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Single chip ZigBee
Chipcon has announced the CC2430 family , a One-Chip ZigBee solution with on-chip programmable flash memory and a certified ZigBee software stack.
Approximately the size of a 1 ct diamond (7?7 mm) the chip combines a robust radio, programmable micro-controller, flash memory, and both IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee software in a 48 pin package. There are three products, varying in size of on-chip flash memory, each cost-optimised for different IEEE 802.14.4/Zigbee applications.
During receive and transmit modes, the current consumption of the CC2430 is as low as 27 mA and 25 mA. Sleep modes and short transition times to active modes give very long battery lifetime. They can be used for all ZigBee nodes, including coordinators, routers and end devices.
www.chipcon.com
Synchronous step-down
The MP2104, a 1.7MHz synchronous stepdown regulator from MPS, has two fixed output voltage options of 1.5V and 1.8V, in addition to the previously released adjustable output version, which is capable of supplying output voltages as low as 0.6V.
Intended for portable applications, the regulator has an input voltage range of 2.5 to 6 volts, suitable for supporting operation from one Li-Ion cell or up to 4 alkaline, NiMH, or NiCd cells.
www.monolithicpower.com
Set-Top Box decoder chip
ST has introduced a new range of MPEG-2 decoder chips for low-cost Set-Top Boxes (STBs) and DVD recording.
The STx5300 family is pin-compatible with ST’s popular STi5100, with over five times the computing power.
www.st.com
Latched sink drivers
The A6800 and A6801 latched sink drivers from Allegro MicroSystems are fabricated using Allegro's DABiC-5 merged BiMOS technologyto combine high-current, highvoltage outputs with CMOS logic.
The new devices are pin-to-pin compatible with Allegro's earlier UCN5800 and UCN5801
products, but with 3.3-5 V logic capability, lower saturation voltage and higher data rates (up to 10 MHz) and switching speeds.
The combination of a CMOS input section and bipolar n-p-n Darlington outputs make the devices suitable for interfacing computer or microprocessor I/O circuitry to inductive loads such as relays, solenoids and small DC motors.
www.allegromicro.com
CAM soft error immunity
Renesas has a new technology that aims to significantly improve soft error immunity in content addressable memory devices used in networking and communication equipment .
Data from a 144 Kbit ternary-CAM (TCAM) test chip incorporating the technology and fabricated in a 130 nm CMOS process confirmed an improvement in soft error immunity of approximately six digits compared with chips without it. The technology uses three main elements: It incorporates embedded DRAM with ECC into the CAM device, it provides a test circuit that efficiently measures the CAM soft error rate during a search and it adds circuits that automate CAM data maintenance operations.
www.renesas.com
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<News - Tools>
ESE Magazine October 05
Tools
New release round-up
Latttice
Altium has announced support for the LatticeEC and LatticeECP FPGAs in Altium Designer.
www.altium.com
MIPS
Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS is now available for the MIPS32 24K and 4KE processor core families.
www.expresslogic.com
Nios
Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus EDGE IDE and the Nucleus RTOS software now support the Nios II family of embedded processors.
www.acceleratedtechnology.com
ObjectAda targets Linux
The latest version of the Aonix ObjectAda development environment, is targeting Linux as the first supported operating system. In addition to supporting an Eclipse-based development environment and targeting mission-critical software solutions, ObjectAda 8.2 can attach the symbolic debugger to a running Ada application.
www.aonix.com
Debug support for Freescale i.MX31
Macraigor is supporting Freescale’s high-per- formance i.MX31 and i.MX31L multimedia application processors. Debugging and control of this chip will be supported by all Macraigor debug solutions when it is used with the OCDemon family of products.
Macraigor has also updated the free, prebuilt Gnu tools suite to include sample configurations for Freescale evaluation boards, including source, gdbinit and make files for each board.
www.macraigor.us
Synthesis for rad-tolerant FPGA
Mentor is supporting Actel's new RTAX4000S device in all of Mentor's advanced synthesis tools and solutions. Mentor’s Precision Synthesis or LeonardoSpectrum tools are fully compatible with the latest version of Actel's Libero 6.2 IDE design environment.
www.mentor.com
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High-performance serial BERT
Agilent has announced a high-performance serial bit error ratio tester (BERT) with advanced jitter generation capabilities for jitter-tolerance testing of serial gigabit
layer measurements for new, high-speed serial bus designs and for scientists conducting fundamental lab research.
Agilent 81142A provides high-precision, lowjitter signals along with full control of data streams for performance and characterization testing.
www.agilent.com
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LabVIEW 8
NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS has announced LabVIEW 8. The major upgrade introduces distributed intelligence a suite of new capabilities to design, distribute and synchronise intelligent devices and systems.
FLabVIEW 8 also features a new projectbased environment for developing and managing large-scale applications as well as the latest in Express technology for simplified instrument control. It also includes significant updates to the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, LabVIEW FPGA Module, LabVIEW PDA Module and LabVIEW Datalogging and
Supervisory Control Module.
LabVIEW Project is a new project-based environment for managing large applications and team development, with tools for multiple target management; source code control and multi-build management.
A new LabVIEW Instrument Driver Finder automatically recognises connected instruments to search, download and install the appropriate driver from the more than 4,000 available on the NI Instrument Driver Network.
www.ni.com/uk
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Synchro/Resolver
Card
The 65CS4, C sized intelligent DSP VXI card from North Atlantic Industries is a high accuracy, high density Synchro/Resolver board capable of measurement and instrument simulation accuracy to within 0.005°.
Converter grade simulation accuracy is 0.015° loaded and 0.008° under no load conditions.
It incorporates up to four synchro/resolver measurement channels and up to four synchro/resolver instrument grade simulation channels, which can be used simultaneously and/or independently. Or, alternatively, up to eight synchro/resolver converter grade simulation channels. All measurement and simulation channels are user programmable for either Synchro or Resolver format and may be formatted for single or multi speed applications.
www.acalmicrosystems.co.uk
Real-time for
Windows
Ardence's RTX, 6.5 real-time extension for WindowsXP Embedded, provides several new features and enhancements, including the ability to control the Intel Speedstep power management technology used by Pentium-M class processors.
Full support for the PCI-X bus is added, and other new features include improved C++ support, .NET 2003 support, ReadyOn instant-on compatibility and multi-core Pentium support.
ReadyOn is Ardence's instant-on solution for Windows, and with the introduction of 6.5, RTX
and ReadyOn have been qualified together as an integrated solution. RTX-based solutions can therefore be developed which are available for use in less than 15 seconds from power on.
www.directinsight.co.uk
Middleware for multiprocessor software development
Enea has released Element, a new highavailability middleware solution for telecom, automotive, industrial control, and medical instrumentation applications.
Element provides a set of services that sit between the operating system and applications, including core services for synchronizing, instrumenting, monitoring, and establishing communications between applications spread across multiple operating systems and processors. It also provides network supervision, fault, shelf, and upgrade management services to monitor, repair, configure/provision, and upgrade live systems as they operate in the field.
Element makes it easy for OEMs to combine Linux with real-time operating systems like Enea’s
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OSE in the same system. Element also runs on DSPs and network processors as well as 32-bit CPUs.
Designers can use a common set of services with a single API to partition, distribute, and manage applications spread across multiple processors, blades, and operating systems.
www.enea.com
PXI-capable multifunction testers
Aeroflex has launched its 5800 Series PXIcapable multi-function testers.
Gigabit-Ethernet interface
LAUTERBACH has added two new modules to its TRACE32 PowerTools product range. PowerDebug II is the first module to provide a Gigabit-Ethernet interface. PowerTrace II
– the other new addition – has a 2-GB trace memory. This allows users to record and evaluate the program flow and data accesses of software over long periods.
With the Gigabit-Ethernet interface of the new PowerDebug II module, users can download programs from a host computer to a target computer at extremely high speed, essential for analysing large trace memories. PowerDebug II
currently provides support for the trace ports of over 30 different processor architectures.
The 2-GB trace memory of PowerTrace II means that it can monitor long periods of program run time. Each item of information saved is given a timestamp with a resolution of 10 ns.
www.lauterbach.com
Designed for the ever-changing needs of the rapidly evolving PCB manufacturing industry, the Aeroflex 5800 Series has configurable software, hardware and pinface styles to combine low-cost analog in-circuit testing with high integrity functional testing and a PXI capability that allows the additional implementation of modular PXI test solutions from both Aeroflex and third party manufacturers.
www.aeroflex.com
‘Real’ Linux alternative
MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0 (Pro 4.0) integrates the latest Linux 2.6 kernel with the advanced hard real-time capabilities required to develop a wide range of embedded products, from networking and communications, aerospace and defence to consumer devices and medical.
LynuxWorks’ RTOS with Verari’s vector, signal and processing libraries MPI/Pro (Message Interface) middleware. It is for cluster processing – in real-
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</News - Tools>
<News - Boards>
ESE Magazine October 05
Boards
8.4-Inch LCD
NEC is sampling a new 8.4-inch VGA, amorphous silicon TFT LCD module.
Luminance is 400 cd/m2 and the colour gamut is 72 percent. The
viewing angle is 170 degrees (contrast ratio greater than 10:1) and the display is capable of operating in either portrait or landscape modes. Operating temperature ranges from –10 to +70 ° C.
www.nec-lcd.com
Switching PXI
PICKERING INTERFACES have released a range of PXI cards offering matrix and multiplexer switching. They have electromechanical relays with gold-plated contacts and have been designed for switching medium voltage/power levels in test applications where price is very sensitive or where reed relays have insufficient rating.
www.pickeringinterfaces.com
Lead-free
DESIGN and manufacturing company, MAZeT is replacing all parts and components containing lead in its development and production of printed circuit boards.
www.MAZeT.de
Self contained PC
THE TALON 8400, from GE-Fanuc, is a small self contained PC for low power and harsh conditions. (The operating temperature of 5 to 40° C can be extended to -20 to 50° C).
Based on the Celeron M processor, it has three PC/104-Plus expansion sites, an aluminium housing and can be DIN rail, panel, or tabletop mounted. It has 256 MB of SDRAM, a 20 GB hard drive, and I/O options include two fast Ethernet ports, four USB 2.0 ports, an SVGA connector, one IEEE 1284 port, and four individually isolated RS232/485 serial ports. Two open PCMCIA slots provide wireless connectivity options.
www.gefanuc.com/embedded
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266 MIPS ARM9 modules
The ARM9 modules from MSC are for use in tough environment. Specified in the industrial temperature range they are designed for man-machine user interaction and in portable, battery-powered systems. Only 80 x 50 x10 mm, they are based on the Samsung S3C2410 and offer a choice of amount of DRAM and Flash memory as well as a range of peripheral controllers.
as well as high-performance applications that must work in an extended temperature range of -40 degrees C to +85 degrees C.
It implements a PCI/cPCI bridge that handles 32-bit data transfers to and from the CompactPCI backplane, allowing the CV1 to operate as a system controller or peripheral processor card through its dual mode capability and eliminates the need to stock multiple configurations.
The CV1 supports the Linux, VxWorks and other operating systems as well as the SBS Ready Driver interoperability program.
www.sbs.com
The MSC ARM9 M200 6416OR Starter Kit is a complete operating environment for modules. The starter kit board carries an ARM9 CPU module as well as peripheral connectors for the module’s interfaces: LAN, USB, serial interfaces and industry standard memory card modules can all be connected next to LCD and Touchscreen.
www.msc-ge.com
CompactPCI SBC
Flat panel SBC
The ePanel-C3, from Kontron, is for the mobile panel PCs or other low-profile systems, such as door/gate stations or vehicle rear seat systems.
Based on VIA Eden processors, performance is from 300 MHz to 1 GHz. It includes USB 2.0 support, DDR-RAM, ultra DMA support, maximum 64 MByte graphics memory, integrated MPEG2 hardware decoder for DVD applications and an optional mini-PCI interface integrated on the rear.
The operating system can be loaded from Compact Flash. Interfaces for VGA, TTL and LVDS flat panels are already integrated and a touch and matrix controller is also provided. At 180 x 140 mm, it is for TFTs with a screen diagonal of 8” or more.
www.kontron.com
SBS’ new Freescale MPC7447A/7448 G4 processor based single board computer is available in convectionor conductioncooled versions,
The 3U CompactPCI CV1 high-performance SBC supports core processor speeds of up to 1 GHz and bus clock rates of 167 MHz. It is intended for military applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicles deployed in harsh environments,
Industrial mobile computing
ADVANTECH has launched the Industrial Mobile Computing series of products. The TREK series includes Vehicle
Mounted Computers (TREK-700 series), Rugged Mobile Computers (TREK-600 series), and Handheld Devices (TREK-200 series
The TREK-700 series is made to be
mounted on heavy-duty vehicles for helping operators process, transmit and store lots of real-time information. The TREK-600 series are rugged mobile computers for road warriors to retrieve, handle, and deliver information without cabling. The TREK-200 series are compact and light handheld devices that are designed for data capture and remote data store connection.
www.advantech-uk.com
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ESE Magazine October 05
Wireless switching modules
Low Power Radio Solutions has introduced the CDT-TX-01 transmitter and CDT-RX-01 receiver modules, designed for applications requiring wireless transmission of switching signals.
The modules include 6 independent switch signal input and output processing circuits that allow switching signals to be transmitted and received and the direct operation of external actuating components, contactors, relays etc. without the need for any additional circuitry. Each module has a unique 32-bit ID and the receiver works only with signals from transmitters with a registered ID.
Typical applications include industrial telecontrol, remote control of road signals during hazardous conditions etc. and control of agricultural pumps and hose reels.
www.lprs.co.uk
Automobile LCDs
AGPS/GPS module
Fujitsu has introduced a new compact AGPS/GPS module suitable for mobile devices. The small size makes it ideal for incorporating within products such as mobile phones and other portable equipment, where it may be used under any network environment. It is only 10.9mm x 9.1mm x 1.4mm, with power consumption of 180mW in Search mode, or 0.1mW in Deep Sleep mode. Receiver sensitivity is under -150dBm.
The module can operate in Autonomous, MSAssisted (Mobile Station assisted) and MS Based (Mobile Station based) operating modes. It functions in the temperature range of -20°C to + 85°C.
http://emea.fujitsu.com
Rack-mounted
HPC cluster
Mercury and Terra Soft have announced the Mercury XR9, an dual-PowerPC 970FXbased HPC (high-performance computing) cluster node, in a 1U and 4U rack-mount, extended ATX form factor.
Terra Soft is providing the XR9 with its 64-bit
Linux OS ‘Y-HPC’ and cluster management suite Y- Imager, pre-installed and configured..
www.terrasoftsolutions.com
Copper/optical VME
Switching Solution
Curtiss-Wright has introduced two new optical fiber XMC modules, the RazorBlade III-SX and RazorBlade IV-LX, that, when used with the SVME/DMV-680 SwitchBlade Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch, deliver 24ports of wire-speed GbE performance over copper and optical fibre.
The combination is intended for use in IntraPlatform Networks (IPN) that link today’s transformational IP-based networks on-board air, land and sea vehicles for defense and aerospace applications.
Because optical fibres are insensitive to Electro-Magnetism Interference and RadioFrequency Interference (EMI\RFI) they are highly suitable for many military and communications applications where high signal quality, secure data transmission, and survivability are essential.
The 12/20/24-port SVME/DMV-680
Arbitrary waveform generator
ACCES I/O PRODUCTS new PC/104 board, Model 104-DA12-8A has eight independent 12-bit DACs and broadly configurable arbitrary waveform generation (ARB) capabilities.
It can be used for applications including stimulus-response, test, simulation, industrial equipment control and waveform/audio synthesis.
An arbitrary waveform is a user-defined set of digital values specified point by point over time, clocked through a DAC to provide the analog output signal.
A free DOS, Linux and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 compatible software package contains sample programs
and source code in "C" for DOS, and Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, and Visual C++ for Windows.
www.accesio.com
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SwitchBlade is a VME form-factor, conductioncooled, wire-speed, non-blocking, full duplex Gigabit Ethernet switch in a single VME slot. It was designed for use in rugged military/aerospace intra-platform networks (IP-based networks in air, land, and sea vehicles).
www.cwcembedded.com
UWB fractal-technol- ogy antenna
Fractus has launched an Ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for short-range wireless. Measuring 10x10x0.8mm, the antenna combines an omni-directional radiation pattern and high efficiency level to deliver the largest bandwidth possible.
It utilises the 3.1-5GHz spectrum as specified by the WiMedia Alliance. It integrates into space-limited PCBs in digital cameras, home-cin- ema equipment, PC peripherals, PDAs, mobile phones, and compact-flash cards.
www.fractus.com
TigerSHARC COTS VME/VXS board
BittWare has released a COTS VME/VXS board based on the ADSP-TS201. It is for multiprocessor based applications, and is targeted at a broad range of applications including radar, sonar, communications, and imaging, There are both air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions.
The T2V6 is a 6U VME/VXS board with eight 600 MHz ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs, two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, a PMC+ site, 512MB of SDRAM, and over 9 GB/sec of flexible, highthroughput I/O interfaces via the front panel, VXS switch fabric, and 2eSST VME.
www.sarsen.net
PC/104-Plus computer
VersaLogic’s new Lynx board is a PC104Plus board aimed at medical, avionics, and security/homeland defence markets. It has power draw of less than 5W total in, and is has both standard temperature (0° C to +60° C) and extended temperature (- 40° C to +85° C) versions. It is for headless applications in process monitoring, data acquisition, communications routing, or safety monitoring of critical systems.
The AMD Élan SC520 processor, an x86-com-
patible (586-class) CPU is supported by 64 MB Soldered-on SDRAM, 4 COM ports, Ethernet, IDE, LPT, two counter/timers, floppy interface, and keyboard/mouse ports.
www.sarsen.net
Terminal blocks
Molex EuroMax High-Power Pluggable Terminal Blocks are for high power industrial applications, such as motors and drives, process controls, electrical energy controls and load control systems. EuroMax is a two-piece pluggable system with up to 85.0A per circuit at 600V.
Available in a horizontal plug and right-angle header version, offers a highly redundant parallel
contact system, and all hardware components are copper-based alloys to optimize thermal compatibility. It can withstand lengthy solder preheat conditions and has three PCB tails.
www.molex.com
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</News - Reference designs>
ESE Magazine October 05
Reference
designs
Video development platform
STRETCH has announced the S55VDP Video Development Platform based on Stretch S5500 software-configurable processor. It is a hardware and software development environment to evaluate Stretch's processor technology, develop, customise and accelerate a wide range of video applications.
It is based on Stretch's recently announced S5500 development board and a video module that supports multiple video input formats and configuration streams.
The resources provided on the S55VDP platform include a S5500 device, 256 MB DDR400 SDRAM SO-DIMM, 4 MB Flash, and 8 Kb EEPROMs. The platform also offers a variety of industry-standard peripherals, connectors, and interfaces, providing a rich feature set that spans a wide range of applications.
www.stretchinc.com
Alarm panels
COMMERCIAL and domestic security alarm system designs now need dual path communicators to meet the EN50136-1 1998 standard. CML have three reference designs based on their new CMX990 miniature narrowband M2M GMSK modem IC:
EV9900 – a universal evaluation kit with a parallel interface to connect to an external host, is for use in the 800-900MHz band, with support for 400MHz operation.
EV9902 – A Hyperstone microcontroller development card with embedded firmware, supplied with a PC based GUI, to allow easy evaluation of the CMX990, in general purpose nonMobitex applications.
DE9901 – A total ‘plug-and-play’ Mobitex evaluation kit, complete with embedded Mobitex Technology AB object code, allowing the board to directly ‘log-on’ to an on-air Mobitex network.
www.cmlmicro.com
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QNX XScale SBC
Arcom and Quantum have released a QNX Neutrino BSP for the PXA255 ARM/XScale based VIPER – a PC/104 ultra-low power embedded controller.
It includes drivers for the integrated PXA255 graphics controller, Ethernet port, all 5 serial ports, onboard 32Mbytes Flash memory, real time clock, 256K battery backed SRAM, audio codec, the PC/104 bus and Arcom’s TSC1 analog touchscreen controller. The BSP is supported by Quantum’s software developers and is available directly from Quantum or Arcom.
www.arcom.com
www.quantum.com.pl
Laser-based optical mouse RDKs
Agilent has introduced the industry's first optical mouse reference design kits based on the company's LaserStream technology. Two LaserStream reference designs are being offered: one for high-end corded mice and one for high-performance gaming mice.
Mice using LaserStream illumination and tracking technology can easily track on painted metal, polished wood-grain, glossy photo paper, translucent plastic, frosted glass and many other previously difficult surfaces.
The ADNK-6003 corded laser mouse kit is based
on the Agilent ADNS-6000 laser navigation sensor and the Cypress CY7C63743-PXC USB microcontroller. It features 800 counts per inch (cpi) resolution, 20 inches per second (ips) maximum velocity and a 6,400 frames per second (fps) frame rate. The ADNS-6000 sensor along with the ADNS-6120 lens, ADNS-6230 clip and ADNV-6330 laser diode form the complete laser mouse tracking system.
ADNK-6013 corded laser gaming mouse kit is based on the Agilent ADNS-6010 high-perform- ance laser navigation sensor and the Cypress CY7C63743-PXC USB microcontroller. It features 2,000 cpi resolution, 45 ips maximum velocity and a 7,080 fps frame rate. The ADNS-6010 sensor along with the ADNS-6120 lens, ADNS-6230 clip and ADNV-6330 laser diode form the complete laser mouse tracking system. The Cypress EPROM-based microcontroller allows for easy firmware modification.
www.agilent.com
VoIP and video telephony
Eyeball Networks has released version 6 of the Eyeball SDK (software development toolkit), designed for rapid integration of VoIP, video telephony, instant messaging and presence capabilities into new or existing applications, services and devices.
The newest release offers improved voice quality, support for additional audio codecs, intuitive file transfer, interoperability with popular instant messaging services, including MSN, AIM and Yahoo, server-based auto-updates and XCAP for buddy list management. Call transfer and 3- way calling from soft phones, improved packet loss concealment, voice activity detection and acoustic echo cancellation are also included in the Eyeball SDK feature set.
www.eyeball.com
Next-Generation Networking Systems
CAVIUM NETWORKS and Cypress Semiconductor have developed a joint reference designs illustrating innovative joint solutions for access, edge and core networking applications, based on Cavium's OCTEON EXP integrated control and data plane processor family and Cypress's Ayama network search engines (NSEs).
Cypress and Cavium will work together to supply reference designs, application notes and developer's kits that customers can use to quickly and inexpensively deploy leading-edge networking equipment. Applications engineers
from both companies will work together to support the reference designs and offer customers comprehensive application-level solutions.
The OCTEON EXP is a scalable multi-core MIPS64 based processor family with 4 to 16 cores on a chip with integrated Ethernet and/or SPI4.2 networking interfaces. The TCAM-based Ayama 10000 and Ayama 20000 NSEs offer the FastLink cascaded interface – a heterogeneous interface for optimised search subsystems.
www.spectrumuk.com
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