Embedded Systems

Manufacturers are demonstrating systems for military and aerospace applications this week based on the latest VPX standard. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems is using its acquisition of UK manufacturer Radstone Technology late last year to launch a 3U VPX system, while Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) is demonstrating a full 6U VPX system. VPX is a development of the VME standard ...

Cambridge-based phased-array loudspeaker firm 1 Ltd has produced a reference design for TVs using a DSP from Micronas of Switzerland. “We have taken our whole system and written it in only 5kbyte of code,” 1 Ltd’s business development manager Steve Collicott told EW. 1 Ltd’s loudspeakers, called digital sound projectors, use multiple acoustic drivers in a single cabinet to beam ...

Chip firm Micronas has teamed with Cambridge-based digital sound projector specialist 1 Ltd to bring surround-sound technology to lower cost consumer audio system-on-chip designs. With technology claimed to provide surround-sound without the need for multiple loudspeaker enclosures and wiring, the firms will offer TV and home-audio manufacturers a pre-engineered platform for Digital Sound Projector applications. Digital Sound Projectors comprise of ...

Norbert Hauser from Kontron offers his opinions and forecasts concerning the major trends in the embedded board markets in 2007 Standards evolution In the past two years, several new standards have evolved and been released by the PICMG and these have encouraged the growth of all segments of the embedded market. These standards are reassuring to to customers as they ...

Concurrent Technologies has announced a Dual-Core Xeon Advanced Mezzanine Card. The double width full height AM 100/20x, as it is known, includes the Intel 3100 chipset which combines server-class memory and I/O controller in a single component. The board has been designed for wireless basestations, voice over IP, media-servers, blade-servers within the communication market as well as projects within the ...

The next time a distributor offers you a reference platform, ask them who designed it. In a move that has been borrowed from the Asian market, distributors are now starting to develop their own reference designs for customers. Reference designs from companies such as EBV Elektronik and Abacus have been developed in-house, adding components from other suppliers on their line ...

Video acceleration is certainly grabbing the headlines right now but as more and more devices use video acceleration then it creates a new problem.

Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Embedded CE 6.0, which can be designed in as the real-time operating system for embedded systems such as Internet protocol (IP) set-top boxes and industrial automation applications. The firm is also stepping up its plan to provide designers greater access to certain parts of the Windows Embedded CE source code. This includes the ...

Future Electronics has taken the concept of a distributor supplying an evaluation board a stage further by offering a multi-board development system supporting devices from a number of suppliers. According to the company, evaluation boards designed for specific chips can be problematic when the user needs to link a number of boards together to prototype a system design. It has proposed ...

Microchip Technology has formed a medical products group in an effort to create partnerships with medical device makers. The company said that many device makers have already recognized the benefits of using its semiconductors for medical applications because of their small package sizes, low power consumption through “nanoWatt Technology” and the ability to easily add connectivity through on-chip communications peripherals. Those ...