Boards/Backplanes
Prototyping made easy with sensor evaluation kit
A sensor evaluation kit (expansion board) has been announced by ROHM which is equipped with seven sensors (i.e. accelerometer, barometric pressure, magnetic field), designed for use with existing open-source prototyping platforms such as Arduino and mbed.
No boundaries for boundary scan at IPC Apex 2017
JTAG Technologies return to San Diego this year to premiere several new hardware products for PCB testing and In-System [Device] Programming and -to introduce their new collaborative product with Altium – JTAG Maps.
Thin Mini-ITX motherboard has three independent display support
Advantech announces the release of AIMB-216, a new industrial-grade fanless Thin Mini-ITX motherboard. The Intel Pentium and Celeron N3710/N3160/N3010, AIMB-216 comes bundled with Advantech’s own WISE-PaaS/RMM software suite, which offers remote management and security features for IoT and embedded applications.
Solder-tag board opens way to low cost prototyping
A 40-pin solder-tag board for the Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer board has been introduced by RS Components. Exclusively available from RS, the solder-tag board is ideal for electronics engineers developing prototypes based around the Raspberry Pi board, as well as being well suited for education and the training of students and electronics beginners.
Game faster with high-performance motherboards
A motherboard which supports the 7th-gen of Intel Core series processors has been announced by BIOSTAR, the BIOSTAR RACING Z270GT9. Featuring the latest Intel Z270 chipset, this motherboard supports LGA1151 processors for in performance and power as well as features including support for DDR4-3600+ high-speed memory, six PCI-E x16 3.0 slots, and two USB 3.1 (TYPE A+C) ports.
Expansion kits hasten ZigBee-Enabled Designs for IoT
The JN5169 ZigBee Expansion kits from NXP Semiconductors are equipped with NXP’s pre-certifiedZigBee and IEEE802.15.4 JN5169 wireless microcontroller. These kits, which are in stock at Mouser Electronics, enable designers to rapidly introduce ZigBee-enabled wireless products without the need for advanced radio frequency (RF) design skills.
Powerful processors drive COM Express module families
The MSC C6C-KLU and MSC C6B-KLH Type 6 COM Express module families, which are based on the 7th generation Intel Core processors are the New Year offering from Avnet Embedded. The new Kaby Lake processors are manufactured in 14nm technology, as the former 6th generation Intel Core processors, and have a similar architecture but are optimised for higher performance at the same level of power dissipation.
Embedded system offers low power and fan-less design
The Industrial PC (IPC) market innovator and Associate member of the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions Alliance, Portwell has announced the release of the PEB-2773 (146x102mm) 3.5" embedded system board based on the Intel Atom processor E3900 series, formerly codenamed Apollo Lake.
Rack-mount network appliance has expansion capabilities
Axiomtek announces the NA720, a 1U rack-mount network appliance built on the server-class Intel Xeon D-1527 processor (codename: Broadwell-DE) and Pentium processor D1508. The NA720 comes with two 10GbE SFP+ ports, eight Gigabit Ethernet ports and two expandable LAN modules supporting 1GbE/10GbE/Fiber/Copper/Bypass with a maximum of 26 LAN ports. Four DDR4-2400 MHz R-DIMM/U-DIMM sockets can provide system memory of up to 128GB and support bo...
Development kit supports Bluetooth5 design options
The nRF52840 Preview Development Kit (nRF52840-PDK) from Nordic Semiconductor is now being shipped by Mouser Electronics . The nRF52840-PDK is a versatile single board development kit for evaluating the nRF52840 system-on-chip (SoC), a proprietary wireless connectivity solution that supports several protocols, including the recently released Bluetooth5 specification.