Boards/Backplanes

The 6LoWPAN IoT Gateway from WEPTECH elektronik will extend the portfolio of wireless network products designed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications from RS Components. The 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network) IoT Gateway board functions as a border router in a 6LoWPAN-based network and connects a wireless IPv6-based network to the Internet.

Intel’s latest low-cost iteration of the Bay Trail SoC Pentium and Celeron architecture, Braswell, offers ultra-low power for fanless operation, budget-level computing performance and plentiful I/O. BVM are the first in the UK to offer the AsRock IMB-154 and IMB-155 Mini-ITX (6.7x6.7") motherboards designed for use in applications such as POS, kiosk, gaming machines, video display and thin clients.

Design engineers working in industrial, HMI and networking applications are being offered the Texas Instruments AM437x starter kit by distributor element14. The kit is a low-cost development platform based on the ARM Cortex-A9 processor providing a stable and affordable platform to quickly start evaluation of Sitara ARM Cortex®-A9 AM437x Processors (AM4376, AM4378).

A fanless Pico-ITX motherboard designed to support the Intel Celeron processors quad-core J1900 and dual-core N2807 has been introduced by Axiomtek. Featuring a system memory that supports up to 8GB of DDR3L, the PICO842 supports dual display outputs through HDMI or VGA, and 18/24-bit single/dual channel LVDS.

Fujitsu has announced the µATX boards of the Classic Desktop series and two boards with longer availability. All boards are equipped with the 100 series chipset from Intel, which supports the 6th Generation Intel Core processors. For the first time they support DDR4 memory. This brings a significant increase in performance. The Intel chipsets enable the use of the new generation’s more powerful CPUs while reducing power consumption.

Microsoft has certified the ARM mbed Enabled Freescale FRDM-K64F development board for IoT products that securely gather and channel data into the public cloud platform, Microsoft Azure. This is the first ARM mbed board tested and verified by Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT to support the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible and trusted cloud platform used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies.

The S6SAE101A solar-powered Internet of Things (IoT) device kit from Cypress Semiconductor is now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics. The kit provides an easy-to-use platform for the development of a solar-powered IoT device with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless connectivity. 

The selection of high quality lighting solutions at Conrad Business Solutions has been extended with a new range of LED boards from Barthelme. Making use of Osram LEDs in a variety of different shapes and configurations, these new boards offer white tones extending across the RGB (red, green and blue) spectrum and with adjustable lumen output.

congatec is extending its product portfolio for the most popular Qseven standard by now offering COMs in the 40x70mm sub-credit-card µQseven format. The first flagship module of this next-gen mini form factor is the conga-UMX6 with ARM Cortex A9-based Freescale i.MX 6 processors. It caters to applications in harsh environments, which require compact low-power designs, appealing multimedia and computing performance.

At the 2015 HPC for Wall Street - Cloud & Big Data Conference, BittWare announced the availability of the second board of its extensive family of products based on Altera's Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs, a ¾-length PCIe board called the A10P3S.