
	Dedicated Systems e-Gazette: Volume11, Issue 01 published on Jan 19, 2010
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	Boards
	Dynamic Engineering Optimize available PCI Express slots with transparent installation of PMC modules. Designed with signal integrity, durability and cost effectiveness in mind. Optimize available PCI Express slots with transparent installation of PMC modules. Designed with signal integrity, durability and cost effectivenes... Industry Standard Features Half size PCIe card 32 and 64 bit operation supported Single lane (PCIeBPMC) and 4 lane capable (X1 version) X1: Choose 1, 2, 3 or 4 lanes to operate Transparent installation – No user set-up required PCI (25, 33, 50, 66 MHz) or PCI-X (50, 66, 100, 133 MHz) clock Industrial operating temperature PMC IEEE 1386 & PCIe, PCI, PCI-X specification compliant Available with Standard (non-ROHS) and ROHS processing PCIeBPMC/X1 Features- How Long Does Your Project Need to Last? Faster, lower powered, higher MTBF, and less complex power supply requirements than the competition IO accessible via both the front and rear of the card Front Bezel IO supported through the PCIe bracket, Jn4 user IO supported through the SCSI II connector...	Full version Date:18/01/2010 20:29:00

	Industry News (Market)
	TEWS TECHNOLOGIES GmbH TEWS TECHNOLOGIES Introduces New High-Density 16-bit D/A PMC Module with FIFOs TEWS TECHNOLOGIES today announced the TPMC554, a new high-density 16-bit D/A PMC Module with FIFOs, for its expanding line of PMC modules. The standa... TEWS TECHNOLOGIES today announced the TPMC554, a new high-density 16-bit D/A PMC Module with FIFOs, for its expanding line of PMC modules. The standard single-wide 32-bit PMC module provides 32 or 16 channels of 16-bit analog outputs. The TPMC554 is ideal for applications in industrial, transportation, and COTS aerospace / defense. The software selectable output voltage ranges are 0-5V, 0-10V, 0-10.8V, ±5V, ±10V or ±10.8V and can be individually set per channel. The conversion time is typically 10 µs and the DAC outputs are capable to drive a load of 2kΩ, with a capacitance up to 4000pF. The double buffered DACs allow simultaneous update of all channels for simulation applications. A sequencer on the TPMC554 supports the periodic updating of enabled channels with a sequence timer range...	Full version Date:18/01/2010 12:17:00

	Dynamic Engineering PMC-BiSerial-III-NASA1 : Telemetry NASA1 is a custom version of PMC-BiSerial-III. The NASA1 version features 4 channels with DMA support for LLST, NMS, UART, and Manchester IO plus a ... NASA1 is a 4 channel implementation with interfaces for three types of telemetry plus UART and Parallel Ports. Channel 0 provides the "LADEE - LLST" interface supported with DMA and 8Kx32 of FIFO in each direction. PLLA is used to set the TX reference frequency typically 40 Mhz. The interface is LVDS. Channel 1 provides the "NMS" interface supported with DMA and 8Kx32 of FIFO in each direction. PLLB is used to set the TX reference frequency typically 1-10 MHz. The interface is RS-422 / RS-485. Channel 2 provides the "UART" interface supported with DMA and 1Kx32 of FIFO in each direction. PLLC is used to set the reference frequency typically 14.7456 MHz. further divided to provide all of the standard baud rates. The interface is RS-422 / RS-485. Channel 3 provides the "Uplink and Downl...	Full version Date:15/01/2010 21:26:00

	Concurrent Technologies Concurrent Technologies: Ultra low power OpenVPX 3U VPX-REDI board features Intel Atom processor Concurrent Technologies introduces an ultra low power 3U VPX-REDI single board computer (typically 10W) designed to comply with the OpenVPX VITA 65 s... Concurrent Technologies introduces a leading edge ultra low power 3U VPX-REDI single board computer (SBC), the TR A40/30x RC, designed to comply with the OpenVPX VITA 65 standard. The TR A40/30x RC utilizes the 1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ processor Z530 and the highly integrated Intel® System Controller Hub US15W both from the Intel® embedded roadmap, ensuring long term availability. The board supports up to 2 Gbytes DDR2-533 soldered SDRAM and a wide va...	Full version Date:15/01/2010 17:24:00

	Concurrent Technologies Concurrent Technologies: High performance OpenVPX 3U VPX-REDI board features Intel Core 2 Duo processor Concurrent Technologies introduces a high performance 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on Intel's latest dual-core processors. The TR 501/36x ... Concurrent Technologies introduces a leading edge high performance 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on Intel’s latest dual-core processors. The TR 501/36x is designed to comply with the OpenVPX VITA 65 standard, and utilizes the 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor and the Intel® GS45 mobile class chipset both from the Intel® embedded roadmap, ensuring long term availability. The board supports up to 8 Gbytes DDR3-1066 soldered SDRAM and a wide variety of I/O interfaces including an XMC site. The rugged conduction cooled variant, TR 501/36x RC, supports VPX REDI Type 1 Two ...	Full version Date:15/01/2010 16:04:00

	Embest Info&Tech Co.,Ltd. Embest Devkit8000 OMAP3530 Board Function Enhanced Embest has continuously released more function modules for Devkit8000 OMAP3530 Evaluation Board including analog camera module, VGA module, USB WiFi ... Embest Devkit8000 Evaluation Board was released last May and well received by customers. This board is using TI OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor. It takes full features of this processor and supports 128MByte DDR SDRAM and 128MByte NAND Flash as well as high-speed USB2.0 OTG function. The board has exposed many other hardware interfaces including RS232 serial port, LCD/TSP, DVI-D, S-Video, Ethernet, SD/MMC, keyboard, camera, SPI, I2C and JTAG. It can support both Linux and WinCE system. Embest also provides demo of Google Android OS and Angstrom (GPE) for user experience. Embest has continuously released more function modules for this board as well as debugger tools Available function modules now contain analog camera module, VGA module, USB WiFi module, GPS module, GPRS module and ...	Full version Date:15/01/2010 09:54:00

	Copytrax Digital Screen Printing Accelerates Low Volume and Prototype Production Whilst Reducing Costs A recent development in industrial production technology has been the ability to print onto plastic and metal surfaces using digital flat bed printer... This new technology enables companies to achieve high quality print at the press of a button on a broad range of materials, without the requirement for the creation of films and screens. Recent applications have included printing on PCB's, dial gauges and control panels. This new 'digital approach' to screen-printing offers engineers a number of important new advantages. At the development and prototype stage, this gives engineers the freedom to quickly create prototypes in-house, therefore reducing costs and accelerating the design cycle. This freedom to experiment also means that engineers can be more innovative and maybe even create multiple versions for approval by the client or manager. Another important advantage of this technology is that a machine such as the Copytrax PrintMast...	Full version Date:13/01/2010 17:32:00

	Tools
	Enea Enea Enhances Optima Software Tools to Simplify Multicore Development Enea Optima 2.2 Offers New Profiling, Analysis and Memory Management Features to Ease Multicore Development Challenges ... STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 12 January, 2010 – Enea (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) today announced the immediate availability of the Enea® Optima 2.2 (www.enea.com/optima) Eclipse-based integrated development environment. Enea Optima 2.2 features new capabilities for rapidly developing complex embedded multicore applications including enhanced profiling, analysis and memory management. “With the increasing complexity of modern multicore processors, the problem of distributing a software application across different cores to maximize the utilization of the computing power, while at the same time maintaining predictability and realtime properties, becomes more and more difficult,” said Mathias Båth, senior vice president of marketing at Enea. “The enhancements we have made to Enea Optima provide the d...	Full version Date:13/01/2010 10:48:00

	AdaCore AdaCore Launches CodePeer Tool Automated code review assistant helps eliminate bugs and vulnerabilities... NEW YORK and PARIS, January 12, 2010 - AdaCore, a leading supplier of Ada development tools and support services, today announced the release of CodePeer, a source code analysis tool that detects run-time and logic errors in Ada programs. Serving as an efficient and accurate code reviewer, CodePeer identifies constructs that are likely to lead to run-time errors such as buffer overflows, and it flags legal but suspect code typical of logic errors. Going well beyond the capabilities of typical static analysis tools, CodePeer also produces a detailed analysis of each subprogram, including pre- and postconditions. Such an analysis makes it easier to find potential bugs and vulnerabilities early: if the implicit specification deduced by CodePeer does not match the component’s requirements, a ...	Full version Date:12/01/2010 20:05:00

	Embedded Masterclass UK Embedded Masterclass Offers Embedded Linux Workshop For the third year running, the UK Embedded Masterclass will be running a half-day workshop that offers an "Introduction to Embedded Linux". http://w... The UK Embedded Masterclass has become a key event for engineers that develop hi-tech products and work with microprocessor based systems. This annual event enables technology vendors to share their latest technology and tools with European engineers from a wide range of industries. The use of the Linux operating system within hi-tech systems has become a hot-topic for engineers and this workshop promises to explain how best to implement Linux as well as the advantages and limitations. "It's been a very popular workshop," said Richard Blackburn, the organiser. "We've decided to run it a third time simply because we ran out of space during previous events and we know there are some engineers who are still keen to attend. The feedback on this course has been excellent. Some engineers wal...	Full version Date:06/01/2010 16:16:00

	RTOS
	Green Hills Software Stryker Endoscopy Systems Built with INTEGRITY State-of-the-Art Systems Depend on Green Hills Software... Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced that Stryker, a world leader in medical technology solutions, is using Green Hills Software's Platform for Medical Devices, including the safety-certified INTEGRITY® real-time operating system and MULTI® integrated development environment, in the Stryker Crossfire™ integrated arthroscopy system. ”We selected Green Hills Software’s comprehensive operating system, development tools, and middleware solutions over competing offerings because of our requirement for uncompromising product reliability and availability,” commented Steffan Benamou, associate staff engineer, Stryker. ”The Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices delivers this level of quality while providing our developers...	Full version Date:05/01/2010 16:06:00

	Systems
	BVM Limited Quad Ethernet system has Atom CPU The CMB-575 from BVM is a compact system, based on the low power high performance 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor.... The CMB-575 from BVM is a compact system, based on the low power high performance 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor. The EXB format motherboard can address up to 2GB of RAM with a 533MHz front side bus and overall management is by the 945GSE & ICH7M chipset. The CMB-575 has a heavy-duty steel enclosure, ready for stand-alone or wall-mounted use or for embedding in a larger system. Optimised for network applications with four Gigabit Ethernet ports, the CMB-575 is ideal for uses such as firewalls, spam filtering, intrusion detection, gateway anti-virus security, VPN gateway, security recording and industrial applications such as kiosks and control systems. In addition to the four Ethernet ports, the unit has four USB 2.0 ports, a SATA interface to a 2.5" HDD that mounts into a dedicated...	Full version Date:04/01/2010 10:15:00

	Dynamic Engineering Solutions For: [Avionic] [Production] [Automation] [Radar] [Energy] [Space] [Research] [Telemetry] [Transportation] Embedded Solutions is a forum to present products, concepts, techniques, and strategies for implementing your system. This page is a sampling of the ... Avionics Application Solutions http://www.dyneng.com/embeddedsolutions.pdf Flight Controls & Embedded Aerospace Systems Requiring the latest technology, expanded capabilities, complex state machines, and above all else, speed. Dynamic Engineering´s hardware provides solutions for the avionics environments: airborne, ground and test support. Created with our most complex business sectors in mind, limitless designs provide: Ruggedization, Encoding (Manchester/Miller/ etc.), Interfaces (serial/parallel, analog/digital (differential (LVDS/485/422) / single ended)). Memory coupled with FPGAs enables the most complex state-machines. A complete solution demands integrated bus interfaces, DMA support and high speed driver based software. Conduction cooled options available, providing peac...	Full version Date:29/12/2009 18:35:00

	Dynamic Engineering Bridge based PCI and PMC Compatible Adapter Extended Temperature Dynamic Engineering http://www.dyneng.com/pcibpmcet.html Using a rugged PC or need the confidence of Extended Temperature components in your system? The PCIBPMCET is an... PCIBPMCET Features Size: Half size PCI card. PMC compatible slot: 1 PMC Slot provided. Clocks: PCI primary bus can operate at 66 or 33 MHz. Secondary side can operate at at 66 or 33 MHz. Access Width: Standard PCI byte lanes supported for byte, word and long access dependent on installed PMC. 64 or 32 bit operation from either bus supported by Bridge. Access Frequency: Bridge supports 66 or 33 MHz operation. Software Interface: The bridge does not require any user set-up. PMC register definitions as defined by installed hardware. Bridge configuration space can be used to modify bridge settings for special situations. Interrupts: INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD routed to PCI connector. Most PMCs use one Interrupt level [INTA]. Power: +5, +12, -12V, +3V, 3.3VAUX, VIO supplied to PMC. +5 and ...	Full version Date:29/12/2009 18:18:00

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