Boards/Backplanes
SBC controls radar speed cameras
ADL Embedded Solutions has announced the design-in success of the “Ramet” project (use of PCIe/104 in harsh environments). Ramet opts for ADL’s PCIe/104 ADLE3800PC-E3845 SBC for the control and evaluation of its speed monitoring systems of the RAMER 10 family, which consists of compact modular radar cameras featuring Doppler radar with 34.0, 34.3 or 24.125GHz.
Arduino Yun Mini tempts embedded engineers and students
The new Arduino Yun Mini extends the Arduino portfolio of open-source electronics development and prototyping boards of RS Components (RS). Aimed at embedded engineers, hackers and students, the Arduino Yun Mini is a redesign of the Arduino Yun WiFi microcontroller board and has been re-engineered to be used with a breadboard, making prototyping easier, and also provides its functionality in a light and highly compact package.
Motor control starter kit saves board space
The SmartFusion2 Dual-Axis Motor Control Starter Kit from Microsemi is on sale at Mouser Elecronics. This kit provides a starting point to evaluate time-saving and proven motor control reference designs as part of the series of Microsemi SmartFusion2 System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs.
Evaluation board accelerates FPGA designs
The ECP5 Versa Evaluation Board from Lattice Semiconductor is now in stock at Mouser Electronics. Part of the ECP5 Versa Development Kit, the ECP5 Versa Evaluation Board enables developers to experiment with the features of Lattice Semiconductor’s ECP5 Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), including PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, DDR3, and generic SERDES performance.
Evaluation board is based on high voltage converter
The STEVAL-ISA162V1 Evaluation Board from STMicroelectronics is now on sale at Mouser Electronics. This new evaluation board implements an isolated flyback (12V/0.84A) 10W wide-range mains developed for general-purpose applications. The core of the application is the VIPer25HD, an off-line, high-voltage converter from the ST’s VIPerPlus family.
Embedded boards run on Intel Pentium/Celeron N3000 processors
Avalue Technology has introduced a 5.25" SBCs - EBM-BSW, a Qseven Solution - EQM-BSW, and a COMe Solution - ESM-BSW, based on Intel's Braswell - M/D processor family. The Intel Pentium/Celeron processor N3000 family are based on Intel’s 14nm architecture for entry systems, which doubles graphics performance and offers a 16% battery life improvement, better I/O support, and better performance at low th...
Snapdragon development board covers host of applications
DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor is on sale at Arrow Electronics. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers. The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to use the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such...
Time-of-Flight imaging evaluation kit released
Melexis has strengthened the support offered for its ground-breaking Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensing technology. The EVK75023 evaluation kit accompanies its MLX75023 QVGA (320x240pixels) resolutionToF sensor with high dynamic range DepthSense pixels. This hardware platform enables implementation of more advanced HMIs.
Open-source board based on i.MX7 microprocessor
An open-source, specification-compliant board that is based on the new Freescale i.MX 7 microprocessor was announced at the Freescale Technology Forum by Arrow Electronics. Arrow also collaborated with Qualcomm Atheros, a subsidiary of Qualcomm on the board’s Bluetooth & Wi-Fi capabilities and with Linear Technologies on the board’s power supply.
Mini-ITX motherboard features the Intel Atom Braswell processor
A thin Mini-ITX motherboard capable of supporting a wide range of low-profile OEM devices has been released by WIN Enterprises. The MB-73400, which features the Intel Atom Braswell SoC, supports two DDR3L SO-DIMM up to 8GB memory, two HDMI/24-bit LVDS, two Intel GbE LAN, one SATA III, four USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, two Mini-PCIe sockets and HD Audio.