Embedded Technology I Product News Housings for embedded platforms
Hitaltech is offering a range of DIN-rail mounting enclosures produced specifically to house the embedded platforms that are on the increase within industrial control applications. This enclosure range (manufactured by Italtronic) is being continuously increased in order to offer design engineers a DIN-rail mounting case to suit their requirements. The enclosures are produced in UL94V-0 self extinguishing material and the supplied kit includes a transparent top panel, body enclosure and base, as well as the DIN-rail hook allowing the enclosure to be mounted. These DIN-rail mounting cases can be customised through machining and printing of the enclosure and/or top panel.
Customers can chose to have their logo or corporate branding printed onto the product for
Giving engineers a helping hand
quantities starting from 100 pieces. In order to offer this enclosure range to both the maker tech market and the industrial sector, Hitaltech has distribution agreements in place with both RS Components and CPC.
www.hitaltech.co.uk Simplifying microcontroller use
Embedded Office is taking part in the fourth civil aviation research programme (LUFO IV.4) funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). With LUFO IV.4, the BMWi is providing support for research and technology development projects with an application in civil, commercial aviation in Germany. This research project is designed to strengthen the technological basis of aviation research in Germany. The project aims at finding a
European solution for a certified real time operating system for the aviation industry that is both affordable and attractive in terms of what it has to offer for small and medium sized enterprises. Working together, the project partners have the task of testing and evaluating the real time operating system within a realistic application environment. Embedded Office’s specific task was to adapt the real time operating system along with the associated board support package (BSP) to the hardware platforms used and to develop the software framework. The real time kernel ‘µC/OS-II’ with a partitioning extension served as the real time
operating system. This system has already been used and certified by various manufacturers engaged in the aviation industry. By way of hardware platforms, the application processors of the
i.IMX6 series from Freescale, PowerPC architectures and the STM32 microcontrollers from STMicroelectronis were available. For the BSP, Embedded Office has drafted software lifecycle documentation according to the aviation standard DO-178B/C and transferred this into a Safety-BSP.
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FTDI Chip is helping engineers implement better embedded systems with its microcontroller technology. Working in conjunction with MikroElektronika (MikroE), the company is now marketing a development package based on the FT90x MCU series. What’s more, the company is providing customers with a free MikroE Clicker 2 board with every FT90x Compiler license purchase and offers free shipping worldwide on the package. The FT90x offering created through the partnership with MikroE showcases the capabilities of FT90X devices, each of which features a 32-bit proprietary processing core and substantial memory resources (256kBytes of Flash memory, 64kBytes of on-chip data memory and 256kBytes of shadow RAM). Thanks to the shadow RAM, instructions can be executed with a high degree of efficiency. This results in zero wait state operation at speeds of 100MHz. The compact Clicker 2 board incorporates an FT90X microcontroller plus the supplementary component parts needed for starting off development projects (including power management/battery charging functionality, LED indicators, crystal oscillators, configurable pushbuttons etc). In addition, the credit card
format board offers straightforward interfacing to a multitude of add-on boards via male/female IDC10 interconnects. There are currently 118 add-on boards available, which are capable of offering a total of nearly 7,000 different combinations.
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Flexible and easy to use
Ginsbury has announced the introduction of a new, PC compatible, embedded computing platform. The Ginsbury Genie is a low power system, complete with a fully integrated TFT display, that offers the PC compatibility combined with the robustness and longevity that is necessary in many industrial and embedded applications. The Ginsbury Genie is a bespoke,
High performance embedded vision processor IP
Synopsys has announced the availability of the first products in the new DesignWare EV Processor Family of vision processors. The EV52 and EV54 vision processors are fully programmable and configurable vision processor IP cores that combine the flexibility of software solutions with the low cost and low power consumption of dedicated hardware. The EV processors implement a
convolutional neural network (CNN) that can operate at more than 1,000GOPS/W, enabling fast and accurate detection of a wide range of objects such as faces, pedestrians and hand gestures. To speed application software development, the ARC EV Processor Family is supported by a software programming environment based on existing and emerging embedded vision standards including OpenCV and OpenVX, as well as Synopsys’ ARC MetaWare Development Toolkit. The combination of high performance hardware optimised for vision data processing and high productivity programming tools make the ARC EV Processors well suited for a range of embedded vision applications including video surveillance, gesture recognition and object detection.
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high reliability, embedded computer based on a dual core 1.46GHz Intel Atom E38xx 64-bit processor that implements a low power, fan less design that has a power consumption of typically less than 10W (depending on usage). Up to 2GB of system memory is available, with an onboard SATA SDD providing storage capacity starting at 32GB. Support for a range of different connectivity and expansion options include a Mini PCI-Express card slot for additional peripherals, one USB 3.0 port, three USB 2.0 ports, an RS-232 serial port, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a Micro SD card slot. A user defined expansion header can also be used for general purpose I/O, I2C, SPI or UART.
The Ginsbury Genie GGE38-xxx is supplied with a fully integrated TFT LCD display module driven via a dual channel LVDS interface. A range of LCD panels is supported and an integrated touchscreen controller supports 4- and 5-wire resistive touch panels. Support for other display sizes, resolutions and touchscreen technologies can be provided on request.
www.ginsbury.co.uk
Extended functions
HARTING has enhanced its RFID Embedded Transponder (ETB) with a range of extended functions including the ability to monitor and transmit sensor data. As a result, it becomes possible for an object or component that is equipped with an RFID transponder to determine and wirelessly transfer not only its own ID, but also its current status with the help of connected sensors. This supports the Internet of Things principle in which passive devices can communicate with one another.
The integrated UHF (ultra high To read the full story visit
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frequency) technology embedded in the transponder performs, in effect, as a direct control system, and allows mobile parts that do not have their own constant energy supply to be monitored comprehensively. This passive mode of operation, in which the system on the transponder side functions without an energy source, is a major advantage
of UHF-based control systems. The system obtains its energy from the RFID reader device, and powers the RFID transponder via the transmitted radiation - which in Europe lies in the frequency band from 865 to 867MHz.
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