Dedicated Systems e-Spotlight: Vol 9, Issue 15s published on April 17, 2008
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Lauterbach
Lauterbach supports Infineon X-Gold 102
Hofolding, April 2008 - The TRACE32 ICD and TRACE32 PowerTools debuggers and the new TRACE32 CombiProbe from LAUTERBACH, the market and technology leader in hardware debuggers and real-time trace tools, now support the n...
TRACE32 CombiProbe combines a special debugger cable and a 128-MByte trace memory. For the X-GOLDTM 102 solution, CombiProbe provides:
OCDS debugger for C166S V2
Real-time program-flow trace for C166S V2 (MCDS)
JTAG debugger for TeakLite DSP
The TRACE32 PowerView user interface enables efficient and user-friendly debugging at the C or C++ level over the chip-integrated JTAG interface. Over this 34-pin interface, the debugger can quickly access both processor cores (multi-core debugging for simultaneous debugging of both cores). The trace data reaches the 128-MByte trace memory from the trace port of the CPU, which is also connected to CombiProbe over the 34-pin interface. Program flow can thus be monitored without impairing real-time performance. External fla...
Date : Apr 08, 2008
SPOTLIGHT SELECTION
This is the spotlight edition of our e-gazette. You can still find all submitted announcements on our website.
Boards
VMETRO
VMETRO announces one of industry's first VPX Cards with Quad FPGAs and dual FMC sites
VMETRO, a leader in embedded computing solutions based on standards such as VXS and XMC that utilize multi-gigabit serial interconnects, today announced one of the industry´s first FPGA processing engines with suppo...
VMETRO, a leader in embedded computing solutions based on standards such as VXS and XMC that utilize multi-gigabit serial interconnects, today announced one of the industry´s first FPGA processing engines with support for the new FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) standard. The FPE650´s innovative design integrates four Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs with two FMC I/O sites and VPX high-speed serial backplane connectivity, allowing I/O and processing capabilities in a single 6U slot. The FPE650, available in air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, is designed to tackle the most demanding digital signal processing applications such as Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) and Electro-Optics (EO).
At the heart of the FPE650 are four fully inter-con...
Date: Apr 15, 2008
Dynamic Engineering
Dynamic Engineering IP-CAN Windows Driver Supporting PeliCAN and Standard CAN
Dynamic Engineering is pleased to announce the IP-CAN Windows Driver. The hardware and driver have undergone rigorous testing and development to ensure ease of use and exceptional functionality for our customers....
The IP CAN driver works with IP-CAN to provide direct programming in the PeliCAN or Standard CAN modes, controlling both channels on each card, and direct mapping of the cards to the carrier slots for positive cable assignments.
http://www.dyneng.com/ip_can.html
The IP CAN driver has undergone extensive testing with both ISO and Direct connect cards. 6 channels have been interconnected with both short and long cable lengths and validated at full 1MHz bandwidth. Multiple carriers have been interfaced, validating suppport across multiple IP's.
The IP CAN Driver used the carrier ID Switch to distinguish between carriers installed in the same system. The slot location determined with the initial PCI enumeration ...
Date: Apr 09, 2008
Industry News (Market)
Hitec - Electronics Enclosures
Hitec to Exhibit Electronics Enclosure Capability at Embedded Masterclass 2008
European electronics enclosure specialists Hitec will be exhibiting at the UK Embedded Masterclass....
Cambridge metalworkers to the technology sector, Hitec, have announced that they have helped sponsor and will be exhibiting at the Embedded Masterclass technology developers conference to be held in London and Bristol on the 8th and 13th May.
Hitec (http://www.hitec.co.uk) is an important supplier to European developers of hi-tech systems, in markets such as medical, communications, printing, electronic systems, environmental control and machinery.
"We supported this event last year and found it to be an excellent event for meeting with engineers and technical managers," said John Stevenson, Managing Director of Hitec. "Our specialty is in the design and manufacture of enclosures and internal chassis for electronic systems...
Date: Apr 17, 2008
Innova Systems (SolidWorks)
UK SolidWorks Team Expands to Meet Demand for 3D Design Software
Product design software experts, Innova Systems has announced that it has expanded its team to help support the growing use of SolidWorks in the UK technology sector....
Cambridge based Innova Systems has announced that it has expanded its team of engineers, in order to meet the growing demand for its advanced 3D computer aided design software called Solidworks. After an extensive search for the very best people in this field, Innova has finally brought on board two application engineers and two new account managers.
"Our new application engineers are 'premier league engineers'," said Mark Bradford, Managing Director of Innova. "These are design engineers who have real industry experience and are at the top of their game. Likewise, with our new account managers, we have been careful to choose people who will fully understand our customers' needs and have the knowledge and motivation to ensure Innova maintains its reputation...
Date: Apr 15, 2008
SDC Systems
SDC to Exhibit PhotoShop Enabled GUI Tool At Embedded Masterclass
SDC Systems have announced that they will be exhibiting the Tilcon graphical interface development tool at the UK Embedded Masterclass to he held on the 8th and 13th May, London and Bristol. The Tilcon IDS Suite has recently been upgraded and has introduced an Adobe® Photoshop® integration. This feature is now available to customers who have requirements for creating world class embedded GUI and HMI solutions in such diverse markets as medical, industrial, defense, and automotive.
"There is no doubt that the user experience of an embedded product can be greatly enhanced through the quality of the graphical user interface," said Stuart Parker, Managing Director of SDC Systems. "For software engineers working on the development of human machine interfaces, this new version of the Tilcon IDS Suite provides the capability for a whole new generation of embedded displays and touch screen applications."
Tilcon IDS is a multi-platform user interface ...
Date: Apr 09, 2008
PragmaDev
PRAGMADEV to assign EMBEDDED TOOLS as its German distributor
PragmaDev has assigned Embedded Tools as the German distributor of Real Time Developer Studio and MSC Tracer, PragmaDev set of model driven tools for the development of real time and embedded software....
Real Time Developer Studio and MSC Tracer are based on standard graphical representations of traditional concepts used in the real time domain without leaving behind legacy code and years of experience. Real Time Developer Studio can generate full application code out of the graphical model embedding RTOS system primitives.The connection with cross-debuggers allows debug on target in the diagrams and at C level, as well as graphical dynamic traces.
Reinhold Schmid, General Manager of Embedded Tools, commented: "From my point of view, its the only tool on the market which really works well for Modelling and Developing Embedded Systems running on a RTOS. With a wide range of supported RTOS and the extensibility to any other RTOS it can be used by a wide range of customers. It is a pe...
Date: Apr 09, 2008
Passive Components
ELMA Electronic Inc.
Elma announces new AMC extender card
The AMC extender card is a passive extender module, supporting all fabric connectors as defined in the AMC.x and MicroTCA specifications. The board complies with the MicroTCA.0, AMC.1 R1.0, AMC.2 D0.96A specifications an...
FREMONT, California - Elma Electronic Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has announced an extender board for MicroTCA and AMC-based systems. The module extends the signals out of the card cage area so that an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) can be tested or debugged.
The AMC extender card is a passive extender module, supporting all fabric connectors as defined in the AMC.x and MicroTCA specifications. The board complies with the MicroTCA.0, AMC.1 R1.0, AMC.2 D0.96A specifications and plugs into an AMC slot like a regular AMC module. Management and payload power can be individually switch isolated.
The metal frame of the AMC extender card holds the board under test securely in place. The module extends all fabric signals and 3 clock lines, and...
Date: Apr 14, 2008
RTOS
eSOL, CO., Ltd.
eSOL Releases eT-Kernel/Extended for i.MX31 Multimedia Applications Processor from Freescale
eSOL, a leading developer of realtime embedded software solutions, today announced immediate availability of the eT-Kernel/Extended realtime operating system (RTOS) for the i.MX31 multimedia applications processor from F...
Tokyo, Japan. April 14 - eSOL, a leading developer of realtime embedded software solutions, today announced immediate availability of the eT-Kernel/Extended realtime operating system (RTOS) coupled with the eBinder integrated development environment (IDE) for the i.MX31 multimedia applications processor from Freescale.
eT-Kernel/Extended supports a process model and memory protection with a memory management unit (MMU), and is based on the latest "T-Kernel/Standard Extension" specifications standardized by the T-Engine Forum. The memory-protected and process-model RTOS detects and prevents an executing process from accidentally destroying another process's memory area or kernel resource. eT-Kernel/Extended also offers a UNIX-like process management function using vir...
Date: Apr 14, 2008
Systems
ELMA Electronic Inc.
1U MicroTCA slim shelf offered as integrated MicroTCA solution
With the smallest form factor of any deployable MicroTCA unit in the industry, the 19" rackmount MicroTCA slim shelf features up to 10 modules (mid-size, single width) in a compact 1U height. The redundant Star signa...
FREMONT, California - Elma Electronic Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has announced its 1U MicroTCA slim shelf is now offered as a fully integrated solution.
With the smallest form factor of any deployable MicroTCA unit in the industry, the 19" rackmount MicroTCA slim shelf features up to 10 modules (mid-size, single width) in a compact 1U height. The redundant Star signaling and redundant cooling modules provide extra reliability. This integrated system offers high bandwidth, flexibility, and monitoring in the 45mm x 465mm x 210mm size. Elma can also offer the MicroTCA slim shelf as a stand-alone chassis in various module sizes.
Cooling is achieved in a dual redundant push/pull configuration. Thermal studies show that it dissipates 35W ...
Date: Apr 16, 2008
ELMA Electronic Inc.
Elma's new "E-Frame" open access test chassis
The E-frame was designed with the high (and flexible) power and cooling requirements for VPX (VITA 46/48) systems. However, any 3U or 6U backplanes can be used. This includes VME/64x, VXS, CompactPCI, and other backplane...
FREMONT, California - Elma Electronic Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has announced a new open frame chassis for test/debugging. The unit does not have side or back walls around the card cage area, leaving it open for easy access.
The E-frame was designed with the high (and flexible) power and cooling requirements for VPX (VITA 46/48) systems. However, any 3U or 6U backplanes can be used. This includes VME/64x, VXS, CompactPCI, and other backplane architectures. The Type 39E Portable Tower has a convenient carrying handle.
With a rugged modular aluminum construction, the E-frame tower can support up to 21 slots at .8" or 17 slots at 1" pitch. There are front accessible test points and monitoring LEDs for all VME, VPX, VXS, and c...
Date: Apr 14, 2008
ELMA Electronic Inc.
Elma offers new VPX SerDes test modules
Elma Electronic Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has announced new SerDes Test Modules for VPX systems. The modules are being offered in partnership with DFT Microsystems, a leader in high-de...
Elma Electronic Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic packaging products, has announced new SerDes Test Modules for VPX systems. The modules are being offered in partnership with DFT Microsystems, a leader in high-density test solutions for high-speed semiconductor device interfaces.
With architectures moving to higher speed Serial RapidIO, Infiniband, PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, and other serial fabrics, it is increasingly important to measure the signal performance of the system. The SerDes modules are designed to plug into VPX backplanes and directly test the channel compliance. They can be used to test VPX switch and node cards and/or the backplane channels without requiring external equipment or special test fixtures.
Many Time Domain Reflectometers (TDRs)...
Date: Apr 12, 2008
Tools
Adacore
AdaCore Announces Support for VxWorks 653, Version 2.2
GNAT Pro High-Integrity-Edition for DO-178B (version 6.1.1) now supporting full integration with VxWorks 653 Platform, Version 2.2...
NEW YORK and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2008 - Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley - AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support services, today announced the availability of GNAT Pro High-Integrity-Edition for DO-178B (version 6.1.1) on the latest version of the Wind River´s VxWorks 653 Platform, Version 2.2 for avionics and mission-critical systems. The result is a uniquely powerful and seamless environment for the development of Ada and mixed-language software for safety-critical and other high reliability applications.
"AdaCore has enjoyed a long and successful relationship with Wind River, with GNAT Pro offering our customers the first Ada language development environment for the initial VxWorks 653 platform many years ago," said Robert Dewar,...
Date: Apr 15, 2008
Adacore
AdaCore announces the release of GNATbench 2.1.0
Enhanced Eclipse-based development environment for Ada improves productivity; decreases time-to-market...
NEW YORK and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2008 - Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley - AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support services, today announced a new major release of GNATbench, the company´s Eclipse-based development environment for Ada. GNATbench 2.1.0 includes a variety of enhancements, including general project management and presentation capabilities, new features within the language-sensitive editor, new source navigation capabilities, new wizards, and an enhanced builder. The result is a more powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ada that supports tighter integration with Wind River´s Workbench development suite, and automatic integration with the large pool of software development capabilities already available within...
Date: Apr 15, 2008
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