Design

Texas Instruments seems to have made it easy for engineers to evaluate and develop software on its recently introduced floating-point TMS320F2833x digital signal controllers (DSCs) by introducing the F28335 eZdsp starter kit. Now sampling, the F28335 controller is the industry’s first floating-point DSC, supplying developers of industrial systems with the inherent floating-point advantages of performance and simplified software development ...

Kontron has introduced two new ETXexpress modules – a COM Express solution – based on the VIA C7® processor paired with the VIA CN896 and VIA VT8251chipset: The Kontron ETXexpress-CN8 and the Kontron microETXexpress-CN8. These two new modules fill the gap between the already available and widely adopted Kontron microETXexpress-PM and the Kontron ETXexpress-PM Computer-on-Modules (COMs), offering embedded designers the scalability needed with...

Kontron introduced the Kontron CP6001, a 6U CompactPCI PICMG 2.16 compliant board with three rugged levels, making it yet another addition to Kontron’s rugged PICMG 2.16 portfolio. Based on the Intel® CoreTM Duo / CoreTM2 Duo processor and mobile chipset, the Kontron CP6001 features high computing and graphic performance with a low thermal design power and a complete set of data, communication and multimedia interfaces.

ACCES I/O Products has announced the latest addition to its extensive line of USB-based data acquisition and I/O modules—Model USB-DA12-8A. Introduced at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston, the board features eight independent 12-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and broadly configurable arbitrary waveform generation (ARB) capabilities. This module can be used in any PC or embedded system with a USB port and is an ideal choice for tes...

GÖPEL electronic has introduced the ScanBooster Designer Studio, a new family of low cost test systems. Based on a powerful JTAG/Boundary Scan Controller with Plug and Play USB2.0 interface, combined with a special edition of the integrated development environment CASCON GALAXY, this new offering is especially suited for the rapid verification of prototypes.

The new Digital Video Infrastructure Platform (DVIP) from Sundance features from three to eleven fixed-point DSPs, equating to as much as 50000 MIPS. Where that is still not sufficient floating-point calculation power for the most demanding real-life application, the DVIP gets a helping hand from closely-coupled Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs.

Great Western Microsystems Ltd has been appointed by AVIX-RT as it’s European distributor for the New AVIX-RT RTOS, specifically developed for Microchip sixteen bit microcontrollers of PIC24 and dsPIC families. The AVIX RTOS is available for purchase from The Debug Store, the On-line store of Great Western Microsystems.

According to TI, wireless base station and broadband mobile equipment manufacturers can now eliminate over 15 years of development man-hours with Texas Instruments' WiMAX Forum compliant 802.16e Wave 2 software and development tools platform. The carrier-class nature of the software provides the most up-to-date WiMAX standards-based features that service providers’ demand. The development tools include an evaluation module (EVM) based on th...

Future Technology Devices International has announced that Parallax Inc has selected FTDI’s VNC1L, Vinculum IC for use in a new datalogger design. The Memory Stick Datalogger, now available from Parallax, uses the VNC1L to provide ease of connectivity to USB flash drives. The datalogger module can be used with a variety of Parallax’s educational and development systems such as BASIC Stamp, SX or Propeller Microcontroller.

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that it has sublicensed the Tundra Serial RapidIO Tsi578 MicroTCA Switching Module (Tsi578MSM) reference design to Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury intends to manufacture and integrate the Tsi578MSM into Mercury’s MicroTCA-based Ensemble systems for WiMAX and LTE wireless applications, in addition to video, military imaging, and signal processing applications.