Design

picoChip has announced the industry’s first HSUPA-femtocell reference design. Femtocells or 3G access points allow carriers to compete with VoWiFi, improving coverage at home and improving service. The new PC8209 adds HSUPA to picoChip’s industry standard reference design, as used by Ubiquisys, ipAccess and Dekolink among others. For 3G data HSUPA adds faster uplink and reduces latency, especially important for wireless Web 2.0 application...

Ramtron International Corporation has announced that it will now offer a universal serial bus interface for in-circuit programming/debugging with its Versa 8051 microcontroller development tools. The VJTAG-USB, a USB-based JTAG interface, will ship with the VersaKit-30xx, a complete and comprehensive evaluation platform that facilitates system prototyping and design development with Ramtron’s fast and flexible MCUs – the VRS51L2070 and the F...

NEXCOM UK has introduced what is believed to be the world’s first 5.25in Industrial Embedded CPU Board to utilize the Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor is one of the latest addition to Intel’s range of cutting-edge multi-core CPU’s. It combines increased processing power with greater performance-per-watt.

The NICE Series of Fanless Embedded Systems from Nexcom has been expanded with introduction of the NICE 3100-P2, a product that is capable of supporting two PCI expansion cards in one compact chassis. Based on Intel’s Pentium M/Celeron M processor with 400MHz, the NICE 3100-P2 is designed for space-critical applications requiring fanless operation, extreme reliability and versatile I/O configuration.

Sealevel Systems Inc. announces the release of the SeaI/O-OEM family of bus-independent I/O boards offering choice of host connectivity and a wide range of digital, analog, and serial control capabilities. SeaI/O-OEM boards are perfect for expanding OEM computing platforms including ITX, EBX, EPIC, and ATX designs. For maximum flexibility, ordering options allow connection to a host computer via wireless Ethernet (802.11b/g), wired Ethernet, RS-...

National Instruments has announced a family of PXI, PXI Express and PXI real-time embedded controllers based on the 2.16 GHz dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400. The NI PXI-8106 and NI PXIe-8106 controllers deliver a performance improvement of more than 100 percent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. With two cores, or computing engines, in one processor, the new PXI and PXI Express controllers can simultaneousl...

National Instruments has announced the latest version of the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW, the revolutionary software that empowers machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create customised motion controllers using software and deploy them for any NI hardware platform. OEMs and machine builders can use a range of pre-built motion functions and control algorithms to quickly create motion controllers based o...

Frontier Silicon has launched a “four-in-one” module capable of receiving Internet radio, DAB, FM and music streamed from a PC. The new module, called Venice 6, is the first product to integrate a WiFi, DAB, and FM front-end together with an on-board WiFi antenna in a single module. It enables audio manufacturers to easily produce low-cost, feature-rich, radios for the global market, bringing thousands of Internet radio stations and music s...

CoWare has announced a new release of CoWare Processor Designer that provides increased support for next-generation Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. The new CoWare Processor Designer enables users to explore a large design space to ensure that the targeted processing power is achieved and the interconnect infrastructure is available to feed data into the processor at an acceptable rate. The latter can only be done in the platform co...

Strategic Test has announced availability of the TRITON Development Kit-4 (TDK-4) based on the Marvell XScale PXA320 processor. The TDK-4 is supplied with both Microsoft Windows CE 6.0 and Linux 2.6.17 at a competitive price of only 2900 Euros.