Boards/Backplanes
SBC launched with claims its market's most powerful
Billed as the most advanced, powerful and compact SBC in the marketplace, the PICO880 has been announced by Axiomtek. Created with 4th Generation Intel Core technology, the PICO880 is designed to support the needs of systems integrators who require a compact, high-performance, versatile and reliable SBC.
EMC backshell provides low-cost universal screening
An updated version of the company's popular KC2800, KEC has announced the KCS2800 EMC backshell. It is highly cost-effective and provides high levels of protection of overall and individual screening and a combination of both. This backshell is a standard version using the most common format chosen by customers, resulting in an economy of scale which yields significant price reductions.
EATX motherboard for intensive embedded applications
DFI has announced an EATX form factor motherboard, the RL830-C602/C604, with the Intel C602J/C604 chipset. The board supports dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, which are based on 22nm process technology providing higher intelligent performance with more cost-effective and energy-efficient power consumption than previous generations.
Reference design turns up the heat on temperature measurement
Maxim Integrated’s Novato smart temperature-transmitter reference design transmits temperature measurement over -200 °C to +850 °C range with better than ±0.1 % accuracy. IT will enable factories to accurately measure and transmit industrial temperatures with the reference design, a 4–20mA loop-powered temperature transmitter with the HART communication protocol. Temperature is among the most widely measured parameters ...
Pico-ITX and Mini-ITX motherboards with Intel Atom E3800
Kontron announce two embedded motherboards with Intel Atom processor E3800 series. These energy-efficient SoC boards in the form factors Pico-ITX and Mini-ITX excel with their outstanding graphics and powerful processor performance while consuming only a few watts.
Design engineers get free Nucleo board offer
Future Electronics is making the new range of STM32 Nucleo prototyping boards from STMicroelectronics available free via its FTM Board Club website for design engineers. The Nucleo boards are compatible with ARM’s mbed application development platform. They also include ST Morpho extension headers to allow access to all of the microcontroller’s on-chip peripherals, and Arduino headers which accept shields from the extensive Arduino ec...
Mini-ITX baseboard for digital signage applications
With the eDM-mITX-CB-Q7-Info, DATA MODUL has introduced a Mini-ITX Baseboard that is ideally suited for use in Digital Signage applications. This innovative design uses the Qseven Standard in order to build systems with ARM based CPU Modules or x86 based CPU Modules.
Pickering showcase latest switching modules and chassis at AMPER 2014
Pickering Interfaces will be showcasing its latest switching modules and chassis at the AMPER 2014 Exhibition in Hall V, Booth 3.06. These products include Pickering’s LXI, PXI, RF Matrix, Microwave Multiplexer and PCI Ranges.
Connectivity features in Cortex A-5 evaluation kit
Farnell element14 and Atmel have launched the SAMA5D3 Xplained evaluation kit, a low-cost fast prototyping and evaluation platform for microprocessor-based design. The board, which is based on Atmel’s SAMA5D3 ARM Cortex-A5 processor-based MPU, comes with a rich set of ready-to-use connectivity and storage peripherals, along with Arduino shield-compatible expansion headers for easy customisation.
Sound move: Audio card brings Hi-Fi to Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi has Hi-Fi. Farnell element14 has launched the Wolfson Audio Card which allows Raspberry Pi owners to use high quality audio capabilities as the inspiration for their latest Pi innovations. The card brings both line-in, line-out headphone and headset support, on-board stereo microphones, and digital audio S/PDIF functionality to the Raspberry Pi for the first time.