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ESE Magazine Jan/Feb 06
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Embedded World 2006
Embedded World is back in Nurenberg from February 14th-16th. Dick Selwood
previews some of the announcements and will report back in the next issue.
EVERY YEAR both European and other
companies use embedded world to
demonstrate new products and display
upgrades to existing ones. It is a huge
event and there is a tidal wave of press releases
in the run-up to the show. Some of the interesting
ones are discussed below.
TenAsys
INtime version 3.03 from TenAsys will be
demonstrated in the Intel and Microsoft booths.
New features designed to enhance the deployment
of real-time Windows XP platforms
include support for Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition, full integration with the Visual
Studio 2005 development environment, a virtual
Ethernet driver to provide a sockets interface
between Windows and INtime, a .Net component
to allow all .NET languages to interface to
INtime and a Windows XP Embedded SLD file
for use with the Microsoft Target Designer.
Digi International
Digi International will be launching its highest
performance core module to date: the new
ConnectCore XP. This new module is the first
Digi core module to utilise the latest generation
Xscale processor from Intel and offers full Linux
and Windows CE support.
MAZeT
MAZeT will have a real-time computer platform
intended for mobile use outdoor. Based on the
E2Brain-Modul MEB5200 and using the Fujitsu
Coral PA graphics processor it has a range of
video functions, as well as the MPC5200 processor.
The incoming video stream is displayed in
real time. It is designed for mobile use and battery
operation.
Also at Nürenberg will be the MTI04CS/CQ,
the second generation of multi-channel, programmable
transimpedance amplifiers.
Atmel
Atmel Corporation will unveil its AVR32
MCU/DSP core, an ultra-low power 32-bit
embedded MCU/DSP architecture with an integrated
DSP and SIMD instruction set for computationally
intensive, power-constrained systems,
such as wireless, battery-powered applications
that include consumer infotainment, point of
sale terminals, biometric scanners, voice recognition
and motion detection.
A new family of high performance, ultra low-
power 32-bit standard product AVR32 controllers,
based on the new core, will be launched
in early 2006.
Toshiba
Toshiba will show a range of technologies,
including:
● the latest generation of single-chip processors.
● microcontroller-based speech interface IP
solutions.
● a new family of 8-bit and 16-bit high-density
flash microcontrollers.
Toshiba, as a sponsor of the World Cup will also
be offering Embedded World visitors the chance to
win two World Cup tickets a day with other prizes
including MCU starter kits and footballs and football
related products on offer during show.
Radiometrix
Radiometrix is introducing a 9600 baud radio
modem module. The five-channel TDL2A effectively
replaces a serial cable interface in applications
where trailing cables are impractical or
undesirable, delivering a low power, 100m data
link.
Combining a 433MHz-band five-channel
transceiver with a dedicated data communication
processor, the module deals with any 9600
baud asynchronous data stream issues without
user intervention or interface, and provides all
necessary buffering, packetisation, framing,
coding, decoding and reconstitution.
Altera
Altera will be showing the Nios processor in
action in real end products built using Altera
FPGA devices and the Nios II processor. For
example the Nios II based Blaupunkt TravelPilot
Rome auto navigation system will be on display,
showing the route to the Altera Office in
Munich.
Silica
Silicia is demonstrating products from a range of
principals:
● a ZigBee dexterity demo needs a steady
hand to get a LED to light up within 30 seconds
using a robot controlled by Freescale
ZigBee.
● Capell Valley is a reference platform for the
new 65nm Intel Core Duo processors based
on the Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset.
● An integrated power management solution
from TI for Spartan, Virtex and Coolrunner
FPGAs products.
● SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced
Architecture) is a new generation of 32-Bit
ARM controllers with integrated ASIC block.
A new Evaluation Board is based on the
SPEAR-07-NC03 communication controller
with ARM720T core, integrated Ethernet
MAC and USB Full Speed Host Interface.
Silicon Laboratories
Silicon Laboratories are having a USB and
Industrial Connectivity Expo based on its industry-leading
mixed-signal microcontrollers
(MCUs). This will showcase its 802.15.4 and
ZigBee short-range wireless technology,
Ethernet connectivity and an extensive line of
USB products through live product demonstrations
and mini-seminars.
Sharp
Sharp will unveil its newly-developed SoC
roadmap for addressing the portable multimedia
electronics market with ARM-based,
high-end processors in its BlueStreak series.
Altium
Altium Designer 6.0, the latest version of
Altium's unified electronic product development
system, significantly strengthens support for
FPGA-PCB co-design and allows engineers to
make full use of FPGAs as a system platform,
and simplify the integration of large-scale
FPGAs with the physical PCB platform. It introduces
the concept of dynamic net reassignment
that allows FPGA pins to be swapped on-the-fly
during PCB routing.
There is support for a range of third-party
soft and discrete processors, including the Xilinx
MicroBlaze soft processor, Sharp BlueStreak
LH79520 (based on the ARM720) and AMCCR
PowerPC 405C discrete processors.
ARTiSAN
ARTiSAN will be demonstrating ARTiSAN Studio
v6.0. which supports the latest UML 2.0 and
SysML standards, It includes Ergonomic Profiling,
providing the ability to build an environment
based on the needs of specific domains or applications
of UML and also providing a robust and
consistent solution for DoDAF modellers thanks
to the underpinning of UML 2 and SysML.