Dear Sir/Madam

Due to the extensive networking of embedded systems there is an increasing need for security in the embedded market. Suppliers of embedded systems recognised this problem and offer solutions. This newsletter features some of them. Enjoy!

Wolfgang Patelay
Technical Editor, EPN

At Glance, in this issue

1. Products News 2. Articles 3. Design Tips 4. Market Research 5. Book of the Month

1| Product News

Microcontroller Device (Atmel)
The AT98SC016CU has been specifically designed to address the increasing security needs of embedded systems. It has high security functions that provide efficient counter-measures against hacking, cloning, phishing, counterfeiting, data and IP stealing.
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Fanless Industrial Computer (Nexcom)
The NISE 3110 is an industrial fanless computer system that uses Core 2 Duo and Core Duo processors, offering users all the advantages of Core Duo technology, such as impressive levels of performance and a very low power consumption in a totally fanless, noise-free and maintenance-free system.
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3G LTE Development Platform (Freescale)
Freescale Semiconductor unveiled a development platform designed to speed and simplify the creation of networking equipment for 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution) and other emerging broadband wireless technologies. The platform is engineered to provide the multi-gigahertz performance, low-power operation, and interconnect technologies crucial to support the high-data-rate air interface and IP-packet-handling requirements of LTE base stations.
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DSP/FPGA AdvancedMC Module (CommAgility)
Designed around four TMS320C6455 DSPs from TI running at 1GHz and a Virtex-4 FX100 series FPGA from Xilinx, the AMC-D4F1 module addresses developers' needs in many aspects of high-end signal processing, from wireless baseband through to image processing and aerospace applications. Since it is based on the AdvancedMC embedded standard, it is particularly appropriate for MicroTCA but also usable in AdvancedTCA systems.
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2| Articles

LVDS-Based SerDes for Video Interconnects
As a direct result of falling prices for CMOS image sensors and flash memory, consumer interest in imaging and video technologies has blossomed over the last few years, and video will drive new safety applications within the automotive environment. This article by Naresh B. Shetty from Intersil gives detailed information.
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Overcoming the Challenges of Complex Video SoC Design
The efficient design of complex, multimedia-intensive, heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP) SoCs for the inclusion in HDTVs presents a daunting array of challenges. This article by Tom de Schutter, CoWare, and Jeff Haight, Sonics, describes a collaborative effort among product planners, IC designers, and system architects using Sonics’ SMX smart interconnects and CoWare’s ESL tools to enable the rapid optimisation and verification of the design aspects necessary to meet the critical architectural challenges involved.
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3| Design Tips

CPLD connects two instruments with half-duty-cycle generator
When synchronizing the signals of two instruments, one must make sure that the receiver can latch the sender’s synchronous signal. For example, a pulse generator generates synchronizing pulses while generating the main pulse signal. The goal of this Design Idea by Yu-Chieh Chen and Tai-Shan Liao, National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan, is to increase the pulse generator’s high-level width to meet the triggering spec of a lockin amplifier.
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Stepper-motor motion controller and driver fit into a CPLD/FPGA
This Design Idea by Stephan Roche, Santa Rosa, California, further develops a previous one integrating a stepper-motor driver in a CPLD. However, this idea integrates not only the driver, but also a simple one-axis stepper-motor motion controller.
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4| Market Research

More than Just Laptops—Worldwide Hotspot are Impacted by Other Mobile Devices
Using a hotspot to access the Internet wirelessly has become very common. Hotspots are no longer the realm of the corporate traveller, but are becoming common for personal use as well. This report provides In-Stat's in-depth worldwide review of the market for 2007.
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5| Book of the Month

System-on-Chip Test Architectures, by Laung-Terng Wang et al.
This book is a comprehensive guide to new VLSI Testing and Design-for-Testability techniques that will allow students, researchers, DFT practitioners, and VLSI designers to master quickly System-on-Chip Test architectures, for test debug and diagnosis of digital, memory, and analogue/mixed-signal designs.
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