Sectionheading: New Products

@sectionheading: Product News @text: ======Intel Unveils Digital Signage Concept Intel Corporation demonstrated a new 7-foot-6-inch multi-user, multi-touch Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Concept. Customers can use the holographic screen to explore merchandise, find out about promotions, submit feedback on products, read customer reviews, view past purchasing histories and share what they have discovered with their friends via social media and mobile phone integration. Multiple consumers can use this side-by-side window display simultaneously to explore augmented reality-enabled maps of each floor of the store, on which retailers can superimpose images such as coupons and sales promotions next to the product visualizations on the glass. Built-in camera technology analyzes data such as gender and age, audience composition, time-of-day and other criteria, which enable the system to display tailored content and graphics based on estimated demographics. The system anonymously sends audience information to advertisers who can use that information to understand the type of content and messages that are most popular with viewers. The media player platform, integrated in Intel’s concept, is running on the recently released Intel® Core™ i7 processor with Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2011 platform optimized for digital signage applications. The jointly developed platform is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2010.

======congatec Bases COM Express Module on Intel® Core™ i7 Processor congatec AG extends its COM Express product family with the highest performance module conga-BM57. It features the latest Intel® Core™ i7-620M processor with a core speed of 2.66 GHz, with 4 MByte L2 cache and up to 8 GByte fast (1066 MT/s) dual channel DDR3 memory. The conga-BM57 is a two-chip solution which utilizes the powerful Mobile Intel® QM57 Express Chipset. The integrated graphics controller is supporting the Intel® Flexible Display Interface (FDI) in order to allow for two independent video channels on VGA, LVDS, HDMI, DisplayPort or SDVO interfaces.

The major highlight of the COM Express Basic (95x125mm) module with a type 2 connector pin-out is the boosted graphics performance. The 3D performance was increased substantially over the last generation of Intel integrated graphics. Paired with the additional computing performance of the Intel® Core™ i7 processor the conga-BM57 is an ideal solution for intense graphics applications which are often found in gaming or medical image applications.

======Intel Announces Next-Generation Atom Platform The new Intel Atom processors feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation of devices. The Atom processor was designed from the ground up for small devices and low power, and remains Intel’s smallest chip, built on the company’s 45nm high-k metal gate manufacturing process. The overall package, including chipset, just got smaller due to the increasing integration and 45nm manufacturing, which means smaller, more compact system designs, lower costs for OEMs and improved performance. The N450 is a single core Atom processor with 512k of L2 cache and a 7 watt total kit TDP including chipset. The D410 for entry-level desktop PCs is a single-core Atom processor with 512k of L2 cache and a 12-watt total kit TDP including chipset, and the D510 for entry-level desktop PCs is a dual core Atom processor with 1meg L2 cache and a 15-watt total kit TDP including chipset. The new chips all run at 1.66GHz. ======Emerson Network Power Launches Intel® Atom™ Embedded Computing Platforms Emerson’s new COMX-ATOM-420 COM Express module and MITX-ATOM-440 Mini- ITX motherboard extend the company’s fast-growing line of computer-on-modules and small form factor motherboards designed for use in a variety of digital signage, medical, industrial automation and surveillance applications. Both motherboards are configured with a wide range of built-in devices to facilitate connectivity with standard PC interfaces, including LCD and CRT displays, SATA disks, PCI Express peripherals, Gigabit Ethernet networks and USB devices/disks. In addition, interactions between low- level hardware and operating system-level interfaces are efficiently managed by the latest-generation Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS to ensure ease of use and outstanding reliability. Based on the Type 2 COM Express format, the Emerson COMX–ATOM-420 module is ideal for applications that need to incorporate state-of-the-art x86-based processor and graphics technology onto a custom I/O carrier. The Emerson MITX-ATOM-440 motherboard is based on the popular 170 by 169 millimeter Mini-ITX form factor, providing customers with the right mix of processing and graphics capabilities without compromising efficient, cost-effective design.

======Arista Corporation Ships Fanless Core2 Duo Industrial Computer BoxPC-238D The BoxPC-238D is Arista Corporation's newest next generation fanless industrial computer. It deploys propriety internal thermal dissipation design, careful component design and advanced chassis engineering. The BoxPC-238D is powered by an Intel Core2 Duo processor and is available with up to 4GB of DDR2-667 RAM. This provides a consistent, reliable performance at accelerated speeds due to an assortment of high powered processor. The BoxPC-238D is capable of interfacing with the optional dual 1394B firewire or USB ports and this feature helps to support the machine vision applications. The other key features include a dual swappable 2.5" SSD/HDD drive bay, PCI expansion slots, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, dual video outputs (DVI + VGA), and quad USB 2.0 ports. The compactly designed chassis accommodates all these features which in turn enable additional cards and hardware to be plugged in for expanding the PC's memory or upgrading its performance.

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Orchid Technologies Designs Intel ATOM Z540 Processor Boards Orchid Technologies has successfully integrated Atom Z540 Processors into industrial controller applications, vision system applications, communications processors, and handheld devices. Critical to the success of any custom Intel Architecture design is the Embedded Controller. The company has developed and ported numerous Embedded Controller designs based on the Renesas 2117 and Renesas 2472 H8 processors offering ACPI, PS2 Keyboard, and Power Sequencing services. It has customizes BIOS for these applications’ specific needs and port and write custom firmware for your specific needs. The company specializes in rapid design cycles, demanding technical requirements, and unforgiving schedules. ======

Enea Enhances Optima Software Tools for Multicore Development

Enea announced the availability of its Optima 2.2 Eclipse-based integrated development environment. The software features new capabilities for rapidly developing complex embedded multicore applications including enhanced profiling, analysis and memory management. The Optima System Profiler allows users to monitor the CPU usage of all cores, programs and threads at the same time. It also permits the user to experiment with system performance by analyzing scenarios involving the moving of specific code from one core to another. The Optima Log Analyzer allows users to correlate logs even when no common timestamps exist. Additionally, the new Optima Heap Browser provides insight into overall heap memory usage, as well details about individual process usage and buffers, for optimization and error detection purposes. The Enea Optima tool suite is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment targeting the Enea OSE®, Enea OSEck and many other popular real-time and embedded operating systems.

======DDC-I’s Safety-Critical RTOS for Intel’s Atom Embedded Processor The Deos™ safety-critical real-time operating system and OpenArbor™ software development tools now provide architecture support for Intel’s Atom embedded processor to accelerate the development, deployment, and DO-178B certification of safety-critical avionics applications targeting Atom-based systems. DDC-I also supports Compulab Ltd.’s fit-PC2 reference board, which facilitates rapid prototyping, development and testing of application code targeting Atom-based safety-critical systems running Deos. Development support for the Atom processor and Deos RTOS includes DDC-I’s Eclipse- based OpenArbor integrated development environment (IDE). Featuring C and C++ optimizing compilers, OpenArbor provides a color-coded source editor, project management support, automated build/make utilities, and a multi-window symbolic debugger. ======Arium SourcePoint 7.7.1 Debugger Offers Linux OS-Aware Support for Intel® AtomTM Processors Arium released SourcePoint™ 7.7.1, the latest version of the company's flagship debugger. Features and Benefits include: Engineers can now trace code execution using various hardware resources. Trace can be captured and displayed in SourcePoint in excess of 1 GB of captured instructions. Executed instructions can be viewed in either assembly, C/C++, or both. SPI and CFI devices can be programmed through SourcePoint eliminating the need for an external programming device. SourcePoint for Intel is now Linux OS-aware. Developers can debug the kernel, loadable kernel modules, and applications including threads. This seamless debug environment supports popular Linux builds including Moblin, MontaVista Linux, Wind River Linux, and all 2.6 versions from Kernel.org. It is available with the purchase of an Arium ECM-XDP3 emulator and to all ECM-XDP/XDP3 customers. ======Extreme Engineering Offers Low-Power 3U VPX SBC Based on the Intel® CoreTM2 Duo Processor Extreme Engineering Solutions’ XPedite7172 is a high-performance Single-Board Computer (SBC) featuring the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, six SATA ports and two SERDES Gigabit Ethernet ports. The XPedite7172 is ideal for military, commercial, and industrial embedded computing applications. Configurable as either air-cooled or conduction-cooled, the XPedite7172 is designed to meet a wide range of environmental requirements. The XPedite7172 hosts numerous I/O ports through the P2 backplane connector, supporting RTM I/O in development platforms and backplane/bulkhead I/O in deployed systems. A XMC expansion slot provides easy product customization and an optional I/O module allows convenient front-panel access to serial, Ethernet, and USB ports during lab development. ======Symwave Achieves USB 3.0 Device Silicon Certification Symwave announced its SW6316 USB 3.0 to SATA storage controller has achieved the World’s first USB 3.0 peripheral silicon certification by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). The USB-IF initiated the USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) Compliance and Certification Program in September and is considered the gold standard for testing USB products. The certification of Symwave’s device means that Symwave’s OEM customers can feature the "SuperSpeed Certified" logo on their products, giving consumers the ultimate confidence of interoperability, compliance, and performance as set forth by the USB-IF. ======

High Density Serial-ATA Embedded Solid State Drive Viking Modular Solutions™ has introduced SATA Cube3™, an embedded solid state drive (SSD) designed as an ultra small form factor, embedded industrial grade Serial ATA (SATA) SSD. It is designed for OEM designers in the embedded, server, storage, networking and industrial sectors. Designers of form factors such as ATCA, uTCA, AMC, XMC, PMC and PCIe will find the low volumetric density and high storage capacity of the SATA Cube3 a strong solution for their space constrained applications. It has been designed for the most demanding of environmental conditions where a ruggedized solution is highly beneficial. This option enables OEMs to design solutions with the high capacity and high reliability of a 2.5” or 1.8” SDD, but with the smallest mechanical footprint available today at 30x32mm. Available in densities of 4GB to 256GB, and with sustained read and write speeds of 110MB/sec and 79MB/sec respectively, the drive is 86 percent smaller than a 2.5” SSD/HDD. It is available as a BGA device or with a MicroSATA connector.

======AXIOMTEK Offers Embedded-Oriented Intel® Atom™ Pico-ITX SBC The AXIOMTEK PICO821 Pico-ITX SBC supports the ultra low power Intel® Atom™ processor Z510 1.1GHz and Z530 1.6GHz at 400/533 FSB with the Intel® System Controller Hub US15W. The PICO821 is an incredibly small 10 x 7.2 cm embedded board based on Pico-ITX form factor, the world's smallest x86 embedded board. Instead of built-up a full set of I/O connectors soldered onto the board edge, the PICO821 provides internal connectors for COM, Gigabit Ethernet, USB, audio, video and more, which provides embedded developers with flexibility. This extreme small form factor embedded platform can meet today’s customers’ needs of fanless operation, low-power consumption, compact-size, flexibility and versatile I/O. Its applications include in- vehicle PCs, in-flight entertainment systems or industrial automation systems, and even ultra portable devices. ======

Virtualization Techniques for Medical Device Developers LynuxWorks™, Inc., presented a workshop on both software and hardware virtualization techniques at the recent Software Design for Medical Devices conference in Philadelphia. The company gave an "under-the-hood" look at their LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor, demonstrated how it can help consolidate both hardware and software for multiple modes on a single system, and showed how an embedded hypervisor allows developers to easily migrate software applications to next-generation hardware, at the same time adding security functionality required for connected devices. ======

Convert Unused PC Processor Power to Fight Disease and Study Climate Change Often researchers are not limited by their ingenuity, but by the resources available to make research effective. To help, Intel Corporation announced Progress Thru Processors, a new volunteer computing application built on the Facebook platform that allows people to donate their PCs' unused processor power to research projects such as Rosetta@home, which uses the additional computing power to help find cures for cancer and other diseases such as HIV and Alzheimer's. Launched as a public beta and available to all Facebook users at www.facebook.com/progressthruprocessors, the application automatically directs a computer's idle processor power to fuel researchers' computational efforts. The application will activate only when a PC's performance is not being fully utilized. When the participant's computer usage demands more processor performance, the application defers and sits idle until spare processing capabilities become available again. Progress Thru Processors was developed in collaboration with the National Science Foundation-funded BOINC project at the University of California, Berkeley.