dio Video Bridging), and Most (Media Oriented Sys- Intel’s comeback tems Transport), as well as general purpose I/Os such as Sata and USB. The chip Dossier was designed by STM in in CAN business consultation with Intel to en- sure that the IOH would be optimally matched to the E600 series to expand its connectivity. “A key trend in the automotive industry is to offer drivers and pas- sengers access to the same In 1988, Intel had level of information and en- Back on the stage: Several tertainment in the car as introduced the first companies have developed they enjoy at home,” said CAN chip, the leg- Qseven modules featuring the STM’s Fabio Marchio. “In- E600 Atom processor with endary 82526. But car networking technolo- CAN connectivity provided by gies that handle the distri- then the chipmaker Intel’s EG20T hub controller focused on the bution of multimedia, data and control information are PC business and now well-established and stepped back from the next step is to offer a the CAN markets. cost-effective platform that Now Intel is back allows the same architec- ture to be used across a in CAN business: range of car models and Recently, the com- generations.” First samples pany introduced are scheduled for May 2011 the EG20T control- and the expected high-vol- ume price is approximately ler featuring an on- US-$ 7,50. chip CAN module. The Qseven con- sortium (initiated 2008 by Congatec) has speci- ntel is interested in the sor is also suitable for non- age size that is 46 % small- fied a single-board com- high-volume infotainment automotive applications er than Menlow. That is be- puter that integrates all the Imarkets. However, this em- such as medical electron- cause instead of using a core components of a com- bedded market is high- ics and embedded machine proprietary interconnect, mon PC and is mounted ly fragmented. That is why controllers. The chips are Tunnel Creek communi- onto an application-spe- the chipmaker has devel- packaged in FC-BGA pack- cates with the IOH via PCI cific carrier board. Qseven oped different versions of age. Prices for E600 SoCs Express bus. Besides CAN, modules have a standard- its Atom processor. Recent- depend on model ranging Intel’s IOH provides inter- ized form factor of 70 mm ly, the chipmaker introduced from US-$ 19 to US-$ 85 faces such as Sata (Serial x 70 mm and have speci- the Atom E600 series, de- in quantities of 1 000. Next Advanced Technology At- fied pin-outs based on the veloped specifically for em- year Intel plans to release tachment), USB client, SD/ high-speed MXM system bedded applications such another SoC, codenamed SDIO/MMC, and Gigabit- connector. This connec- as in-vehicle infotainment ”Stellarton”, that combines Ethernet, as well as gen- tor is a well-known and a systems for cars, smart Atom E600 with an Altera eral embedded interfac- proven interface connec- grid devices and IP me- FPGA. es such as IEEE 1588, SPI, tor that is commonly used dia phones. The SoC (sys- I2C, UART, and GPIO. The for PCI Express graphics tem on chip), also known I/O hubs from Intel EG20T is manufactured in cards in notebooks. In the by its codename ”Tunnel and others FC-BGA package, and is Qseven version 1.20 spec- Creek”, is positioned as one priced at US-$ 9 in 1 000 ification pins for CAN con- of several successors to The E600 features an open quantities. nectivity (TX output and RX the original Atom, the Z500, interconnect for so-called Intel anticipates third- input of the CAN controller) whose ”Silverthorne” CPU I/ O hubs (IOH) providing party vendors to create their have been added. Unfortu- was paired with a ”Pouls- additional interfaces. Intel own IOH chips for the E600. nately, no CAN bit-timing is bo” north-/south-bridge in has introduced the EG20T OKI, Realtek, and STMicro- standardized, and the CAN an overall platform nick- controller (“Queens Bay”), electronics (STM) already transceiver chip needs to be named ”Menlow”. The E600 which provides an on-chip have announced those implemented on the carrier- (22 mm x 22 mm) processor CAN module. The chip chips. STM’s Connext us- board. is aimed at in-car platforms measures 23 mm x 23 mm. ing the PCI Express (PCIe) Congatec has already and other embedded devic- According to the chipmaker, interconnection will provide announced the Conga-QA6 es. First board-level prod- the E600 and EG20T plat- rich I/O connectivity, includ- board featuring the E600 ucts show that the proces- form has an overall pack- ing CAN, Ethernet-AVB (Au- processor and the EG20T

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ifm electronic – close to you! www.ifm.com/gb/mobile controller hub. The Qsev- en compliant module oper- ates from -40 °C to +85 °C. Typical power consump- tion is claimed to be un- Dossier der 5 W and provision for battery and ACPI 3.0 pow- er management is included through Dialog Semicon- ductor’s DA6011 clock and power controller. The board is one of the first Qsev en modules to support the E600, joining Advantech’s SOM-3564. The interface list includes: 6 x USB 2.0, 2 x Sata, 1 x SDIO, 3 x PCIe, LPC bus, I²C bus, Giga- bit-Ethernet, SPI and CAN. The CAN and SPI interfac- es are new additions to the Qseven standard and uti- lize previously unused pins. WLAN, Bluetooth, and RFID Block diagram of the E600 Atom processor and the EG20T hub controller, which pro- can be supported through vides an on-chip CAN module the SDIO interface. Con- gatec supports all eight ver- sions of the E600, including incorporates all the compo- face. The developer carrier has presented its Q7-Atom- the 0,6-GHz, 1,0-GHz, 1,3- nents of a PC mounted on board is based on Portwell’s E6 board featuring a clock GHz, and 1,6-GHz models. an application-specific car- 3,5-inch ESB form factor. It rate up to 1,6 GHz. It re- Equipped with 2 GiB of on- rier board using the cost- is suitable for outdoor em- quires less than 5 W and is board DDR memory, the efficient MXM connector bedded systems, industrial specified for temperatures module is offered with an close to the cost of single control, COTS (Commercial from -40 °C to +85 °C. The optional 32-GiB flash-drive board computer solutions,” Off-The-Shelf) military and module with CAN interface via one of the two Sata in- says Patrik Björklund from in-vehicle infotainment sys- is available soon. terfaces. Three PCI Ex- Hectronic. The H6055 mod- tems. The boards require press expansion interfaces ule comes with up to 1-GiB less than 5-W power for fan- Other board-level and an SDIO interface are RAM and is specified for less applications. products also offered for additional - 40 °C to + 85 °C. Samples The Taiwanese DFI peripheral and storage ex- will be available to selected has also released a Qsev en There are also other board- pansion. OEM customers beginning module equipped with an level products, which use Hetronic, the Swed- of 2011. E600 processor and an the E600 and the EG20T ish specialist in embedded American-based Port- EG20T hub controller. The chips by Intel. PC development and man- well Technology has in- QB700-B board providing Eurotech has released ufacturing, has launched troduced both the PQ7- 512 MiB of DDR2 memory the Catalyst TC module. the H6055 Qseven mod- M105IT Qseven board and features CAN connectivity, The 67 mm x 100 mm mod- ule providing a CAN in- its companion PQ7-C100XL but is not available in ex- ule is designed for industrial terface. Equipped with 3-5-inch carrier board for a tended temperature range. automation, medical, auto- E600 (600 MHz, 1 GHz, or temperature range of -40 ºC Other Qseven vendors motive and in-vehicle info- 1,3 GHz) and EG20T chips, to +85 ºC. The Qseven such as MSC Gleichmann tainment, gaming, and mil- the board targets embedded module features the E620T/ will also introduce products itary markets. It provides applications such as in-ve- E640T/E660T SoC and the with the E600 processor Sata, Gigabit-Ethernet, and hicle infotainment systems, EG20T chip. Of course, it dedicated for industrial ap- CAN interfaces, allowing for battery-powered handheld provides one CAN inter- plications. Embedded-logic smaller carrier board de- devices and industrial auto- signs as more capability is mation devices. “This plat- built into the module. The form from Intel is the per- Dedicated for embedded computing board supports both indus- fect fit for the Qseven form trial and commercial tem- factor, bringing advantag- Intel offers the EP80579 System-on-Chip (SoC) integrat- perature options. It supports es such as higher integra- ing several peripherals such as two CAN modules, three several operating systems tion and a richer feature set Ethernet-MACs, and two USB ports. The CAN modules such as Windows 7, Win- with maintained computing support CAN base and extended frame formats. Sev- dows Embedded Standard, performance, to cost-sen- eral software houses provide BIOS (AMI, Insyde, and Windows CE and Wind Riv- sitive applications. We will Phoenix) and operating systems (Windows XP Embed- er Linux. Also supported is be able to offer semi-cus- ded, Linux, VxWorks, FreeBSD, CentOS, and Redhat) Everyware Software Frame- tom solutions based on the for this Pentium-M based SoC. The processor is com- work by Eurotech, a Java- H6055 COM module, which patible with the 86-family. based IDE environment.

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The board-level products E600 processor opens up ARM7 with two CAN ports are available and orders be- entirely new applications. ing accepted now. The LPC2378 micro-con- 32-KiB SRAM, an addition- Habey USA, a US Openmatics platform trollers by NXP are based al 16-KiB SRAM for Ether- manufacturer of embedded on an ARM7 core. The chip net, and an 8-KiB SRAM for computers and server stor- For truck and bus fleet man- features two CAN modules USB and general purpose age products, has launched agement, ZF Friedrich- as well as Ethernet, USB, use, together with a 2-KiB the BIS-6622 fan-less em- shafen, a major German au- and four UARTs. The micro- battery-powered SRAM bedded PC platform. At tomotive supplier, has devel- controller also supports sev- make this micro-control- 5-inch x 5-inch x 1,75-inch oped the Openmatics plat- eral other serial interfaces ler suited for gateways and

Semiconductor in size, this tiny Atom com- form. It comprises hardware including SPI and I²C. This converters. The use in in- puter is packed with In- and software. The hardware blend of serial interfaces dustrial control and medical tel’s EG20T I/ O hub and is based on the Atom pro- combined with an on-chip devices is also possible.(hz) GMA 600 graphic control- cessor and supports CAN 4-MHz internal oscillator, a www.nxp.com ler. Windows and Linux op- connectivity. Information erating systems are avail- available in the in-vehicle able. Also in Taiwan, the networks (e.g. engine and Partial networking and E600 has the first design- gear data, number of pas- selective wake-up ins: Avalue Technology has sengers, or tire pressure) is developed a 3,5-inch sin- sent by means of GPRS or Some chipmakers (Elmos, If partial networking is sup- gle-board computer with the WLAN to central processing Freescale, Infineon, NXP, ported, the wake-up is per- EG20T hub controller. Of stations (fleet management and STM) and carmakers formed, if a valid wake-up course, the ECM-QB sup- systems). Next year, the first (Audi, BMW, Daimler, PSA, CAN data frame (WUF) is ports CAN connectivity. Apps from third parties will Porsche, and VW) have received. This means, the In Germany, Lippert be available. (hz) formed the Switch (Selec- transceiver implements Embedded Computer has www.advantech.com tive, wake-up, interoper- these WUFs. The trans- introduced the CoreEx- www.avalue-tech.com able, transceiver for CAN ceiver may ignore up to four press-ECO2 module fea- www.congatec.com high-speed) group. Un- CAN data frames that are turing the E600 processor. www.dfi.com.tw der the chairmanship of the received after switching on The board is especially suit- www.dialog-semiconduc- C&S, the group has pre-de- the bias. A received CAN able for portable, battery- tor.com veloped a specification of data frame is a valid WUF if powered devices and can www.embedded-logic.de CAN high-speed transceiv- the following conditions are be easily integrated into in- www.eurotech.com er with selective wake-up fulfilled: dustrial networks using the www.habeyusa.com functionality. The specifi- X The CAN-ID (11-bit or built-in CAN interface. Com- www.hetronic.com cation will be submitted as 29-bit) of the received pared to the CoreExpress www.lippertembedded.de new work item proposal for frame matches the products based on the Z500 www.msc-ge.de international standardiza- configured CAN-ID by Atom processors, graph- www.oki.com tion. The partial network- means of an ID mask. ics performance has been www.portwell.com ing function is intended to X The DLC matches exact- significantly increased. Ac- www.qseven-standard.org make it possible for a CAN ly the configured DLC. cording to the company, a www.realtek.com.tw node or a sub-network to be X The data field has at built-in hardware-accelerat- www.st.com in low-power mode, while least one bit set in a ed video encoder within the www.zf.com CAN communication is on- bit position, where also going and to be woken in- in the configured data dividually by means of ded- mask the bit is set. icated wake-up messag- X No error has been de- V850ES/Jx3 MCU series expanded es. For selective wake-up tected with the exception of individual nodes, wake- that the ACK slot bit and designed for gen- up messages have to be re- EOF bits are regarded as eral-purpose ap- ceived and decoded by a “don’t cares”. plications featur- CAN decoder in the trans- In order to allow undisturbed ing CAN and USB ceiver chip particularly to CAN communication, when interfaces; the E- enable it to decide whether a couple of CAN nodes in- models provide its own bus node has to be tentionally are not pow- an additional Eth- woken up or not. ered (e.g. ignition-key con- ernet port. The F- During the low-pow- trolled ECUs) while other Renesas released addi- series are dedicated for au- er mode, the transceiver nodes continue to commu- tional 78 micro-controllers tomotive and industrial ap- monitors the CAN_H and nicate normally, it is impor- based on the V850ES 32- plications where up to five CAN_L bus lines for wake- tant that these not powered bit core originally developed CAN channels are needed. up patterns (WUP). A WUP nodes do affect the bus- by NEC. After the merger of They come with up to 1-MiB is signaled by two consec- levels as less as possible. NEC and Renesas, the chips flash memory. Price-opti- utive dominant bus-levels, This requires that transceiv- are available from Renesas. mized MCUs (Fx3-L) with each separated by a reces- ers, which are temporarily Some members of the intro- less performance and pe- sive bus-level. A bus wake- not powered, show a lowest duced MCU series provide ripherals are available, too. up is performed, if partial possible leakage current. on-chip CAN modules. The (hz) networking is disabled and (hz) V850ES/Jx3-H modules are www.renesas.com a WUP has been received. www.can.cia.org

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