Design

Arcom’s SBC-GX533 single board computer consumes just 7W of power yet offers roughly three times the performance of its predecessor the SBC-GX1. The SBC-GX533 is a very low profile, fan-less, RoHS compliant EBX form factor board, based on the AMD Geode™ GX 533@1.1W processor. It is ideal for embedded controllers requiring PC compatibility with full solid-state operation.

Jennic’s new IEEE802.15.4 voice reference design enables secure full duplex transmission of speech with long battery life for use in point to point and large wireless sensor networks

Jennic Ltd. has announced a new starter kit for under $200 to address the needs of developers who want to add IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee wireless connectivity to their product ranges but have little or no RF design or software development experience. It is the first design kit at this price point to offer ZigBee functionality as standard. The starter kit provides three hardware nodes (based on Jennic’s JN5139 wireless microcontroller modules) tha...

Cambridge Consultants has become the first authorized design centre for picoChip's multi-core digital signal processor (DSP), picoArray. picoArray devices incorporate arrays of DSP elements, delivering extremely high performance. This makes them ideal for the computationally-intensive tasks involved in advanced wireless signal processing, while also providing adaptability that can be employed to accommodate operational problems such as varying ch...

Green Hills Software has announced the availability of enhancements to INTEGRITY Workstation to support Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled processors and chipsets. The INTEGRITY Workstation is based on the secure and safety-certified INTEGRITY operating system, and uses Green Hills Software’s Padded Cell virtual machine technology to provide an operating environment that supports high criticality applications alongside traditional, unmodi...

Kontron has announced what it says is the first UGM (Universal Graphics Module) based on AMD's flagship GPU ATI R600. The Kontron UGM-M72 is equipped with the 450-700 MHz version of the R600 core and delivers outstanding visualization and multitasking features beyond integrated chipset graphics, combined with power saving features and long-term availability. It is designed for embedded and rugged mobile applications that call for short time to m...

ViaLogy has announced that it has developed IPv6-capable MicroSPM , compact embedded hardware for high definition video processing applications over IP-converged networks. MicroSPM extends ViaLogy’s SPM software product family by delivering a network-centric hardware policy-engine for fully-autonomous incident-based rapid detection, analysis and response. The MicroSPM platform addresses three major trends within the global surveillance indus...

Green Hills has announced the immediate availability of its ECU software development solution targeting Freescale’s MPC5510 microcontroller family, built on Power Architecture technology. Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include: royalty-free RTOSes, optimizing C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture, MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) with multicore debugger, virtual prototyping platform, TimeMachine™ too...

Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. has introduced a range of tools that simplify the design of hands-free communication systems, including car kits, speakerphones and home automation systems. Complementing Zarlink’s platform of hands-free voice processing solutions, these design tools include a full evaluation board, mini-evaluation board and a “plug and test” diagnostic kit.

Feature packed board is compact, fanless and fast.