Introduction

Highlights of this issue include new product releases from Concurrent Technologies, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Atmel and Energy Micro; design features on ARMcore- based microcontrollers and microprocessors, and FPGA-design kits; embedded systems-related design ideas; schedule of the embedded world Conference 2010 and the RTAS 2010 symposium; and research studies on 2009 digital signal processors.

 

28 January 2010

6U CompactPCI boards feature Intel Core i7 processors
Concurrent Technologies has released the PP 712/08x family of 6U CompactPCI boards, an embedded product range to feature the Intel Core i7 processor family. Depending on the application requirements a choice of processors are supported: the 2.53GHz Intel Core i7-610E, 2.0GHz Intel Core i7-620LE and the 1.06GHz Intel Core i7-620UE.
Concurrent Technologies
 

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Rugged 3U single board computer
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the VPX3-129, a new rugged Power Architecture-based 3U VPX (VITA 46) SBC (single board computer). This small form-factor SBC augments the performance and advanced I/O capabilities of Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 eight-core communications processor with a wide I/O complement to provide a highly capable 3U VPX SBC.
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Power efficient embedded WiFi solution
Atmel is collaborating with H&D Wireless to deliver an IEEE802.11b+g WiFi solution for Atmel's 32bit AVR microcontrollers. In this collaboration, H&D Wireless will provide the SPB104 WiFi extension board which is easily connected to the AVR32 UC3 evaluation kits through the SD card socket.
Atmel

Development kit enables real-time energy profiling
Energy Micro has introduced a development kit for its EFM32 Gecko MCU family providing users with a new AEM (advanced energy monitoring) system. Featuring a large in-built LCD screen and preconfigured GUI, AEM enables users to accurately view a prototype application's current consumption data in real time, enabling early identification and removal of adverse energy drains.
Energy Micro
 

TI adds to Stellaris MCUs, launches Sitara ARM-based line
Texas Instruments has released further details of the 30-plus ARMcore- based microcontrollers and microprocessors that it released at the ARM TechCon3 meeting in Santa Clara, California. In this first major addition to its ARM MCU line since completing the acquisition of Luminary Micro earlier in 2009, TI has expanded the Stellaris line of microcontrollers with 29 new parts.

FPGA-design kits target connectivity, DSP, embedded designs
Early in 2009 Xilinx indicated that it was embarking on a restructuring of its development-tool strategy for embedded designs on its Virtex and low-cost Spartan FPGA product lines. This started by rationalising the base platforms that it offers, and aligning them with dominant market sectors.
 

Wireless MCU puts 802.15.4 RF on single chip
Atmel describes its ATmega128RFA1 IC as a wireless MCU (microcontroller); the die hosts a version of its picoPower AVR RISC embedded-flashbased MCU, together with a 2.4-GHz transceiver, for applications such as ZigBee and 6LoWPAN. The RF block is IEEE 802.15.4-compliant and features a link budget of 103.5 dB.

The evolving landscape of Digital Signal Processing
The continual evolution of microprocessors and a widening base of developers who need digital signal-processing technology are causing a trend away from stand-alone DSPs. Is the stand-alone DSP a dying breed? It may not exactly be dying, but the DSP is not as prominent as it used to be.
 

embedded world Conference 2010, 2 - 4 March, 2010, at Nuernberg, Germany
embedded world Conference 2010 is an European conference for the embedded community that covers all fields of embedded system development. Experts from the embedded community will give lectures that provide answers to the problems faced by the developers of embedded system.

RTAS 2010, 12 – 15 April, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
The scope of the 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications symposium consists of the traditional core area of real-time and embedded systems infrastructure and theory, as well as two additional areas of special emphasis (specialized tracks): Hardware/Software Integration and Co-design, Wireless Sensor Networks.
 

2009 Digital Signal Processors
Over 70 percent of digital signal processor revenue comes from communications market applications, with much of that coming specifically from mobile phones; but even outside of those areas there are opportunities for growth in consumer electronics, and in some industrial market segments like medical electronics, which increases demand for design innovations and supplier commitment.

 

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