Marvell Armada family of processors
03 March, 2010 byMarvell has announced the Armada family of processors designed specifically for next-generation ARM instruction set smartphones, smartbooks, consumer and embedded devices and displays.
Multicard Australia multi-application card
03 March, 2010 byMulticard Australia has launched a combination of different high-frequency contactless technologies on a single IC.
Freescale QorIQ P1012 and P1021 processors
26 February, 2010 byFreescale has introduced its first processors based on its QorIQ communications platform that also incorporate QUICC engine multiprotocol technology.
Freescale Semiconductor integrated MPC8308 processor
26 February, 2010 byFreescale Semiconductor is using PowerQUICC II Pro technology to introduce a processor with high performance, low power consumption and a rich set of peripherals.
Concurrent Technologies PP 712/08x family of 6U CompactPCI boards
18 January, 2010 byConcurrent Technologies has released the PP 712/08x family of 6U CompactPCI boards, said to be one of the first embedded product ranges to feature Intel’s Cor i7 processor family.
Unitronix FPE320 3U VPX FPGA processor board
18 January, 2010 byThe FPE320 is a 3U VPX FPGA processor board that incorporates the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs available with an FMC mezzanine site. Providing big resources in a small, rugged form factor, the board is a suitable FPGA platform for 3U systems that need to acquire analog and other high-speed I/O or need a large FPGA processor.
Unitronix CHAMP-AV5 multiprocessing board
18 January, 2010 byThe CHAMP-AV5 multiprocessing board brings the floating-point performance of the Intel Core i7 architecture to VME64x form factor standard. Utilising a pair of 2.53 GHz dual-core Core i7 processors, the CHAMP-AV5 delivers up to 81 GFLOPs of performance. The 17 GBps (peak) DDR3 memory sub-system supports applications with high memory utilisation and streaming data I/O.
Multicore and virtualisation. Are you keeping up?
02 December, 2009The embedded design world has changed markedly over the last decade and the progress shows no sign of slowing. Multicore processing (in the form of both symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP)) is becoming commonplace, with embedded multicore CPU revenue expected to grow six times to 2011 (Venture Development Corporation).
Car microprocessor
17 August, 2009 byRenesas has released the SH7761 32-bit microprocessor for car information systems such as telematics and hands-free equipment.
ATCA processor blade
01 June, 2009 byKontron has revealed a first look of what the future holds in AdvancedTCA processor blades with the AT8050 node blade designed using the next-generation Intel Xeon processor.
Customisable processors
27 April, 2009 byDigi International has released the NS9215 and NS9210, said to be first microprocessors to include flexible interface modules that provide different hardware interfaces based on the needs of the product or application.
Evaluation board
17 April, 2009 byKeil has extended its support for ARM7 processor-based devices from NXP Semiconductor (formerly Philips Semiconductors) with the MCB2460 evaluation board.
Industrial interface
17 April, 2009 bySiemens has equipped the main board of its industrial PC family with a Profinet interface.
Industrial server
17 April, 2009 byInterworld has released the I-server5015B-MTB, a single physical processor,1U rackmount device.
Two-chip processor
17 April, 2009 byThe NS9215 NET+ARM processor is suitable for every application requiring a 32-bit solution with high performance, strong network security and interface flexibility.