Boards/Backplanes

At the 2015 HPC for Wall Street - Cloud Technology Show & Conference, BittWare announced the availability of its first board based on Altera's Arria 10 GT/GX FPGA. Integrating the 20nm process technology of the Arria 10 with a wide variety of features, the A10PL4 board supports a range of challenging applications such as network processing and security, compute and storage, instrumentation, broadcast, and signals intelligence. 

Arrow Electronics engineers are standing by to help customers looking to take their first steps into IoT using Texas Instrument SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless microcontroller (MCU) platform.  The SimpleLink ultra-low power platform combines high levels of integration with a wide range of supported communications protocols including Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, Sub-1 GHz and ZigBee RF4CE.

The GIZMO Explorer Board , a companion board for the GIZMO2 platform from GIZMOSPHERE is available at Farnell element14. The board offers features and peripherals that are ideal for use in motor control, human machine interface and control system application designs so users can get their projects started quickly.

Blue Chip Technology has announced that it will be launching the latest version of there acclaimed RE2 SBC at the UK Device Developers’ Conference. Blue Chip have also agreed to be a lead sponsor of this year's UK Device Developers Conference and will be exhibiting a range of hardware solutions for embedded system developments.

A low-profile PCIe board, based on Altera's Arria V GZ FPGA, has been introduced by BittWare. The Arria V GZ provides a high level of system integration and flexibility for I/O, routing and processing that makes the A5-PCIe-S (A5PS) suitable for network processing, security, broadcast, and signals intelligence applications.

A dual-function, board level material that simultaneously improves signal integrity and temperature stability of electronic circuits has been introduced by Laird. Today as designers fight to fit more functionality into each circuit board, signal integrity is becoming more important than ever before. At the same time as devices become ever thinner, smaller and more compact, space on circuit boards is difficult to come by.

An industrial mainboard, designed to meet the demand for higher processing performance in industrial applications, has been released by MSI. The MS-98G5 is a Mini-ITX board based on Intel 4th Gen QM87/HM86 architecture. Powered by a Mobile Core i7/i5/i3/Celeron processor, the board features one PCIe(x16), eight USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, five COM ports, a SATA 3.0 connector and two mini-PCIe slots. 

  Industrial mainboards, manufactured by Fujitsu, can simultaneously drive three displays. To provide this Multi Monitor Support, the D3236-S ATX mainboard, the D3231-S micro ATX mainboard and the D3243-S mini-ITX mainboard each feature one DVI-I and two DP V1.2 graphics interfaces.

VadaTech has announced the release of an ADC for applications such as RADAR, SIG-INT, wireless infrastructure and RF Sampling SDR. The FMC226 is a dual ADC, 12-bit at 4.0GS/s module with excellent dynamic performance. The compact FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) plugs into any VITA 57 compliant board, including VadaTech’s numerous FPGA carriers.

Mouser Electronics is now shipping the AD9154 Quad Digital‑to‑Analog Converter (DAC) ADS7-V1EBZ Evaluation Boards from Analog Devices. The AD9154 is a four‑input 16‑bit DAC with a high dynamic range and a fast sampling rate of 2.4 Giga-samples per second (Gsps). The boards are used to evaluate the Analog Devices AD9154 Quad 16‑bit DAC.