Daily Newsletter from embedded world 2014 - Thursday, Feb 27

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Silicon Labs: single-chip digital ultraviolet index sensors
Silicon Labs introduced the industry’s first single-chip digital ultraviolet index sensor ICs designed to track UV sun exposure, heart/pulse rate and blood oximetry and provide proximity/gesture control for smartphone and wearable computing products. The Si1132 and Si114x sensor ICs are ideal for activity-tracking wrist and arm bands, smart watches and smartphone handsets.

Maxim: 4–20mA loop-powered temperature transmitter with HART protocol
Maxim Integrated’s Novato smart temperature-transmitter reference design transmits temperature measurement over -200 °C to +850 °C range with better than ±0.1 % accuracy. Factories can now easily, and very accurately, measure and transmit industrial temperatures with the Novato reference design, a 4–20mA loop-powered temperature transmitter with the HART communication protocol.

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demmel: 5.0" iLCD panel with 800 x 480 px
demmel products presents the first high-resolution intelligent touch display for industrial applications at the embedded world 2014. The new DPP-HT50 provides a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels with a size of just 5.0".

Toshiba: low power consumption Bluetooth ICs for smart devices
Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a low power consumption Bluetooth IC that supports Bluetooth Low Energy communications. The new IC, TC35667FTG, will find application in various wearable and healthcare-orientated smart devices, sensors, as well as smartphone accessories, remote controllers and toys.

Nordic BLE wireless chips expand Digi-Key’s IoT solution lineup
Digi-Key announces a global distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power short-range wireless communication in the license-free 2.4 GHz and sub-1-GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical bands. 

FTDI: speed-optimised 8-bit and 32-bit ICs
FTDI introduces its application oriented controller microcontroller families.There are two AOC product families - the 8-bit FT51, which is designed to address control system deployments and the 32-bit FT900, which is aimed at use in high-performance systems such as video imaging, multimedia and other demanding, cost-sensitive activities involving large amounts of data.

R&S: RTE oscilloscopes with bandwidths from 200 MHz to 1 GHz
The new R&S RTE from Rohde & Schwarz is available with bandwidths from 200 MHz to 1 GHz. An acquisition rate of more than one million waveforms per second helps users find signal faults quickly. The scope's highly accurate digital trigger system with virtually no trigger jitter delivers highly precise results.

SYSGO, Esterel and CoreAVI provide joint certified solutions for avionics
SYSGO with PikeOS, Esterel Technologies with SCADE Display, and Core Avionics & Industrial with OpenGL ES/SC Graphics Drivers collaborate to offer integrated and certifiable solutions for the design of critical embedded avionics display systems. These solutions benefit from the most recent technologies available in the COTS avionics market, while offering capabilities for high performance embedded OpenGL SC and OpenGL ES Human Machine Interfaces with DO-178C objectives up to level A in the aerospace industry.

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Digia debuts Qt 5 support for latest release of QNX OS
Digia has announced that the Qt cross-platform application and user interface development framework, under its Qt Enterprise offering, now supports the QNX Neutrino operating system 6.6, the latest generation of QNX Software Systems’ OS technology.

Altium: Tasking development tools support ON Semi’s LC87 MCU family
Altium announces support for the LC87 microcontroller family from ON Semiconductor through a brand new TASKING compiler suite based on its highly respected Viper ”VX” compiler technology. Viper is a modern compiler technology fully developed and owned by Altium.

IAR unveils C-RUN runtime analysis product
IAR Systems announce its fully integrated and high-performance runtime analysis product C-RUN. C-RUN is an extension to the existing embedded development tools from IAR Systems and gives developers unique possibilities to analyze their code at an early step and improve development workflow in an instant.

Enea’s SoC platform consolidates ARM-based software systems
Enea is working with HP, ARM and Texas Instruments on a System-on-Chip platform for next generation mobile infrastructure and networking.The SoC platform was developed with communication systems and Software Defined Networks in mind, providing excellent hard real-time and throughput characteristics on TI’s KeyStone II-based device with components tested individually and integrated in one solution.

Kontron: SMARC Computer-on-Modules with x86 processor
Kontron introduced its ultra low-power SMARC Computer-on-Modules with Intel Atom processor E3800 series. The SMARC-sXBTi Computer-on-Modules offer excellent graphics, high processor performance and x86 compatibility on the smallest SMARC footprint combined with very low power consumption (5 to 10 watts).

Diamond: rugged PCI/104-Express SBCs with interchangeable QSeven COM
Diamond Systems unveiled Quantum, a conduction-cooled PCI/104-Express SBC (single board computer) family with interchangeable, full size QSeven COMs processors and a highly integrated I/O baseboard. The processors available on the new Quantum SBCs include the 1 GHz AMD Fusion G-T40E CPU, the 1 GHz AMD G-Series eKabini GX-210HA SOC and ARM A9 i.MX6 single/dual/quad cores up to 1.2 GHz.

DFI: type 6 COM Express basic module based on mobile HM86 Express chipset
DFI launches a new Type 6 COM Express Basic module, the HM960-HM86, in its mobile-based Intel HM86 product line providing low-power consumption and higher performance. This COM Express Basic module is powered by the BGA 1364 packaging technology supporting the latest 4th generation Intel Core processor family.

ADL: Intel E3800 series PCIe/104 SBC
ADL Embedded Solutions announces its ADLE3800PC, PCIe/104 Single Board Computer. The ADLE3800PC is based on Intel’s first SoC E3800 Atom product family which is built using Intel’s 22nm 3D Tri-gate process.

congatec: Yocto for Qseven module with Freescale i.MX6
congatec is using the new Yocto project BSP for more stability for a large variety of customer requirements. The Yocto project was launched at the end of 2010 by merging the CE Linux Forum with the Linux Foundation. Yocto project supports ARM, Intel, MIPS and power architecture platforms on the hardware side.

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Baytrail Virtual Launch - new Intel Atom processors for embedded
With the introduction of the Atom E3800 family (formerly Bay Trail), Intel closed the performance gap between previous Atom and Core i processors. Our Virtual Baytrail Launch provides you with technical information (webinars, white papers, product news, documentation, …) about the processor family itself and informs about the latest Atom E3800 implementations of major board vendors.

Internet of Things
The Internet of Things represents a major departure in the history of the Internet, as connections move beyond computing devices. This Virtual Seminar provides you with Webinars and White Papers about IoT basics, strategies, technologies, solutions & more.

Industrial Control
This Virtual Conference provides an update about ltrends, solutions and products to create reliable control and communications within industrial environments. Major topics are Human Machine Interfaces, Connected Factory,  (Real-Time) Operating Systems and Software Monetization.

Real-time Ethernet, multi-protocol switch for PROFINET IRT
In this webtalk Innovasic introduces a Real-time Ethernet, Multi-protocol (REM) Switch for PROFINET IRT that can be embedded directly into industrial field device or controller applications.

Isolated 4-Channel, Thermocouple/RTD temperature measurement system
This Circuit Note introduces a completely isolated 4-channel temperature measurement circuit optimized for performance, input flexibility, robustness, and low cost. As all "Circuits from the Lab" from Analog Devices, this reference circuit is engineered and tested for quick and easy system integration.

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