Introduction
 

Highlights of this issue include new product releases from Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Lattice Semiconductor, Pentek and Cypress Semiconductor; design features on 3D-FPGA technology and FPGA-market; embedded systems-related design ideas; schedule of the ICESS 2010 and the DSD 2010 conferences; and research studies on market for embedded hardware and systems.

 

28 April 2010

OpenVPX/VITA-65 compliant Serial RapidIO switch card
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the availability of the new OpenVPX/VITA-65 compliant VPX6-6902 SRIO (Serial RapidIO) switch card. This rugged 6U VPX board, available in both air- and conduction-cooled versions, combines Ethernet and SRIO switching in a single slot for management, control and dataplane switching in high-performance embedded military systems.
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Low-cost PCI Express development kit
Lattice Semiconductor has announced the availability of a low-cost PCI Express development kit for its LatticeECP3 family of high-value, low-power FPGAs. Based on a new ECP3 PCI Express solutions board, the kit accelerates development of PCI Express designs.
Lattice Semiconductor

3U VPX software radio boards
Pentek has introduced 14 products in its new family of 3U VPX boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing. These new boards offer flexible backplane fabric connections supporting maximum data rates of up to 4Gbyte/s with PCIe (PCI Express) Gen 2 (Generation 2) and 2.5Gbyte/s with other protocols.
Pentek

Development platform for iPhone and iPod accessories
Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a development platform for Apple iPhone and iPod accessories based on its new PSoC 3 architecture. Designers can use new CY8CKIT-023 PSoC expansion board kit for iPhone and iPod accessories – a plug-in board to the company’s CY8CKIT-001 PSoC platform development kit – to streamline design of advanced mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture.
Cypress Semiconductor
 

3D-FPGA technology trims FPGA costs, with timing-exact ASIC option
3D technologies as a means of driving forward FPGA technology are suddenly in vogue. In the case of the Tabula technology the 3-D is virtual; from Tier Logic, yet another FPGA start-up, comes a technology in which the 3-D structure is physical.

EDN.COMMENT: Are we there yet?
Once again, we have FPGA-market news in this edition; another start-up—Tier Logic—and phase two of March's newcomer Tabula's revelations about its product plans. I use the word "new" about Tabula, but in reality the gestation of the company has been prolonged, and it has figured for some time in lists that industry observers compile of potential new players in the sector.

Actel blends single-chip mix of ARM core, FPGA and analogue
In its latest programmable silicon product line, SmartFusion, Actel has combined programmable logic, programmable analogue functions, and a "hard" (fully diffused) ARM Cortex-M3 processor core. With this architecture, Actel aims to provide designers of small-to-medium-size embedded systems with the means to implement a singlechip, SoC (System-on-Chip) design at an economic price point.

Second generation of FTDI's allpurpose USB interface IC
FTDI (Future Technology Devices International) has introduced its Vinculum VNC2 user-programmable dual-USB 2.0 Host/Slave intelligent SoC controller. The design has evolved, says CEO Fred Dart, in response to user feedback from many projects involving the first-generation part; engineers wanted a greater degree of flexibility and programmability.
 

ICESS 2010, 29 June - 1 July, 2010, at Bradford, UK
The 7th IEEE International Conferences on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-10) will be held in Bradford, United Kingdom. Topics of interest include embedded hardware and architectures, embedded software and agents, embedded real-time systems, models of physical systems, and distributed embedded computing.


DSD 2010, 1 – 3 September, 2010, at Lille, France
The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all aspects of (embedded and high-performance) digital and mixed hardware/software system engineering, down to microarchitectures, digital circuits and VLSI techniques. It focuses on advanced circuit and system design and design automation concepts, paradigms, methods and tools, as well as on modern implementation technologies from full custom in nanometer technology codes to FPGA and to multicore infrastructures.

 

Embedded Hardware And Systems, 2010
The merchant market for embedded boards and systems continues to evolve throughout the recession and create new opportunities for agile suppliers of embedded technology. These opportunities are driven by a conversion taking place for OEMs: from internally building and integrating captive systems to buying merchant products from embedded suppliers.
 

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