Boards/Backplanes

The new RGB LED Lighting Shield with XMC1202 for Arduino from Infineon Technologies is now available from Farnell element14. It is one of the industry’s first easy-to-use, intelligent lighting solutions compatible with Arduino and the XMC1100 Boot Kit of Infineon. The solution features three independent dimming engines with nine independent Pulse Density Modulated (PDM) channels.

A Mini-ITX motherboard, which supports the Intel Q87 chipset and next-gen Intel Core processors, has been released by IBASE Technology. Suitable for applications in industrial control, factory automation, communications and gaming industries, the MI981 is designed to provide high performance and flexibility for functional expansions.

Advantech’s MIO-2263 Embedded IoT Gateway is available at Mouser Electronics. The MIO‑2263 is a single-board computer (SBC) equipped with either an Intel Celeron or Intel Atom CPU. These embedded Internet of Things (IoT) gateway SBCs feature a 1GbE interface for Ethernet connectivity up to 1,000 Mbps, up to 8GBytes of RAM, multiple I/O and communication interfaces, high-definition audio, and a half-size Mini PCI Express expansion slot.

ADLINK Technology introduces a SMARC (Smart Mobility ARChitecture) form factor CoM, running a Freescale i.MX6 processor based on the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture. With a choice of dual or quad-core processors running at from 800MHz to 1.2GHz with soldered memory up to 2GB DDR3L-1066/1333.

A workstation grade PICMG 1.3 system host board, supported by 4th gen Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3, Core i3, Pentium and Celeron processors, has been released by ADLINK Technology. Offered in a LGA1150 package, the NuPRO-E72 supports DDR3 1600 memory up to 16GB with ECC support.

WEEElogic, the service-provider for Pan-European batteries, packaging and WEEE compliance and take-back solutions, has extended its partner network. Veolia ES WEEE Compliance Scheme (UK) Limited has become WEEElogic exclusive partner for serving customers in the United Kingdom. For WEEElogic, this is another step in completing its setup and extending its network across Europe.

The ArchiTech Louvre board is a platform to help engineers accelerate the implementation of Near Field Communications (NFC) in electronic devices. The demonstration and development board is based around the NXP LPC11U37 ARM Cortex M0 microcontroller (MCU) and the NXP NTAG I2C tag IC. It comes with firmware and sample Android applications, and source code is provided under GPL (the General Public License for the GNU operating system).

A Mini-ITX board, supporting 2nd gen AMD Embedded R-series processors, has been released by WIN Enterprises. Available with either dual- and quad-core processors, the MB-83210 supports a variety of mobile and remote applications such as thin-clients, wireless network devices, digital media appliances and STBs, with onboard display capabilities that include four DP ++ display interfaces with 4K resolution. 

The Cirrus Logic Audio Card which is available exclusively from element14 opens up new levels of functionality and performance to avid audiophiles who wish to use the Raspberry Pi B+ for audio applications. The Audio Card offers Raspberry Pi A+ and B+ users the ability to input and output high definition audio from the Raspberry Pi. The high-performance audio card allows audio input using either line level analogue/stereo digital (SPDIF) or the o...

  Compatible with the Arduino Uno R3, two shields have been announced by Infineon Technologies for RGB lighting and motor control applications. Both shields can be combined with the XMC1100 Boot Kit which is equipped with a 32-bit MCU from the XMC1000 family.