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Designed specifically for embedded applications using ultra-low power and boasting an overall power consumption of just 4W, the new DSL-800LX from Datasound Laboratories has all the features required from a high performance computer.

Arcom’s new Development Kit allows faster and easier development of a wide range of embedded devices in a Linux environment. The kit’s SBC-GX533 board has a compact Arcom Embedded Linux image installed in its onboard Flash. All onboard hardware features are supported, allowing unrestricted access to their functionality, while all unnecessary software functions have been removed, leaving a compact image of just 13 MB. This can save weeks or ev...

Frontier Silicon has introduced a complete evaluation kit which will allow designers to explore the capabilities of its mobile TV chipset. The kit, named Troy, contains Frontier Silicon's Apollo RF receiver and Kino 2 chipset for mobile TV applications; software and documentation allowing a PC to act as the host processor in a mobile TV system, displaying up to four video streams simultaneously as well as dynamically configuring and monitoring v...

PIC-MU-BETA is a Real-Time In-Circuit Emulator for the most popular 6-pin to 18-pin Microchip PIC® microcontrollers. It offers many professional level features for a very low price. It is designed to ease your development of PIC applications. It is also extremely useful as an educational tool.

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Texas Instruments has announced its Consumer Electronics WLAN Developer Kit (CE WLAN DK) 2.0. which provides manufacturers with the systems-level building blocks they need to add Wi-Fi connectivity to battery-operated devices from digital still cameras and portable media players (PMPs) to emerging communications and entertainment applications.

National Instruments has announced what is said to be the industry’s first dual-core PXI embedded controller with the 2.0 GHz Intel Core™ Duo processor T2500 for multitasking environments and multithreaded applications. The dual-core PXI controller improves the performance of multithreaded applications up to 100 percent versus single-core PXI controllers with the same processor clock rate.

A new RF development platform, the SMT8101, has been launched by Sundance Multiprocessor Technology. Combining the technology of four boards in one PCI (full and compact) compatible board, it promises to boost rapid prototyping and help development teams to get their products into production and to market quickly. It is also available in VME and stand-alone forms.

Developing Windows XP Embedded applications on the SBC-GX533 single board computer is said to become faster and easier with Arcom’s latest Embedded Development Kit. The kit features a fully licensed XP Embedded operating system pre-loaded onto an industrial grade 1 GB CompactFlash card and ready to run on the single board computer, eliminating the need for Windows Embedded Studio.

Kanda has added a PIC microcontroller version to its range of Serial EEPROM and AVR microcontroller Handheld programmers. The key feature is that they have one button and one LED. This means that they are easy to use - just plug it into a target circuit and when the button is pressed a green light means successful programming and a red light means try again.