Boards/Backplanes
Conrad to supply Embedded Artists development kits
Conrad Business Supplies has moved to support its NXP microcontroller line by signing as an authorised distributor for Malmo-based Embedded Artists, a leading provider of products and services around prototyping, evaluation and OEM platforms that use NXP’s ARM-based microcontrollers. With immediate effect, Conrad will be able to supply its customers with a wide range of Embedded Artists’ prototyping boards and development kits from st...
Evaluation kit aids touch sensitive designs
Future Electronics has added to the development boards on its FTM Board Club website. The latest offering is the capacitive sensing evaluation kit from Cypress Semiconductor now available free to design engineers.The CY3280-MBR3 CapSense MBR3 Evaluation Kit helps designers to evaluate the third generation of Cypress Semiconductor’s capacitive-sensing technology. It can be used to develop CapSense button designs, and to implement proximity s...
Board family leverages Arria 10 FPGA capabilities
Based on Altera's Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the A10 board family leverages Arria 10 FPGAs's capabilities to build solid platforms in a variety of formats, supporting a wide range of challenging applications. The A10 family, from BittWare, features flexible memory configurations, sophisticated clocking and timing options, QSFP28 cages that support 100Gbps (including 100GigE) optical transceivers, FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), and support for the netwo...
SBC powered by Intel Celeron microprocessors
With the MS-98F6 DATA MODUL introduces a new 3.5in. SBC powered by the latest Intel Celeron N2930/J1900 processors, a system-on-chip (SoC) with the codenamed “Bay Trail”. Based on the 22nm Silvermont microarchitecture, these new processors are designed for intelligent systems and applications with low power consumption and high performance requirements.
Shelf manager delivers 10x improvement over previous version
The VT003 shelf manager is the next generation of VadaTech's mezzanine-based shelf manager used in ATCA, MicroTCA, and other applications. The shelf manager provides a quad-core 1GHz per core processor, a 10x improvement over its previous version.
Mini-ITX motherboard for graphic-intensive computing
Designed for graphics-heavy and/or processing-intensive applications, the IMB-185 high performance Mini-ITX motherboard has been introduced by The BVM Group. With an entry level H81 chipset, the board is a cost-effective, high performance platform suitable for many embedded applications, such as video signage, gaming, automation and security video processing.
Development board frees approach to digital sensor chips
Mouser Electronics is shipping the Freescale Semiconductor’s Freedom Development Platform for Xtrinsic Sensors. This small Arduino‑compatible development board from is a cost-effective platform for evaluating Freescale's digital gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, and position sensors.
Reference design aids power grid data measurement
The need for utilities and infrastructure providers to simultaneously and accurately measure distributed power grid data can now be met with Petaluma, a subsystem reference design from Maxim Integrated Products. Utility organisations worldwide are deploying more robust applications that require highly accurate distributed grid status data to leverage distributed generation technologies such as solar and wind power.
Ceramic condensators boost Qseven module performance
With the conga-QA3 DATA MODUL presents a new generation of Qseven modules from congatec. The module provides twice the performance over its predecessor plus an optimised product lifespan thanks to development with ceramic condensators. It comes in five different Intel Atom processor-based versions (formerly codenamed “Bay Trail”) for high scalability.
VPX module delivers rugged DSP & FPGA performance
A rugged DSP and FPGA based card in a VITA 65, 3U OpenVPX form factor has been launched by CommAgility. The VPX-D16A4, CommAgility’s first board in the rugged VPX form factor, is suited for applications such as SDR (including LTE, RRH, WiMax and Cloud RAN), imaging or radar, as well as to military or other harsh field deployment environments.