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Agilent: next-gen user interface for
Infiniium real-time oscilloscope
Agilent Technologies announced a next-gen-
eration user interface for its Infiniium real-
time oscilloscopes. It is the first oscilloscope
user interface to take advantage of new display
technologies and significantly enhance the
user experience by offering faster documenta-
tion, personalized viewing and improved us-
ability. Infiniium oscilloscopes with the new
user interface allow engineers to easily manip-
ulate their data across multiple monitors and
move windows, charts and measurement results
to where they want them on the screen.
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ETAS: expanded portfolio with new
solutions, services and business segments
ETAS offer global services for the design,
implementation, and integration of embed-
ded software in the form of Real Time Ap-
plication Solutions. Although geared mainly
toward ECUs for the automotive industry,
ETAS also offers RTA Solutions for applica-
tions in other sectors. This means ETAS can
provide premium software irrespective of
the hardware solution–software that is tai-
lored to each customer and meets required
standards including AUTOSAR or ISO 26262.
The new DESK-LABCAR is a remarkably
compact, easily extendable, and cost-effective
Hardware-in-the-Loop testing system that
puts professional HiL technology in the
hands of developers. Due to their high system
complexity, calibration of modern power-
train ECUs requires an enormous investment
of time and money. Using models to precisely
recreate system behavior, the new ETAS
ASCMO tool is a powerful, universally ap-
plicable solution that has been shown to re-
duce the need for measurements by up to
90 percent and fuel consumption by 2 to 4
percent.
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Data Modul: Mini-ITX baseboard for
ARM/x86 Qseven modules optimized to
drive large panels
Data Modul presents a new Mini-ITX Base-
board that fits perfectly for Digital Signage
applications. This innovative design uses the
Qseven Standard in order to build systems
with ARM based CPU Modules or x86 based
CPU Modules. This baseboard is optimized
and certified for ARM Qseven: eDM-QMX6
(i.MX6 Quad Core), eDM-DMX6 (i.MX6 Dual
Core), eDM-DLMX6 (i.MX6 Dual Core lite);
X86 Qseven: conga-QA3 Intel Atom E3845
Quad Core; conga-QA3 Intel Atom E382x
Dual Core, conga-QA3 Intel Atom E3815 Single
Core. With this configuration it s possible to
develop slim and fanless systems with enough
performance to drive large size TFTs.
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R&S: precise Ethernet interface
verification with RTO oscilloscopes
Rohde & Schwarz has expanded the application
field of its R&S RTO oscilloscopes to include
Ethernet interface testing. The new R&S RTO-
K22 and R&S RTO-K23 Ethernet compliance
options allow users to perform standard-com-
pliant automated tests on 10/100/1000BASE-
T and 10GBASE-T Ethernet interfaces. All
compliance tests meet IEEE and ANSI Ethernet
test specifications. Rohde & Schwarz oscillo-
scopes are ideal for Ethernet compliance tests.
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Xilinx: DDR4 memory solution for
UltraScale devices running at 2400 Mb/s
Xilinx announced availability of the high per-
formance DDR4 memory solution for All Pro-
grammable UltraScale devices running at 2400
Mb/s. Based on an ASIC-class architecture, the
UltraScale devices support massive I/O and
memory bandwidth with dramatic power and
latency reduction. Xilinx’s robust memory so-
lutions enable acceleration of design schedules
and include the DDR4 interface among others.
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MEN: rugged COM Express standard
module equipped with ARM i.MX6
The Freescale ARM i.MX 6 processor with
Cortex-A9 architecture forms the core of the
CC10C Rugged COM Express module. You
can select from the different families of the
i.MX 6 series – 6Solo, 6DualLite, 6Dual and
6Quad – and find an individual solution for
different demands in calculation and graphics
power. Since the i.MX 6 not only provides
scalable CPU performance, but also a wealth
of on-chip controllers and interfaces – e.g.,
Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 or 5-Gigabit PCI
Express, UART and CAN bus or interfaces for
multimedia applications such as LVDS, DVI,
audio and a camera connection –, the CC10C
excels by its nearly boundless I/O flexibility.
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Infineon: easy switch from 8-bit to 32-bit
with XMC1000 MCUs
At embedded world Infineon launched volume
production of its XMC1000 microcontrollers
that offer 32-bit performance at 8-bit prices
and use the ARM Cortex-M0 processor. At the
same time, Infineon presented new, highly
compact VQFN package variants for the
XMC1000 family and providing information
on their new, free ARM Microcontroller De-
velopment Kit. The XMC1000 microcontrollers
are consistently optimized in line with their
target applications: sensor and actuator appli-
cations, LED lighting, simple motor drives
(e.g. for household appliances, pumps, fans)
and digital power conversion (such as unin-
terruptible power supplies).
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ADI unveils two more SDR
platform solutions
Analog Devices announced two software-de-
fined radio platform solutions and ecosystems.
The AD-FMCOMMS4-EBZ is a transceiver
FMC module and the newest addition to Ana-
log Devices’ expanding portfolio of single-
channel SDR solutions. It includes the AD9364
RF Transceiver IC in a cost-effective 1 x 1 SDR
rapid prototyping FMC module. The AD-FM-
COMMS3-EBZ is also a transceiver FMC mod-
ule and was engineered for 70 MHz to 6 GHz
wideband tuning applications such as hand-
held and whitespace radios.
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Mouser: NXP LPC1500 motion controller
makes motor control simple
Mouser Electronics is now shipping the new
LPC1500 Motion Control Chip solution from
NXP Semiconductor. The LPC1500 is a flexible
controller capable of driving a variety of dif-
ferent motors including brushless DC, sensored,
sensorless, and permanent magnet motors.
The LPC1500 is optimized for fast and easy
motor control in a variety of applications.
The LPC1500 is powered by a 72MHz ARM
Cortex M3 core combined with specialized
motor control peripherals. Two 12-bit, 12
channel ADCs and a quadrature encoder in-
terface provide enough support to drive two
motors at the same time.
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Maxim: 4–20mA loop-powered
temperature transmitter with HART
protocol
Maxim Integrated’s Novato smart tempera-
ture-transmitter reference design transmits
temperature measurement over -200 °C to
+850 °C range with better than ±0.1 % accu-
racy. Factories can now easily, and very accu-
rately, measure and transmit industrial tem-
peratures with the Novato reference design, a
4–20mA loop-powered temperature transmitter
with the HART communication protocol from
Maxim Integrated Products.
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TI: IoT-capable LaunchPad with on-board
Ethernet MAC +PHY
Texas Instruments announces the latest addi-
tion to its popular microcontroller LaunchPad
ecosystem – the Tiva C Series Connected
LaunchPad. This Internet of Things, innovative
platform enables engineers and makers to rap-
idly prototype a wide range of cloud-enabled
applications, bringing expansive connectivity
to any new or existing LaunchPad-based ap-
plication. The Tiva C Series TM4C1294NCPDT
MCU on-board adds advanced Ethernet tech-
nology and the largest memory footprint avail-
able in the LaunchPad ecosystem
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