ADLINK: COM Express module with
4th Generation Intel Core processor
ADLINK Technology rolled out a COM express
Type 6 module, adopting the 4th generation
Intel Core processor and delivering CPU per-
formance, graphics, and improved security
functions. The ADLINK Express-HL is among
the first products delivering the computing
power of Intel’s newest generation Core proces-
sor family. The new module is well suited for
intelligent systems innovations in a variety of
market segments, such as retail, medicine,
gaming, transportation, defense, communica-
tions, and industrial automation.
Silica: reference board with Freescale
i.MX 6Quad applications processor
SILICA is expanding its ArchiTech family of
development and reference boards with the in-
troduction of a high-end system based on the
Freescale Semiconductor i.MX 6Quad appli-
cations processor. The Tibidabo development
platform comes with SDK, Linux images and
a board support package based on Yocto to re-
duce development time. As well as its quad
ARM CortexTM-A9 CPU clocked at 800 MHz,
the Tibidabo board carries a host of features
to satisfy developers targeting high-end em-
bedded applications such as digital signage,
automotive infotainment and gaming.
SYSGO: extensive testing on the next
version of ELinOS
SYSGO is working on the new 6.0 release of
ELinOS. In addition to its own in-house test
suites always used for new versions, SYSGO is
using an extensive test suite provided by
OSADL which focuses on stability and capa-
bilities of the real-time Linux kernel. Months
before its official release, ELinOS 6.0 has been
integrated into the OSADL Realtime QA Farm,
a set of industrial boards and Linux programs
configured to perform quality checking. The
pre-release of ELinOS is running on a phyFLEX
i.MX 6 platform from Phytec.
Axiomtek: Box PC with Intel Core
processor for railway environments
Axiomtek offers advanced industrial-grade and
ruggedized box computers and panel computers
that are in compliance with railway standards
and related regulations. Axiomtek’s advanced
tBOX321-870-FL adopts onboard high-per-
formance Intel Core processor and onboard
DRAM which greatly reduce the impact of vi-
bration and shock in railway environments. It
is certified with EN50155/EN50121 for rolling
stock, and complied with EN45545-2 for fire
resistance which greatly advancing the system
performance and reliability.
IAR adds stack usage analysis to its
development tools for Renesas RX
IAR Systems announces a new version of its
development toolchain IAR Embedded Work-
bench for RX. Version 2.60 contains stack
usage analysis functionality and several other
new features that make the world-leading tool-
chain for Renesas RX microcontrollers even
more powerful. Calculating the stack space is
notoriously hard for all but the smallest em-
bedded systems. Worst case maximum stack
depth is very useful information in most em-
bedded projects, as it greatly simplifies estimates
of how much stack an application will need.
With stack usage analysis enabled in IAR Em-
bedded Workbench for RX, a stack usage sec-
tion will be added to the linker map file with
listings of the maximum stack depth for each
call graph root.
NI: USRP RIO next-gen wireless
prototyping platform
National Instruments announced an integrated
software defined radio solution for rapidly
prototyping high-performance, multichannel
wireless communication systems. The NI USRP
RIO platform is built on the NI LabVIEW
RIO architecture and combines a high-per-
formance 2 x 2 multiple input, multiple output
RF transceiver capable of transmitting and re-
ceiving signals from 50 MHz to 6 GHz with
an open LabVIEW programmable FPGA
architecture.
Green Hills: INTEGRITY RTOS for
ARM-based processors
Green Hills Software announce INTEGRITY-
178 tuMP real-time operating system for
ARM-based processors. Company’s partner
Richland Technologies also announced the in-
dustry s first Open Standard Reconfigurable
and Certifiable Computing Architecture avion-
ics computer based on an ARM multicore
processor and INTEGRITY-178 tuMP. It sig-
nificantly improves the flexibility in how the
ARM processor cores can be used.
Green Hills Software: enhanced version
of Green Hills Compiler
Green Hills Software has announced a new re-
lease of its Green Hills Compiler. New optimi-
sations in Green Hills Compiler 2014 extend
the Green Hills lead over other compilers in
automotive software, as demonstrated by up
to 10% improvement compared to latest pub-
lished EEMBC Automotive benchmarks. Also
renowned for its market-leading robustness,
the tool is the only commercial compiler cer-
tified to the stringent IEC 61508 Safety Integrity
Level 4 and ISO 26262 ASIL D.
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