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FEATURES COLUMNS IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD Portable mobile devices SFF-SIG 6 8 APUs strike the ideal balance 8 More standards, please of form, function, and power By Paul Rosenfeld consumption for graphics- intensive portable devices PC/104 Consortium 7 By Kelly Gillilan, AMD and Happy 20th! Christine Van De Graaf, Kontron The PC/104 Consortium celebrates its 20th anniversary Panel Discussion: 12 By Len Crane Effective UI development with GUI tools for embedded devices By Jim Trudeau and Roger Edgar, DEPARTMENTS 12 Freescale Semiconductor Editor’s Choice Products 17 Designing portable medical 15 By Monique DeVoe devices that emulate today’s consumer devices – with added security By Monique DeVoe RESOURCE GUIDE
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By Paul Rosenfeld, SFF-SIG President
More standards, please
ndustry trade groups that address standardization issues We don’t believe that continuing standards development in facing the small form factor and stackables marketplace tend other technologies dilutes our efforts, nor will offering multiple Ito come in two flavors. Some groups, like the CompactFlash standards to solve the same technology problem compromise Association, are focused on a single technology and drive that our integrity (hence we offer both the COMIT and CoreExpress technology across multiple markets through an evolutionary COM standards). This wider focus can actually have a positive process over time. Other groups, including the SFF-SIG, slice effect. Standards subject to peer review and published by an horizontally across a single market (small form factor boards independent trade group offer a better and more robust long- and systems), addressing multiple technologies that might be term solution than standards tied to a single company, even if necessary to drive a complete solution for that market. there are multiple sources for that company’s products.
Expanding our focus The SFF-SIG started with a single board-to-board interface We’ve been fortunate during standard – SUMIT, or Stackable Unified Module Interface Technology – and quickly realized that, short of endless the first few years of the SFF-SIG to tweaking and twiddling, we were done with our standard- ization efforts. We asked ourselves what other technologies have some members willing to bring constrained the growth of the small form factor market, and products to the table and subject their whether we had anything to contribute to standardization efforts for these technologies that might solve problems in the efforts to industry peer review as part of SFF space. the process of standardization. As happens with the vast bulk of standardization efforts today, it is rare for a group to start working on a standard with a blank sheet of paper. Every participant brings something to the table Moving forward we’d like to offer the SFF-SIG as a home for and some bring quite a bit – in some cases a fully developed Kontron’s recently introduced ARM-based COM standard product with documentation ready to be “blessed” by the and Advantech’s MIOe interface for SFF mezzanine cards. industry and turned into a standard. Publication by an independent industry trade group such as the SFF-SIG goes a long way in building system OEM confi- Reviews, risks, and rewards dence in the longevity, vendor-neutral control, and breadth of We’ve been fortunate during the first few years of the SFF-SIG support for these standards. Yes, there are risks when your idea to have some members willing to bring products to the table gets in front of a group – somebody’s going to have thoughts and subject their efforts to industry peer review as part of the about how to make it better. And if you’ve already built one or process of standardization. SiliconSystems brought us their more products that’s a very uncomfortable discussion, but we SiliconBlade replaceable mass storage technology for stan- can deal with that. dardization (which we call MiniBlade); VIA Embedded brought us the Pico-ITX form factor standard (which we enhanced to Open forum for open standards Pico-ITXe with the “e” signifying SUMIT expansion along with And while we’re at it, we’re open to all kinds of ideas on how to the definition of Pico-I/O expansion modules); and LiPPERT make small systems smaller – thermal solutions, display inter- Embedded Computers brought us the CoreExpress COM faces, and so on. Bring us your product and let’s create a new standard and contributed significantly to the XR-DIMM Rugged standard available to the industry free of charge. Of course, if Memory specification with Swissbit and Virtium Technology. you are already selling these things, you might have a pretty Each of these standards went through three-to-six months of good head start. review from SFF-SIG members. Drop me an email at [email protected] if you’re interested. Of course, a strategic shift or company acquisition can orphan a standard, leaving it without a sponsor. In spite of the risks, Small Form Factor Special Interest Group we’d like to have more standards submitted to SFF-SIG. ÈxäÈ£Ó{ÇÎÊUÊvJÃvvÃ}°À}
6 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors www.pc104.org PC/104 Consortium
By Len Crane, PC/104 Consortium President Happy 20th! The PC/104 Consortium celebrates its 20th anniversary
ow! Where does the time The standards manufacturers jumping on the band- go? Believe it or not the The success of the PC/104 format is wagon and you have a winning formula Wfirst PC/104 specification also tied to the way it is supported. (with a lot of compatible products). The was officially released in 1992, 20 years The PC/104 Consortium gets its energy advantages to the user are clear: a huge ago! Twenty years is quite a testament from a wide range of dedicated manu- selection of products based on a reliable to almost any endeavor. In the fast- facturers who cooperate to support specification. It’s no wonder that the moving world of electronics it’s even the PC/104 specifications, and they PC/104 format has been going strong more surprising to see this kind of don’t take their responsibility lightly. for 20 years. staying power. And how has the PC/104 By writing a specification that was clear format been so popular while other for- and unambiguous, the PC/104 format Looking forward mats have come and gone? Why has the was easily adopted by a wide range of The PC/104 Consortium was originally PC/104 Consortium been so successful manufacturers. The care that went into established by 12 companies with a at maintaining and leveraging this the specification assured compatibility common vision of adapting desktop format? With a little hindsight these between cards from one manufacturer computer technology for embedded questions are easy to answer. to another. Having hundreds of compat- applications. It has been a tremendous ible products available in the market- success. Today the Consortium has more The products place does not happen by accident! than 60 member companies in every Any conversation about the popularity corner of the globe. It has had a very of PC/104 products has to start with Over the last 20 years the Consortium positive impact on the embedded com- its most compelling feature: the stacking has not just supported the original spec- puter marketplace, and deserves to be interface. The ability of PC/104 boards ification, but has evolved new PC/104 celebrated. to interconnect by just stacking them specifications including stacking PCI on top of each other has been called and PCI Express designs, most of which So what will the next 20 years bring? everything from “really convenient” are backward compatible in some way Knowing the dedication and ingenuity of to “economical” to “revolutionary.” with previous PC/104 specifications. Consortium members, there will continue For more details on the benefits of The resulting family of PC/104 products to be evolving specifications around PC/104 stacking architecture see brings a wide range of performance and which manufactures can build the most the Winter 2011 edition of PC/104 I/O options into the hands of design reliable, compatible, widely supported and Small Form Factors magazine – engineers. products in the industry. The result is a http://opsy.st/zg8KBn. win/win situation for both PC/104 manu- The manufacturers facturers and PC/104 users. Additionally, the PC/104 format The third piece of the puzzle is the wide benefited from its compact size. The availability and variety of functions avail- PC/104 and Small Form Factors mag- 90 mm x 96 mm (3.6" by 3.8") footprint able in the PC/104 format. This is actu- azine is celebrating PC/104 and the was easy to fit into a number of applica- ally a result of the two factors above, but PC/104 Consortium’s 20th anniversary in tions where larger boards or card cages sometimes even the best ideas don’t this year’s Summer issue with a timeline just could not go. catch on. In the case of PC/104, there and other features on the PC/104 family were lots of manufacturers that knew a and the companies involved in its past, Its small size also provided an inherent good thing when they saw it. Within a present, and future. ruggedness. The short distance be- short time there were numerous PC/104 tween mounting points limits board products available and the critical mass For more information on PC/104 speci- flex, which makes it easy to design of PC/104 was unquestionable. fications or to search for specific PC/104 boards to operate in high shock or vibe products, visit www.PC104.org or search environments. Since adding boards to Combine the strengths of the original www.smallformfactors.com/products. the system actually reinforces the other PC/104 design, the care and atten- boards in the stack, a PC/104 system is tion of the Consortium to manage and PC/104 Consortium hard to beat for ruggedness. evolve the specifications, and lots of {änÎÎÇää{ÊUÊvJ«V£ä{°À}
PC/104 and Small Form Factors Y 2012 Resource Guide Y 7 IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD Portable mobile devices
APUs strike the ideal balance of form, function, and power consumption for graphics-intensive portable devices
By Kelly Gillilan and Christine Van De Graaf
Achieving high levels of graphics and video performance for portable, small form factor systems is difficult when utilizing conventional CPU and discrete GPU processor architectures. With the recent advent of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), designers are equipped to break this graphics barrier without giving an inch – literally – in board space.
ngoing innovation in the Embedded boards and modules information terminals, point-of-care x86 semiconductor industry equipped with new-generation Accel- medical imaging and diagnosis, and is the foundation for the erated Processing Units (APUs) can industrial applications are evolving to Onear-ubiquitous use of x86 facilitate advanced graphics capabili- offer advanced graphics performance, embedded computing technology in ties within an extremely small footprint, but in many cases are constrained by the ever-growing range of SFF appli- without compromising power and conventional CPU and discrete GPU cations. Even with continued improve- cooling efficiency or cost. The merging processor architectures. Here we’ll look ments in CPU performance and power of advanced x86 computing capabilities at each of these applications individu- efficiency, however, designers of SFF with the parallel processing power of ally and address some of their unique portable systems remain challenged General-Purpose Graphics Processing design constraints, and also assess the to achieve their most ambitious design Units (GPGPUs) in a single device allows ways in which APUs can minimize these goals for graphics performance and OEMs to design low-power, graphics- constraints. visual immersion. Growing demand intensive SFF systems that until now have for higher performance graphics capa- been exclusive to power-hungry multi- Mobile digital signage and bilities has led OEMs to explore new core CPUs and add-on graphics cards. information terminals x86 processor architectures that promise The travel services industry in particular to meet exacting multimedia perfor- The evolution to increasingly has embraced digital signage as a mance requirements for applications intense graphics means to provide timely, location-aware spanning commercial, medical, and Graphics-driven applications are accel- information. GPS-assisted in-vehicle industrial domains, with a growing focus erating the pace of innovation for digital signage and other mobile digital on portable and/or battery-powered portable, energy-efficient SFF systems. signage better equip travelers for per- devices. Applications spanning digital signage, sonal use and empower travel services
8 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors TS-WIFIBOX-2 A Complete Solution for and transportation vendors with “high APUs yield higher performance proximity” advertising space for local graphics with fewer components 802.11g WiFi Applications businesses. Multi-screen display capabil- New-generation boards and modules ities are emerging as an important fea- designed with advanced x86 APUs ture for these applications, and mobile are ideally suited to minimize and/or digital signage is especially sensitive to eliminate the aforementioned design power consumption requirements. Low challenges while maximizing overall power draw is crucial if a mobile digital graphics performance. The combination sign is to be powered by, for example, a of a low-power CPU and a discrete-level shuttle bus battery. GPU into a single embedded APU pro- qty 1 185 vides OEMs with optimal picture resolu- Point-of-care medical imaging tion (frame rates and resolutions of up and diagnosis to 2560 x 1600 pixels, for example) for Portable medical devices with sophis- their graphics-driven, mobile SFF systems. ticated medical imaging capabilities Combining a GPU core on the same for use at the point of care outside of die as the CPU enables host systems to the hospital can enable medical profes- offload computation-intensive pixel data sionals to examine patients in the field, processing from the CPU to the GPU. as well as access and process imaging- Freed from this task, the CPU can serve intensive patient data such as Picture I/O requests with much lower latency, Powered by a Archiving and Communications Systems thereby dramatically improving real-time 250 MHz ARM9 CPU (PACS) datasets stored within hospital graphics processing performance. information systems. These devices Low power (3.2 watts), fanless ensure high-resolution imaging and Size and integration Power via 5-12 VDC, USB, PoE (opt.) ultra-precise diagnostic information that APUs also reduce the footprint of a first responders and care providers count traditional three-chip platform to just 64MB DDR-RAM on to expedite treatment decisions. two chips – the APU and the companion 256MB ultra-reliable XNAND drive controller hub. The combination of Micro-SD Card slot Apart from the inherent design con- general purpose CPU and GPU onto a straints associated with high-performance single die with a high-speed bus archi- RS-232, RS-485, CAN, RTC graphics processing, device portability, tecture and shared, low-latency memory Header with SPI and 11 DIO and battery-life preservation, medical model simplifies design complexity 480Mbit/s USB, Ethernet, PoE option device designers grapple with stringent through a reduction in board layers Boots Linux 2.6.24 in < 3 seconds device certification processes that often and power supply needs, enabling SFF consume valuable time and intense system designers to achieve aggressive Un-brickable, boots from SD or flash time-to-market pressures that few other form factor goals while driving down Customizable FPGA - 5K LUT industries face as acutely. overall system costs. Optional DIN mountable enclosure Portable industrial applications By providing native, high-performance Ideal for gateway or firewall, protocol Imaging and data-intensive industrial graphics processing at the silicon level, converter, web server, WiFi audio, applications such as image detection APUs preclude the need for bulky and unattended remote applications and recognition, automated inspection, add-on graphics cards that usually and distributed data collection systems require a right-edge connector. In space- Over 25 years in business that require high-speed vector pro- constrained designs, an edge connector Never discontinued a product cessing are increasingly being deployed takes up more space (card-edge boards Engineers on Tech Support in remote settings for monitoring pur- are typically 3" to 5" taller) and exposes Open Source Vision poses, and are therefore sensitive to it to additional shock and vibration portability requirements. In addition to that can lead to signal integrity issues. Custom configurations and designs w/ excellent pricing and turn-around time requiring increased parallel processing Designing APU-caliber graphics capa- capabilities to facilitate high-precision bilities directly onto a carrier board is a Most products ship next day real-time data collection, these systems more rugged, long-term option. often need to be ruggedized for harsh environments. Highly compact, fluid- Power and cooling and particle-sealed system enclosures The Performance-Per-Watt (PPW) gains Technologic present obvious challenges to airflow enabled by APUs assure greater power SYSTEMS and venting – challenges that are often efficiency and lower heat dissipation, We use our stuff. insurmountable with traditional CPUs which in turn can preclude the need visit our TS-7800 powered website at due to their thermal profiles. for fan cooling within SFF systems, www.embeddedARM.com (480) 837-5200 IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD
thus helping to preserve board space, The integration of general-purpose, Making graphics performance improve overall system reliability, limit programmable scalar and vector goals achievable system noise, and lower BOM costs. processor cores for high-speed parallel New APU processor architectures are Supporting Thermal Design Power (TDP) processing establishes a new level of making a fast and transformative impact profiles from 5.5 W to 18 W, with typ- processing performance for SFF systems on SFF design initiatives, unlocking ical power consumption below 6 W[1], at an unprecedented PPW. In the case high-performance graphics capabilities AMD G-Series APUs equip designers of AMD G-Series APUs, the general- in small form factors that simply can’t be with the ability to keep board-level total purpose vector processor cores within achieved with conventional CPUs and power dissipation to within approxi- the embedded GPU – 80 shader cores GPUs. Continued innovation in the APU mately 35 W, well within the 45 W running at 500 MHz (AMD Fusion T56N) domain promises to push graphics per- threshold at which mobile systems begin – drive the ultra-high-speed processing formance boundaries even further, and to become hot and physically uncom- required to handle intensive numerical will ultimately yield a new generation of fortable to the touch. These factors computations. portable SFF systems that defy space, enable designers to optimize their SFF power, and cooling limitations in ways systems for extremely compact enclo- Time to market previously unimagined. sures and/or applications with power The inherent architectural advantages constraints, and can help designers introduced with APUs go a long way Kelly Gillilan is the stay within the 25 W threshold at which toward minimizing design complexity Product Marketing passive cooling is an acceptable (and and accelerating time to market. These Manager for the typically favorable) option. advantages are owed primarily to reduc- AMD Embedded tions in board layers, discrete add-on Solution division, Multi-display video immersion processors/cards, and power supply overseeing The ability to support multiple indepen- and cooling needs, which naturally mini- worldwide marketing dent display outputs simultaneously is mize the number of components on the strategy and activities. He has worked an emerging requirement for realizing board and therefore enable designers extensively in embedded applications ultra-immersive video displays for to shorten, and in some cases eliminate, for most of the past decade. Kelly holds digital signage, and also SFF portable design cycles. a degree in Computer Engineering and medical devices. New-generation APUs is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. enable designers to cost-effectively The underlying x86 APU architecture also develop multiple video displays without enables portable SFF system designers Christine sacrificing board space for add-on to tap into the vast selection of existing Van De Graaf is the graphics cards and controllers or com- x86-optimized software, applications, Product Manager for promising overall picture resolution. and development environments avail- Kontron America’s They also offer the ability to decode up able on the market, introducing addi- Embedded Modules to three HD video streams in parallel tional opportunities to enhance devel- and Small Form and support up to four independent opment efficiency and speed time to Factor SBCs product digital displays via a wide range of stan- market. The open development eco- families. Christine has more than dard interfaces, including DisplayPort, system for the AMD G-Series platform, a decade of experience working in DVI, HDMI, LVDS, and VGA. for example, includes support for Linux, the embedded computing technology Microsoft Windows, and Real-Time industry, and holds an MBA in Vector processing for SFF Operating Systems (RTOSs), multiple marketing management from California industrial systems BIOS options, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL State University, East Bay. Applications requiring increased support, and source-level debug tools. parallel computing capabilities, such AMD as the portable medical and indus- By implementing AMD G-Series APUs [email protected] trial devices mentioned above, are on the most common form factors for www.amd.com well suited for boards and modules graphics-intensive applications, such equipped with APUs. These applica- as Computers-On-Module (COMs) and Kontron tions include 3D medical X-ray image SFF SBCs and motherboards, Kontron [email protected] reconstruction and smart camera appli- is making the benefits of this new x86 www.kontron.com cations such as high-precision image/ processing architecture readily available pattern detection and identification. for application development. OEMs and References However, traditional CPU architectures system integrators can take advantage [1] For complete test and configuration and application programming tools are of highly scalable, validated APU-based information please refer to the optimized for scalar data structures platforms that streamline design cycles AMD “Brazos” Platform Performance and Power Optimization Guide and serial algorithms, and as such, are and minimize design risks to ensure fast Publication #48109 Rev 2.01 available not the best match for data-intensive time to market for graphics-intensive on the AMD Embedded Developers vector processing applications. and parallel-data SFF applications. Support Web site.
10 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors EXCALIBUR SYSTEMS IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD Portable mobile devices
Effective UI development with GUI tools for embedded devices
By Jim Trudeau and Roger Edgar
A good Graphical User Interface (GUI) can thrill customers, and a good reusable GUI development platform can save developers time and money; however, design subtleties and pitfalls keep developers on their toes.
good User Interface (UI) is price- Graphical User Interface (GUI) develop- step involves creating “storyboards” less. Think of the clean iTunes ment takes at least three basic steps: and mapping out the interface. Ainterface. The meaning of “UI” designing a visual interface (windows is quickly becoming something other and widgets), writing the code that The updated version of those story- than “User Interface”; it can now stand implements that interface, and getting boards is a good GUI package that for “Unbelievably Impor tant” and an that code to work on the specified includes an interface builder: a way for “Untapped Investment” in embedded hardware. Additionally, as processor the developer to define a window’s systems. power has grown, so have customer complete layout with adornments, expectations. Color, touchscreens, ges- scroll bars, text areas, buttons, widgets, As microcontrollers move up the ladder ture recognition, and speech recognition colors, text, and so on. This allows items in capability and out into the world of the continue to up the ante in development to be positioned accurately with cor- consumer, and processors have moved efforts and create even greater chal- rectly configured behavior and styles. from low-capacity 8-bit to high-capacity lenges. Tools like GUI software packages 32-bit systems, human interaction with are available to help automate the There should be transparent objects software becomes more important. basics, but programmers still have a that can act as containers to group Along the way, programmers wondered, lot of work to do to create a polished certain objects together, such as a “What do I do with this horsepower?” interactive interface where each step collection of radio buttons that respond Now they’re in a position to use this of development has its own challenges to a single message. The library will power to respond to customer require- and remedies. have a message-delivery system that ments that say, “I want this to look like can deliver the message to the objects an Android or iPad app.” Designing and building the interface in the group. All of the required prop- The old-fashioned, and still valuable, erties and connections among the con- However, the amount of effort involved way to build a visual interface is pencil trols in the window can be set up using in creating an effective UI is non-trivial. and graph paper. In essence this a container hierarchy.
12 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors There is a critical subtlety here to be carefully for font support in a tool. How display screens with different display aware of. Typically the layout utility is does text get into the UI, and how easy is technologies, physical dimensions, and a desktop tool that ultimately gener- it to update and modify that text? What color depths. It needs to be independent ates code for an embedded platform. happens when a client says, “We’re of hardware assumptions and dependen- It is important for the interface to look going after the market in India; we cies so migration to new platforms and and behave precisely the same on both need to have the software localized into the addition/removal of components will the host development platform and the Hindi”? Developers need to be able to not require substantial recoding or rede- platform being developed. The window change the language independently of sign. Input mechanisms should also be builder should enable a What-You-See- the code for smooth system transitions. independent – mouse, stylus, capacitive Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) design. touch, resistive touch, and so forth. The The same runtime library rendering the Running on hardware library should be software independent image on the desktop should render the Once the interface is fully designed and as well, and should work with a choice image on the destination device. The coded, it has to work. It should be com- of operating systems, drivers, and other OS shouldn’t, for example, render a font patible with multiple processors, multiple software packages. one way on the desktop OS and appear differently on the end product. Pixel-for- pixel spacing on a small output device can matter a great deal.
Creating the code Once settled on a design, some libraries make developers write code from scratch. That’s not the ideal solution. A good GUI package will generate all the code and configuration files required to create the interface. The generated tCJUYQSPDFTTPS code should be compiler-neutral, typi- t&YUSFNFUFNQFSBUVSF $_ $ cally standard ANSI C or C++. t6MUSBMPXQPXFSDPOTVNQUJPO t*OUFHSBUFE*0 A good bit of the UI’s basic behavior code can be generated as well. For example, a collection of radio buttons has the standard behavior of all turning off except the one selected. That update behavior can be coded automatically. This is not rocket science; programmers spending time writing basic functionality wastes their true value.
The functionality behind that interface is up to the developer. Here the library can be a great help. This code should be well documented, showing devel- opers where to add (and not add) code to the program. The automatically generated code should have func- tion stubs with statements equivalent to // put your code here. The designers of the library know what kind of code belongs where and should pro- vide a great deal of guidance. Look for that kind of help in good GUI tools.
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To work on a hardware platform, no library can stand alone. It must have a Application Layer runtime library that sits on the hardware and does work like render images and fonts. There are also hardware drivers for Do not change input and output devices. As an example, take a look at the block diagram for the PEG Library PEG library from Freescale (Figure 1).
Moving a GUI to a new platform is still work, but a compartmentalized design reduces the work to a minimum. If input RTOS Driver LCD Driver is changed from mouse to gesture-based These change Input resistive touch, the design is going to Drivers need a new input driver. However, a RTOS LCD Display well-factored GUI should require very few if any changes to the design and Figure 1 | A well-factored GUI library can replace input and output drivers code. In a well-factored design, the GUI relatively easily, as seen in the PEG library from Freescale. calls a routine to get an XY coordinate instead of calling a mouse driver. The mouse will feed that coordinate into the input layer, isolating the GUI from the Figure 2 | Which button cancels hardware. Then if the mouse changes to the operation? UI developers should a stylus or a touch screen, the GUI code spend time programming logic and doesn’t change at all; each new driver interactive elements rather than feeds its data to the right place. basic code to avoid these types of embarrassments. But wait, there’s more. Recall the importance of WYSIWYG between the Jump off the shoulders of giants desktop designer and the embedded Creating a UI for the first time is revolutionary. Modifying and leveraging it in future platform: This isn’t just for quality control products is evolutionary. Creating a new UI for every new piece of software, or even and testing – there is another significant writing code to create windows and widgets isn’t a smart use of time. Very bright benefit from that. It’s possible to build people solved these problems a good while back, and the intelligent thing to do here a functional prototype on the desktop is to reuse known good practices – a simple UI consistent across and independent of without having the actual physical device different platforms – with the help of a good GUI engine. The proper choice of GUI complete and in hand; the application tools allows UI code to be future-proofed (as much as possible) during development, can be distributed to key stakeholders reducing time and support burdens during its lifetime. in the beginning of the development cycle and get buy-in without developing Jim Trudeau is Senior Technical Marketer focusing on software hardware. Then after the device really solutions with the Industrial and Multi-Market Group of Freescale, exists and when the specs come in for in Austin, TX. He is the author of Programming Starter Kit for the next-generation device that needs Macintosh (1995) and Mastering CodeWarrior (1997), as well as to hit the market in three weeks, devel- numerous articles and training courses on software development. opers will be as prepared as they can be. He is inordinately fond of a good UI.
Focus on implementation, not code Using GUI tools can help lock down the Roger Edgar is responsible for product management basics and give developers more time to and business development for Freescale’s Industrial and focus on making sure an interface’s logic Multi-market Enablement team, including the PEG software line. is sound and the interaction is intuitive. Prior to Freescale, Roger was as a founding partner for JumpStart Because it is relatively easy to create Marketing and served as Vice President at Impart Technologies. a working mockup of a UI, developers can test usability before or in parallel with application functionality. End users Freescale Semiconductor will thank UI designers when they don’t [email protected] have to figure out what to choose for [email protected] messages like the one in Figure 2. www.freescale.com
14 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD Portable mobile devices
Designing portable medical devices that emulate today’s consumer devices – with added security
By Monique DeVoe, Asst. Managing Editor
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Jeff Munch Joseph Chung Colin McCracken Michael Taborn CTO, ADLINK Technology Medical Product Manager, Director of Solution Architecture, Lead Platform Architect for Advantech American Portwell the Healthcare Sector in the Technology, Inc. Intelligent Systems Group, Intel
Editor’s note: Portable devices are a top focus in the small form factor embedded scene. Medical devices lead the portable design revolution, taking patient care out of traditional clinical settings and into the home and remote settings. When we asked a group of panelists about the present and future of mobile devices, medical was at the forefront of their minds. They discussed the challenges of combining the “iPhone factor” of user-friendly design with stringent security requirements and regulations, choosing platforms, and others that stand in the way of the next generation of devices they’re trying to develop. Edited excerpts follow.
SFF: Portable medical devices for standardized software application MUNCH: The acceptance of x86 and have come a long way in the last platforms. Finally, the performance Windows into a market that has tradi- few years. What impresses you about of ARM SoCs has increased (up to tionally relied on custom hardware and the current state of technology in Gigahertz dual core), while Intel has software solutions is impressive. We these types of devices? lowered its entry-level ultra-mobile see Windows as the primary user inter- processors to fit within size and power face tied to FPGAs performing data TABORN: The cell phone market, among envelopes in order to compete for these crunching in many medical applications. others, is driving cost, size, power, coveted high-volume applications. There is also an increasing desire to use and ease of use improvements and standard building-block products like possibilities into all application areas, CHUNG: The projective capacitive COM Express CPU modules to allow which in medical modalities are quickly multi-touch screen has become one of the product design to be focused on being implemented to improve patient the hottest topics within this segment, its core competency, which is increas- outcomes. The handheld ultrasound but requires application software devel- ingly software. and its battery life is a great example. opment to showcase its values. Also, The most impressive impact on medical energy efficiency has always been a key SFF: What design challenges are devices is the better focus on user expe- focal point for portable devices, and the engineers currently facing in medical rience. This will directly improve patient rise of RISC-based solutions has helped device development? care by decreasing the error rate of the to further energy savings. applications and evaluation of the data. McCRACKEN: One key task facing Additionally, the different types of con- engineers is platform selection. Every- McCRACKEN: Out of nowhere, Android nectivity including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and thing from design environment and has emerged with the potential to 3.5G/4G wireless that are now readily development tools to production royal- become a dominant platform for portable built into portable medical devices ties to product updating in the field hangs embedded computing devices in the permit easy access of electronic medical in the balance. Android is optimized not-so-distant future. Chip-scale inte- record databases or the future medical for ARM at the moment, while other gration and improvements in battery cloud in any location equipped with Linux platforms and Windows Embedded technologies accompany the demand wireless signal reception. Compact run well on ARM and x86/Intel
PC/104 and Small Form Factors Y 2012 Resource Guide Y 15 IT'S A SMALL (FORM FACTOR) WORLD architectures alike. Additionally, time- today’s designs, resulting in the need devices in the future will be connected to-market pressures are becoming as to use expensive and complicated sim- to some type of network. Second, there critical for FDA and other regulatory- ulation tools to verify signal integrity. are new demands for “ease of use” that based markets as they are for commer- Waiting until a design is fabricated to are fostered by what many in the industry cial and consumer markets where the check and catch signal integrity issues call the “iPhone factor.” winners take all. To that end, the richness can impact launch schedules and devel- and completeness of a product offer- opment costs. Even when using module CHUNG: Medical customers see ing’s “out-of-the-box” functionality building blocks the design still needs features like low cost, long battery translates directly to competitive advan- to deal with high-speed interfaces such life, light weight, slim design, and new tage. SBCs and COMs need to be ready as PCI Express, SATA, and now USB 3.0 technologies that are currently seen in as close as possible to the silicon launch SuperSpeed. consumer products, and expect to see (mass production). these elements implemented in portable TABORN: Of the many challenges medical products, but medical devices MUNCH: There has been a significant engineers face, designers must first con- do not yet have these features. increase in the speed of signals in sider security since virtually all medical SFF: Where do you expect medical devices to go in the future?
CHUNG: Eventually portable medical devices will be used in the same sense that we use smartphones and tablets in our daily lives, but within a more secure network and with mechanisms to permit/ deny access to sensitive patient data. Not only the patients but the physicians and healthcare administrators will ben- efit significantly from this development.
From a hardware perspective, lighter and thinner is always the trend. On a system level, portable medical devices have different market segments, such as general hospital/clinical administration usage that may require building a whole infrastructure, or portable diagnostic devices for ultrasound, ECG, and blood pressure monitoring that require joint system design with customers.
McCRACKEN: Someday, the portable subset of embedded devices will be nearly as ubiquitous as their consumer counterparts, relatively speaking. Whether in the form of sensors or med- ical patient monitors, these products will proliferate based upon consolidated, standardized ultra-mobile platforms much the way the original DOS + x86 embedded computers did. In some cases with dual- or multicore systems, the second processor core will be devoted to the deterministic and real- time aspects of the device, such as taking measurements.
TABORN: These devices will be far more flexible and extensible in the future. One of the best things to happen to medical is the advent of the iPhone. This
16 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors demonstrated to the world that a small protocols will be key to these devices’ requirements for today with the neces- device could be intuitive and very effi- future. This will allow medical computing sary performance headroom to support cient. This will cause device manufactures manufacturers the ability to develop the ever-changing security landscape. to address the areas of ease of use and portable/mobile medical-specific de- human workflow, reducing human error vices and applications that can be McCRACKEN: Better hardware stan- and encouraging operation and use cases implemented within the same network, dards are needed in order to “cross in non-traditional settings – improving making the future medical cloud eco- the chasm.” Some existing standards patient care throughout the world. system possible. like Qseven have been reasonably architecture-independent. However, SFF: What does the industry need to TABORN: The ability to implement there are now so many single-vendor- get to the next generation of medical future security policies must be consid- driven x86 and (especially) ARM module portable mobile devices? ered in today’s devices. This suggests and interface standards that have been having the “headroom” in the design prevented from reaching critical mass MUNCH: Continuing to drive down shipped today to be able to implement in this industry. A casual stroll down the total power consumption would be a more complex policies in the future. halls of Embedded World in Germany good start, and achieving this will just Unlike most devices, medical devices reveals that a massive shake-out will take time. This results in two benefits: an in clinical and hospital settings are be needed; otherwise system manufac- increase in battery life (or a smaller bat- unique in that they can be in service for turers will be left squandering time-to- tery to reduce weight) and reduction in 10-to-15 years. For consumer-geared market and development budgets in power that needs to be dissipated. medical mobile devices, we will have taking the full custom path. Standards to ensure that the applications data organizations have been portrayed as CHUNG: The prospect of wireless bat- acquired can be just as safe and reli- slow-moving and political, leading some tery charging would be one technology able as data acquired in the clinical suppliers to go it alone. Any standards that would help these applications setting (given the various different groups that can set aside self-interests realize their true potential for power- circumstances). Multicore solutions are and become more responsive to cus- efficiency and application usage. becoming readily available in both Intel tomers and end users will have a major and ARM architecture families. This leg up in leading the consolidation that Additionally, comprehensive infrastruc- topology choice will allow developers is needed to facilitate the next wave of ture, regulations, and mobile healthcare to address these unique application medical portable devices.
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Securing the development process Connected embedded devices from medical to automotive to consumer systems are going online at an unprecedented pace, and are the next target for malicious attacks through software vulnerability exploits. The bad news is security hasn’t been a top priority for embedded developers in the past, but now that the industry has woken up to security’s importance, the good news is there are more tools available to efficiently analyze software for defects. Coverity and Wind River recently teamed up on a pre-configured Coverity Static Analysis tool for Wind River’s Workbench development environment (in Linux and VxWorks flavors) to make security testing an efficient part of the process. Instead of analyzing for security vulnerabilities at the end of the development process, this combination allows testing to be performed as code is being written, which saves time and development costs – especially helpful for the quick time-to-market pressures associated with these systems. While desktop analysis is no stranger to this type of tool, such as in Visual Studio or Eclipse, it’s new territory for embedded software, and something we should see spread to other dev platforms in the near future. Coverity | www.coverity.com | www.smallformfactors.com/p366575 Wind River | www.windriver.com | www.smallformfactors.com/p366576
Making well-rounded, secure smart energy devices Smart grid initiatives are taking off around the world, and security issues associated with metering and other factors are among the top concerns for utility customers and device makers alike. Green Hills Software’s Next Generation Platform for Smart Energy allows developers to focus on security in addition to providing a comprehensive platform for smart device development from the initial design stages to maintenance and updates after release. It includes optimized software development tools, middleware, hardware trace probes, and the company’s RTOS in addition to robust security options with a full suite of ISS Security Toolkits. The security suite includes: SSL Security stack – a great fit for smart energy applications – for standards-based secure M2M communications (wired and wireless), IPsec/IKEv2 technology for secure communication and power management, SSH Secure Server with a portable ANSI C SSH SDK for interactive shell and tunneled TCP/IP security, and Secure Loader for ensuring proper installation and updates. An added layer of security comes from the Floodgate Packet Filter embedded firewall tech from Icon Labs, which allows networked devices to have control over the packets they process, protecting against malicious attacks. The platform also includes ISS Device Lifecycle Management (DLM) that ensures a device’s software, firmware, and data are authentic and allows for secure management in the field. Green Hills Software | www.ghs.com | www.smallformfactors.com/p366578
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Intelligent ZigBee-enabled tablet design for use in smart grids
By Khalid Kidari
Until recently, ZigBee readers were mostly independent devices dedicated to their singular ZigBee function. With the Smart Energy ZigBee standard, however, commercially available enterprise tablets can integrate this technology along with other utility-specific functionality to become more useful in the smart grid. This discussion explores the key design considerations for tablet computers used to install and maintain smart grids.
ith worldwide power con- with the sole function of reading relevant tools in the installation and sumption on the rise, utilities sensors. With the standardization of the maintenance of smart grids (Figure 1). Ware faced with the challenge ZigBee Smart Energy profile by the of providing more power while reducing ZigBee Alliance, however, there is an The challenge in designing a tablet environmental impact. Smart grids have opportunity for tablet computers to computer for use within the smart grid emerged as a solution for managing incorporate ZigBee and become more is finding a way to bridge emerging output by providing electricity exactly where and when it is needed, thereby improving energy availability and reli- ability while improving regulatory com- pliance. ZigBee technology is at the core of smart grid functionality, as its low-cost sensors can be used to manage demand response and load control, automate meter reading, and provide real-time data, along with the additional capability of individually or simultaneously target- ing specific groups of devices, including HVACs, water heaters, lighting, electric vehicles, and generation systems.
Until recently, ZigBee-style communi- Figure 1 | A tablet computer equipped with ZigBee can be used to identify and cators have been dedicated devices repair an outage, as well as communicate with the cloud and a company’s servers.
18 Y 2012 Resource Guide Y PC/104 and Small Form Factors technologies with the traditional func- over Wi-Fi and WiMAX solutions that tions of the utilities market, all while are costly and potentially less secure. packaging it in a rugged device that can Recently, some utilities have explored stand up to the elements and inevitable automatic meter-reading systems that drops and spills in the field. There are rely on home Wi-Fi networks to push several key design considerations for usage data and provide customers tablet computers used for smart grid with Web-based control of thermo- applications, including the ability for the stats. Customers, however, have balked device to manage multiple functions, over the companies’ perceived access modularity, connection with the cloud, to other personal information flowing and ruggedness. through Wi-Fi access points.
ZigBee explained In contrast, ZigBee is a more secure ZigBee specifies a suite of high-level proposition, offering end users the same communications protocols with small, remote control of their thermostats by low-power digital radios based on the smartphone or computer, but ensuring IEEE 802.15.4-2003 standard for Low- the utility company is receiving only the Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks information they are intended to get. (LR-WPANS). It takes the IEEE 802.15.4 Since data for entire neighborhoods standard a few steps further with addi- is conveyed though a mesh network tional network and security layers, as and individual addresses are assigned well as an application framework. From numerical codes no identifying customer this framework, the ZigBee Alliance information that could breech privacy – also developed standards – technically like addresses – is transmitted over referred to as public application pro- the network. files – that can be used to create multi- vendor interoperable solutions, which Colonizing the smart energy space allow for customization and favor total ZigBee wireless networks have been integration. ZigBee advantages include: in use for more than a decade, estab- lishing it as a proven technology for a ] ZigBee uses the 2.4 GHz radio range of applications, including home frequency to deliver a variety of and building automation, remote con- reliable and easy-to-use standards trols, healthcare, and retail services. anywhere in the world Until the recent adoption of a standard ] ZigBee sensors can run on harvested ZigBee Energy profile, however, solu- power or batteries. Users can expect tions in the smart grid/energy space an extended battery life that could had been mostly custom developments, exceed 10 years for very low-duty relying on proprietary radios and com- applications, such as automatic municators dedicated solely to the func- meter reading, when using common tion of communicating with the ZigBee alkaline batteries in a typical radios, which, for example, read meters. ZigBee product. For higher duty applications, battery life can range In the last decade, the ZigBee Alliance from 100 days to three years began an incremental release of the ] Transmission distances are ZigBee Smart Energy standard in order remarkable for a low-power solution, to create a global ecosystem of inter- ranging from 1 to 1,000 meters operable products – including meters, (about 3 to 3,280 feet), depending thermostats, outlets, load-control on power output and environmental devices, and transformers – that mon- conditions such as other buildings, itor, control, inform, and automate the interior wall types, and geographic delivery and use of energy and water. topology The Smart Energy profile calls for the ] Multiple ZigBee sensors can be certification of products in order to configured into self-healing mesh provide assurance they will perform and networks that extend the range of can communicate with one another, multiple sensors by miles regardless of manufacturer.
A more secure network One tablet, many functions ZigBee offers Machine-to-Machine (M2M) ZigBee-enabled smart grids have communication, offering an advantage added a layer of sophistication to utility
PC/104 and Small Form Factors Y 2012 Resource Guide Y 19 THE BIG YET SMALL PICTURE operations, allowing for management of demand response and load control, Figure 2 | The DAP Technologies M9010 automated meter reading, and iden- tablet is ruggedized for portable use tification and repair of outages. The and includes a variety of advanced ability to natively communicate with communications options like ZigBee and the devices that manage these func- wireless broadband to keep technicians connected. tions is imperative, but to focus purely on incorporating ZigBee into a tablet is shortsighted. It is important to also service. In many cases an installer or consider how technicians use their field technician will carry a computer as equipment in the field, and then build on well as separate equipment to fulfill their the elements and abuses that come strategies for managing those techni- job function; smart grid installers need with heavy outdoor use. In addition to cians, maintaining fleets and inventory, an ohmmeter to test voltage, trans- remaining operational in weather con- and serving customers. former technicians need equipment to ditions that range from driving rain, test for vibration, and solar installers snow, and ice to humidity, blazing hot During smart grid installation, for ex- need a compass. temperatures, and dust storms, tab- ample, some technicians carry a ZigBee lets for utility applications should be communicator, laptop computer, GPS, Modular design that affords the integra- safe for use around chemicals including measurement instruments, and a cam- tion of key equipment into a tablet is the acetone, crude oil, ISO-propane, diesel, era. Incorporating all of these on a antidote to static designs that disallow oil, acetaldehyde, benzene, chloride, tablet computer simplifies their jobs and change and custom designs that require and more. Minimum requirements for cuts costs. As each data point is gath- expensive R&D. DAP Technologies’ rugged tablets in these applications ered, the tablet can be used to test and M9010 tablet, for example, features a should be IP67 – completely sealed validate the new meter or transformer, backpack design that allows end users against dust and water – and the ability to document and pinpoint its exact loca- to add their own circuitry to accommo- survive multiple 6-foot (1.8-meter) drops tion using location-based services and date a range of tools and data inputs for to concrete. GPS, acquire the work order and com- custom solutions, or specify packaged municate with the central office, scan solutions such as RFID (Figure 2). A multi-use, connected tool equipment barcodes, access mapping Rugged tablets offer a lightweight, data and manuals, and more in a The future is in the cloud(s) mobile, durable, and user-friendly plat- single lightweight portable computer. With ZigBee radios along the smart form for incorporating ZigBee into Ultimately, combining these tools into grid continually pinging data, cloud a solution that performs most of the a single device lowers purchase and computing will play an ever greater required tasks for smart grid installation maintenance costs for the end user by role in managing the billions of bytes of and maintenance. As ZigBee continues as much as 50 percent. Alternatively, a data that are produced daily, providing to gain prominence in smart grid appli- technician might carry a rugged laptop real-time usage information to cus- cations and beyond, it is important to worth $3,000 (sometimes also with a tomers and technicians analyzing data remember that incorporating this essen- data plan for $50/month), GPS worth in the field. tial technology into a complete package $300, a handheld worth $1,000 (with a will reap the most benefits for the user, data plan for $50/month), measurement When designing a tablet for the smart both in terms of cost savings and field devices (such as an ohmmeter) worth grid, wireless broadband communica- efficiency. $500 to $1,000, and a ZigBee program- tion is imperative for accessing the vast ming device worth $500. The cost of a quantities of data and providing field Khalid Kidari is similarly equipped mobile tablet could analysis. Field technicians might be sent Director of Product be about half. to investigate repeat outages in a par- Management ticular network. Using tablets to access and Marketing at After installation, the same tablet can the cloud, they could look for trends in DAP Technologies. be used for reading meters, assessing peak consumption and use that data in He oversees the outages, maintaining the network, and conjunction with information from the company’s entire restoring power – all while providing ZigBee modules to correct the issue. line of rugged tablet, handheld, and the company a powerful tool for routing fixed-mount computers. DAP serves assignments to the closest technician, It is also important for the tablet to be customers in industries that include maintaining inventory, and geofencing. compatible with the utilities’ existing field service, utilities, warehouse, supply systems. For most utilities, that means a chain, transportation, and logistics. There isn’t an app for that: Windows-based operating system. The importance of modularity DAP Technologies Industry-specific tools such as measure- Built to last [email protected] ment equipment often inhibit using a Any computer that is to be used in field www.daptech.com computer as the primary tool for field applications must be built to withstand
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Giving smart energy its own “easy button”
By Monique DeVoe, Assistant Managing Editor
One key idea of the smart grid/energy standard” in 2010. Building on the EUI, 2011 Approximately 6 million customers ffrom movement is to give consumers the knowl- saw development begin on a standard to PG&E and SDG&E already have access to edge and information to proactively monitor deliver historical and ongoing usage data: Green Button, with SCE planning to provide their energy use. A plethora of data has the Energy Service Provider Interface (ESPI). Green Button data to its 4 million customers been produced out of smart energy pro- ESPI additionally defined the transmission later in 2012. Several other utilities across grams, and having a standardized format and authorization of usage data for access the country have also joined in. with apps to make sense of it all would be by third parties (which could be anything Chopra expressed hope for nationwide a tremendous help. This is what U.S. Chief from apps to appliances). Security features adoption by utility companies, and various Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra had in (such as OAuth) and privacy considerations companies and individuals are hard at mind during GridWeek in September 2011 were other driving features for ESPI[1]. work creating apps to make better use of where he challenged utilities to create stan- Based on ESPI, Green Button supplies Green Button data. For example, Tendril dards and a framework for consumer data – historical energy usage information directly opened its platform APIs and has provided the Green Button initiative. to the end-user by providing data through software development tools that have The initiative’s medical history XML files made consumer-friendly with an attracted more than 200 app developers. The idea for the Green Button initiative came XLST file, rendering usage data that is both Beyond simply displaying data, future appli- from one step over on the color spectrum: human and machine readable. cations could provide analysis to determine the Blue Button. This digital button was Within the 90-day challenge period set if windows need to be changed based on created in fall 2010 to assist returning Iraq and forth by the administration, this standard temperatures and usage data, estimate the Afghanistan veterans to access health records was ratified and its usage agreed upon by energy costs prospective tenants can expect in digital format, when and how they wanted California utilities. to pay, or verify if energy-efficiency remod- it. The goal for Blue Button was to create a eling has had an effect. The future is green better use of electronic health records and Green Button’s availability was formally Though Chopra recently stepped down as other information technology in healthcare. announced on Jan. 18 at a Santa Clara event White House CTO, the momentum gathered A logical next step was to extend the concept called “Transforming the Energy Landscape so far for the Green Button initiative should to consumer energy data, which already has a with the Green Button” with California’s three drive future expansion and growth. strong presence in electronic records. largest utilities – San Diego Gas & Electric References: The standard foundation (SDG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), [1] See the National Institute of Standards Standards for interoperable usage data have and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) – and (NIST) Green Button page for more been in the works for years, starting with more than 100 executives from leading details on the formation of the standard: the Energy Usage Information (EUI) “seed smart energy companies present in support. http://opsy.st/yYZAM6 Profile Index
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FEATURES BENEFITS TS-SOCKET MACROCONTROLLER PROJECTS PRICE AND AVAILABILITY i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i C, CAN, GPIO, external bus, video, touchscreen, C, CAN, GPIO, external bus, video, touchscreen, www.embeddedARM.com 2 A TS-SOCKET base board can be any piece of hardware, supplied A TS-SOCKET base board can be any piece audio, SPI, and UART. All parts are soldered-on and no moving parts All parts are soldered-on audio, SPI, and UART. reliability. are used, ensuring embedded ruggedness and JUMP START YOUR EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN YOUR EMBEDDED SYSTEM JUMP START Technologic Systems | 480-837-5200 Technologic give our customers more options and flexibility when selecting an embedded system, since a base board can be used with multiple Macrocontrollers. As an application example, a base board designed to provide video and touchscreen functionality can have its CPU easily upgraded to improve video playback performance or later as a second generation upgrade. Lower design costs and faster time-to-market directly result from the TS-SOCKET board interchangeability feature because the standardization significantly reduces design complexity. INEXPENSIVE CUSTOM DESIGNS, FAST TIME-TO-MARKET INEXPENSIVE CUSTOM DESIGNS, FAST All TS-SOCKET Macrocontrollers are designed with a common pin-out, which means that they are interchangeable. This will by the customer or Technologic Systems, that interfaces with a by the customer or Technologic standard connectors. Macrocontroller through the dual TS-SOCKET A TS-SOCKET Macrocontroller is an embedded CPU board that A TS-SOCKET Macrocontroller is an embedded form-factor is 75 mm implements the TS-SOCKET specification. The addition to two 100-pin x 55 mm, about the size of a credit card. In features off-board male connectors, a TS-SOCKET Macrocontroller Ethernet MAC/PHY and CPU, RAM, NAND Flash, SD Card socket, can include USB requires a single 5 V power source. Peripherals host and device, I TS-SOCKET MACROCONTROLLER STANDARD designed and con- TS-SOCKET is an embedded computer standard Systems, Inc. It defines both a form-factor trolled by Technologic two 100-pin low-profile and a connection pin-out and is based on between a Macrocon- connectors, allowing secure connection troller and a base board. CPU core modules securely connect to your custom base board, connect to your custom base board, CPU core modules securely your Start design time and complexity. enabling drastically reduced around one of our TS-SOCKET Macro- embedded system design your overall project risk and accelerate time- controllers to reduce to-market. The TS-SOCKET Macrocontrollers are a series of embedded are a series of embedded The TS-SOCKET Macrocontrollers the TS-SOCKET connector standard. These computers based on TS-SOCKET MACROCONTROLLERS
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the flexibilityofafullycustomizedproductatgreatlyreducedcost. I/O componentsthatmayberequired.TheSoMapproachprovides shelf carrierboardcontainingalltheconnectorsandanyadditional uct line,theSoM-3517isdesignedtoplugintoacustomoroff-the- with imagescaling/rotation.LikeothermodulesinEMAC’s SoMprod- tionally providesamathcoprocessor, and2D/3Dacceleratedvideo I/O lines,Video,Clock/Calendar, andmore.TheSoM-3517Maddi- SPI, I2C,I2SAudio,CAN2.0B,PWMs,Timer/Counters, A/D,Digital on thistinyboardincluding:Flash,Memory, Serialports,Ethernet, for yournextdesign.AlloftheARMprocessorcoreisincluded by otherEMACSoMmodules,andistheidealprocessorengine The SoM-3517usesthesamesmallSODIMMform-factorutilized General Standards |800-653-9970 24-bit analoginputresourcesonastandardPC104- and acousticresearch.The6-channelanaloginputboardprovideshigh-density audio waveformanalysis,analoginputs,voltageacquisition,phasecomparison, This moduleisidealforawidevarietyofapplications,includingsonararrays, PC104P-24DSI6LN 6-ChannelLow-Noise24-BitDelta-SigmaPC104- &."$8BZt$BSCPOEBMF *- EMAC, inc. SoM-3517 on adaptersforalternateformfactors,includingPMC,PCI,cPCIandPC104- “lockstep DMA channels.Multiplechannelscan besynchronizedtoperformsamplingin ferred tothePCIbusthrougha256K-sampledatabufferthatissupportedbytwo rates from2KSPSto200KSPS.Conversiondataallactivechannelsistrans- is divideddownwithinthelocalcontrollertoprovideindividualchannelsample An internalsample-rategeneratorisadjustableovera2:1frequencyrange,and AC-coupled formaximumdynamicrange. Input responsecanbeselectedasDCcoupledfordowntoDC,or as those interferencesignalsthatfallwithintheharmonicimagesofdigitalfilter. antialiasing filterrejectsout-of-bandsignals,andalowpassanalogreject sigma A/Dconverterthatprovidesdigitalantialiasfiltering.Alinear-phase digital Each ofsixanaloginputchannelscontainsalowpassimagefilteranddelta- and PCI-Express.We offerfreeloanerboardsandsoftwaredrivers. clock inputsignals. Y
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ACCES I/OProducts, Inc.|858-550-9559 darkened interiorofanenclosure isopened. and evenasecuritylightsensor thatcanbeusedtodetectifthe non-isolated digitaloutputs,two generalpurposeA/Dinputs, isolated digitaloutputstocontrol/switch externalevents,two Want more?!Onegeneralpurposeopticallyisolatedinput,two and manyotherswhichrequireself-reliantembeddedsystems. tracking, retail,medical,embeddedOEM,temperaturemeasurement, trial automation,military/mission-critical,assetmanagementand PC/104-based embeddedsystem.Applicationsincludekiosks,indus- to allowforcompletepeaceofmindwhenplanningyournext voltage, fanspeed,humidity, andmore.Theboardwasdesigned a varietyofsystemhardwareparameterssuchastemperature, lockup. Inaddition,theP104-WDG-CSMAcanmonitorandcontrol well asoperatingsystemandwillinitiatearesetincase of can beusedtomonitortheoperationofyourapplicationprogram as your systemandwillhelpavoidcostlyfailures.Theboard This feature-richWatchdog boardwillvigilantly standguardover 18%($4."1$ Americas: +1-214-272-0395 46/%"/$&.6-5*130$&44035&$)/0-0(: SUNDANCE 4.5&NCFEEFE*0QSPHSBNNBCMFNPEVMFXJUI1PXFS1$ class PCI/104-Express rable smallformfactorsandCOTS .VMUJDIBOOFM"%BOE%" t including: mable solutionscompatiblewithourwiderangeofmezzaninecards PCIe/104 smallformfactor, stackableI/O-configurableandprogram- The SMT105istheelementarybricktobuildacompleterangeof &NCFEEFEWJTJPOBOEEJTQMBZ t $PNNVOJDBUJPOTBOEEBUBSFDPSEJOH t Y
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Technologic Systems| 480-837-5200 can bewritteninthescriptinglanguage ofyourchoice. application withaweb-baseduser interfaceservedbythecontroller a wrapperutilityforscriptedaccess. Acompleteindustrialcontrol provides aClibraryforaccessingallhardwarefeatures,aswell as For boththeTS-7558-BOXandTS-8820-BOX,Technologic Systems or anylanguagesupportedbyDebian. applications inLadderLogic,StructuredText, Java, PHP, python, perl, ware solutionssuchasdatabaseservers,webandcustom Full DebianLinuxisalsosupported,allowingsophisticatedsoft- SLC XNANDdrive.isrecommendedforaguaranteedbootup. Linux kernelcanbeloadedfromanSDcardortheindustrial onds, allowingyourapplicationtostartworkingimmediately. The The TS-7558-BOXandTS-8820-BOXbothbootLinuxinunder3sec- Software ers withVerilog programmingexpertisetodotheirowndevelopment. wide varietyofproblems.TheopencoreFPGAsalsoenablecustom- Systems engineerscancreatecustomFPGAprogrammingtosolvea can beexpensive.Foraone-timeengineeringcharge,Technologic applications, butmanyotherswouldbenefitfromcustomlogic,which standard DIO,PWM,andpulsecounterfunctionalitiesworkformany industrial applicationsthatrequirenon-standardinterfaces.The Both productsfeatureFPGAs,makingthemanidealsolutionfor FPGA Flexibility priced at$588(qty100),includingtheenclosure. isolated CAN,RS-232,andRS-485.TS-8820-BOXis nals ontheTS-8820-BOXbringout16I/O-ADC,DAC,H-bridges,relays, terminals whileprotectingthesensitiveelectronics.120screwtermi- rugged extrudedaluminumenclosurethatexposestheI/Oonscrew applications. Thiscontrollerfeaturesan800MHzCPUhousedina The TS-8820-BOXisapowerfulsolutionforwidevarietyofindustrial The TS-8820-BOX with 50DIOand8ADCisalsoavailable. out 16I/O-isolatedinputs,isolatedoutputs,andADC.TS-7520-BOX (qty 100)includingtheplasticenclosure.Thescrewterminalsbring 250MHz ARM9architecture,theTS-7558-BOXispricedat$199 industrial controlapplications.DesignedaroundthematureCavium The TS-7558-BOXisacompletesolutionforextremelylowcost The TS-7558-BOX number ofcomponents. automation systemcanbeimplementedatlowcostwithaminimal isolated I/O.WithTechnologic Systemscontrollers,anintelligent industrial equipmentusingruggedscrewterminalconnectorsand Linux-powered processcontrollerscanbeconnecteddirectlyto trial processcontrol,theTS-8820-BOXandTS-7558-BOX.Our Technologic Systemsofferstwopowerfulcomputerstargetingindus- Technologic SystemsIndustrialControllers Y
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