Boards/Backplanes
High voltage reference boards contribute to energy savings
The availability of reference boards designed to evaluate its high voltage fan motor drivers has been announced by ROHM. They achieve greater efficiency and simplify inverter configuration in home appliances such as ceiling fans and ACs.
EVK acts as a shield for easier stepper motor driver designs
At SPS in Nuremberg from November 22nd-24th 2016, ROHM Semiconductor presents its Arduino-based Evaluation Kit (EVK) to support the evaluation of its motor driver devices as well as to enable, facilitate and accelerate customers’ developments (Hall 1 - Booth 320).
Boards evaluate GaN E-HEMT performance
Availability and full design support capabilities for a family of evaluation boards from GaN Systems have been announced by Richardson RFPD. The GS665XXX-EVBDB daughterboard evaluation kits consist of two GaN Systems 650 V GaN enhancement-mode HEMTs (E-HEMTs) and all necessary circuits, including half-bridge gate drivers, isolated power supplies and optional heatsink to form a functional half-bridge power stage.
Mini embedded motherboard features higher performance
An embedded mini-ITX motherboard with Intel Core i3, i5, i7 or 6th Generation Intel Xeon E3 14nm Quad Core CPUs has been announced by Kontron. Its extended features and higher performance make the Kontron mITX-SKL-S-C236 motherboard a useful solution for point of sale or point of information scenarios, medical technology, and industrial automation.
Introducing VME Intel Xeon D-15xx processor board
Interface Concept announces the introduction of its new Intel Xeon processor D-15xx-based board. This new product is intended for industrial and defense applications requiring high performance, and multiple I/O capabilities and is aiming at helping and supporting its customer base designing or retrofitting VME systems. This product is also enlarging the overall Interface Concept VME SBC range being Intel or PowerPC.
SBC supports 9-36V wide voltage input
The IB811 3.5" disk-size SBC featuring 9-36V wide-voltage input that makes it suitable for rugged industrial and in-vehicle applications with varying voltage input requirements, has been unveiled by IBASE Technology.
Mini-ITX and Pico-ITX boards feature security enhancements
The conga-PA5 Pico-ITX single board computer and the conga-IA5 Thin Mini-ITX motherboard, two industrial-grade, long-term available computing platforms featuring the latest Intel Atom, Celeron and Pentium processors, has been introduced by congatec. System engineers can immediately deploy them to upgrade existing Pico-ITX and Mini-ITX designs and benefit from approximately 30% more processing power and 45% more graphics performance compared to th...
BeagleBone Black targets IoT applications
The highly sought-after BeagleBone Black Wireless is now available at Mouser Electronics for pre-order. Based on the extremely successful open source BeagleBone Black hardware design, BeagleBone Black Wireless is a high-expansion, maker-focused open hardware computer created by the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. BeagleBone Black Wireless is an easy-to-use, credit card-sized Linux computer designed for powerful Internet of Things (IoT) applications.&...
CAN FD Integration on PCBs
A simple possibility of implementing CAN FD in custom hardware designs is now offered by PEAK-System with the stamp module PCAN-Chip USB. The connection to the circuits is enabled via USB 2.0. The actual used physical CAN transmission is determined by the transceiver to be implemented by the developer.
Prototyping kit opens way to touch applications
The CY8CKIT-145-40XX PSoC 4000s CapSense prototyping kit from Cypress Semiconductor is now in stock at distributor Mouser Electronics. The Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) 4000S Prototyping Kit enables engineers to evaluate and develop touch applications with Cypress's fourth-generation, low-power CapSense capacitive-sensing solution using the PSoC 4000S device.