Boards/Backplanes

Hitex have today introduced the LPC4357 Evaluation Board for NXP’s new Cortex-M4-based dual-core LPC4357 microcontrollers. The LPC4357 is provided with 1MB Flash, 16kB EEPROM and 136kB SRAM on chip. The evaluation board is USB-powered, but can also be driven by external power supply or via power-over-Ethernet.

BittWare have today announced that they are now offering the industry's first 6U VPX board, powered by Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs. Designed for high-end applications, the Stratix V provides a high level of system integration and flexibility for I/O, routing, and processing. The new S5-6U-VPX board, available from Sarsen Technology, provides a configurable 48-port multi-gigabit transceiver interface supporting a variety of protocols, including...

GE Intelligent Platforms announce the XMCGA7 High Performance Graphics Board. Designed for sophisticated, demanding graphics applications in harsh environments, the rugged XMCGA7 mezzanine features the latest E6460 graphics processing unit from AMD to deliver the highest possible performance from a restricted power envelope.

LSI has revealed worldwide availability of the PCIe flash LSI Nytro MegaRAID cards, providing simple, transparent and cost-effective application acceleration for direct-attached storage. Nytro MegaRAID cards uniquely integrate PCIe flash technology and intelligent caching software with enterprise RAID data protection using leading LSI dual-core RAID-on-Chip technology.

Molex has announced that it will showcase its comprehensive selection of Brad Network Interface Cards at the Industrial Automation North America show at Chicago’s McCormick Place, September 10-15, Booth E-4301. The Brad PC-based NICS offer intelligent and cost-effective communication solutions used to connect various computer bus formats, including PCI Express, PCI, PC/104, USB and VME, directly to industrial networks.

As the new HYB04 driver/sensor board comes with 128 pins, the Digitaltest test systems can therefore be equipped with twice as many hybrid pins. This is also a major extension for the MTS30 system which is limited to 10 slots. The board supports fast and accurate tests for low voltage applications.

Interface Masters has revealed the first member of its virtual machine-aware Bypass Server adapter family that supports dual ports 1 Gigabit Copper Bypass. Niagara 42265-VM supports Virtual Machine control to ensure smooth integration with PCI-express based Inline Networking Servers that leverage VM capabilities, including WAN Acceleration, UTM, SAN/NAS appliances, IPS, Security and Monitoring Appliances such as Firewalls, IDS and Analysis Probes...

New from electronics packaging specialist Schroff is a ruggedised PCB retainer with an innovative 7-segment design, which results in a more even distribution of the clamping force and improved thermal transfer between the PCB and the chassis cold wall.

In order to fulfil the design needs that demand high speed, advanced memory interfacing, and the highest logic capacity, Terasic has just announced a host of new FPGA boards for tackling high-bandwidth applications such as high frequency trading, data acquisition, network and signal processing.

AAEON are today pleased to announce a new Type 6 COM Express board: COM-CV Rev.B. Built on the 32nm process technology, these products bring the latest technological advances and performance optimizations at higher CPU clock rates than previously available.