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ESE Magazine Jan/Feb 06
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Tools
FPGA development board
THE RAGGEDSTONE1 is a low cost FPGA
development PCB aimed at both the
industrial/commercial and university/hobby markets
from Enterpoint.
It costs £50+VAT (which Enterpoint explains
is less than a tank of petrol) and includes a
Spartan-3 XC3S400 in a 456-pin BGA package.
Options include packages ranging up to the
XC3S2000. The full XC3S400 Spartan-3 I/O
resources are available, giving 264 I/O.
www.enterpoint.co.uk
Distributed computing
THE MATHWORKS’ new Distributed
Computing Toolbox 2, designed to simplify the
development of distributed computing applications,
now offers support for third-party schedulers,
and new interprocess communication
capabilities for distributing and executing parallel
algorithms in a cluster of computers using
MATLAB.
www.mathworks.co.uk
OS migration path
LYNUXWORKS has partnered with MapuSoft
to provide embedded system developers with a
migration path to the LynxOS RTOS. MapuSoft’s
OS Changer and OS Abstractor can port large
amounts of legacy code from an older operating
system to LynxOS.
www.lynuxworks.com
www.mapusoft.com
Eclipse: Eclipse tools are given an
extended review in our buyers guide,
following pafe 20.
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New ‘scopes (1)
Tektronix has launched the DPO7000 Digital
Phosphor Oscilloscopes (DPOs), which the
company is calling the world’s first uncompromised
performance oscilloscope.
The 500 MHz DPO7054, 1 GHz DPO7104, and
2.5 GHz DPO7254 models share a new platform
that makes broad use of IBM 7HP silicon germanium
(SiGe) technology for higher performance. The
DPO7000 provides fast sample rates of 10 GS/s on
four channels and real-time oversampling on four
channels; up to 16X oversampling on one channel
and 4X on four channels simultaneously. The
DPO7054 and DPO7104 can support 40X oversampling
on one channel and 10X on four channels
simultaneously. They support deep record lengths
to 200M while the DPO7254 supports 400M. All
models include a 12.1 inch XGA display enabling
engineers to see more information at once, and all
models provide vertical accuracy of +/- 1%.
Variable colour-graded persistence holds
anomalies until the eye can see them, and the new
models also include the MyScope user interface.
www.tektronix.com
Industry-specific platforms
GREEN HILLS has introduced a family of
industry-optimised software development
platforms for medical, Software Defined
Radio (SDR), wireless, industrial control,
automotive and avionics devices. They
include the core software and documentation
required to develop and deploy a targeted
device, accelerating time-to-market, reducing
development risk, and enabling developers
to focus on application-level innovation
and differentiation.
All Green Hills Platforms use the
INTEGRITY RTOS, allowing developers to
standardise on one RTOS. They are certified
to the reliability, safety and security standards
for each industry, including those specified
by the NSA, FAA, FDA, IEEE and IEC.
Each platform includes INTEGRITY and
some optionally include the velOSity microkernel,
the foundation of INTEGRITY. They
have industry-specific middleware, such as
Unit testing with
hardware-in-the-loop
Hitex has extended the Tessy software unit
test tool with the new Tanto2-HIL “hardware-in-the-loop”
system, so that embedded
software testing can include the hardware
environment and the physical interfaces
of the application system.
Tessy controls the generation and sampling
of signals for the target hardware. The HIL system
comes with a standard physical interface
adapter to connect digital I/O signals. Customerspecific
adapters will support analog or communication
signals as well. The HIL system is able
to generate and capture dynamic signals and signal
sequences using the internal buffer memory
of up to 1 GByte.
www.hitex.co.uk
New ‘scopes (2)
Agilent Technologies has introduced the
Infiniium 8000 Series of digital storage and
mixed-signal oscilloscopes, which the
company says combines superior signal
viewing of the industry's deepest memory
with advanced waveform analysis.
The MegaZoom technology allows designers
of embedded systems to capture analog and digital
signals over long time spans, view critical
events in complex waveforms, and perform
networking, file systems, graphics,
audio/video and navigation, as appropriate
and provide integration with industry-specific
reference hardware. Platforms also include
the Green Hills MULTI development environment,
and documentation, including the documentation
and life cycle evidence required
for industry-specific safety and security certifications
and approvals
www.ghs.com