Hall-Stand 4-450
Altera showcases FPGA and SoC designs at embedded world
Altera announced its participation at Embedded World 2014. On
their booth, Altera will discuss their portfolio of ARM Cortex A9 and
A53 based SoC devices and will showcase a number of FPGA and
SoC-based demonstrations. In collaboration with partner Exor Inter-
national, Altera will demonstrate an implementation of an integrated
programmable logic controller and a human machine interface system
running on a single 28 nm Altera Cyclone V SoC. Software is provided
by Exor International and 3S-Smart Software Solutions to deliver an
integrated solution combining embedded control software and graphics
libraries. A vision processing demonstration that will use FPGA based
processing acceleration logic, created using OpenCL, to highlight the
performance improvement an FPGA-based design can deliver for
video object detection and automotive driver assistance applications
will also be on the booth. Another application
will highlight the use of SoC FPGAs in auto-
mated control systems and the flexibility of
FPGA devices. Together with their partner
Enterpoint, the demonstration will showcase
the use of Enterpoint’s off the shelf SoC-
based development boards in a prize grab
game machine. On the booth Altera will also
demonstrate the use of the high productivity
ARM DS-5 Altera edition tool suite. This tool
suite, complete with FPGA adaptive debug
features and supporting all of Altera’s SoC
devices, will be demonstrated on Linux and
bare metal. Altera will also be showing many
operating systems, including Linux, VxWorks,
QNX and Windows Compact Embedded 7
running on the ARM processor inside the
Cyclone V SoC devices.
Hall-Stand 4-351
Pentair highlights flexible Interscale
enclosure family at embedded world
At the embedded world trade fair, Pentair
will be presenting new and ongoing develop-
ments in its Schroff brand in the field of em-
bedded systems. The focus will be on enclo-
sures, systems and power supply solutions. A
particular highlight will be the first product
in Pentair’s new, flexible Interscale product
family: a series of enclosures for non-stan-
dardized smaller form factors. The Schroff
Interscale M case is made from metal and
has been developed for a variety of applica-
tions, e.g. as a fanless fieldbus enclosure, or
for single-board computers or ARM modules,
mobile diagnosis or therapeutic equipment
for medical systems, PC-based point-of-sale
systems, video monitoring for building serv-
ices or peripheral control units for industrial
applications. Three versions of the case are
available, an off-the-shelf version, a modified
version and a customized version, all of which
are designed on the same basis. The off-the-
shelf Interscale M, available in 1, 2 or 3 U
and various widths and depths, consists of
four elements: a robust U-shaped body, front
and rear panels, and a cover. Pentair also
continues to widen its portfolio of products for different bus tech-
nologies. Here the company will present small systems for high pro-
cessing and graphics-handling capacity that offer high levels of mod-
ularity, expandability and redundancy. These include 2-slot Ad-
vancedTCA systems, 2-slot AMC systems and small 3 U high Com-
pactPCI Serial systems with 205 mm depth and 28 HP width along
with systems for MicroTCA and VPX. These small form-factor
Schroff modular systems are based on trusted product platforms
such as standard subracks or chassis and are configured to customer
requirements from off-the-shelf components including cooling,
power supply etc., with dimensions that can be adapted to specific
conditions.
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