Boards/Backplanes
Budget motherboard suitable for casual users
Offering what the company claims to be a well-balanced set of features without the premium price point, BIOSTAR has introduced the B250MDC motherboard. The BIOSTAR B250MDC motherboard is a suitable solution for an entry-level desktop computer for daily multitasking use, office application and home entertainment. The B250MDC features a compact micro-ATX form factor that fits in most budget cases. The B250MDC also uses the Intel B250...
Cross bar switch supports rear-to-rear and front-to-front routing
Manufacturer of integrated systems, embedded boards, enabling software and application-ready platforms, VadaTech, has announced the AMC241. The AMC241 is a 36x36 Cross Bar Switch (CBS) in the AMC form factor which allows any of the 20 lanes from the backplane to be routed to the front.
Development kit jumpstarts FPGA designs
Microsemi has teamed up with Digi-Key Electronics to provide the SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA) maker board exclusively to Digi-Key’s global customer base. This low-cost evaluation platform lowers the barrier for hardware and firmware engineers to develop embedded applications for the ARM Cortex-M3 and 12K logic elements (LE) FPGA fabric in the SmartFusion2 device.
Development board extends FPGA design options
A development board, dubbed Avalanche, which features a Microsemi PolarFire non-volatile field programmable gate array (FPGA) has been announced by Microsemi and Future Electronics. As the lowest cost entry development board available today for designing with Microsemi's lowest power, cost-optimised mid-range PolarFire FPGAs, Future's Avalanche board lowers the barrier to entry for PolarFire FPGAs and helps expand Microsemi's market opportunities...
Embedded IoT computers and servers on display at embedded world
Global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), Kontron, will present a range of new products at the embedded world 2018 trade fair from 28th February to 1st March 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany, in hall 1, booth 478. Products include a Fog computing starter kit with a TSN networking card for getting started with Time Sensitive Networking (IEEE 802.1) and OPC UA publisher, FusionClient familiy and FlatClient family panel PC...
LCD control board features DP-multi stream and IoT functionality
Offering the new d. scale-HD+ LCD-TFT scaler board as an addition to its tried-and-tested d. vice product family is industrial TFT display and Digital Signage LCD solutions specialist, Display Solution. The d. scale-HD+ is based on Realtek's RTD2486 scaler family and, depending on the variant, has besides the usual inputs DVI, HDMI and DP also a DP-MST output. On the output side, the scaler board supports LCD TFT displays with...
Full-bridge evaluation board optimised for Class D Amplifiers
Availability and full design support capabilities for a new evaluation board from GaN Systems and Peregrine Semiconductor has been announced by Richardson RFPD. The GS61004B-EVBCD evaluation board combines GaN Systems’ GaN E-HEMT with the ultra-fast PE29102 gate driver from Peregrine.
IMS-based evaluation platform cuts power systems cost
The GSP65RxxHB-EVB insulated metal substrate (IMS)-based evaluation platform from GaN Systems is now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics. The IMS evaluation platform demonstrates an inexpensive way to improve heat transfer, increase power density, and reduce system cost of power systems in automotive, consumer, industrial, and server or data centre applications.
Motherboard features higher storage capacity
DFI has announced its newest development in industrial motherboard with the Intel Xeon Processor family (Purley). It can fit into demands that require heavy business workloads with high agility, reliability, and security. Intel claims the new processor family is the 'biggest platform advancement', and it supports brand new memory architecture and accelerates technology.
IoT connectivity products offer array of solutions
A broad selection of products from Microchip Technology’s Ethernet of Everything solutions is available at Mouser Electronics. Whether called Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT, or Industrial Ethernet, any “thing” can now be connected, controlled or monitored — from garage openers and home appliances to HVAC systems, lighting, and an endless array of other common products.