. and service become a “product-as-a-service”, a 21.5” true flat touch screen News ID 2965 oering complete end-to-end solutions that ARBOR Technology releases the ARBOR make it quick and easy to connect and man- M2150, a high-powered 21.5” medical-grade compute and media server age customers’ devices through a powerful workstation. e M2150 oers two selec- e ARTESYN Embedded Technologies Max- cloud-based service, creating value with the tions of platforms, 4th generation Intel Core Core platform oers a versatile and dense data collected that would not be of much use i5-4402E 1.6 GHz processor, or i5-4422E 1.8 architecture to achieve maximum compute on its own. GHz processor, both of which provide signif- and media processing density. rough its News ID 3211 icant data processing and transmission per- use of Artesyn technology microserver cards, formance. anks to integrated Intel® HD Artesyn media processing PCI Express cards Research project works on drive Graphics 4600, the new model provides superb and 3rd party PCI Express cards, it oers train of electric vehicles visual performance and razor-sharp imaging. maximum exibility, maximum density per e research project “HV-ModAL” aims to News ID 3020 rack unit, and unmatched innovation in make the drive train of electric vehicles even design for both datacenter and carrier grade more powerful than the current ones. Within Avalue is ready to get in applications. the next three years, HV-ModAL wants to MES applications News ID 3151 create an electric drive train modular system Avalue to meet the era of Industry 4.0, the toolbox, which is suitable for a wide range trend of intelligent manufacturing and the IBASE: 7-inch wide screen of electric cars from various manufacturers. trend IoT, Avalue integrate professions of all-in-one Panel PC us, the ten partners from the whole auto- industrial computer designs and experience IBASE Technology has released the BYTEM- motive value chain and the sciences intend to of providing services to automation custom- W071-PC, a 7-inch wide screen all-in-one further expand the global market position of ers to get into this market. e rst phase will Panel PC that utilizes Intel Atom processors the German automotive industry in the eld focus on Manufacturing Execution System to provide high computing performance of electric vehicles – purely electric, plug-in (MES) and a full range of product is ready to and low power consumption for touch panel hybrids and small transport vehicles. go to market. solutions. 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DFI: low-power industrial boards TI: MaxCharge technology cuts ware, o ering 6x the performance of pure based on 4th Intel Core U series battery-charge time by 60 percent soware transcoding solutions and reserving DFI introduces its complete 4th generation Enabling faster and cooler charging, Texas more than 80% of CPU capacity for customer Intel Core U Series product line. Due to the Instruments introduced the industry’s rst applications. increasing demands of low-power boards fully integrated 5-A single-cell lithium-ion- News ID 2943 and modules, DFI is trying to develop perfect battery-charger circuit with proprietary Max- products to meet the requirements. At present, Charge technology that reduces charge time Kane Computing: Sundance adds DFI has 4 industrial motherboards (HU101, up to 60 percent compared to existing battery low-cost Artix-7 FPGA to PC/104 HU103, HU171, HU173), 2 embedded SBCs chargers. e bq25892 switch-mode charger Kane Computing announce that Sundance (HU551, HU553), and 1 COM Express Com- gives users a safer charging experience while Multiprocessor Technology has taken full pact (HU968). still maximizing the bene ts of a faster charge advantage of the current generation of low- News ID 2987 time, currently unseen in the industry est-cost Xilinx Artix-7 family, integrating News ID 2998 four-lanes of Gen2 PCI-Express and re-pro- Exar:sensor interface connects grammable logic using the free Xilinx Vivado multiple sensors to MCUs or FPGAs SECO: SBC with Freescale’s i.MX6 2015 tools and designed it onto the latest Exar introduces a highly integrated sensor runs either Android 4.3 or Linux PC/104 form-factor, called OneBank. interface analog front end (AFE) that provides SECO announce the new low-end Single News ID 3228 calibration of sensor outputs. e XR10910 Board Computer with the Freescale i.MX6 o ers an onboard 16:1 di erential multiplexer, processor. One year aer the launch of UDOO Concurrent: 10 GbE and 6 Gbps o set correction DAC, programmable gain (open hardware, low-cost single-board SAS/SATA XMC modules instrumentation ampli er and voltage ref- Android/Linux ARM-based computer with Concurrent Technologies has released two erence. is AFE provides 14-bit signal path Arduino Due compatible integration), SECO new XMC modules to provide integrators linearity and is designed to connect multiple has been collecting a lot of feedback from the with a method of introducing 10 Gigabit Eth- bridge sensors to a microcontroller (MCU) or market, and noticed that the industry was ernet or 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports into their eld-programmable gate array (FPGA) with seeking a exible and powerful solution, but existing or future systems. XMC modules are an embedded ADC. at low cost and with low power consumption widely used to add functionality to a range of News ID 3226 at the same time. modular, open standards based form factor News ID 3209 boards including VPX, VME and Compact- VadaTech: AMC with Dual DAC @ PCI within the defense, security, telecommu- 5.7 GSPS and Virtex-7 FPGA Concurrent: 3U CompactPCI board with nications, scienti c and industrial markets. VadaTech now o ers a single module AMC 4th gen Intel Core i7/i5 processor News ID 3225 that has a dual DAC and high-performance Concurrent Technologies has released TP FPGA. e module is ideal for RADAR sig- B1x/3sd, a 3U CompactPCI board based Avalue: BSW series Embedded BVM: nal processing and jamming applications. on 4th generation Intel Core i7/i5 processor. Celeron Baytrail industrial grade e AMC529 combines the functionality Depending on the application requirements, Mini-ITX motherboard of VadaTech’s FPGA Carriers and digitizing two processor options are o ered as standard: e BVM Group has added the new ASRock FMCs. the 4-core Intel Core i7-4700EQ at up to 3.4 IMB-153 to its extensive Mini-ITX embed- News ID 2961 GHz and the 2-core Intel Core i5-4422E at up ded motherboard portfolio, which includes to 2.9 GHz. TP B1x/3sd is designed to give units optimised for use across the spec- Pentair: Schroff individual front panels existing customers an upgrade path for long trum of power v performance requirements. with high-quality multicolor printing life-cycles with a useful performance boost Intended for use in moderate performance Today there is an increasing demand for prod- compared to the earlier TP 702/38x which is applications such as POS, kiosk, video dis- uct individualization and customization. Print- based on a 2-core Intel Core i7 processor run- play and thin clients, the IMB-153 o ers ing directly on equipment gives users useful ning at 2.53 GHz maximum. entry level performance, low power con- information - not just the equipment name News ID 2945 sumption and fanless operation. e quad- but also important operational and functional core Celeron J1900 Baytrail-M processor elements. Furthermore, there is a growing CES: ROCK-3 series of VNX-based, operates at 2.0 GHz, has a 2 MB L2 cache and demand for creating high brand awareness, rugged mission computers addresses up to 8 GB of dual-channel DDR3 which in turn drives demand for customized Creative Electronic Systems announces the 1333 MHz system memory. printing to reect corporate identity. integration of the Intel Atom E3845 processor News ID 3128 News ID 2957 in the ROCK-3 series as well as support for Wind River safe and secure operating system boards based on Pentium/ DAVE and Braemac announces along with CoreAVI’s real time and safety crit- Celeron processor N3000 business partnership ical suite of OpenGL drivers. CES ROCK-3 Avalue is introducing the 5.25-inch Single Braemac has entered into a business part- family is the rst product line of mission com- Board Computer – EBM-BSW, Qseven Solu- nership with DAVE Embedded Systems to puters based on VNX (a.k.a. VITA 74); a stan- tion – EQM-BSW and COMe Solution – ESM- distribute embedded solutions to customers dards-based approach to conduction-cooled BSW, based on Intel Braswell – M/D Processor worldwide, including SOM, SBC, and SSD. small form factor systems. Family. e Intel Pentium/Celeron processor is relationship positions Braemac to par- News ID 2999 N3000 family are based on Intel’s 14nm archi- ticipate in the growing IOT industry. DAVE tecture for entry systems, which is proved 2x Embedded Systems relationship with Smart ADLINK: dedicated media server graphics performance improvement, Up to Embedded Solutions will also assist Braemac targets video applications 16% battery life improvement, better I/O sup- in providing technical support in the Silicon ADLINK introduced the MCS-2040, the rst port, and better performance at low thermals Valley. dedicated media server on the market with with previous generations. News ID 2953 built-in media processing management so- News ID 3216
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Microchip: dsPIC33EP “GS” family SECO products based on Atom optimised for digital power applications E3800 and Celeron families SoC Microchip announces the 14-member SECO introduces a broad range of state-of- dsPIC33EP “GS” family of Digital Signal Con- the-art and fully scalable Intel Atom E3800 trollers (DSCs). e dsPIC33EP “GS” family and Celeron (“Bay Trail”) SoC embedded Editors delivers the performance needed to imple- boards in the Qseven, μQseven, COM Express, Jürgen Hübner ment more sophisticated non-linear, predic- ETX 3.0 and pico-ITX Form Factors. phone +49(0)8092-2477413 fax +49(0)8092-2477429 tive and adaptive control algorithms at higher News ID 3213 [email protected] switching frequencies. ese advanced algo- rithms enable power-supply designs that are Mouser: global distribution agreement Wolfgang Patelay more energy e cient and have better pow- with DAVE Embedded Systems [email protected] er-supply speci cations. Mouser Electronics has entered into a global Tony Devereux News ID 3023 distribution agreement and partnership with [email protected] DAVE Embedded Systems. Mouser is cur- SECO: COM-Express Type 6 Microchip: rently stocking DAVE Embedded Systems’ For Reader Inquiries and Address Changes please contact: Software Decoder Framework SOMs and CPU modules based on ARM [email protected] and WMA Decoder Library architectures. ese modules are supported Microchip announces the PIC32 Harmony by both high-end and entry-level models and Sales & Marketing Director Soware Decoder Framework and Micro- development tools, targeting medical, indus- Manfred Blumoser phone +49(0)8092-2477411 so Windows Media Audio (WMA) Decoder trial, defence, telecommunications and auto- fax +49(0)8092-2477429 Library for 32-bit PIC32 MCU-based consum- motive applications. [email protected] er-audio application development within the News ID 3200 Claudia Mellein MPLAB Harmony Integrated Soware Frame- [email protected] work. e WMA Decoder Library includes a WynMax: 15” Panel PC features new modular framework for audio decoders, projected capacitive touchscreen Christiane Lockner including support for MP3 and AAC, allowing with 350nits brightness [email protected] easier audio application development. WynMax has launched new product Indus- Sales Office - UK and USA, Benelux, News ID 3170 trial Panel PC WPPC-1509F-P-E38451 which Scandinavia is powered by Intel Atom E3845 1.91GHz Blue Sky Communications Avalue launches Rity RISC series quad-core processor. is powerful industrial Malcolm Cameron 21 Cliffe Avenue Android POS terminal panel PC is a 15” multi-touch panel computer Westbrook, Avalue Technology launches the new Rity and it features projected capacitive touch- Margate, Kent CT9 5DU, UK RISC series: Rity8R1, Rity10R1, Rity12R and screen with 350nits brightness. phone +44 (0)77 88-10 84 11 fax +44 (0)80 82-8010 57 Rity15R, an Android POS terminal. e Rity News ID 3158 [email protected] series is powered by the latest Freescale i.MX6 Cortex-A9 Dual lite/Quad 1GHz CPU, along AAEON enables intelligent Sales Office - Asia with 1GB or 2GB DDR3 RAM, 4GB eMMC vehicles with BOXER-6301VS Jean Cheng, [email protected] Vivian Hung, [email protected] storage support up to 64GB by Mini SD and AAEON presents the BOXER-6301VS Embed- Innovative Media Information & Services outstanding 2D and 3D graphics. e Rity ded Box PC, a rugged, embedded computer 7F-3, No. 26, Sec. 2, Ming-Quan East Rd. series not only supports OTA (Over-the-air) speci cally designed for in-vehicle usage. Taipei 104 Taiwan service to help customers to update their sys- Acknowledging some of the most common phone +886 2 2563 1186 tem in real time but also supports rich I/O scenarios present inside a vehicle, the BOX- Head Office port for diverse expansion: two COM ports ER-6310VS is built with a number of features and two USB ports for POS peripherals, one that can eectively overcome these problems/ mini SD card slot for storage expansion, one limitations. One such example is protecting the RJ-11 Connector for Cash Drawer, one HDMI computer from constant power uctuations. Connector for dual display, one LAN port and News ID 3145 ICC Media GmbH optional 2nd LAN port, one mini PCIe and Rauwagnerstr. 5 SIM card slot for wi / 3G internet application. MicroMax: fully sealed fanless platform 85560 Ebersberg / Germany News ID 2958 designed for rapid deployment Editorial Office UK MicroMax announces the introduction of 36a Blackacre Road DFI: industrial-grade Mini-ITX its high performance platform, the M-Max Theydon Bois motherboards with Atom, Intel 800 EP2/PLT, which allows quick client/ eld Essex, CM16 7LU Core and AMD platform upgradability with additional I/O boards Copyright© All rights reserved. DFI introduces its industrial-grade thin Mini- and a selection of external connectors. e No part of this publication may be reproduced or ITX motherboards based on Intel Atom, Intel M-Max 800 EP2/PLT is designed for rapid transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior express written permission of ICC Media. Core, and AMD platform. e design con- deployment of customized systems having Although we make every effort to present up-to- cept is to satisfy the trend of tiny chassis and their own sets of PCI-104 expansion boards date, accurate information, boards&solutions will not be responsible for any errors or omissions or for any smaller PCs. us, in Mini-ITX series is and external connectors. e base platform results obtained from the use of such information. only 25 mm in height and it features excellent includes: 2 x CAN, 2 x 10/100 Mbit Ethernet, The magazine will not be liable for any loss caused by the reliance on information obtained on this site. performance, rich I/O, and low power con- Gigabit Ethernet, 2 x USB 2.0, and VGA. e Furthermore, boards&solutions does not warrant the sumption. Systems integrator can capitalize base platform is equipped with an integrated accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics in this magazine. The opinions expressed on the bene ts of a reduction in total system heating system and allows installation of addi- in the articles are those of the authors and not costs due to a reduced system size. tional heating systems for customer boards. necessarily the opinions of the publisher. News ID 2972 News ID 2968
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ADLINK: Embedded Design Sierra Wireless: mobile gateway Services for EMEA region to provide seamless multi- COMPANY PAGE ADLINK Technology announced availabil- network connectivity ity of its new A+ Services o ering to address Sierra Wireless announced commercial avail- ADLINK 11 the complete development process of carrier ability of FirstNet Band 14 LTE support for boards for a variety of form factors. Capabil- the InMotion Solutions oMG2000 mobile Commell 27 ities available in the new package include full gateway. is multi-network gateway is also custom designs, so ware, and system integra- certied for use on AT&T, Verizon Wireless, congatec 29 tion from concept to mass production. and Sprint LTE networks, with the ability to News ID 3015 switch as required to optimize coverage for mission critical communications. With an Digi-Key 2 DDC awarded Boeing 777X ARINC integrated radio module supporting Band 14 629 optical converter contract LTE, the oMG2000 now o ers support for the EBV 7 Data Device Corporation has been awarded dedicated FirstNet network being deployed a contract by e Boeing Company to pro- for public safety agencies and other rst Advertisers Index ELMA 49 vide the ARINC 629 Plastic Optical Converter responders. (APOC) for use on the Boeing 777X. e News ID 3077 Green Hills 5 APOC is a Line Replaceable Unit that contains an array of Optical Media Converters that 3S-Smart: new tool for runtime Lauterbach 13 convert electrical ARINC 629 signals from measurement of PLC projects each system LRU into optical signals that can e CODESYS Proler — a CODESYS Devel- M2M Alliance 56 communicate on a Passive Optical Network opment System add-on — measures and eval- using Plastic Optical Fiber. uates the processing times of di erent blocks Mouser Electronics 47 News ID 3130 in IEC 61131-3 applications. From within the familiar development environment, these MPL 15 IBASE: Mini-ITX motherboard with measurements are performed in the applica- triple independent displays tion development phase on either the physi- MSC Technologies 3 IBASE has released the MI808, its latest Mini- cal target device or the CODESYS So SPS. ITX Motherboard to support DC power input. When the measurement process is complete, Peak System 17 e board can be powered by a 1.6GHz (Up to the IEC 61131-3 project will not contain any 2.4GHz) Intel Pentium N3700 or 1.04GHz (up coding residue from preparatory changes to to 2.08GHz) Celeron N3000 processor and is the application code. e CODESYS Proler PLS 9 paired with two DDR3L SO-DIMM sockets detects runtime issues and identies slug- that accept up to 8GB of memory. With triple gish programming early in the development Portwell 30 independent displays, it is scalable to adapt to phase, conveniently providing end users with various applications in transportation, mobile, valuable data for optimizing the application Review Display Systems 55 POS and industrial automation markets. code. In addition, the comparison of past News ID 3121 measurements with current measurements Rohde & Schwarz 21 delivers reliable information about the actual Curtiss-Wright: rugged SBCs based code eciency. Furthermore, end users do VadaTech 25 on 5th gen Intel Core i7 processor not need to make any changes to the appli- Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that cation code before the measurement. Finally, its Defense Solutions division has launched because all blocks in an application can be Rutronik: “Fit & Forget!”-DIN-Rail a family of Single Board Computer modules measured simultaneously, engineering e orts power supplies from RECOM based on the recently introduced 5th Gen are reduced considerably as compared to At the PCIM, Rutronik presents the two new Intel Core i7 processor. Designed for use manual measurements. DIN-Rail power supply families from co-exhib- in aerospace and defense applications, the News ID 3137 itor RECOM, the REDIN45 and the REDIN60 rst members of the new SBC family to be with 45W and 60W power respectively. e announced include the 3U OpenVPX VPX3- TI: IC providing closed-loop “Fit & Forget!” PSUs come with a high reliabil- 1259, the 6U OpenVPX VPX6-1959, and the current sensing ity and a long, trouble-free life. e PSUs from 6U VME VME-1909. Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s RECOM are available with standard output News ID 3102 rst magnetic sensing integrated circuit (IC) voltages of 12VDC and 24VDC, adjustable by with a fully integrated uxgate sensor and a front cover potentiometer. SEL: compact industrial computer compensation coil driver, along with all the News ID 2981 with 10-year warranty required signal conditioning circuitry. Com- e new SEL-3360S from Schweitzer Engi- plete integration enables the DRV421 to Microchip: projected-capacitive touch neering Laboratories (SEL) features Intel provide best-in-class sensor accuracy and lin- controller for touch pads and screens Core i7 dual- and quad-core processors, –40 earity, high dynamic range, and simpler system Microchip announces a new addition to its to +75°C operation, no vents and no moving design compared to traditional closed-loop Human Interface Solutions portfolio with parts. To ensure the highest reliability, SEL’s sensors. With the DRV421, system designers the MTCH6303, an innovative, turnkey pro- newest industrial computer supports two will be able to more easily develop magnetic jected-capacitive touch controller for touch solid-state 2.5“ SATA drives and RAID con- closed-loop current sensors for applications pads and screens. Touch sensors with up to gurations and uses single-level cell NAND such as motor control, renewable energy, bat- 1000 nodes and diagonals of up to 10” are ash. tery chargers and power monitoring. supported. News ID 3087 News ID 3093 News ID 3201
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SECO extends distribution network in Japan CHERRY: evaluation kit demonstrates Energy SECO announces the new distribution agreement with ASK Corpo- Harvesting Switch Technology ration for the Japanese market. As a full-service distributor, the ASK CHERRY Industrial Solutions has released an updated Evaluation Kit Corporation serves clients as a virtual satellite o ce with brand-cen- 2.0 to demonstrate their Energy Harvesting Switch Technology. e tric, strategic approach to market deployment utilizing years of various kit, containing an energy harvesting generator, rocker switch and a industry experience and multi-faceted and diverse channels through snap-action switch, receiver with antenna, USB cable and receiver man- transparent communication and trust. ual, provides users with a functional demonstration of the Cherry tech- News ID 3034 nology and the ability to test key parameters, including signal strength and range, in their own application. DFI: ruggedized Industrial Ethernet switches News ID 3196 with wide operating temperature Targeting for the IoT network and Industry 4.0 application, DFI has AAEON: rugged tablet with multiple wireless capabilities launched six new industrial Ethernet switches (IE500-MPB1300, AAEON announces the latest entry in the company’s RTC-700 tablet IE500-MNB1300, IE500-MNB1100, IE200-UPE0600, IE200-UNB1000, series, the versatile RTC-700C. Powered by an Intel processor running IE200-UNB0501) to provide versatile copper and ber Ethernet a Windows 8 operating system, the RTC-700C incorporates hardware connectivity. features most conducive for implementation in wide-ranging applica- News ID 3214 tions. A series of optional accessories are also available for expanded functionalities. Barr Group: Embedded Systems Training Courses in Germany News ID 3073 Embedded systems engineers and so ware developers in Europe will have access this November to in-depth, specialized training courses Axiomtek: slim-type 17” industrial touch panel computer aimed at helping them build safe, reliable, and secure products. Barr Axiomtek has announced the arrival of the P1177S-881, its new work- Group, industry experts in the reliability and security of embedded station-level industrial touch panel computer with rich I/O interface systems, today announced plans to host several of its most popular options. e high performance industrial touch panel PC is equipped embedded systems training courses internationally for the rst time in with a 17-inch SXGA TFT LCD display and IP65 compliant front bezel. Munich, Germany. is rugged slim-type panel PC supports 4th Generation Intel Core i7/ News ID 3195 i5/i3 or Celeron processors in an LGA1150 socket with the Intel H81 Express chipset. Imagination upgrades Creator CI20 micro-computer News ID 3042 Imagination Technologies announces signi cant upgrades for its high-performance, low-power MIPS-based Creator CI20 develop- ment board featuring a PowerVR GPU. e new board includes full support for Imagination’s FlowCloud IoT platform; a square form fac- tor; a modi ed board layout to optimise Wi-Fi speed and stability; and updated so ware for Linux and Android. e new so ware features are fully compatible with all CI20 boards already shipped. News ID 3030
K2L: MOST PCI toolkit for automotive infotainment K2L announced version 4.2.0 of its MOST PCI Tool Kit, which further eases the simulation of MOST technology-based automotive infotain- ment systems and devices for rapid prototyping, veri cation and test. is new version features signi cant enhancements, including support for MOST150 coax (cPHY) and the addition of the MOST Stream so - ware tool with an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that speeds the setup of synchronous and isochronous streaming connections. News ID 3173
Cortus: development platform for APS processor IP cores Cortus announced the availability of a Development Platform for Cor- tus’ APS processor cores today. e Cortus Development Platform comprises a board based on a Xilinx Spartan-6X75, the Cortus Eclipse IDE and Cortus GCC toolchain. e board includes an I/O footprint compatible with the Arduino Due enabling the wide choice of Arduino Due-compatible shields to be used to extend the platform. News ID 3106
Melexis: QVGA time-of-flight imaging evaluation kit Melexis has strengthened the support offered for its time-of- flight sensing technology. The EVK75023 evaluation kit accompa- nies its MLX75023 QVGA (320x240pixels) resolution ToF sensor with high dynamic range DepthSenseTM pixels. This new hard- ware platform enables implementation of more advanced human machine interfaces. News ID 3219
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