Top 5 power boards/backplanes stories in March

29th March 2022

Sam Holland

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Electronic Specifier takes a look at the top boards/backplanes product stories to have been released in March 2022.

Streaming 4x cameras with small carrier board prototype

Embedded vision components are ever popular and being incorporated into a plethora of applications. What all these applications have in common is the need to pack more functionality into tight spaces.

Often, it is advantageous for these systems make decisions on the edge.

To enable such systems, including the ability to prototype quickly, Teledyne FLIR has introduced the Quartet Embedded Solution for TX2. This customised carrier board enables easy integration of up to 4 x USB3 machine vision cameras at full bandwidth.

3.5″ embedded board offers 4/5 wire touch interface

The AECX-IMX6 3.5″ embedded board from Litemax is suitable for touchscreen devices.

Litemax based in Taiwan are manufacturers of advanced industrial displays and embedded solutions.

The AECX-IMX6 processor works on the Freescale i.MX 6 Cortex-A9 Dual Lite 1.0GHz and the 3.5″ board offers a system memory of 1GB DDR3 onboard. The standard operating temperature for the board is 0°C ~ 60°C and there are options for a wide operating temperature up to −40°C ~ 70°C.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 convinces on all levels

Kontron has launched the Pi-Tron CM4, a single-board computer based on the Raspberry Pi with a Boradcom BCM2711, 4x Arm Cortex-A72 with 1.6GHz processor, an M.2 slot and many other interfaces.

The Automation Line AL Pi-Tron CM4 is available in a housing, allowing for universal application and making it especially well-suited for industrial applications.

The Pi-Tron CM4 is based on the new fourth-generation Compute Module and features the Broadcom BCM2711 4x Arm Cortex-A72, 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz, a significantly faster processor than the previous generation. It has more memory with 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM, depending on the variant.

Versatile USB-IO board enables control and monitoring

Embedded systems and display solutions provider, Review Display Systems (RDS) have announced the introduction of a, highly versatile USB control and monitoring interface board.

The intelligent USB-IO board features a comprehensive range of I/O (input/output) ports which can be easily controlled and monitored using a single USB serial interface.

The USB-IO board has been designed and developed by RDS for use in embedded systems, IoT applications and stand-alone equipment to enable the control and monitoring of external hardware and systems such as relays, smart sensors, actuators, lighting, and motors.

GaN-based inverter reference design cuts system costs

The EPC9167 GaN-based inverter reference design enhances motor system performance, range, precision, and torque while lowering overall system cost.

The reference design board is a 3-phase BLDC (brushless direct current) motor drive inverter board featuring the EPC2065 eGaN FET rated at 3.6mΩ maximum R_DS(on), 80V maximum device voltage. The extremely small size of this inverter allows integration into the motor housing resulting in the low EMI, high density, and low weight.