Boards/Backplanes

Display specialist distributor Ginsbury has introduced Kyocera's new Raspberry Pi based Universal Demo Kit (VIP Kit). Simple to use and easy to operate, the VIP Kit connects to a Raspberry Pi and processes the HDMI output, enabling images and graphics to be displayed on any of Kyocera's currently available TFT display panels.

A self-powered sensor kit that enables designers and enthusiasts to get up and running with home and building automation is available from element14. The EnOcean Sensor Kit requires no cables or batteries and can be used with the EnOcean Pi for a wide variety of applications including switching lights, controlling blinds as well as acquiring wireless sensor information like temperature and window/door status detection.

Raspberry Pi has moved up a notch and its latest product – the Raspberry Pi Compute Module – is now available from RS Components (RS). Explains Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, “The idea for the Compute Module came about from our observations of how a substantial number of industrial and commercial equipment designers were incorporating a Raspberry Pi into their end system."

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...

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...

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...

 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.

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.

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.

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.