Hall A4 Stand 442
Energy Micro to demonstrate real-world applications for energy-friendly microcontrollers
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nergy Micro will display a range of real-world applications for its EFM32 Gecko families of ARM- based microcontrollers (MCUs) at electronica 2012. The company will demonstrate how its low-power devices greatly extend battery life of a variety of portable electronic products. The products on show will include two for mobile health applications. The first is a hand-held heart pacemaker monitor in which the MCU manages the communications protocol, monitors the sensors and controls the user interface. The second is a sensor powered that attaches to a person’s temple. Here, it monitors their temperature and sounds an alarm if they are in danger of heat exhaustion, which is a potential problem for fire-fighters, outdoor workers and sportspeople. In this application, the operating life of a single CR1616 coin-cell battery is several months. Energy Micro will also demonstrate energy management applications for its MCUs, including one for battery-powered and energy harvesting products in which the EFM32 Tiny Gecko controls EnOcean’s radio position switch in a wireless module. The same MCU is also used in a range of modules that allow utility meter readings to be collected via a wireless connection, reducing operating expenditure for utility companies and increasing billing accuracy for consumers.
Also on display at the show is the Scubapro-Uwatec Meridian dive computer. This is the world’s first 32-bit watch-dive computer with an integrated heart rate monitor that provides comprehensive dive information. Dive profiles can be downloaded, edited and reviewed on a personal computer. The company will also demonstrate a novel electric window remote control that uses a smartphone-like user interface controlled by an EFM32 MCU.
Energy Micro |
www.energymicro.com
Hall A6, Booth 306
congatec leverages AMD Embedded R-Series platform in COM Express Type 6 module
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ne of the highlights at electronica for congatec AG, a manufacturer of embedded computer modules is the AMD Embedded R-Series platform with the new conga- TFS COM Express module based on Type 6 pinout.
The integration of AMD Embedded R-Series APU expands the COM Express standard with a new module that combines power efficient high-performance x86 processing, an integrated graphics performance and high performance parallel processing support. The conga-TFS enables multimedia advancements and an exceptional visual experience
across applications. “We expect AMD Embedded R-Series APUs to be a great addition to our computer-on- module family which will be ideally suited for demanding graphics applications that require lower power consumption,” explained Gerhard Edi, CEO at congatec AG. congatec currently offers three variants of the AMD R-Series APU on the conga-TFS ranging from the dual-core AMD R-272F APU up to the quad-core AMD R-464L APU. The conga-TFS uses the AMD A70M Controller Hub to deliver a powerful compact 2-chip solution with support for up to 16GB dual-channel 1600MHz DDR3 memory. The integrated graphics core supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.2 for fast 2D and 3D graphics. The third generation hardware Unified Video Decoder offers seamless processing of H.264, VC-1, MPEG4 Part 2 and MPEG2 video streams. The conga-TFS offers a choice of graphics interfaces including VGA, 18/24bit single/dual channel LVDS as well as three DisplayPort 1.2, one HDMI 1.4 and two Single link DVI interfaces enabling the direct control of three independent displays. Software developers can take advantage of APU programmability through proven
standards such as Direct Compute (Microsoft) and OpenCLTM. And the portability of OpenCL allows programmers to preserve their expensive source code investment across multiple product generations. OpenCL is a powerful programming environment with which computing tasks can be distributed across a variety of architectures involving a number of hardware compute units. This is of crucial importance in our customers’ applications that tend to execute a variety of workloads and must do it both cost and power efficiently. Seven PCI Express 2.0 x1 lanes, PCI Express 2.0 x8 link, four SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, four SATA 6Gb/s ports, one Gigabit Ethernet interface and high definition audio round off the comprehensive range of features. The congatec board controller provides an extensive embedded PC feature set. The independent x86 processor makes functions such as system monitoring or the I”C bus faster and more reliable, even if the system is in standby mode.
congatec |
www.congatec.com
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