MSC: medical PCs from Avalue
MSC Technologies announced Avalue’s AID-
173 series of medical PCs that combines a
medical monitoring and diagnostic solution
with infotainment for patients. It enables au-
thorised medical staff to view electronic patient
records and retrieve medical information, X-
rays or other documents. It also incorporates
infotainment functions, allowing the patient to
use a wide range of multimedia such as enter-
tainment, telephone, games and the internet.
MEN: 3U CompactPCI board with 16
digital I/O channels for railway applications
The new 3U CompactPCI board F403 with 16
bidirectional digital I/O channels has been de-
signed specifically for modern railway appli-
cations. The new board is suited for many dif-
ferent control functions, such as door-locking
control and interior lighting. The new F403
supports a total of 16 bidirectional digital I/O
channels, organized into four optically isolated
groups for reliable data transmission with four
channels in each group.
Axiomtek: high-performance PICMG 1.3
half-size single board computer
Axiomtek introduce SHB230, its high-per-
forming PICMG 1.3 half-size single board
computer. The SHB230 based on the Intel Q87
PCH is designed to support 4th Generation
Intel Core i7/i5/i3 and Celeron processors in
the LGA1150 socket. The slot CPU card is
equipped with two DDR3-1333/1600 SO-
DIMM sockets up to 16 GB memory capacity.
The PICMG 1.3 specification brings advantages
of PCI Express to this single board computer
that offers four PCIe x1 or one PCIe x4, and
one PCIe x16 routed to the backplane. The
onboard two SATA interfaces support RAID
0/1 functions to ensure reliable storage for
multiple applications. Axiomtek’s SHB230 sup-
ports SATA RAID, Intel Active Management
Technology 9.0, and
Wind River: Toshiba is using Simics to
develop automotive application software
Wind River announced that Toshiba is using
Wind River Simics to develop automotive ap-
plication software on image recognition sys-
tem-on-chip platforms. Providing full system
simulation and breakthrough development
techniques, the added Simics capabilities can
help Toshiba’s automotive customers increase
their productivity by transforming their soft-
ware development processes to be faster and
more efficient. The Toshiba image recognition
SoCs, the TMPV75 Series, are applicable to
advanced driver assistance systems with auto-
motive video cameras.
Softing: enhanced modbus gateway and
linking device
Softing’s modbus gateway and linking device
FG-110 FF for the integration of FOUNDA-
TION fieldbus segments in existing plants and
in Modbus control systems has been enhanced
with two new features „Configuration Upload“
and „Firmware Download“. The new features
will significantly simplify the configuration
effort needed to expand an H1 system and en-
able system integrators and control engineers
to update the field device firmware from a
central location.
TI: Sitara software development kit
based on Mainline Linux kernel
TI provides a robust, stable Mainline Linux
kernel for developers using Sitara processors.
To ensure high quality, TI collaborates with
the Kernel.org community for code reviews
with stringent acceptance criteria. TI also con-
tinuously stress tests the Linux kernel across
various customer use cases and applications
to guarantee stability.
LieberLieber: graphical UML debugger
integrates into Enterprise Architect
enar uml debugger is a graphical UML debug-
ger which integrates into Enterprise Architect.
The product enables testing and debugging of
software modeled in UML or SysML right at
the model layer. enar uml debugger is part of
the LieberLieber product chain targeting soft-
ware development for embedded systems and
is based on enar uml2code, the code
generator developed for generating platform
independent code from UML state machines
and activity models.
DDC: real-time ARINC 429 data bus
analysis and simulation
Data Device Corporation adds real-time data
manipulation to the already feature packed
ARINC 429 Data Bus Analyzer avionics soft-
ware. Scheduled ARINC 429 data can now be
modified while running. This powerful feature
allows test engineers and system designers to
extensively test and emulate avionics systems
using simulated flight data that accurately em-
ulates airborne conditions.
GE works with NVIDIA on
Tegra K1-based HPEC solutions
GE Intelligent Platforms announced that it
has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to
bring products based on the NVIDIA Tegra
K1 mobile processor to the embedded com-
puting market. GE Intelligent Platforms will
develop and manufacture rugged high per-
formance embedded computing (HPEC) and
graphics solutions based on Tegra K1. GE will
be NVIDIA’s preferred provider of the new
technology to serve applications in harsh en-
vironments, most notably to customers in the
military/aerospace market.
ARBOR: robust 1U embedded computers
with AMD G-T40N platform
ARBOR announced its new 1U-height fanless,
embedded computers to expand its ARES-1500
series, based on dual-core AMD Embedded G-
T40N APU, combined with the AMD A50M
chipset, allows end users to have a robust plat-
form. The new embedded computers offer op-
erating temperature range of -25 to 55°C range
and provide a fanless as well as cable-free
design, making them unique for industrial use.
HCC Embedded: MISRA-compliant
embedded SSL/TLS package
HCC Embedded announced the release of a
SSL/TLS implementation designed for use in
high quality, high performance embedded ap-
plications. When used in conjunction with
HCC’s MISRA-compliant TCP/IP stack, it pro-
vides a combination of verifiable quality and
speed and memory utilization. The new
SSL/TLS implementation can be used as client
or host and is designed especially for micro-
controllers, ensuring a low memory footprint,
typically around 20kB ROM / 8kB RAM.
Mouser: evaluation kit for Atmel’s ARM
Cortex A5 based processors
Mouser Electronics is now stocking and shipping
the Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Kit,
a low cost prototyping board for the Atmel
SAMA5D3 family of processors based on the
ARM Cortex A5 processor core. The board
supports an external LCD interface, Gigabit
Ethernet, and Arduino R3 expansion headers.
The Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Kit
available from Mouser Electronics is Atmel’s
latest in a series of SAMA5D3 evaluation boards.
Softing: process data integration via
embedded OPC UA server
Softing Industrial Automation announces the
release of “echocollect UA”, a modern, stan-
dardized solution for the acquisition and man-
agement of process, manufacturing and quality
data via an embedded OPC Unified Architec-
ture (UA) Server. echocollect UA is designed
as a versatile gateway with OPC UA interface.
It independently collects data from program-
mable controller systems (PLC) and delivers it
to a higher-level management system (e.g.
ERP or MES) directly via the integrated em-
bedded OPC UA server.
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