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H
IGHLIGHTS
Hall.Stand A3.207
Avalue announces Haswell
refresh platform products
Avalue is introducing the 3.5” board ECM-
QM87R, EPIC board EPI-QM87R and Sys-
tem-on-module ESM-QM87R which are
based on the 4th generation Intel Core Has-
well–Refresh i5/i3 Processors and the mobile
Intel QM87 Express chipset. Compared with
the 4th generation Intel Core processor family,
the Haswell–Refresh i5/i3 Processors shows
improvements in performance and clock
speed.
Hall.Stand A4.420
TI: digital power hardware
and software tools
Texas Instruments enhanced a third-party
ecosystem of digital power hardware and soft-
ware tools as well as development services.
This ecosystem allows digital power design
engineers who use TI’s broad portfolio of
C2000 microcontrollers to develop their sys-
tems quickly and easily. The members of the
ecosystem include Altair, MathWorks and
Powersim. Each company has demonstrated
its digital power offerings on one or more of
TI’s C2000 MCU solutions, enabling applica-
tions such as inverter control, power factor
correction and power conversion.
Hall.Stand A5.476
Microsemi: SmartFusion2 150K LE
Advanced Development Kit
Microsemi announced the availability of the
company’s new largest density, lowest power
SmartFusion2 150K LE System-on-Chip
FPGA Advanced Development Kit. Board-
level designers and system architects can
quickly develop system-level designs by using
the two FPGA Mezzanine Card expansion
headers to connect a wide range of new func-
tions with off-the-shelf daughter cards, which
significantly reduces design time and cost
when creating new applications for commu-
nications, industrial, defense and aerospace
markets.
Hall.Stand A6.243
Renesas: 32-bit RX family with larger
memory capacities up to 512 KB
Renesas announced the addition of new prod-
uct versions with larger memory capacity to
the RX111 Group of 32-bit microcontrol-
lers ideal for applications such as healthcare
devices, industrial equipment, and building
automation systems. Renesas’ existing RX111
Group product lineup offer package pin
counts of 36 to 64 pins, flash memory capacity
of 16 KB to 128 KB, and RAM capacity of 8
KB to 16 KB.
Hall.Stand A1.115
Pico Technology: new range of
mixed-signal oscilloscope
The new PicoScope 3000D Series Mixed-Sig-
nal Oscilloscopes are ideal for engineers work-
ing on a diverse range of embedded systems.
These compact USB-connected devices form
a complete portable test system, with two or
four analog channels and sixteen digital chan-
nels as well as a built-in arbitrary waveform
generator.
Hall.Stand A6.107
Freescale plans for Kinetis MCUs
with ARM Cortex-M7 Core
Freescale Semiconductor announced its sup-
port for the ARM Cortex-M7 core, which
Freescale plans to leverage for new levels of
performance and power efficiency in forth-
coming embedded SoCs. With the industry’s
broadest range of compatible and scalable
MCUs based on ARM Cortex-M cores, Frees-
cale maintains software and hardware com-
patibility across six unique Kinetis series,
while offering the choice of general purpose
or application specific features.
Hall.Stand A5.276
Innodisk: certified storage solutions
for in-vehicle computing
Innodisk announces a new line of SSDs and
DRAM designed specifically for in-vehicle
computing. These storage solutions stand up
to the challenges posed by the extreme envi-
ronments found in cars, buses, trains, ships,
fleet vehicles, and military vehicles.
Innodisk’s In-Vehicle SSDs are certified prod-
ucts that cause no electromagnetic interfer-
ence. System reliability is ensured at the end
application.
Hall.Stand A4.266
Maxim: Micro PLC platform
implements Industry 4.0
Using the Micro PLC platform from Maxim
Integrated Products, designers now have the
tools to implement Industry 4.0 with less
power, parts, and total costs. The platform
consists of five reference designs which can
operate as stand-alone subsystems and be
configured and tested with a laptop’s USB port.
Hall.Stand A5.524
Mouser: start connecting with
Microchip Bluetooth starter kit
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the
DM320018 PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit
from Microchip Technology. The DM320018
is a low cost Bluetooth development plat-
form based on the 32-bit Microchip PIC-
32MX270F256D microcontroller. This easy to
use starter kit features a Bluetooth HCI mod-
ule, single-chip 3 axis accelerometer and tem-
perature sensor, high output multi-color LED,
and two USB connectors.
Hall.Stand A6.419
AAEON: 3.5-inch subcompact
board in fanless design
AAEON unites both traditional and state-
of-the-art new technology with the release
of the GENE-A55E, 3.5” subcompact board.
Specficially designed for users of the pre-
vious model of AAEON’s AMD LX800 3.5”
subcompact board, this new entry provides
almost identical configurations, such as rear
I/O arrangements and design, ensuring users
of the former board need minimum effort to
upgrade their hardware.
Hall.Stand A6.169
Exar completes merger with
Integrated Memory Logic
Exar has completed its merger with Integrated
Memory Logic, provider of power manage-
ment and color calibration solutions for large
and medium-sized flat panel displays used in
televisions and tablets. The transaction was
completed through a second-step merger
to acquire all of the remaining outstanding
shares of iML. As of September 15, 2014, Exar
owns 100% of the outstanding stock of iML
and iML stock is no longer publicly trading.
Hall.Stand A5.476
Silicon Labs: easy-to-use web-based
utility simplifies clock tree design
Silicon Labs launched an online timing utility
that eases the complexity of designing clock
trees for a wide range of Internet infrastruc-
ture applications including high-speed net-
working, telecommunications and data center
equipment.
Hall.Stand A1.630/A5.202
Teledyne LeCroy: three-phase motor
drive power analyzer software
Teledyne LeCroy announces three-phase Motor
Drive Power Analyzer software for itsHDO8000
oscilloscopes. The HDO8000 mixed-signal
oscilloscopes, with 8 input channels, 12-bit res-
olution, and up to 1 GHz bandwidth, are the
perfect solution for motor drive embedded con-
trol and power section debug. With the addition
of three-phase power analyzer capability and
motor speed and torque integration, the com-
plete drive system can be more quickly and eas-
ily validated and debugged, and extensive drive
and motor power and efficiency measurements
may be performed.
