Boards/Backplanes

Avalue Technology has introduced a 5.25" SBCs - EBM-BSW, a Qseven Solution - EQM-BSW, and a COMe Solution - ESM-BSW, based on Intel's Braswell - M/D processor family. The Intel Pentium/Celeron processor N3000 family are based on Intel’s 14nm architecture for entry systems, which doubles graphics performance and offers a 16% battery life improvement, better I/O support, and better performance at low th...

DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor is on sale at Arrow Electronics. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers.  The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to use the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such...

Melexis has strengthened the support offered for its ground-breaking Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensing technology. The EVK75023 evaluation kit accompanies its MLX75023 QVGA (320x240pixels) resolutionToF sensor with high dynamic range DepthSense pixels. This hardware platform enables implementation of more advanced HMIs.

An open-source, specification-compliant board that is based on the new Freescale i.MX 7 microprocessor was announced at the Freescale Technology Forum by Arrow Electronics. Arrow also collaborated with Qualcomm Atheros, a subsidiary of Qualcomm on the board’s Bluetooth & Wi-Fi capabilities and with Linear Technologies on the board’s power supply.

A thin Mini-ITX motherboard capable of supporting a wide range of low-profile OEM devices has been released by WIN Enterprises. The MB-73400, which features the Intel Atom Braswell SoC, supports two DDR3L SO-DIMM up to 8GB memory, two HDMI/24-bit LVDS, two Intel GbE LAN, one SATA III, four USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, two Mini-PCIe sockets and HD Audio.

At the TERATEC 2015 Forum, BittWare showcased its first board based on the Altera Arria 10 GT/GX FPGA. The A10PL4 is a low-profile PCIe board that integrates the 20nm process technology of the Arria 10 with a wide variety of features and supports a range of challenging applications such as network processing and security, compute and storage, instrumentation, broadcast, and signals intelligence.

The Arduino M0 Pro, a simple and powerful extension of the 32-bit Arduino platform established by the Arduino Uno board is now on sale at RS Components.  Aimed at embedded engineers, hackers and students, the Arduino M0 Pro board is designed to help the development of innovative ideas for smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, wearable technologies, high-tech automation, robotics and other imaginative projects.

Verotec has supplied suites of five different VMEbus-based systems to a US-based naval and marine systems integrator for use in military shipboard applications. Each system consists of a VMEbus backplane and two military grade power converters mounted in custom plug-in modules in special subracks based on Verotec’s KM6-HD family.

The Panasonic PAN1740 next-gen BLE Module, designed to enable low-energy wireless connectivity, is on sale at Farnell element14. With demand for this type of connectivity accelerating in recent times, the BLE offers a reduced form factor, significantly lower power consumption and embedded Software Stack.

  Customers can now use Beta LAYOUT’s PCB-POOL manufacturing service to produce flexible PCB designs. This service combines numerous PCB designs and manufactures them together, eliminating tooling charges and reducing the overall cost for the customer.