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FTDI Chip adds graphic toolchain
package to EVE offering
Bringing more comprehensive support to
its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) product
o ering, FTDI Chip introduces EVE Screen
Designer - which is available to download for
free. Suitable for use with Windows operating
systems (Windows 7 and above), this highly
sophisticated, but easy-to-operate develop-
ment suite enables the creation of advanced
HMIs, via EVE’s innovative object-oriented
approach, without any understanding of EVE
display lists.
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Infineon: XMC4800 MCUs with
EtherCAT support Industry 4.0
On occasion of the Hannover Messe, In neon
announced its new XMC4800 series of 32-bit
microcontrollers with on-chip EtherCAT
(Ethernet for Control Automation Technol-
ogy) node. With its outstanding real-time
capability the XMC4800 series will drive net-
worked industrial automation and Industry
4.0 applications. In neon is the rst semi-
conductor company to o er the EtherCAT
node integrated on an ARM Cortex-M-based
microcontroller with on-chip Flash and ana-
log/mixed signal capability.
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Innodisk: DDR4 memory for industrial
applications on upcoming Skylake platform
Innodisk is introducing DDR4 memory
modules designed for industrial applications
on Intel’s upcoming Skylake platform.
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new unbu ered long DIMM and compact
SO-DIMM memory o erings will feature
signi cantly lower power consumption and
higher performance than comparable DDR3
modules and will have ECC error correction
available for industrial and embedded appli-
cations. An extra thick 30u gold connector,
on-board thermal sensors and conformal
coatings make these JEDEC-compliant DDR4
modules especially suited for the next genera-
tion of industrial systems.
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EBV Elektronik expands distribution
agreement with Cypress
EBV Elektronik announced the extension of
the franchise with Cypress Semiconductor.
e new agreement is e ective immediately.
e extended agreement gives EBV Elek-
tronik and its customers access to the entire
portfolio of Cypress products including the
Programmable Systems Division range of
products featuring Cypress’ PSoC families of
devices. PSoC is the world’s only program-
mable embedded system-on-chip integrating
high-performance analog, PLD-based pro-
grammable logic, memory and a microcon-
troller on a single chip. It is a very exible
microcontroller with re-con gurable analog
and digital functionality allowing customers
vey easily to integrate a large amount of ana-
log and digital functionality into the PSoC
device saving on both BOM costs and time to
market. Overall PSoC comprises 4 families of
devices, (PSoC1, Psoc 3, PSoC4, & PsoC5LP)
and over 450 individual devices.
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Maxim: highly integrated
IO-Link temperature sensor
Designers can save power, cost, and space
with the MAXREFDES42# IO-Link tempera-
ture sensor reference design from Maxim
Integrated Products.
e MAXREFDES42#
IO-Link joins the company’s portfolio of other
IO-Link reference designs for industrial con-
trol and automation. is design’s highly inte-
grated analog front end measures temperature,
while detecting overvoltage, shorts, and open
circuits.
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Microchip: CAN flexible data-rate trans-
ceiver family withstands harsh conditions
Microchip announces a new family of CAN
FD transceivers, the MCP2561/2FD. As an
interface between a CAN protocol controller
and the physical two-wire CAN bus, these
transceivers can serve both the CAN and
CAN FD protocols.
is product family not
only helps automotive and industrial manu-
facturers with today’s CAN communication
needs, but also provides a path for the newer
CAN FD networks that are increasingly in
demand.
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MSC: 15.0-inch TFT displays from
Mitsubishi with high SXGA+ resolution
MSC Technologies o ers two 15.0-inch TFT
displays from Mitsubishi with a high resolu-
tion of 1400 x 1050 pixels (SXGA+, 117 pixels
per inch). Both displays are designed for use
in industrial applications such as image pro-
cessing, measuring instruments and medical
equipment. Furthermore, they are also suit-
able as display instruments in trains and ships.
e operating temperature range of these
high-resolution displays is especially wide
and ranges from -30 to +80°C.
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A.R. Bayer DSP Systeme: PCIe board
based on Altera’s Arria 10 FPGA
BittWare announced the availability of its rst
board based on Altera’s Arria 10 GT/GX FPGA
- a low-pro le PCIe board called the A10PL4.
Integrating the 20nm process technology of
the Arria 10 with a wide variety of features, the
A10PL4 board supports a range of challenging
applications such as network processing and
security, compute and storage, instrumenta-
tion, broadcast, and signals intelligence.
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