Boards/Backplanes

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 ...

  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.

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...

  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 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.

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.

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.

efus is the new form factor for Cortex-A CPUs by F&S Elektronik Systeme. It measures only 47 x 62mm. efus stands for easy, functional, universal, small. It comes with various interfaces, is expandable with wireless modules and suitable for universal use, e.g. for visualisation, communication, control in industrial and medical applications.  

RS Components now has available Silicon Labs' EFM32 Zero Gecko Starter Kit, a tool for engineers using the EFM32 Zero Gecko 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the energy-friendly MCUs based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor. The starter kit contains sensors and peripherals demonstrating some of the MCU's many capabilities and can serve as a starting point for application development.

Based on the new VITA 59 - Rugged COM Express standard and equipped with the ARM i.MX 6, the CC10C not only has a leading role in terms of robust COM Express compatible modules, but is also the first standard product from MEN in the low-power COM area using ARM processor technology.