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Special Features:

■ Embedded World Product Highlights

■ Techncial Trends at Embedded World

■ Distribution Concepts at Embedded World

Dear Reader,

Communication - whether it´s wired or

wireless – has a major impact in our daily

live. The World Wide Web is installed

and you connect to it at nearly every

place and whenever you like. Today

there are five billion via Internet connected

devices on earth and due to

Market Research Company IDC this

total could reach 15 billion by 2015. The

International Telecommunications

Union (ITU) is calling this the next generation

of the Internet: the “Internet of

Things.” Through the Internet, millions

of connected intelligent devices are today

communicating with and controlling

each other without human intervention.

The fact is the world is well on its way to exploring what can be done

when intelligent devices are connected through the Internet and communicating

constantly with each other and with people. Intel is calling

this new era the “Embedded Internet” (see cover story page 6).

Everywhere you look there are devices, appliances and systems that

could be enhanced by the addition of embedded intelligence and an IP

connection that enables remote monitoring and control, information

exchange, automated operation, and environmental or contextual

awareness. The Embedded Internet is the new digital frontier and can

offer enormous opportunity to companies that get involved in developing

solutions that take advantage of a continuously connected world

based on Internet-compatible standards, seamless connectivity, and

scalability.

Just 17 years ago the World Wide Web sprung into being. Then the mobile

Internet age took off with the advent of wireless technologies. Now

the connection of physical objects is set to take off with the coming

adoption of IPv6. There will be enough IP addresses for virtually every

human on the planet to have a personal network approximately 12

quintillion times larger than the Internet today. Obviously it's going to

take more than a plethora of IP addresses to make devices smart and

connected. This is where the embedded industry comes into play. Some

of the most important players in the building of the Embedded Internet

will be the members of the Intel Embedded and Communications

Alliance (Intel ECA) which will present their products at Embedded

World from 3rd to 5th March in the Nuremberg exhibition centre.

It´s no secret that designing embedded systems is a challenging task. Resources

in the development departments are limited, systems are getting

more complex and in parallel the pressure on time to market is increasing.

But there is a solution: Distribution has recognized this problem

and therefore more and more Distributors are offering specific

services for the embedded market. Which ones you´ll find in the article

“Distribution concepts for the embedded market” starting at page

22. For those of you who are interested in product news presented at

the Embedded World 2009 we collected new products in the article

“Embedded World Product Highlights”. The product information will

help you to plan your visit at this important event for the embedded

community. I´m looking forward to see you there.

Yours sincerely

Wolfgang Patelay

(Editor)

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CONTENTS

Viewpoint 3

Cover Story

A new generation of digital devices

is transforming the planet 6

Technical Trends

Embedded computers for both

standard products and custom services 12

Trends and trend-setting industries

in embedded development 14

MCU debugging tools are changing

with deep submicron processes 16

Is open source software putting

businesses at risk? 19

New opportunities for modern

embedded computing platforms 20

JTAG tool simplifies debugging

of printed circuit boards 22

Distribution Concepts

Distribution concepts for

the embedded market 24

Embedded World Exhibitors

Exhibitors List – embedded world 2009 28

Product Highlights

Embedded World Product Highlights 34

Embedded World 2009 Preview

Special Features:

■ Embedded World Product Highlights

■ Techncial Trends at Embedded World

■ Distribution Concepts at Embedded World

Cover Photo

Intel

March 2009 4

A new generation of digital devices

is transforming the planet PAGE 6

Connected intelligent devices are

taking over the planet. And not

just taking it over. They're transforming

it.

Embedded computers for both standard

products and custom services PAGE 12

This article reviews current trends in embedded computing, and

how these are reflected in the product ranges which Kontron will

present at Embedded World, including the company’s new Nano

Clients.

Trends and trend-setting industries

in embedded development PAGE 14

In this article the author describes current trends in embedded

design, and how The Mathworks is responding to these trends.

The article introduces the company’s new Simulink Fixed Point 6

which will be shown at Embedded World.

Distribution concepts for

the embedded market PAGE 24

Nowadays embedded systems

design is a challenging task.

Resources in the design

departments are limited, systems

are getting more complex and in

parallel the pressure on time-tomarket

is increasing. Distribution

has recognized this dilemma of

the designers and therefore

more and more Distributors are

offering specific services for the

embedded market.

Embedded World Product Highlights PAGE 34

Even in the current economic downturn Embedded World

exhibitors will present again a multitude of new and innovative

product and services. We have put together an overview about

EmbeddedWorld Product highlights.

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COVER STORY

A new generation of digital devices

is transforming the planet

by Troy Smith, Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance

Connected intelligent devices

are taking over the planet.

And not just taking it over.

They're transforming it.

■ According to the research firm IDC, there are

five billion connected devices today and this

total could reach 15 billion by 2015. 1 When that

happens, there will be more connected devices

than people on the planet. These connections

will remove all kinds of boundaries in how we

relate with information, automation, and the

operation of devices. The International

Telecommunications Union (ITU) is calling

this the next generation of the Internet: the “Internet

of Things.” 2 And the transition is already

in high gear. Through the Internet, millions of

connected intelligent devices are today communicating

with and controlling each other

without human intervention. This trend is

only going to grow as the advantages of having

devices and people always connected

everywhere redefines human-machine relationships,

spawns new usage models, and enhances

people's lives, work, health and safety.

Imagine, for instance, a smart shopping cart

with a video display that syncs up with an RFID

chip in a customer's Frequent Shopper Card to

collect data on buyer preferences and makes

suggestions on current specials. Systems could

even provide shoppers with their “typical shopping

list” based on the aisle they're at and

automatically take items with RFID tags off the

list as they're placed in the cart. Another good

example is a home dashboard that would con-

trol intelligent household appliances and enable

smart metering with the utility company.

Monitoring signals from the power grid, the

dashboard could recognize when energy demand

and prices are high and adjust appliance

operation. It could signal a refrigerator, for instance,

to delay its defrost cycle to ease energy

demand, take advantage of lower rates during

off-peak hours, and help prevent blackouts.

Thefactis,theworldiswellonitswayto

exploring what can be done when intelligent

devices are connected through the Internet and

communicating constantly with each other

and with people. Intel is calling this new era the

“Embedded Internet.” Everywhere you look

there are devices, appliances and systems that

could be enhanced by the addition of embedded

intelligence and an IP connection that

enables remote monitoring and control, information

exchange, automated operation, and

environmental or contextual awareness. The

Embedded Internet is the new digital frontier

and can offer enormous opportunity to companies

that get involved in developing solutions

that take advantage of a continuously connected

world based on Internet-compatible

standards, seamless connectivity, and scalability.

Doug Davis, Intel Vice President and

General Manager of the Intel Embedded and

Communications Group, calls it “the experience

March 2009 6

of a lifetime,” and predicts soon we will all

wonder how we got ever got along with less

than 15 billion intelligent connected devices.

We're not too far from getting there either – according

to IDC, we reached 5 billion connected

devices in 2008. 3

The Experience of a Lifetime

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins

with a single step. For the Embedded Internet,

it's more likely to begin with a thousand steps

all at once. Hundreds of companies have the

ability to step forward and get involved by:

1. Adding Internet connectivity when developing

products

2. Developing ways this connectivity can be

used to enhance the operation and functionality

of their products and those products they

may connect to.

The Embedded Internet will happen really

fast. Just 17 years ago the World Wide Web

sprung into being. Then the mobile Internet age

took off with the advent of wireless technologies.

Now the connection of physical objects is

set to take off with the coming adoption of

IPv6. According to one source, IPv6 will provide

enough IP addresses to give “one to every grain

of sand on earth.” 4 According to our own math,

there will be enough IP addresses for virtually

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COVER STORY

every human on the planet to have a personal

network approximately 12 quintillion times

larger than today's Internet.” 5 Farmers in Japan

are apparently already convinced. They've

started to embed wireless RFID chips with IPv6

addresses beneath the skins of their cows to

better track them. 6

Key Players in the Embedded

Internet

Obviously it's going to take more than a

plethora of IP addresses to make devices smart

and connected. This is where the embedded industry

comes into play. Some of the most important

players in the building of the Embedded

Internet will be the members of the Intel®

Embedded and Communications Alliance

(Intel® ECA). Intel® ECA is one of the industry’s

most recognized ecosystems and its members

offer hundreds of board-level Intel®

architecture-based products and solutions

ranging from 65mm X 58mm modules to full

AdvancedTCA (ATCA) systems. From high

performance multi-processor, quad-core 200W

ATCA systems down to sub 5W size-constrained

modules and small form factor SBCs,

these Intel architecture-based solutions can

meet the enormous range of performance,

thermal, size, and cost requirements necessary

to enable the Embedded Internet. This is extremely

important because unlike some hardware

architectures available for the Embedded

Internet, Intel architecture offers so much

breadth. The availability of such a complete

range of off-the-shelf solutions based on Intel

architecture makes it easy to find and buy a

board for each product rather than expend time

and effort designing one. What's more, Intel architecture

offers one of the broadest set of software

development tools and open source software

libraries and utilities. This makes for easier

hardware design efforts, quicker software development

cycle, and faster time-to-market – all

things that can help companies better compete

in the Embedded Internet space.

The Processors that Will Power

the Embedded Internet

Of all the microprocessor manufacturers, one

of the best equipped to unify the Embedded Internet

market around a common processor architecture

and software instructional set is

Intel. In the past few years, Intel has expanded

its embedded processor line and today offers a

full range of solutions from the really small to

the really powerful. Examples of the small include

the Intel® Atom processor series with its

thermal design power (TDP) 7 specification of

less than 5 watts that is being used for everything

from in-vehicle infotainment systems,

home automation, and media phones to surgery

patient monitoring devices. Also small, but

big for board designers, is the Intel® EP80579

Integrated Processor product line. These

System-on-a-Chip (SoC) processors include a

CPU, plus integrated memory controller, I/O

and network interfaces to combine the functions

of up to four chips into one. This enables

board designers to streamline development and

capitalize on this line's smaller footprint, lower

power consumption, enhanced performance,

and a full complement of I/O choices.

Intel® Atom processor: small and low power

When high performance is required, such as for

medical imaging equipment, sophisticated content

firewalls, network attached storage, and

telecommunications (wireless and wireline)

servers, Intel more than meets requirements

with its Intel® Xeon® processor platforms.

Other well-known Intel® processor platforms –

such as Intel® Core2 Quad, Intel® Core2

Duo, Intel® Pentium® and Intel® Celeron®

processors – fill a variety of performance needs

for other market segments such as industrial

control and automation, retail and transaction

solutions, gaming, and print imaging. For developers,

this broad range of Intel architecturebased

products is game-changing. It means they

can now use the same compilers and other software

development tools they're familiar with

from developing software for other Intel products.

It also means they can take advantage of

the existing Intel ECA ecosystem and its many

resources. Jim McGregor, a principal analyst

with In-Stat notes that “one thing you could do

immediately [by standardizing on Intel architecture]

is solve all of the incompatibility problems

we have between all these different devices

we carry around.” 8 What's more, Intel's

well-defined product roadmap enables manufacturers

and designers to reliably plan for the

future as they work on their designs for today.

Advantech Tackles Remote Energy

Production Management

A good example of energy management

through the Internet comes from Advantech, a

Premier Member of Intel ECA. A customer

needed a remote monitoring wind power generation

system for its turbines. These turbines

are installed in harsh environments with ex-

March 2009 8

treme temperatures and an abundance of dust

and vibration. Reliability is key in to keeping

maintenance costs down. Advantech met their

customers' requirements with the Advantech

UNO-2170 , an embedded automation computer

available with Intel architecture supporting

Microsoft Windows XP Embedded

OS and Windows CE 5.0 and coming in a fanless

design with industrial CompactFlash to increase

system reliability. Support for a number

of I/O interfaces enables IP-based links to

programmable logic controllers (PLCs) via an

Ethernet interface, as well as a PC/104 expansion

interface with a fieldbus card to communicate

with field equipment when needed. The

result is an Intel architecture-based solution

that controls and checks functions and conditions

of the turbine signals from legacy PLC

solutions and with the ability to provide feedback

to the company's Energy Management

Center through an IP-based network.

RadiSys Accelerates Industrial

Automation

RadiSys, a Premier Member of Intel ECA, is

bringing the Embedded Internet to industrial

automation. Using RadiSys COM Express,

Mini-ITX and Micro-ATX modules powered by

the Intel® Core Duo processor, many industrial

applications such as high-speed printing

and machine tooling systems can take full advantage

of IP connectivity and Intel® multicore

technology. These modules allow the running

of a real-time operating system to handle

real-time applications while multimedia features

are addressed by a general purpose operating

system enabled by the Microware Real-

Time Hypervisor. This not only enhances the

performance and functionality of an industrial

grade computer, but also significantly reduces

the total cost of ownership and overall maintenance

of industrial control systems. RadiSys

is launching its Procelerant IS 1000 at Embedded

World 2009 as the industry’s first fully-integrated,

ready-to-use embedded system that

incorporates Intel multi-core technology for industrial

automation applications. The IS 1000

is a complete hardware and software solution

that utilizes the Microware Real-time Hypervisor

to run Windows XP, Linux, OS-9, and

other operating systems concurrently, at full

speed, and without interruption. Hypervisor

technology allows equipment manufacturers to

consolidate legacy industrial computing hardware,

real-time control software and general

purpose applications onto a single, industrial

grade, long life computer. With this solution,

designers can create high-performance applications

that control real world events over IP

networks in real-time for medical, industrial

automation and communication applications

while running general purpose Linux applications

on the same hardware. The IS 1000 is

COVER STORY

The Intel® EP80579 System-on-a-Chip processors

includes a CPU, plus integrated memory

controller, I/O and network interfaces

equipped with an integrated development environment

(IDE) and pre-ported, real-time

popular fieldbus protocols, such as EtherCAT,

which allow companies to quickly add industrial

automation applications.

Emerson Network Power Helps

Advance Medicine

Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing,

a Premier Member of Intel ECA, sees

the embedded Internet playing an ever greater

role in medical applications. This includes

everything from handheld diagnostic devices to

wireless mobile workstations for patient-side

electronic documentation to molecular imaging

at the atomic level. Emerson Network

Power products, such as its ATCA-7350, are

providing the necessary scaling and networking

capabilities to enable fast, portable medical imaging

in clinics, as well as advanced image

reconstruction, post processing and display in

major medical centers. What this means is a

doctor can have imaging performed on a

patient at a local clinic, and then have it compressed

and sent via IP to equipment in a major

medical facility capable of running the complex

algorithms necessary for clearer, higher resolution

imaging and manipulation. Experts in a

particular field of medicine virtually anywhere

in the world can then easily be brought in for

consultation and a more informed diagnosis.

Driving the size and cost of these devices

down is important as hospital space, power and

budgets become constrained. Steady advancements

in Intel® embedded processors, such as

the Intel® Xeon® LV (low voltage) processor

series, and Intel architecture, help enable these

important device improvements. According to

Emerson Network Power senior marketing

manager Clayton C. Tucker, Intel architecture

will be “the very fabric at the core of medical

technology moving forward.” The largest medical

equipment OEMs are using Intel multi-core

technologyproductssuchasEmersonNetwork

Power boards for high-end applications such as

X-ray, CT and MR scanners to provide increased

processing power for 3D and 4D image processing,

as well as enhanced image resolution.

Kontron Connects with the

Military Radar Market

Military sensor data processing applications for

communications, radar, and electronic warfare

have an insatiable demand for increased signal

performance. Sensors continually require more

channels, increased processing capabilities,

higher memory performance and greater communications

bandwidth. Kontron, a Premier

Member of Intel ECA, quenches this thirst with

products like its PENTXM2 VME 6U computer

board designed around 1.67GHz dual-core

Intel® Xeon® ULV (ultra low voltage) processors.

At the heart of these SBCs is a server-class

Intel® E7520 chipset that delivers the high

bandwidth required by demanding signal processing

applications. This SBC (and other

rugged Intel-based Kontron boards) includes a

new backplane connector that bridges new and

old technology. Thanks to this backplane

connector, the leading edge I/O bandwidth of

PCIe links can now leverage already deployed

VME and cPCI infrastructures that were not

initially designed to handle such signals. This

enables gang clustering of multi-core computing

engines with the right I/O bandwidth between

them, while maintaining compatibility

with the existing rugged embedded computing

infrastructure and staying within design specifications

for very high vibration and shock

rates and extreme temperature. By offering Intel

architecture in a rugged embedded design,

Kontron is providing a winning solution for its

military customers, helping them save time and

money – and increase performance. This last

point is a key requirement in today's world

where the need to find objects in complex

urban environments is critical and requires the

huge computing power that only leading edge

multi-core computing can provide.

Get on Board the Embedded

Internet

Some of the promising markets for the Embedded

Internet include IP networking and security,

video intelligence, medical equipment,

in-vehicle infotainment, energy management,

and home and industrial automation. As with

every technological advance, there's no advantage

to waiting and tremendous advantage in

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being one of the leaders. Original equipment

manufacturers should consider how their products

can take advantage of “always on” Internet

connectivity to enhance device-to-device connections

and enable automation and monitoring.

They'll want to support standards development

and help remove proprietary boundaries

that could impede a truly global wireless

communications network. Additionally, working

with Intel ECA members to standardize on

Intel architecture as a common hardware architecture

will help ensure interoperability

and streamline software development. Fifteen

billion of anything is an enormous number.

When you think of the potential of having 15

billion devices connected by the Internet just six

years from now, there is one major thing that

should run through everyone's mind. This is

truly the opportunity of a lifetime. Step aboard.

To hear more from Intel ECA and members

featured in this article, visit the us at Embedded

World in hall 9, booth 357 or visit the Embedded

Forum, the industry’s new online community for

ideas, solutions, and answers you can’t easily

get anywhere else. www.goembeddedforum.com.

For more information on embedded products

and solutions from Intel, visit

www.intel.com/embedded. ■

1 Gantz, John. The Embedded Internet: Methodology and

Findings, IDC, January 2009.

2 “The Internet of Things – Executive Summary,” ITU Internet

Report 2005.

3Ibid.

4 “Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6),” Electronic Bulletin,

Info@Citel, Inter-American Telecommunication Commission

Organization of American States, September 2006.

5 Intel Corporate Innovation Evangelist Eric Mantion provides

us with the following figures and calculations:

- Number of IP addresses with IPv4: 4,294,967,296

(4.3 billion)

- Number of IP addressed with IPv6:

340,232,366,920,938,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

(340 undecillion)

- Number of IP addresses per person with IPv6, using a total

of 6.75 billion people on the planet:

50,398,677,200,239,700,000,000,000 (50.4 octillion)

- Number of “full Internets (4.3 billion addresses) per person”

with IPv6: 11,734,356,451,835,400 (11.7 quintillion)

In other words, IPv6 will have enough IP addresses space for

virtually every human on the planet to have a personal network

about a dozen quintillion times larger than today's Internet.

6 “The Net Shapes Up to Get Physical,” The Guardian, October

16, 2008.

7 TDP specification should be used to design the processor

thermal solution. Thermal solutions not designed to provide

this level of thermal capability may affect the long-term

reliability of the processor and system.

8 “Intel`s Embedded Processors Destined for New Gadgets,”

eWeek, July 24, 2008.

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TECHNICAL TRENDS

Embedded computers for both

standard products and custom services

By Norbert Hauser, Kontron

This article reviews current trends in

embedded computing, and how these are

reflected in the product ranges which

Kontron will present at Embedded World,

including the company’s new Nano Clients.

■ The trend towards outsourcing custom-specific

embedded computer design and manufacturing,

combined with even smaller embedded

computer devices, has led Kontron to

adopt more proactive marketing of its original

design and manufacturing (ODM) services.

Nevertheless, a broad range of leading-edge

standard products for a diversified range of

OEM applications remains the company’s primary

focus for achieving fastest time-tomarket

and cost-effective custom design and

manufacturing, using a standard portfolio.

The development of more highly integrated and

increasingly small processors and chipsets, based

on 45nm technology, is increasing the demand

for ever-smaller form factors and systems. Since

the locations of external interfaces vary more for

smaller systems than they do for larger ones, it is

often not possible to use standard boards for

many small systems that require cable-free interconnects

to the external housing. The resulting

need for custom designs, combined with

growing economic pressure, is likely to force

companies to stop designing and manufacturing

hardware in-house in favour of outsourcing to

embedded computer manufacturers.

When looking for an outsourcing partner,

OEM customers should make sure that the embedded

vendor also offers product life-cycle

management services, from initial design to

production and EOL management. This re-

lieves the project management burden, enabling

OEMs to free-up resources and concentrate on

core competences. Another important factor,

especially in 2009, is the financial strength of

the vendor. Financially strong vendors with a

wide product portfolio are well placed to compensate

for fluctuations in demand and ensure

maximum investment security. They are also

able to use their own standard products for designing

and manufacturing cost-optimized,

tailor-made boards and systems that enable

OEMs achieve fastest time-to-market. Kontron

has been offering custom design and manufacturing

services for many years. Nonetheless,

the company remains strongly committed to

the development of innovative standard products

at the module, board and system levels. At

Embedded World, for example, the company

will unveil its new Spider-SP motherboard utilising

the 2.5 inch Pico-ITX form factor. In com-

March 2009 12

bination with a 2.5-inch hard drive, the Spider-

SP enables the development of extremely small

designs with a height of just 40mm. Based on

the Intel Atom Z5xx processor and the Intel

System controller hub US15W, the optimized

thermal design of the board makes it an attractive

alternative to RISC-based systems.

The Kontron JRexplus-DC is a new 3.5-inch

single board computer following the open JRexplus

standard. Based on the 1.6 GHz Intel

Atom N270 processor, it offers high performance

at comparatively low energy consumption

(approximately 10W). With its larger footprint,

it offers more features than the Spider-SP.

Most notable is the PCI-104 interface. PCIbased

PCI-104 expansion cards are inserted

parallel to the CPU board which is extremely

space-saving and ideal for SFF devices.

Continuing the trend towards smaller, more

energy-saving designs, the new Kontron Nano

Clients are a family of cost-optimized and all-round

IP66 protected fanless standalone touch-panel

PCs based on the energy-saving embedded 45nm

Intel Atom Z5xx processors. The VESA mounting

system enables plant operators to easily mount the

slimline (only 63 mm deep) and fully sealed

Kontron Nano Clients wherever they need them.

Kontron’s first VPX products will also be presented

that will supplement the already extensive

offering of VME boards and systems. In the

telecoms sector, Kontron is extending its system

portfolio with a new family of rack-mount

servers consisting of NEBS-3 and ETSI-compliant

carrier-grade servers as well as IP network servers.

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MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA systems. ■

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Trends and trend-setting industries

in embedded development

By Joachim Schlosser, The MathWorks

In this article the author describes current

trends in embedded design, and how The

Mathworks is responding to these trends.

The article introduces the company’s new

Simulink Fixed Point 6 which will be shown

at Embedded World.

■ The MathWorks and MATLAB celebrate

their 25th anniversary this year. That means 25

years full of effective users in several industries.

The MathWorks extends its portfolio and provides

users with new features every year. In

March 2009 at Embedded World the new version

2009a of MATLAB and Simulink will be

released, and you can experience how to accelerate

your MATLAB algorithm in order to

achieve faster results. Additionally, we will

show how to use numeric systems optimisations

for various tasks.

Since FPGA/ASIC technology is becoming increasingly

important for series production and

fast prototyping, automatic HDL generation

through MATLAB, Simulink and Stateflow is

gaining in importance as well. Connections with

large emulators enable a cosimulation between

algorithm and its resources on the chip. Industrial

automation, mechanical engineering as well

as medical engineering are the trend-setters in

embedded design right now. Embedded design

is also advancing in the automotive industry, as

electronics and cross-linking in vehicles play an

increasingly important role. Companies and development

departments recognize that integrating

requirements into the embedded development

process at an early stage helps to avoid

mistakes. Detecting mistakes earlier makes

them easier and less expensive to fix, which results

in a higher quality product. A second trend

is the increasing importance of security-relevant

mechatronic applications.

The MathWorks replies to these trends by

providing engineers with the ability to test their

systems using simulation, as well as the ability

to optimize their entire system (controller,

physical system, and communications system)

in a single software environment. We support

the development of security-relevant applica-

tions using model-based design with a workflow

that has been TÜV certificated together

with Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder

2008. The MathWorks helps companies save development

costs, which is especially important

in economically tough times. The tools provide

investment protection - the results your development

teams produce are re-usable in other

projects and programs. Thus, it is possible that

algorithms written in MATLAB can be scaled

on cluster without difficulty or brought as Embedded

MATLAB via C-code generation on

embedded systems. Additionally, the increasing

automation in our tools helps to complete recurring

tasks accurately and quickly, as well as

to simplify and accelerate manual operations

such as model reviews.

The availability of Simulink Fixed Point 6 is a

major upgrade within the Simulink product

family. The new version delivers capabilities for

designing and simulating fixed-point systems

and generating optimized code for implementation,

while creating more efficient work-

March 2009 14

flows. It enables engineers to quickly turn a

floating-point design built in Simulink, Stateflow,

Embedded MATLAB functions, Signal

Processing Blockset, and Video and Image

Processing Blockset into a fixed-point design

based on input data ranges and target hardware

characteristics.

The new version can be used with MathWorks

Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder to

generate bit-accurate production code from

fixed-point models, ensuring the implemented

design performs exactly as it did in simulation.

Code can be generated for signals and parameters

with word sizes from one to 128 bits,

accelerating simulation modes and enabling

embedded code deployment. Designers can

now develop and implement algorithms for

modern digital signal processors (DSPs) and

microprocessors, which offer large accumulator

and integer word sizes for high degrees of

numerical range and precision.

Additionally, the advisor feature in Simulink

Fixed Point 6 moves design from floating- to

fixed-point using an automated system conversion

approach, that creates optimized workflows

in shorter time spans. This in turn facilitates

more accurate and cost-effective design of

high-end, mass-production components,

especially in the signal processing segment.

Users in industries like automotive, communications,

and electronics are constantly looking

for simulations that exactly replicate realworld

behaviour as a means to generate reliable

results in shorter time frames. Simulink Fixed

Point 6 can now be used as a foundation

product to assess and optimize fixed-point

behaviour based on design ranges and to

model implementations accurately, and is available

for the Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux,

and Macintosh platforms. ■

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MCU debugging tools are changing

with deep submicron processes

By Rob Cosaro, NXP

■ Microcontrollers are general-purpose

devices that need software to make them

application-specific. In order to make the

software work it needs to be debugged. In the

beginning, debugging consisted of inserting

software break points and observing what

happened on the outside with a scope or

some other observation tool. This worked

well for simple microcontrollers with small

memory footprints and simple peripherals,

but as memory sizes increased to support

more sophisticated cores and peripherals

the technique was no longer adequate. Better

debugging tools were needed.

One solution was emulators and bond outs,

where the device was replaced on a board with

something that emulated the microcontroller.

The emulator was a box that contained an interface

between the host computer and the

bond out. The bond out was a device produced

by the semiconductor manufacturer that had

extra pins and hardware hooks so the emulator

could control the processor and gain access to

all the internal registers. For semiconductor

manufacturers, having to produce bond outs

for different device derivatives was always an expensive

solution. A new bond out was needed

for devices with a new peripheral set, which

doubled the mask cost. In addition, this was a

distraction from the main goal of producing

more derivatives with diverse peripherals. For

this and other reasons semiconductor manufacturers

needed a better solution. This emerged

in stages through three debugging trends.

Debugging Trend 1: Microcontroller processes

progressed to span the 0.18 to 0.09 micron

process nodes. The first problem was to come

up with a debug interface that did not require

many pins. Several serial interfaces have

emerged depending on the processor, but ARM

has standardized on the JTAG standard. Even

though JTAG was meant for boundary scan, it

is very useful for debug purposes. When these

serial solutions first appeared, debugging

through them was fairly simple, such as starting

and stopping the processor and setting a few

hardware break points. They started being

implemented in the 0.35 to 0.25 micron process

nodes. The silicon area required for more than

these simple debug features was possible, but

the densities provided by these earlier nodes

were not cost-effective in adding more debug

features. Today microcontroller processes are

spanning the 0.18 to 0.09 micron process

nodes. The 0.18 micron node is 6 times denser

than the 0.35 micron node. With these kinds of

densities more debug features are possible

without having a significant impact on cost.

Debugging Trend 2: Now all the pieces have

come together, and emulator-like features of the

past are becoming available on silicon in

sophisticated low-cost microcontrollers. Lowcost

ARM7 microcontrollers started to appear

in the early 2000 timeframe based on the

ARM7 TDMI core. The core includes embedded

ICE logic for on-chip debug support.

Through the ARM7 JTAG interface the embedded

ICE logic can control the ARM7 core,

and read and write to all the memory registers

and memory locations the core has access to. In

addition, the core includes two hardware break

points and two watch points. Watch points

consists of comparitors that will cause the

processor to halt based on a data match or a

program counter match. Although the core

does not have unlimited numbers, such as

March 2009 16

emulators provided, the number of break

points or watch points the ARM7 core provides

is adequate for most debug requirements. The

ARM7 core also has an optional TRACE macro

cell called the embedded trace module called

the ETM. The ETM adds approximately 10K

gates of logic, which would be significant for a

0.35 micron design but is very manageable in

0.18 micron. The ETM broadcasts the instruction

trace information showing the flow of execution.

The only issue with the ETM is that it

requires 10 pins and is typically multiplexed

with user pin functions, and the speed of the

trace is limited by the slew rates of the pads.

Debugging Trend 3: Introduction of the embedded

trace buffer. Another option to external

pins and to improve trace speed, is for the

ETM to have a trace buffer on silicon and read

the trace information out through the JTAG

port. This buffer consists of a single-port

RAM and is referred to as the embedded trace

buffer or ETB. As with traditional emulators,

the amount of code that can be traced is based

on the memory depth of the external hardware,

which could be unlimited. However, the size of

the ETB limits how much code can be traced.

For example, the NXP LPC3250 uses the ETB

concept and includes 8k bytes of trace buffers.

Whentraceisrequired8kisusuallyadequate,

but the user may have to narrow the trace

searches before the problem can be found.

When there is a difficult problem the more

trace depth the better. This creates a cost

trade-off for trace buffer size and ease of debugging.

It is a waste of silicon to use the trace

buffers only for trace, so the buffers can be used

by the application.

In conclusion, on-chip debug solutions have replaced

the functionality of emulators because of

the advancements in process technology. These

advancements will allow semiconductor manufacturers

to include many more useful debug

features to improve application development.

These extra features will include more hardware

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■ Businesses today are built and operated by

software that houses intellectual property, business

processes and trade secrets that are vital to

the health of an enterprise. Organisations must

address potential weaknesses in their everyday

operations before they become exploitable.

It is the ultimate irony: the versatile software

you depend on to run your business also puts

it at risk. Your business applications hold the

business processes and the data that form the

lifeblood of your company. Yet, even as they

open your business up to more customers and

partners, the security holes your software contains

leave you vulnerable to attack. Relentless

and destructive data predators are ready to

pounce. Today hackers, organised crime cartels

and enemy nations are highly adept at quickly

turning security flaws into stolen data and cash.

I am not in the habit of finger pointing over

flaws in packages – let us face it we all know that

application bugs exist, the only real question is

why? Open source development introduces

risk to your business in unique ways. The inexpensive

and readily available nature of open

source makes it easy to adopt. But at what cost

to enterprise security?

A Fortify-sponsored Open Source Security

Study, completed by leading application security

consultant Larry Suto, examined 11 of the

most common Java open source packages. It

confirmed that the most widely-used open

source software packages for the enterprise are

exposing users to significant and unnecessary

business risk. The study validates that open

source software (OSS) development communities

have yet to adopt a secure development

process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities

unaddressed. Additionally, it found that

nearly all OSS communities fail to provide users

with access to security expertise to help remediate

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prise security should understand. The response

to the report set off some familiar refrains,

which miss the point and do not get us any

closer towards the goal of a secure enterprise.

Improving the engineering process of building

secure code applies to every software project,

whether it is open source or closed, and it is not

important who writes the code, but how. Any

competent engineering team will be able to

generate secure code if security is made a part of

the design, just as they are able to bring a lowcost

solution to market, or a high-performance

solution. From Fortify’s vantage point it sees literally

thousands of development teams, and it is

fair to say they are mostly within IT organisations

for financial and other highly regulated industries

that have a very sophisticated process in place for

application security. In the current open source

model, yes, those of us who care about security

can feed vulnerabilities back into the machine, or

fix them ourselves, but it will never be as sound

as building it securely in the first place.

Recently, the icon of OSS development, Linus

Torvalds, emailed the Linux development team,

weighing in on the quality vs. security debate.

In his email, Torvalds argued that “In fact, all

the boring normal bugs are way more important,

just because there's a lot more of them.”

Although it is true to say that quality and

security are both important, I strongly disagree

with Torvalds for the following reasons: quali-

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TECHNICAL TRENDS

ty is cumulative whilst security is absolute.

Quality is about making the main path of operation

work, and accepting issues in the corner

cases, whereas security must cover everything.

Quality is a closed problem, however security is

open. There is no list of known bugs you can go

to and accept for security, as criminals compile

these lists and they do not share them. Quality

is reinforced by customers in the open market.

Traditionally, companies have largely depended

on perimeter-based approaches like network

security to prevent data predators and criminals

from gaining access to corporate information.

However, the demands of open business envi-

ronment weaken the protection provided by

firewalls and other perimeter security efforts,

leaving corporation applications easily accessible

and vulnerable to hackers. In order to mitigate

the business risk created by insecure applications,

it is imperative that companies

adopt a process that allows them to assess, remedy

and prevent security vulnerabilities in all of

their business software, whatever the source.

Business software assurance (BSA) is a growing

industry trend that refers to technologies and

techniques that enable you to maximise the

flexibility, enhanced capabilities and easy availability

of enterprise software, without exposing

New opportunities for modern

embedded computing platforms

By Christian Eder, congatec

■ While it is likely that the much-discussed economic

crisis will also affect the electronics industry,

the impact need not be negative in all

cases. Additional growth will almost certainly

be seen in certain sub-sectors. On average, the

computer-on-module market (i.e. PC modules

for industrial integration) has been growing annually

by 25% for a number of years and will,

in my opinion, benefit from this recent crisis. As

in 2002, the 2009 crisis will accelerate the trend

towards outsourcing. This will lead to some

companies switching their complete proprietary

developments over to modular concepts

in order to save development costs for the PC

functionality of the application.

What may at first appear to represent a loss of

expertise will actually strengthen the focus on

core competencies. The in-house, applicationspecific

know-how will be integrated in the carrier

board while the entire PC functionality will

be purchased in the form of an embedded computer

module and mounted on the carrier

board. This approach reduces personnel costs

for development and brings with it a number of

other benefits. In addition to shorter development

times, the module-based solutions can be

highly flexible when it comes to configuring.

With just a single carrier board design, it is possible

to create an entire product family merely

by varying the computing power of the modules.

The ability to react to new processor and

chipset technologies can also be ensured simply

by exchanging modules. Since the modular

concepts are standardized, changing the mod-

ule vendor is facilitated, thereby providing

multiple sources. The modular concept employed

depends mainly on the application itself.

I recommend the XTX standard for users of

ETX solutions. The structure of XTX is practically

identical to that of ETX. The only difference

is that the ISA bus has been replaced with

signals for PCI Express and SATA. This makes

it relatively simple to update existing ETX carrier

boards to the latest technology. COM Express

offers powerful CPUs and chipsets and a

large number of PCI Express lanes for the highest

bandwidths, which makes it ideal for computationally

intensive applications. Based on

customer demand the industry has created a

more compact version of COM Express mod-

March 2009 20

your operations to attacks that can threaten

your business. In short BSA answers the question

“How do you know your business is secure?”

By identifying and resolving your most

critical application vulnerabilities you can enhance

software assurance. Ultimately, the solution

is developers and security experts working

together to build secure software right from the

start. Fortify is already in discussions with open

source providers with whom it is working to

improve processes, and I invite any open source

group who would like to get involved in these

conversations, and make security a part of the

development process, to get in touch. ■

ules which is not yet blessed by the PICMG.

These modules measure just 95x95 mm² and

feature the COM Express connector and pinout.

The even smaller, comparatively new Qseven

standard was created to fulfil the needs of mobile

systems. With dimensions of just 70x70mm²,

Qseven may be the smallest member of the computer-on-module

family but it also provides the

most modern and future-oriented range of interfaces.

It is specifically designed to operate with

absolute minimum power consumption, and is

the ideal platform for energy saving or batterypowered

applications. The rugged high-speed

and low-cost MXM connector is available from

three different manufacturers, guaranteeing best

price and availability.

The reduction of power consumption in general

is becoming more and more important.

While the car industry is still struggling to create

more economical vehicles, the computer industry

already offers high-efficiency solutions.

The Intel Atom processor family offers a very

reasonable computing performance with extremely

low power consumption. These processors

can be operated with almost no cooling

and are therefore an ideal platform for industrial

and mobile use. It is clear those applications

with extreme temperature requirements

(typical examples can be found in the transportation

and automotive industries) can be

fulfilled utilizing these new technologies. First

products with an extended temperature range

will be exhibited during the Embedded World

trade show at the congatec booth 12-122. ■

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MByte L2 cache and 8 GByte DDR3

RAM, high performance integrated

graphics engine

03.03.-05.03.

Hall 12 - Booth 122

Find more details at: www.congatec.com

Tel. +49 (991)2700-0 • info@congatec.com

Intel and Intel Atom are trademarks of Intel Corporation ind the US and other countries. Highscore

Hpe_JTAG from Gleichmann is a tool for

interactive debugging of printed circuit

boards, including those with ball grid

arrays. It enables full use of the possibilities

of the IEEE Standard 1149.1 at much less

cost than high-end JTAG tools. It offers a

comfortable graphical user interface and

automation of repetitive tasks.

■ Let us refresh our memory and take a quick

look at the IEEE Standard 1149.1 “Test Access

Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture”, released

back in 1990. The “Joint Test Access

Group” (JTAG) defined test logic for integration

in semiconductor components, enabling

self testing, non-intrusive signal observation, as

well as testing interconnects between components.

This test logic is uniformly described by

the boundary scan description language

(BSDL). BSDL is a subset of the hardware description

language VHDL (very large scale integration

hardware description language). For

a device to be JTAG-compliant, it must have an

associated BSDL file.

With Hpe_JTAG, Gleichmann Electronics

Research (GER) introduces a tool that makes

full use of the specifications and possibilities of

the IEEE Standard 1149.1 at a fraction of the

cost of expensive high-end JTAG tools,

currently with entry-level pricing of less than

400 euros. In developing this tool, great

emphasis has been placed on filter functions,

the ability to import pin files from FPGA synthesis,

and automation/extension capabilities

via a scripting interface.

Besides supporting all obligatory JTAG instructions

(BYPASS, SAMPLE, EXTEST),

Hpe_JTAG also supports INTEST, provided it

is supported by the device. Simply plug in one

of the supported JTAG cables, connect with the

target board and you are ready to get started.

Some fundamental testing is already performed

when initializing the JTAG chain: IDs of the devices

in the chain are read and compared to expected

IDs specified by the user. If not already

available, BSDL files must now be imported.

Hpe_JTAG users can rely on a comfortable

graphical user interface for the interactive de-

March 2009 22

JTAG tool simplifies debugging

of printed circuit boards

By Andreas Schwarztrauber,

Gleichmann Electronics Research

bugging of PCBs. Moreover, repetitive tasks can

be automated via a powerful scripting interface.

Figure 1 shows the graphical presentation of a

JTAG chain containing two devices. Each device

is presented by a tab. Changing between devices

is achieved by clicking on the tabs. Filter functions

allow the user to observe only I/Os that

are currently of interest. For example this

could be the configuration bits, if FPGA configuration

fails or the clock and reset inputs, if

the design shows absolutely no activity. In this

context the capability to load pin names from

BSDL or pin files (generated during PLD synthesis)

comes in handy.

Special purpose I/Os such as configuration or

clock inputs can be found easily by simply loading

the pin names from the BSDL files of the

manufacturer. However, the majority of I/Os

are user I/Os typically just numbered consecutively,

for example IOY0 to IOYn.

A designer can probably not remember that

he/she put the signal TX_CLK on pin W21, but

in most cases the signal name indicates the

functionality of the signal. For this reason the

tool supports importing manufacturer-specific

pin files. Typically FPGA designers test their

pin-outs with dummy designs before going into

PCB layout. So it is fair to assume that pin files

are available at the time a board is powered up

Figure 1. The graphical presentation of a JTAG chain containing

two devices

for the first time. The JTAG tool automatically

recognizes all major FPGA vendors and allows

importing pin files in the appropriate format.

After importing pin files, Hpe_JTAG will know

the physical pin location of every I/O of the

HDL top-level entity. Signals of a bus can be

grouped together and represented in your preferred

format (digital, hex, etc). The clear signal

arrangement immediately answers questions

like: Is there activity on clock lines or address

and data buses?

Do observation and expectation match, e.g.

does a counter count in the right direction? Are

reset lines active? Are reset values as expected?

Whenever tasks are repetitive, for example

when testing limited lot productions, the the

Python-based Hpe_JTAG scripting interface

can be used to automate tasks. The interface allows

any JTAG access: testing interconnects, setting

control signals, read/write accesses to registers,

flash or SDRAM, etc. Here are a few examples.

An FPGA with N user I/Os combined

with the JTAG tool could be used as (admittedly

very slow) N-channel logic analyzer. If the required

sampling rate cannot be achieved with

JTAG, the sampled signals can be stored in the

TECHNICAL TRENDS

FPGA RAM and read out

offline with Hpe_JTAG. Generating

a certain response

from a device under test requires

precise and repeatable

stimulus on its inputs. In the

case of our example FPGA,

the differences between two

points in time (time periods)

are stored in one RAM and

stimulus is stored in another

RAM. These RAMs are

loaded with Hpe_JTAG and

if necessary are modified.

This pattern generator is only

limited by the width and

depth of the memory available

on the FPGA. When

changing FPGA vendors or

transitioning to an ASIC

technology, the user can reap the fruits of his or

her labor. There is no need to become

acquainted with new tools, since the proven

scripts and solutions are technology-independent

and can easily be mapped from one

technology to another.

Besides the application examples described, the

scripting interface could be used as standardized

debug interface for internal processes. If

actual and nominal conditions still do not

match after verifying the basic functionality of

your board and IC, you may use the JTAG tool

to monitor external signals, internal trace-

RAMs or complex state machines. Information

converging in the tool could than be exported

in any format for displaying or further processing.

For example the industry-standard

value change dump (VCD) format proved to be

very useful when exchanging data between

various simulators and technologies. Patterns

extracted with the JTAG tool from your target

hardware can be exported in VCD format and

displayed and analyzed in simulators or waveform

viewers, such as ModelSim. Thus

Hpe_JTAG is used to connect the different

domains of hardware, software and RTL code. ■

Figure 2. X-ray image of incorrect BGA solder joints. Merged solder balls (right) and solder ball

without contact to the PCB solder pad (left).

23 March 2009

ESMexpress ® COMs:

Intel ® Atom up to Dual Core

XM1 with Intel ® Atom – with up

to 1.6 GHz and 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM,

-40 to +85°C – extreme reliability for

rugged and safety-critical applications.

XM2 with Intel ® Core 2 Duo –

with up to 2.26 GHz and 4 GB DDR3

SDRAM, 0 to +60°C – high-performance

graphics and computing for

demanding tasks.

Robust ESMexpress ® Standard –

EMC-tight housing for fanless cooling

(conduction and convection), shock and

vibration resistant connectors and the

small 95 x 125 mm format (ANSI-VITA 59

in preparation).

Rely on MEN for rugged computer

boards and systems in harsh, mobile

and mission-critical environments.

03. – 05.03.2009

Hall 12, Booth 545

MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH,

Neuwieder Str. 5-7, D-90411 Nürnberg,

Tel. 0911-99 33 55 55, E-Mail: contact@men.de

www.ESMexpress.eu

DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS

Distribution concepts for

the embedded market

■ Nowadays embedded systems design is a challenging

task. Resources in the design departments

are limited, systems are getting more complex

and in parallel the pressure on time-to-market is

increasing. Distribution has recognized this

dilemma of the designers and therefore more and

more Distributors are offering specific services for

the embedded market.

Rutronik: complete embedded

systems solutions from a single

source

Rutronik (at Embedded World in Hall 9, Stand

435) showcases itself as a solutions provider

supplying its target markets with customised

total solutions, along with solar power, e-metering,

hybrid drive, street lighting, wireless

building and security applications, as well as

LEDs and TFTs. The customised systems incorporate

every component, from the motherboard,

the storage media, to the display unit,

embedded board, disk drive and cabling, and

include accessories such as inverters and touch

controllers. Franchise partners are selected by

strict quality criteria in order to guarantee that

customers will always be supplied with highquality

components. Moreover, the technical

expertise offered to customers in an advisory

and support capacity is crucial.

The main growth driver in the embedded systems

sector is the industrial market. This is because

nowadays there is hardly a single machine

and robot control system that comes without a

display unit and intelligent drive control system.

And manufacturers of medical instruments and

point-of-sale and point-of-interest systems increasingly

are opting for simpler and less errorprone

operation for their instruments on display

units. To this end companies require an optimised

solution that is as fast and straightforward

as possible, and which can be installed on the

plug-and-play principle. However this is rarely

achieved using standard solutions. For this reason

Rutronik has more intensively dovetailed its

Displays & Embedded Boards with the industrial

storage components supplied by its subsidiary

Discomp, and has expanded its technical support

services. The benefits for customers are complete

individually tailored embedded systems, comprehensive

technical support, efficient procurement

and warehousing. Visitors to Embedded

World will see tangible evidence of the range of

March 2009 24

complete solutions in the more extensive exhibition

stand, where Swissbit - the manufacturer

of DRAM and flash memory products - will be

exhibiting alongside Discomp - Rutronik’s memory

specialist - and the Embedded Boards and

Displays product division. The latest LED and

TFT technologies will be among the product

highlights. As ever, product specialists from

Rutronik and the manufacturers will be on the

stand to answer specific questions.

In order to be able to answer more challenging

customer enquiries quickly and comprehensively,

Rutronik has set up a technical office. This

will act as internal back-up to product marketing

and the FAEs. For example the technical office

can adapt display units to a customer’s

boards, and test the complete solution. It also assembles

individual kits containing perfectly

coordinated components such as the display

unit, board, inverter, cables, touch screen, RAM,

hard disk, memory card or disk drive. The technical

office is responsible for the demonstration

panels used at Embedded World as well.

By combining Displays & Embedded Boards

with Storage Components, Rutronik can now

offer complete embedded solutions in kit form.

For customers, that means that they need just

one order number, one ordering process, one

contact, one delivered unit - in short: a solution

from a single source. Since, logistically speaking,

the kit is handled as a single unit, customers can

call on individual solutions to assist with warehouse

and procurement optimisation - something

like a consignment store with minimum/maximum

agreements, or the ship-toline

model with units delivered individually to

departments - even to work-stations.

Spoerle: concepts for developers

of embedded solutions

Spoerle, a division of Arrow, will introduce a

modular system solution concept entitled

“Embedded Platform Concept” at Embedded

World at Hall 12/362. According to the distributor

there is much more to this concept than

the technical consulting provided by distribution

to date and comprises hardware and software

development services spanning the complete

lifecycle of industrial applications and enabling

a faster launch into the market. Against

the background of companies’ diminishing

development resources and increasingly complex

semiconductor applications and their

constituents, this service offers developers cost

savings and reduced project costs. Using modular

reference boards and matched IP and service

modules to serve as the basis for the “Embedded

Platform Concept”, Spoerle can offer

developers technically optimised solutions for

future use, within the framework of this concept.

The modularity enables flexible combinations

of the “Embedded Platform Concept”

components. Specific customer requirements

can be flexibly accommodated through this

modular structure, in terms of hardware as well

as software. For further support, Spoerle assigns

specialised, external development partners.

EPC Board with Blackfin processor

The solution concepts are based on microprocessor/DSP,

high performance analog, power

electronics and programmable logic technologies.

In addition to access to innovative technologies,

developers also receive complete and immediately

usable solutions, including application management.

Among others, this application management

includes support with hardware design,

prototype development, performance tests and

simulations, identification and installation of

suitable operating systems, driver selection, EMC

design, programming as well as the provision of

board support packages (BSP).

The Technical Marketing Department at Spoerle

is the driving force behind this concept.

This department has experts on individual

manufacturers and technology sectors as well as

more than 50 application engineers and tech-

DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS

nology specialists, developing and implementing

solutions on-site together with customers.

“With our Embedded Platform Concept, we are

entering a new era of distribution services, by

far exceeding mere provision of reference

boards”, says Detlef Kaminski, Director of

Application & Technical Marketing at Spoerle.

Avnet Embedded goes for the

next stage of integration

By founding the Avnet embedded business unit

a year ago, Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA

extended its offering to industrial customers.

Avnet Embedded's (Embedded World in Hall

12, Booth 236) strategy is to provide a comprehensive

solution to those customers who no

longer develop boards themselves, but rather

prefer focusing on their own core expertise. According

to Alessandro Brazzoni, Avnet Embedded

Director of Sales & Operations, a separate

and specialized business channel for Embedded

products is necessary to address the

very specific customer requirements including

product identification and definition, technical

support, system-oriented consulting, and after

sales support. Hence the need of a dedicated

team of specialists with background and expertise

that are system-oriented. The logistics

for board-level products and displays is also

different from that traditionally adopted for

component-level products. This has been taken

into consideration in the business model of

Avnet Embedded from the very start.

Alessandro Brazzoni

A year ago, Avnet Embedded started with a

small team in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Eastern

Europe with the aim of setting the ground

on establishing the first truly pan-European

embedded organization. Countries such as

Austria and Switzerland have joined the line-up,

and others will follow suit. The recently announced

acquisition of the Abacus Group –

which is also very active in the embedded solutions

market – will enable Avnet to expand its

regional presence and become the pan-Euro-

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DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS

pean reference for embedded products. Avnet

Embedded provides both existing Avnet customers

and completely new customers with a

comprehensive product portfolio. With the

competent assistance of the Avnet Embedded

system specialists, customers can rely on a single

source providing complete working solutions.

The product portfolio therefore includes

a wide range of products, such as industrial

CPU boards in different formats (PC/104,

ATX, ETX, BTX Mini-ITX, ISA/PCI, COM Express

and smaller form-factor modules) based

on the x86 and RISC architectures, along with

industrial PCs (panel PCs and box PCs).

The network products include M2M modules,

ZigBee and Wi-Fi devices, Serial-to-Ethernet

modules, together with complete bridges,

routers as well as industrial Ethernet switches.

The display offering is covered by a far-reaching

portfolio of TFT-LCD panels, from 3.5 inch

to 26 inch, with integrated touch-screen solutions

and extended temperature range, together

with the necessary display accessories including

cables, inverters and controller boards.

As the manufacturers of these products are

completely different from those in the semiconductor

industry, Avnet Embedded has been

set up as a separate business channel with its

own line card based on prestigious and reputable

embedded manufacturers. With its totalsolution

strategy, Avnet Embedded differentiates

itself from the market. The line card is just

the starting point for the actual service provided

by Avnet Emedded, which includes a specialised

system consulting. Customers will be

offered complete and cost efficient packages

suitable for their industrial application, ensuring

the fast time to market and reducing

development investments.

MSC - components distributor and

boards manufacturer

MSC (at Embedded World in Hall 9, Booth

235) is together with their sister company

Gleichmann Electronics among the top

European components distributors.

The company's business objective is not only to

provide customers with innovative components

by leading manufacturers, but also to assist

them with competent advice and support in

decision-making and selecting components

and development tools.“Only by focusing on a

limited number of fields is it possible to assist

users with advice and practical support beyond

purchasing components in implementing the

solutions which are optimal for them”, said

Manfred Schwarztrauber, founder and managing

partner of MSC Vertriebs GmbH. Apart

from the automotive, telecommunication and

medical applications, MSC have always focused

their products and services very strongly on industrial

electronics. Currently, MSC is the official

franchisee of approximately 60 established component

manufacturers, mostly from Asia, America

and Europe. Nevertheless, the company's core

business focuses on product lines requiring substantial

amounts of explanatory support, such as

microcontrollers and microprocessors, programmable

ICs, displays, memory modules,

electromechanical and optoelectronic components

as well as embedded modules.

Manfred Schwarztrauber

Since end of last year MSC runs the online webshop

MSC ToolGuide under www.msc-toolguide.com.

It was realized as user oriented software

combined with integrated shopping cart

functionality. The ToolGuide’s transactions are

accessible in an intuitive and conceptual way. Just

a few mouse clicks and the information will be

displayed. The MSC ToolGuide enables to zoom

in and off the product for details and obtaining

information about technical data. Special

features were created to compare products with

each other. The advantages are clearly visible: no

time required telephoning, fast and easy ordering

via PC and clear structured information.

MSC is also a manufacturer of high-integrated

board-level products. The company supports

open embedded computing standards like

ETX, COM Express and Qseven and has established

the EXM32 computer-on-module specification

for industrial environment. Based on

Intel's newest Core 2 Duo and Atom processor

families MSC has recently introduced the lowpower

computer-on-modules CXC-GS45 and

CXB-A945M. With the embedded module

MSC Q7-US15W in the form factor 70 x 70

mm MSC is one of the first manufacturers offering

a product based on the new Qseven standard.

The compact module integrates an Intel

Atom processor and is suited for fanless or

mobile applications. The MSC Programming

Service for standard memory chips, microcontrollers,

flash cards and FPGAs offers the highest

standard of quality possible as well as cost-

March 2009 26

saving by just-in-time programming and use of

existing programming systems. Completely

programmed components are delivered in due

time directly to production in accordance with

the customers' specifications.

‘ECOmise it’ - energy efficiency as

a competitive advantage

EBV Elektronik (Embedded World in Hall 9,

Booth163) has aligned its corporate philosophy

to environmentally compatible trading: committed

to environmental protection. The company

declares: “Environmental protection is not

just an ecological responsibility for EBV Elektronik,

but a competitive advantage too. Only

those who set new ecological standards are successful

in business!”

BAT: best accessible technology. This voluntary

commitment has benefits for the design departments

of EBV’s customers. For example,

EBV Elektronik has created the BAT of its own

accord. EBV's technical specialists award the

BAT certificate to all of a manufacturer’s

products that achieve a particularly advanced

level of development with respect to energy efficiency.

BAT focuses chiefly on products that

operate with especially low power consumption

as well as products which directly ensure that a

system’s power consumption is particularly low.

EBV publishes precise details of the BAT

selection criteria on the Internet at

www.ebv.com/bat.

Thanks to the BAT certificate, which EBV ensures

constantly reflects best accessible technology,

and the FAEs at EBV, developers can

also be up-to-date at all times in the matter of

low power. Therefore, EBV is the strategic partner

for practically all questions concerning

green engineering. For this reason, the distributor’s

FAEs are also (pro)actively involved in

implementing energy-saving designs. On the

basis of the input and output parameters specified

by the developer, the FAEs provide concrete

recommendations, which optimally reflect

the BAT philosophy. Added to this is the designin-support

in the traditional sense. Green engineering

is a good approach but only if the

green philosophy is implemented within companies

on a long-term basis. For this reason,

EBV Elektronik has created internal ‘ECOmiseit’

environmental guidelines that apply across

the company. In addition to saving resources and recycling, these guidelines

also concern climate neutrality, control and partnership as well as

selected project sponsoring. For example, EBV Elektronik offsets the

CO2 emitted by its employees during business trips with suitable environmental

projects. EBV takes this extremely seriously, as demonstrated

by the fact that once a year EBV provides information on the implementation

of its self-imposed environmental targets in its ‘ECOmise

it-Report’ and publishes its set targets for the following year.

ARM controller, GSM, OLED and LED-backlight displays

At Embedded World high-tech distributor GLYN will be presenting

innovative products and technical know-how in Hall 12, Booth 306. The

new ARM controller from GLYN-partner Toshiba is definitely a special

feature at this year´s trade show. But the top-notch LED-backlight displays

and the trendsetting OLED displays will also be interesting new

product highlights at the GLYN stand.

The Toshiba ROMless microcontroller TMPA910CRAXBG with an

ARM9 core and on-chip graphics processor will surely be one of the

main products to see. The ARM926EJ-S-Core used in this controller

was specifically developed for applications which need high performance

and have to drive enhanced display technologies such as TFTs or

OLEDs. A high capacity LCD Data Process Accelerator (LCDDA) supports

the graphics controller. The LCDDA works independently from

the core and LCD-controller and offers new functionalities which can

be categorized into scaler, picture rotation and image mixing.

Other important features are a touch screen interface (TSI), USB2.0 high

speed and full speed as well as a CMOS sensor interface (CMSI). For a

quick start with the Toshiba ARM9 family, GLYN offers a development

kit including everything needed for implementing the display application.

It is the lowest priced starter kit in this performance category.

ROMless microcontroller with ARM9 core

DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS

At the GLYN stand you will get an impression of the brilliant colours

of active matrix OLED displays from CMEL (Chi Mei EL Corporation).

The complete product portfolio from 2.0" to 7.6" displays will be

demonstrated in an “OLED-garden”. Unlike LCD Technology, OLEDs

do not need backlights and offer higher contrasts combined with wide

viewing angles (~180°), a high contrast ratio (up to 10,000:1) and excellent

response time. Due to the low power consumption at an adjusted

graphics interface, light weight, small dimensions (2mm thin) and the

broad temperature range (-20° to +75°C) AM-OLEDs are ideal for

handheld applications.

The TFT displays with LED-backlight from Toshiba and EDT will show

visitors at the GLYN stand how their applications can do without the

CCFL-tube and the necessary inverter. LEDs are easier to dim and offer

lifetime and brightness values similar to those of conventional CCFLtubes.

Therefore, the environmentally hazardous mercury can be

27 March 2009

More than distribution.

Consult.

More consultation and economic effi ciency.

RUTRONIK is one of Europe’s leading distributors for

electronic components. Apart from the distribution of

high-end products, RUTRONIK offers even more: More

detailed technology and product consultation with our sales

coordinators, application engineers and product specialists

for highly specialised applications. In addition, allow yourself

to be convinced of our MORE offerings in the areas of components,

logistics and support.

Consult | Components | Logistics | Support

Tel: +49 (0) 7231 801 0

Committed to excellence

Embedded World from 3. - 5. March 2009

Hall 9 | Stand 435

www.rutronik.com

DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS

banned from your display application. TFTs

with an LED-backlight are available from 1.8"

to 10.4" and offer an operating temerature

range from -20°C to 70°C which makes them

perfect for industrial applications. Starting at

3.5", all TFTs are available with a pre-assembled

analog resistive touch panel from GLYN.

Microcontrollers, Wireless,

Infotainment, Connectivity

and System Solutions

Atlantik Elektronik, marketer of innovative

semiconductors, is represented at Embedded

World in Hall 12, Booth 443. The visitors to the

booth will be informed about the newest development,

products and solutions from the divisions

Embedded Microcontroller, Wireless,

Infotainment, Connectivity and System Solutions.

Atlantik Elektronik will present the

XBee-PRO 868 embeddable RF module. The

XBeeproductprovidesupto40kilometersof

RF line-of-sight (LOS) transmission. The XBee-

PRO 868 is ideal for machine-to-machine

(M2M) applications in challenging terrain or

long-range environments such as remote sensor

networks, building automation applications,

Automatic Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and

Exhibitors List – embedded world 2009

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

/k/ Embedded Java Solutions 12-560

3S Smart Software Solutions 11-306/10-116

4D Engineering 11-408

4D Systems 12-525

AAEON Technology 9-137

Abacus Embedded 12-236

ABLE Design 9-235

ABS 12-108

AbsInt 10-412

ACAL 9-164

Accemic 12-508

ACME SYSTEMS 12-525

acontis 11-440

Acrosser 9-267

Actel 9-306

Active DSP 10-239

ACTRON 12-304

ADDI-DATA 9-625

Adeneo Embedded 11-318

Adkom Elektronik 9-181

ADLINK 9-272

admatec 9-547

ads-tec 9-473

AMD 9-231

Advanet R&D 12-116

Advantech Europe 9-429/12-565

Adveda 11-102

AFT Atlas Fahrzeugtechnik 10-435

Agilent 10-225

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) systems. Customers using the XBee-

PRO 868 can easily migrate to other XBee solutions

including pin-compatible 900 MHz

options used primarily in North America, and

2.4 GHz ZigBee and proprietary options available

globally.

XBee RF module for M2M applications

BlueCore BC7830 is the world’s smallest GPS

combination device designed for mobile handsets.

CSR’s BC7830 includes GPS, Bluetooth

v2.1+EDR, FM transmit and receive technologies

and support for Bluetooth low energy all on a single

chip. BlueCore BC7830 also fully supports the

forthcoming Bluetooth low energy standard. Be-

Ahlers EDV Systeme 10-128

aicas 11-109

AIC-Xtore-PSG 9-480

aJile systems 9-319

All Flex Flexible Circuits 9-486

Allegro Microsystems 12-422

Altera 9-259

Altium 11-236

Altreonic 10-401

AMBER 12-538

AMCC 12-422/9-375

American Arium 11-125

Anovo 12-126

AnSem NV 12-560

Aonix 11-119

APAC OPTO 12-441

Apacer 9-629

APdate! 12-123

Aplex 9-373

apra-norm 12-137

APRO 9-250

aquintos 10-115

Arkus 12-266

ARM 9-273

ARTiSAN 10-219

ASSET InterTech 11-125

Ass. Ghent University 12-560

Astrodyne 12-441

Atlantik 12-443

March 2009 28

cause of the small incremental impact in terms of

silicon area, and negligible cost of adding Bluetooth

low energy to existing Bluetooth chips, the

technology is expected to have the fastest uptake

of any wireless technology to date.

Atlantik Elektronik also presents Embers Smart

Energy Suite (SES), a collection of embedded

software, tools, and silicon that dramatically

simplifies the delivery of devices certified to the

ZigBee Alliance's Smart Energy (SE) Profile.

The SE Profile defines the standard behaviors of

secure, easy-to-use, Home Area Network

(HAN) devices, which are critical components

of emerging Advanced Metering Infrastructure

(AMI) deployments. HANs connect thermostats,

in-home displays, smart appliances, and

other load control devices to the utility network.

AMI uses a smart electric meter or

other energy gateway to enable continuous two

way communications between utilities and

HAN-based devices.

Only plug in SIM Card, register on a positioning

portal and ready is an tracking system solution.

A Live Demo of the ultra small tracking

system Picotrack will be shown on the Atlantik

booth. ■

Atmel 12-130/12-142

AUO / PROMATE 12-306

austriamicrosystems 12-142

Avantgarde 12-322e

AVIX-RT 11-208

Avnet Embedded 12-236

Avnet Memec 12-422

Avnet 9-578

AXIOMTEK 12-242

Axotec 12-111

Barco-Silex 12-560

basysKom 11-306

Bayer DSP 12-243

bbv 11-123

BCM 9-209

Beck 9-537

Beck IPC 9-419

Beckhoff Automation 9-329/11-318

BEG Bürkle 9-406

Bicker Elektronik 12-454

Birdstep 11-121

blue river 10-403

Bluegiga 12-346

BMK GROUP 9-232

Bolymin 12-142

Bopla 12-455

Brandt-Data 10-113

BRESSNER 12-428

Brunel Communications 11-215

EXHIBITORS LIST

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

Byte Paradigm 10-525

CAD-UL 9-501

CalPlus 10-546

CC&I 11-422

CIRIC 11-406

Cirrus Logic 12-422

CMEL Chi Mei 12-306

CMX Systems 10-305

Coilcraft 12-422

comlet 11-210

Comp-Mall 12-349

Concurrent 12-225

CONEC 12-246

congatec 12-122

Connect 9-157

connectBlue 9-419

Connfly Electronic 12-558

Contendo Systems 12-260

Continental 11-414

COSMIC SOFTWARE 10-216

Coverity 11-426

Curtiss Wright 9-283

Dacom West 12-516

Data I/O 10-531

Data Modul 9-557

Data Respons 9-457

Datakey 9-136

Datalight 11-125

Daub 12-437

DEDITEC 9-107h

Dekimo 12-560

Delkin Devices, 12-123

Delta Components 12-250

Deltatec 9-119

demmel 9-545

Densitron 12-441

DENX 9-375/11-306

Deutschmann 9-479

Devolo 12-222

Dexcel 9-383

DHS ElMea 11-235

Diamond 9-277/9-525

Digi International 12-244

DIGITAL-LOGIC 12-336

Display 9-633

dpunkt.verlag 10-519

DSM 12-208

DSP 11-318/12-560

dSPACE 10-125

DSPECIALISTS 9-519

E.E.P.D. 9-463

Easics NV 12-560

EASYCODE 10-231

Eberspächer 10-544

EBV 9-163

Echelon 9-182

ECKELMANN 9-204

eCosCentric 11-300

eCOUNT 12-360

EDT 12-306

EEMBC 10-305

EKF 12-313

Elan 12-441

ELBACOM 11-318

ElectronAix 9-637

ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY 12-506

Electronics Infomedia 10-448

Elektrobit 11-414

Elektronik i Norden 11-F224

ELEKTRONIKLADEN 12-503

Elma Trenew 9-261

ELMOS 12-441

ELPA 9-110

ELTAN 9-255

ELTEC 11-306

Processors:

Core 2 Duo (up to 2.53GHz)

Pentium ® M

Intel ® Atom

Specifications: Commercial grade

through to rugged conduction cooled

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Switches, Mass Storage,

XMC/PMC boards and carriers,

Development Systems

Support for industry standard Operating

Systems including Windows ® , Linux ® ,

QNX ® , VxWorks ® , LynxOS ® , Solaris Single Board Computer

featuring the latest

45nm 2.53 GHz

Intel ® Core uter

t

2Duo

processor T9400

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email: info@cct.co.uk

tel: +44 (0)1206 752626

All trademarks acknowledged

Embedded Office 11-328

Embedded Tools 10-239

embedded-logic 12-434

embeX 12-459

EMC 9-305

Emenda 10-114

Emerson 9-578

EMKO 12-259

emlix 11-222

EMS 12-325

emsys 11-235

emtrion 10-120

EMTrust 9-463

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3U CompactPCI ®

AMC/μTCA

VME/VXS

6U CompactPCI®

The Intel® Processor Board Specialists

29 March 2009

Photo courtesy of Raytheon Company

Raytheon Company is the Mission Systems Integrator for ASTOR

C H A N G I N G

P R O C E S S I N G

FMC (VITA 57) is the new COTS standard for

high bandwidth I/O directly connected to FPGAs.

Curtiss-Wright delivers everything you need to

integrate this new technology into commercial

and rugged systems:

� FMC modules

� FMC carriers with Xilinx ® Virtex ® -5 FPGAs

� FPGA Development Kits

HPE720

6U VPX Processor

with 2x FPGAs and a

MPC864xD

ADC510

2x 500 MSPS

12-bit ADC

FPE320

3U VPX Processor

with 1x FPGA

FMC

ADC511

2x 400MSPS

14-bit ADC

ADC512

2x 3GSPS

8-bit ADC

FPE650

6U VPX Processor

with 4x FPGAs

ADC513

4x 1.5GSPS

8-bit ADC

cwcembedded.com sales@cwcembedded.com

EXHIBITORS LIST

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

Enclustra 12-258

EnOcean 12-222

ERCO & GENER 12-270

Eremex 11-309

Ericsson 12-441

esd 9-478

ESOPE 9-107i

Essensium 12-560

Esterel 10-419

ETAS 10-415

EtherCAT 9-329

Ethernet Powerlink 11-306

Eurocircuits 12-255

EUROS 11-224

Eurostandard Press 2000 11-F223

Eurotech 12-116

eVision 10-540

EVOC 9-135

EWL 12-424

EXAR 9-563

Exar 12-441

ExpertControl 10-221

Explore 12-142

Express Logic 11-124

Extension Media 10-405

exxact 12-374

F&SElektronikSysteme 9-173

FH Augsburg 11-203

Farnell 12-552

Fastwel 12-542

FERCHAU 11-307

Fimor 9-248

Firecomms 12-441

FlowCAD 11-226

Forschung für die Zukunft 11-203

FORTEC 9-263

Franzis' Verlag 11-129

Fraunhofer-Institut 12-110/11-101/12-203

Freescale 9-335

frenzel + berg 9-402

FTDI 12-442

Fujitsu 9-477/12-142/12-314/12-306

FUTURE 9-563

Garz & Fricke 9-529

GCD Hard- & Software 9-379

GE Fanuc 9-179

Geensys 10-214

Gennum 9-167

Ginzinger 12-268

Gleichmann 9-235

GLYN 12-306

Goetzfried 10-513

GÖPEL electronic 10-508

GrammaTech 11-125/10-542

GREATech 12-128

Green Hills 10-319

Hannusch 9-531

HanRun 12-441

HANSER VERLAG 10-515

Hantronix 12-142

Hartmann Elektronik 12-549

Hays 10-423

March 2009 30

HCC-Embedded 10-305

HCP 9-319

Heitec 9-476

HERMES SoftLab 11-221

HighTec 10-407

HILF! 9-253

Hilscher 9-307

Hitachi 12-306

Hitex 10-305

HMS 12-226

Hochschule für Technik 11-203

Hochschule Pforzheim 9-131

Höft & Wessel 9-319

HSM Zamecki 9-602

Hüthig 10-445

HY-LINE 9-319

IAR Systems 10-209

IBASE 12-417

IBM 10-129

IBV 11-428

ICC Media 10-439

ICNexus 9-180

Icop Technology 12-540

ICP 9-158

ICT 12-359

IEI 9-158

IFTEST 9-244

ILFA 9-381

IMACS 11-224

IMCOR 10-521

IMST 9-234

INCHRON 10-218

INCOstartec 12-204

Independent Electronic 12-264

Industrial Computer Source 9-267

Ineltek 12-142

Infineon 12-426

Ingenieurbüro 10-540

InnoDisk 12-113

Innovasic 9-281

Inova 12-142/9-535

INPERIO Systems 9-463

Inspired Energy 12-105

Insyde Software 11-125

INSYS 12-414

Intecs 10-511

Intel 9-357

INTERVALZERO 11-304

Intrepid 10-305

IPC2U 9-405

ipcas 12-555

Ircona 9-170

Ironwood 9-305

IS2T 11-336

iSYSTEM 10-217

itemis 10-529

ITK Engineering 10-208

iWave 12-125

IWSFE 12-222

IXXAT 9-279

Janich&Klass 12-532

Janz 9-467

Jauch Quartz 9-257

JET WAY 12-254

Jungo 10-521

K&A 10-205

K2L 11-414

Ka-Ro electronics 11-125/9-168

KEIL 10-231

Keith & Koep 11-318

Kinsun Industries 12-441

KIRRON 12-435

Klar Automation 10-301

Kleinhenz Elektronik 12-508

Klocwork 11-F222

Kolb Wellpappe 9-118

König 11-225

Kontron 11-306/12-404

konzeptpark 11-306

KUKA Roboter 11-440

Kurz Industrie Elektronik 12-425

KW-Software 11-306

Lantronix 12-263/12-565

Lasnier und Popa 11-F128

Latschbacher 9-302

Lattice 12-422/10-524

Lauterbach 10-325

LCD Mikroelektronik 12-303

LDRA 10-318

Lead 12-131

LeCroy 10-315

lesswire 12-403

LIFE 9-205

Linotype 11-305

LinTech 9-404

Linutronix 11-306

LIPPERT 12-228

Litemax 12-446

logi.cals 12-214

Logic Technology 11-125

LPKF 12-518

Luminary Micro 12-422/9-140

Lynuxworks 11-F114

M2M Alliance 12-322b

macio 11-231

Magic Power 9-107a

Magneti Marelli Holding 11-414

Marvell 12-422

MAXIM 12-422

MAZeT 9-376

MC Technologies 12-449

McObject 11-233

mdex 12-322f

MEDAV 11-111

Meilhaus 9-350

Memphis 12-247

MEN Mikro Elektronik 12-545

Mentor Graphics 11-218

merath 12-549

Method Park Software 11-323

metraTec 9-107f

MEV 12-441

MICRIUM 11-328

Micro Analog Systems 12-142

Microchip 9-451

MicroConsult 10-231

Micronas 12-227

MicroNova 10-221

Microsemi 12-441

Microsoft 11-414/11-318

MicroSys 12-214

Microtronics 12-322a

MID 10-205

Mikrap 12-421

MikroElektronika 12-525

MindShare 11-125

MKS 10-311

EXHIBITORS LIST

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

MontaVista 10-305

Morex 9-116

MosChip 12-304

MOStron 9-268

Moxa 12-565/12-450

MPC Data 11-318

MPL 9-203

MSC 9-235

MT Publications 10-505

MTF 9-107d

MTM 9-226

M-Tronic 9-181

Multi-Tech 12-222

31 March 2009

EXHIBITORS LIST

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

National Instruments 10-221

NAVIGON 11-414

NEC 12-422/9-447

NetModule 12-524

New Japan Radio 12-441

Nokia 11-110

Nolam 9-184

Nordic 12-422

Noser Engineering 11-F119

Nu Horizons 9-167

Nuance Aachen 11-414

NXP 12-218

Objective Software 11-302

OBP 10-504

OLIMEX 12-503

oose 10-519

Open Source 11-306

OpenSystems 11-410

Optimem 12-144

OSC 10-118

Overseas Marketing 10-344

Panasonic 9-319

Parasoft 11-209

PC/104 Consortium 12-135

PEAK-System 12-512

Pengutronix 11-306

Penton Media 11-F123

Perforce 10-343

Peschges Variometer 9-461

Phytec 11-306/12-554

Picoway Technology 11-F103

PikeTec 10-516

PLC 2 9-167

PLDA 12-559

Plextek 11-318

pls 10-215

PLUG-IN 9-354

PMC 12-422

Pohl Electronic 9-647

POLARION 10-523

port 12-224

Portwell 9-278

Power Integrations 12-441

powerBridge 12-550

PRAGMADEV 10-239

Premier 9-643

Premo 12-142

ProAnt 12-458

Proemion 12-141

profichip 9-219

Programming Research 10-119

Projektron 10-400

ProMik 9-308

Protech 9-561

pure-systems 10-124

QA Systems 10-119

QNX 11-324

QTronic 10-305

Quad 12-424

Quadros 11-431

QualiSystems 10-510

QuartzCom 12-531

March 2009 32

Radisys 9-229

RAISONANCE 10-128

Ralink 12-441

Rapita 10-421

RDC 12-304

RealiteQ 9-419

Realtek 12-441

Real-Time Systems 11-F110

Red Rocket 12-441

Reed 11-F108

Reikotech 9-125

Renesas 12-306/9-235

Rittal 12-430

RM Components 12-251

RM Michaelides 12-141

Ronetix 11-224

RoseTechnology 9-567

RS Components 12-354

RUTRONIK 9-435

Samtec 12-568

Sasco 12-362

Satyam 11-115

Scantec 12-221

SCATTERWEB 9-107k

Schleißheimer 10-446

Schmid Engineering 10-221

Schroff 12-318

Sdelovaci 10-507

SE 9-282

SECO 12-367

SEGGER 10-310

semica.de 9-667

Semtech 12-422

senTec 12-503

sepp.med 10-437

SEVENSTAX 12-418

Siemens 11-108/11-318

SIEPA 12-468

Signum Systems 10-239

Silex Technology 9-319

SILICA 12-330/12-230

Silica 11-318

Silicann 9-107c

Silicon Laboratories 12-136/12-422

Silicon Microstructures 12-441

Silicon Storage Technology 12-355

Simple Solutions 12-522

Simplify Technologies 9-631

Sitek 9-419

SMSC 12-422

SMT & HYBRID 9-380

SoftComponents 9-107b

solvimus 12-357

Sontheim 12-117

SOQUS 11-438

SORCUS 9-230

Sparklan Communications 12-441

Sparxsystems 10-404

Spectra 9-318

SPHINX 12-565

spo-comm 9-236

SPOERLE 12-362

SSV Software Systems 12-544

STEC 12-441

Steinbeis-Transferzentrum 12-322h

STMicroelectronics 12-326

Stollmann E+V 12-547

Strampe 12-541

STZ 9-131

Summit Microelectronics 12-441

Swissbit 9-435

SYMTAVISION 10-412

SYS TEC 10-211

SYSGO 11-128

system elektronik 9-551

System Industrie Electronic 9-217

SystemBase 9-172

SYSTERRA COMPUTER 9-179

TABO 9-107j

TARA Systems 10-512

TASKING 10-305

taskit 12-402

TechConnect 10-538

Techinsights 10-444

TU Dresden 11-203

TUt München 9-108

tecnotron elektronik 9-129

TecSys 9-128

Tektronix 10-411

TELCONA 12-365

Telenor 12-322d

TenAsys 11-315

Texas Instruments 12-436

The IET 10-450

The MathWorks 10-335

Thesycon 12-418

Tibbo Technology 12-441

Tieto 10-204

TIGAL 12-525

TIGRIS 12-107

TILCON 10-239

TOPSCCC 12-456

Toradex 9-130/12-133

Toshiba 12-460/12-306

Total Phase 10-222

TPO Displays 12-142

TQ-Components 12-342

Trenz Electronic 12-536

Tri-M Engineering 9-673

TRINAMIC 12-441/9-107g

TriQuint 12-422

TRL 12-322c

TTTech 10-317

Tundra 12-422

ULTRATRONIK 12-121

Unicoi Systems 11-422

Unitronic 12-222

Universität Leipzig 11-203

UPEK 12-422

VAST 10-518

Vector 10-339/10-441

Verifysoft Technology 11-112

VIA 12-350

Virtium Technology 9-218

VISION SYSTEMS 9-132

Visual 10-540

Visure Solutions 10-119

Vliesstoff Kasper 9-531

Vogel Business Media 10-206

voice INTER connect 11-418

WAGO Kontakttechnik 9-207

Wavecom 12-306/12-422/12-222

WEKA-Verlag 11-129

Willert 10-231

Wind River 11-118/10-239

WITTENSTEIN 11-136

Wordsworth Technology 9-202

EXHIBITORS LIST

Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand Company Hall-Stand

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WÜRTH Elektronik 12-546

Xentech 9-144

XILINX 12-515

XiSys 12-214

X-SPEX 12-107

Yellowstone 9-105

YOKOGAWA 10-416

Zarlink 12-422

ZENSYS 12-441

ZEROPLUS 10-509

ZiLOG 12-422

Zitzmann 11-218

Zühlke Engineering 10-429

Universal Developed for telecommunications, but universally usable for

automation, image/video processing, test and measurement,

aerospace and defence technologies.

Flexible Various system form factors are possible, scalable backplane

topologies allow the use of several different software protocols

within one system.

Modular All „intelligent“ units like the AdvanceMC, cooling units and power

modules are front replaceable and hot swappable.

Economic High performance at an

attractive price.

Plug & Play for MicroTCA

Modular high-speed systems

for cost-sensitive applications

Halle 12 Stand 318

33 March 2009

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Embedded World Product Highlights

■ “Despite the apparently difficult worldwide economic situation,

embedded world is well placed and proving to be as steady as a rock. It

defies the general challenges under discussion. And this optimism is

proved by figures: The event has increased by another five per cent in display

space, and the international share of exhibiting companies has now

risen to 38 per cent. The international embedded community is sending

a positive signal with embedded world,” says Exhibition Director

Hall-Stand 10-411

Tektronix expands TriMode probe series

Tektronix announces new offerings of its active

differential probes that complement the full

portfolio of new DPO/DSA70000B Series realtime

oscilloscopes. The expanded P7500 probing

family now offers performance probes for 4,

6 and 8 GHz in addition to the previously available

industry setting benchmark ultra-performance

probes at 13, 16 and 20 GHz. With the

new additions to the P7500 TriMode family,

probing capability is available across the complete

portfolio of Tektronix DPO/DSA70000B

performance and ultra-performance oscilloscopes

providing electrical engineers with the

most advanced scope and probe combination

for challenging serial data signals.

News ID 80

Hall-Stand 10-217

iSYSTEM: tools for Renesas R8C/3x MCUs

iSYSTEM and Renesas announce their cooperation

to support the new Renesas microcontroller

generation with iSYSTEM' s emulation

and debug technology. iSYSTEM and

Renesas have acted upon requests by the automotive

industry to offer flexible tools that can

be seamlessly integrated into the software

development and test process. iSYSTEM tools

for embedded software development include

in-circuit and on-chip emulation hardware

for more than 50 microcontroller families and

their derivates, an easy to use development

environment and open interfaces for flexible

integration and application of iSYSTEM

products in the development cycle.

News ID 149

March 2009 34

Alexander Mattausch. Let’s hope that Mattausch’ optimism will become

true. Many market insiders do not share this optimistic. They are

expecting that the atmosphere at Embedded World will be quite depressed

this year – in line with the current overall business climate. But nevertheless

Embedded World exhibitors will present again a multitude of new

and innovative product and services. On the following pages we have put

together an overview about Embedded World Product highlights. ■

More information about each news is available on

www.Embedded-Control-Europe.com/ece_magazine

• You have to type in the “News ID”. —

The Embedded World

Exhibition & Conference

takes place in the Exhibition

Centre Nuremberg from

3-5 March 2009.

Hall-Stand 10-221

NI: data acquisition series with highdensity

strain and high-voltage modules

National Instruments has announced the expansion

of its C Series data acquisition family

with the NI 9225 300 V power measurement

module as well as the NI 9235 and NI 9236

eight-channel strain gage measurement modules.

These modules are supported on NI C

Series-based devices including the NI CompactDAQ

plug-and-play data acquisition system,

NI CompactRIO rugged control and acquisition

system and NI Single-Board RIO

embedded design devices. These three new

modules expand the C Series I/O platform to

more than 40 modules and add power quality

testing capabilities.

News ID 109

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 12-236

Avnet Embedded extends Avalue

franchise in Europe

Avnet Embedded and Avalue have extended

their distribution agreement in Europe. The

new agreement is effective immediately and

covers Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy,

Spain, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic.

Avalue is a professional industrial computer

manufacturing company with complete product

lines in embedded computers, single board

computers, Systems-on-Modules-ETX, industrial

motherboards, all-purpose tablet PCs,

and bare bone products, etc.

News ID 89

Hall-Stand 12-142

austriamicrosystems: 125 kHz LF

wakeup receiver

austriamicrosystems expands its RF product

portfolio with the AS3932, a 3-channel low

power low frequency wakeup receiver which offers

high sensitivity at low current consumption.

The AS3932 supports the widely used 125 kHz

band and, through the optimization of power

consumption, sensitivity and programmability,

enables a variety of applications. The AS3932

wakeup receiver has three independent receiving

IGH PEED

H S

ROBUST

FLEXIBLE

channels enabling detection of a wakeup signal

from any direction The received data can be correlated

with a pattern that is programmed in the

applications are active RFID, high-value asset

tracking, real-time location systems, operator

identification and access control or keyless entry.

News ID 166

Hall-Stand 11-119

Aonix: ObjectAda for Wind River

VxWorks RTOS

Aonix announces the release of ObjectAda 8.4

for Windows, targeting PowerPC embedded

and real-time systems running the Wind River

VxWorks 6.6 real-time operating system. This

is the first ObjectAda release supporting full

Ada tasking atop VxWorks 6.6 via Real-Time

Processes. ObjectAda for VxWorks leverages

Wind River Workbench, an Eclipse-based development

environment providing developers

access to the broad range of tools available

through the Eclipse framework. With support

for multiple operating systems, architectures

and programming languages, ObjectAda for

VxWorks provides the flexibility to standardize

on a single development framework.

News ID 156

Please visit us at Embedded World 2009, Hall 10, Booth 215

March 2009 36

Hall-Stand 12-130/12-142

Atmel: free Windows Embedded BSPs

for AT91SAM9 MPUs

Atmel announces the availability of Microsoft

Windows Embedded Board Support Packages

for its AT91SAM9 ARM926EJ-S-based embedded

MPUs. The Windows Embedded CE

5.0 BSP and the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2

BSP, initially developed by Adeneo Embedded

and now supported by Atmel, are available for

free from the Web site.

News ID 65

Hall-Stand 9-209

BCM: Mini-ITX motherboard for

high-end imaging

BCM introduces IX690E2, a Mini-ITX motherboard

with sophisticated graphics performance

and long-term availability that is ideal for

embedded solutions. Coming with AMD

RS690E and integrated IGP ATI Radeon X1250base

chipset, IX690E2 performs at FSB of

200/400/600/800 MHz hyper transport and resolution

of 2048 x 1636 so as to offer vivid image

and smooth video playback. This kind of high

resolution and color depth makes IX690E2 an

industrial motherboard with powerful graphics

capability which has become a trend in embedded

designs, especially for commercial outdoor

broadcasting, gaming and entertainment

machines, POS/POI terminals, and medical/industrial

image process.

News ID 164

Hall-Stand 11-414

EB: model-based development of HMI

environment

Elektrobit has released a new version of the EB

GUIDE Studio, Version 4.0. EB GUIDE Studio

is a tool for the model-based development of a

HMI environment. The new version offers its

users many new functions which, above all, lead

to significant improvements in performance

and memory utilization. For the storing, loading

and merging of projects, it also offers considerable

time savings. At the same time EB also

releases the Version 2.0 of the EB GUIDE

Graphics Target Framework (GTF) runtime

environment.

News ID 104

Hall-Stand 10-239

Embedded Tools: tool suite for

real-time timing analysis

The German distributor Embedded Tools

has announced that it has added timing

analysis tools to its portfolio with a distribution

agreement with Rapita Systems. Embedded

Tools will be supplying Rapita Systems'

software toolset, RapiTime. RapiTime analyses

the timing behaviour of embedded realtime

software using both a static model of the

code structure.

News ID 96

Hall-Stand 9-261

ELMA: MicroTCA basis system for

rugged applications

ELMA has developed its new blu!smart basis

system specifically for ruggedized applications

and for intensive testing of AMC modules

under such tough conditions. It is mounted on

a flat surface using four flange holes and, for instance,

can therefore be mounted on walls and

panels in industrial environments. Exhaustive

testing has confirmed that the AMCs in the system

remain firmly fixed – even when subject to

significant shock and vibration. The new basis

system is functionally compatible with the

MicroTCA specifications. However, for ruggedized

applications, card guides developed by

ELMA are installed in the chassis.

News ID 90

Hall-Stand 12-116

Eurotech: rugged mobile access

router for defense and public safety

The DuraMAR 2150 is Eurotechs’ new compact,

high-performance rugged mobile access

router designed for secure communications,

seamless mobility, and interoperability for defense,

public safety, security and transportation

networks. The DuraMAR 2150 series Mobile

Access Router is an integrated rugged Mobile IP

router designed for net-centric operation for

vehicle installations on trains, buses and metros.

Leveraging Cisco Systems’ industry standard

IOS software, 3200 series mobile access routing

technology and Eurotech’s embedded Linux

wireless communication controller, the Dura-

MAR router enables prime contractors and systems

integrators to achieve mobile communications-on-the-move

and a wide range of new

in-vehicle networking applications, from wireless

Internet access to Voice over IP, passenger

WiFi services to streaming video surveillance

and smart vehicle diagnostic/maintenance.

News ID 142

Hall-Stand 12-313

EKF: cPCI CPU board with Core 2 Duo up

to 2.26GHz

EKF announces the CCM-BOOGIE, a versatile

3U/4HP CompactPCI CPU board, equipped

with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at up to

2.26GHz clock, and up to 8GB dual channel capable

DDR3 RAM. Four native 3Gbps RAID

capable Serial ATA channels are available for

mass storage I/O, and in addition another two

from a secondary RAID controller. The CCM-

BOOGIE has been designed especially for

rugged industrial systems which require dualcore

high performance at moderate power consumption.

The chipset is based on PCI Express

technology and has a powerful integrated

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

graphics accelerator. The DVI-I front panel

connector enables dual screen video operation.

Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers are provided

for high speed connectivity. As an option, a wide

range of mezzanine modules and expansion side

boards is available for the CCM-BOOGIE, with

a variety of additional I/O interfaces, and diverse

industrial grade massstorage solutions.

News ID 61

Hall-Stand 9-335

Freescale: industrial connectivity

with ColdFire MCUs

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a

“one-stop-shop” industrial connectivity solution

that combines its most highly integrated

32-bit ColdFire MCU family with a complimentary

offering of the Freescale MQX realtime

operating system. Freescale’s high-performance

MCF5225x MCU family offers on-chip

USB, Ethernet, CAN and encryption, along

with Freescale MQX RTOS and associated

tools and software stacks. Based on the 32-bit

ColdFire V2 core, the MCF5225x MCUs are

well-suited for a broad range of industrial networking,

building/lighting control and medical

applications that require high performance

and connectivity options.

News ID 94

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 9-235

MSC: CPLDs for low power board

space challenged applications

MSC announced that the new isp-

MACH4000ZE devices from Lattice are featured

with a new 64-ball ultra chip scale BGA

package with a 4mm by 4mm footprint and the

132-ball ucBGA package with a 6 mm by

6mm footprint. These new, space saving packages

enable designers to use ispMACH4000ZE

devices in a board space that is 36% smaller

than previously possible. With typical standby

current as low as 10uA, Lattice’s isp

MACH4000ZE CPLD family is perfect for low

power, high volume, board space challenged applications,

such as hand-held GPS navigation,

video cameras, smart phones, barcode scanners

and portable test equipment designs.

News ID 92

Hall-Stand 12-545

MEN: CompactPCI PlusIO standard

MEN expects the PICMG 2.30 CompactPCI

PlusIO standard, finished in November 2008, to

be officially adopted during the summer of

2009. According to PICMG guidelines, draft

standards are not open to the public. MEN

Mikro Elektronik also announces that the new

CompactPCI PlusIO connectors of 3M, which

are backward compatible with CompactPCI,

are now available. PICMG 2.30 is based on the

PICMG 2.0 CompactPCI Core specification

and defines the migration path from parallel

CompactPCI to the serial CompactPCI Plus.

For this purpose a new peripheral slot was defined,

together with a connector for differential

signals with a fast data rate of at least 10 Gbps,

to support also the next generation serial buses

like SATA 3.0, PCIe 2.0, 10GBase-T Ethernet,

USB 3.0 etc.

News ID 98

EUROS Embedded Systems GmbH specialises

in the field of embedded software and offers a

broad range of high-quality products, which

guarantee the portability of embedded

applications across all established

microcontroller architectures.

In addition to a broad product range around the

Real-Time Operating Systems EUROS and

EUROSmot (OSEK-compliant) like:

miscellaneous device driver packages, TCP/IP,

SNMP, Web server, IrDA, CANopen, ISDN,

Bluetooth, Stand-Alone Cross-Development Environment consisting of

EUROSkit (IDE), EUROScope (symbolic debugger), EUROStrace (Profiler),

EUROSanalyze (static code analysis) etc., EUROS Embedded Systems GmbH is

pleased to present you the following product highlights:

• Embedded Studio for EUROS: Port of the existing Integrated Cross-

Development Environment EUROSkit and EUROScope to the Microsoft's

Visual Studio Shell 2008,

Find Your Key to Real -Time at Hall 11 – Booth 224.

We are looking forward to meeting You!

Hall-Stand 12-422

Maxim: dual-channel, highly integrated

8-bit ADCs

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the

MAX19505 / MAX19506 / MAX19507, a pincompatible

family of dual-channel, 8-bit,

65/100/130Msps ADCs. The devices consume a

mere 43mW (MAX19505), 57mW (MAX19506),

and 74mW (MAX19507) of analog power per

channel. Additionally, these ADCs achieve nearly

ideal 8-bit dynamic performance, with a

49.8dBFS SNR and 69dBc SFDR at 70MHz.

News ID 76

Hall-Stand 9-451

Microchip: stand-alone serial SRAM devices

Microchip announces a family of 8- and 32-kByte

stand-alone serial SRAM devices designed to increase

a system’s available RAM through adding

small, inexpensive external devices. The 23A640,

23K640 (23 x 640), 23A256 and 23K256 (23 x

256) devices feature a familiar, industry standard

SPI interface, providing increased design flexibility

while reducing design and production costs.

News ID 86

Hall-Stand 9-229

RadiSys and Enea: platform management

solution

RadiSys and Enea announced the release of the

Enea System Manager,a platform management solution,

designed for the RadiSys Promentum ATCA

10G platform. Enea System Manager is an entirely

new product category for the ATCA space, providing

an out-of-the-box level of integration with the

RadiSys Promentum ATCA platform not previously

available. Enea System Manager is the only comprehensive,

pre-integrated, pre-modeled platform

management application for the ATCA platform.

News ID 123

• VmfWin under EUROS: EUROS announces the support of the VmfWin

of KUKA Roboter, a Virtual Machine Framework for Windows. This

progressive virtualization technology for embedded solutions enables

users of EUROS to run the real-time operating system and Windows on

a single hardware platform at the same time.

• OPC UA (Unified Architecture) embedded application implemented

under EUROS. Using this middleware the standardized data access using

OPC UA is available now for embedded systems under EUROS control,

• Virtual Terminal Designer, Simulation of ISO 11783 terminals: This

tool supports the design engineer while creating templates for virtual

terminals, which can be downloaded to the respective device over the

serial interface,

• EUROStrack: Variable tracking under EUROScope for the new On Chip

Debug mechanism for Fujitsu 16FX family of microcontrollers,

• Port of the Real-Time Operating System EUROS including its Cross-

Development Environment for the Renesas H8, H8S, H8SX and Cortex

family of microcontrollers.

EUROS Embedded Systems GmbH |Campestraße 12 | 90419 Nürnberg

Tel.: +49 (0)911/300328-0 | Fax: +49 (0)911/300328-9 | E-mail: info@euros-embedded.com | www.euros-embedded.com

March 2009 38

Hall-Stand 9-561

Protech: ultracompact PC for

performance-critical environments

Protech Systems has released its new “book size”

model, the PS-8590, for use in environments

where speed, multitasking capability and

ruggedness are required but space is at a premium.

The PS-8590 is based on the Intel

945GME + ICH7R chipset configuration,

which ensures its compatibility with the latest

processing technology, including any of the

Core 2 Duo, Core Duo and Celeron M designs.

Consequently, the card can easily accommodate

all the latest applications among manufacturers

and developers, in addition to businesses and

private users who need the highest level of

stability in multitasking.

News ID 127

Hall-Stand 9-283

Curtiss-Wright: 2.7 Terabyte rugged

6-drive JBOD system

Curtiss-Wright has announced a new expanded

version of its SANbric storage subsystem, a

rugged removable rotating media storage system

for high altitude applications. Now available

with up to 2.7 terabytes of hard drive storage,

the SANbric deploys six 3.5” drives in a JBOD

configuration supported by a dual high-speed

Fibre Channel Storage Area Network communications

architecture. SANbric is designed for

use in the harsh environments typical of military

aerospace intelligence, surveillance and

reconnaissance applications such as ELINT,

COMINT, SIGINT, SAR, MTI, and SDR.

News ID 128

Hall-Stand 11-128

SYSGO partners with MICROTASK in Italy

In order to address new opportunities in the

Italian market, SYSGO is now partnering with

MICROTASK Embedded, which has a complimentary

level of quality standards and expertise

in the embedded/real-time domain. The

agreement allows MICROTASK Embedded to

be the exclusive reseller in Italy of PikeOS and

ELinOSproductsaswellasanyrelatedservices.

News ID 168

Hall-Stand 9-278

Portwell: PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet adapter

Portwell announces ABN-262, a PCI-E dual copper

Gigabit Ethernet adapter with bypass function.

Based on the Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet

controller, ABN-262 features low power connectivity

with advanced performance in a small

footprint. ABN-262 unit includes a built-in

watchdog timer - with an easy-configurable

Normal/Bypass mode - that incorporates a software

programmable time-out setting and a

control to automatically switch to bypass/nonbypass

functions for Ethernet ports in the event

of a host system “hang” and/or power failure.

News ID 141

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 12-422/9-447

NEC sharpens image quality with super-resolution ASSP

NEC Electronics introduces a new application-specific standard

product which reduces the blurring that occurs when low-resolution

images are expanded and displayed in high-resolution. The ASSP

sharpens out-of-focus images, smoothes rough edges and refines contours

by analyzing and processing information contained in one frame

of data in real time. Using standard video interfaces for data input and

output, designers can easily integrate the ASSP into a wide variety of

consumer, industrial, medical and automotive devices that handle images

and video.

News ID 172

Hall-Stand 9-451

Microchip: new tools and libraries for motor control

Microchip announces expanded support for Motor Control applications

based on the dsPIC Digital Signal Controller. The dsPICDEM

MCLV Development Board is a new low-voltage Brushless DC

motor-control development platform supporting the dsPIC33F family

of motor control DSCs. It provides a cost-effective method for evaluating

and developing sensored or sensorless BLDCs and Permanent

Magnet Synchronous Motor control applications.

News ID 122

Hall-Stand 12-136/12-422

SiLabs to showcase power-efficient embedded wireless design

At Embedded World 2009, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its

power-efficient embedded wireless design based on its EZRadioPRO

technology. Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative design techniques

through live product and hands-on demonstrations for a range of consumer

and industrial monitoring and control requiring power efficiency

with special emphasis on extending battery life and improving

performance. Silicon Labs will also showcase its C8051F mixed-signal

MCUs including its low voltage MCU capable of operating down to 0.9

V, and its 8-Bit CPUs up to 100 MIPS.

News ID 70

Hall-Stand 9-235

MSC: LED driver IC with thermal shutdown

The new driver IC MBI6650 from Macroblock enables to be a step ahead

due to the lifetime of a LED and in improving the efficiency of an application.

It allows the design of a constant current source with only four

external components. Due to the fact of a high efficiency of more than

90% at heavy and 85% at light load, a very small PCB can be used.

News ID 73

Hall-Stand 9-435

Rutronik: complete Embedded Systems solutions

from a single source

Rutronik showcases itself at Embedded World as a solutions provider

supplying its target markets with customised total solutions, along with

solar power, e-metering, hybrid drive, street lighting, wireless building

and security applications, as well as LEDs and TFTs. The customised systems

incorporate every component, from the motherboard, the storage

media, to the display unit, embedded board, disk drive and cabling, and

including accessories such as inverters and touch controllers. Visitors

will see tangible evidence of the range of complete solutions in the more

extensive exhibition stand, where Swissbit - the manufacturer of DRAM

and flash memory products - will be exhibiting alongside Discomp -

Rutronik’s memory specialist - and the Embedded Boards and Displays

product division. The latest LED and TFT technologies will be among

the product highlights. As ever, product specialists from Rutronik and

the manufacturers will be on the stand to answer specific questions.

News ID 157

39 March 2009

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 9-463

EMTrust: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU on 3U

CompactPCI

EMTrust has developed a new Intel Core 2 Duo

CPU on a 3UCompactPCI form factor. Based

on the Mobile Intel GS45 Express chipset it is

possible to use low-power processors from the

Celeron M 1.2GHz up to the high-performance

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz. Supports up to 8 GB

DDR3 dual channel memory with Intel Flex

Memory Technology on two SODIMM sockets.

A 4HP version is available with 2x GB-Ethernet,

2x USB 2.0 and one single DVI-I-Port as well as

LED for HDD and system status. The 8HP version

comes with an integrated SATA hard disk

and additional 2x USB 2.0 ports, 1x GB-Ethernet,

1x COM and 1x PS/2. Customer specific

versions and a 12HP version with extra COM

and LPT-ports are also available.

News ID 153

Hall-Stand 12-544

SSV: plug-in board format supports

x86, ARM and PowerPC

SSV announces the eSOM-200 module format

which was developed so that long-term availability

over 10+ years could be guaranteed. In

particular very easy integration into the target

environment was a major factor taken into con-

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sideration while shaping the technical specifications,

so was platform independence. In addition

to common computer interfaces, such as

LAN, UART, USB and LCD, a simple, generic

16-bit bus is still available for an easy connection

of typical peripheral modules. The eSOM-

200 module measures a compact 80 x 50 mm.

The module's 200 pins are accessible on two

FX8C plug connectors.

News ID 137

Hall-Stand 12-436

TI: solar energy harvesting kit for wireless

sensor networks

Texas Instruments announces a solar energy

harvesting development kit that converts ambient

light into power for industrial, transportation,

agricultural and commercial applications.

The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-

SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation’s EnerChip

thin-film battery technology with TI’s

MSP430 MCUs, CC2500 radio frequency

transceivers and the eZ430-RF2500 development

tool. Developers can now build self powered

solar-based wireless sensor networks,

eliminating system batteries, which cost time

and money to periodically replace, especially in

remote locations.

News ID 64

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Horizon Air, Green Hills, Wind River etc

Hall-Stand 9-136

Datakey: development kit for

managed-memory token

Datakey Electronics has released a new development

kit for its NFX Managed-Memory

Tokens which includes an improved sample application,

illustratesing utility that allows for

simplified testing and configuration of the

NFX Tokens' OEM and security features. The

NFX Managed-Memory line of Tokens provides

a rugged, portable data carrier solution

without the shortcomings of consumer-style

memory devices.

News ID 135

Hall-Stand 9-335

Freescale: complimentary real-time

OS and software stacks

Freescale is offering the Freescale MQX realtime

operating system with TCP/IP and USB

software stacks to ColdFire microcontroller

customers at no additional charge. Freescale is

now shipping its new MCF5225x ColdFire

MCUs with a complimentary, full-featured

version of the Freescale MQX RTOS and

associated stacks, providing developers a comprehensive

embedded platform for industrial

connectivity.

News ID 93

11th–12th March 2009, Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (city centre),

Amsterdam, Holland www.avionics-event.com

9 Workshops – with speakers from Wind River, Green Hills,

Naverus, Rapita Systems, General Electric, AdaCore, RTI, Frank

Alexander & Associates and CMC Electronics

3 x ½ day MasterClasses from Presagis, Verocel, Wind River, GE

Fanuc, Seaweed, Adacore, Boeing

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Hall-Stand 12-441

Densitron speeds evaluation of

TFT & AMOLED displays

Densitron announces the release of a new

proprietary display development platform –

the V-DUO Kit for 3.5” and 4.3” Active Matrix

OLEDs. V-DUO utilizes TI ARM-9

processor with a Linux based real-time operating

system, and supports display resolutions

up to 1366x768. Each kit comes with

Display Driver Interface, Touch-screen Drivers,

Video and Still Image Playback SW,

Micro-SD Interface, 1Gb Internal Flash

shared with 128Mb of Internal DDR2,

Rechargeable Battery (via USB or power

supply), and Composite Video Input. Also

available are RS232, USB host and slave, and

6 input keypad interfaces.

News ID 171

Hall-Stand 12-436

TI: low power ADCs for high-density

multi-channel applications

Texas Instruments announces the ADS795x

family of low power, precision SAR analog-todigital

converters in a small form factor. These

devices provide excellent linearity and AC performance

for high-density applications and are

optimized to deliver maximum performance in

battery and low-voltage applications, such as

handheld medical instruments, programmable

logic controllers and digital power supplies. The

ADS795x family includes a high degree of integration

such as GPIO, programmable alarm

thresholds, on board sequencer, and an SPI

compatible interface to minimize board space

requirements and simplify connectivity and

software on the host device.

News ID 97

Hall-Stand 9-561

Protech: CPU card with Core 2 Duo/ Quad

processing

Protech Systems has established a new benchmark

of performance with its PSB-701LF CPU

card, a model designed for maximum performance

in today’s gaming environments,

multimedia and other memory-intensive applications.

The PSB-701LF is based on the Intel

Q35 + ICH9DO chipset configuration, which

ensures its compatibility with the latest processing

technology, including the Core 2 Duo,

Core 2 Quad and Celeron configurations. Accordingly,

the new model can accommodate the

need for reliable usage with all leading Windows-based

software applications, and can do

so at any of various price levels.

News ID 121

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 9-259

Altera: FPGA families with integrated

transceivers

Altera announces two new FPGA families with integrated

transceivers. The new Stratix IV GT and

Arria II GX 40-nm FPGA families join Stratix IV

GX FPGAs and HardCopy IV GX ASICs to expand

Altera’s portfolio of transceiver FPGA and

ASIC solutions offering transceiver speeds from

155 Mbps to 11.3 Gbps. The Arria II GX, Stratix

IV GT, and Stratix IV GX FPGAs and HardCopy

IV GX ASICs utilize common transceiver technology

and are supported by a common set of development

tools that enable system designers to

develop full system-on-chip solutions.

News ID 146

Hall-Stand 12-422/9-447

NEC: power-saving TFT LCD modules

with white LED backlights

NEC LCD Technologies introduces two new

amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor liquid

crystal display modules incorporating white

LED backlights for industrial applications. The

modules consume less power, are substantially

thinner and lighter than comparable LCD

modules incorporating cold-cathode fluorescent

lamp backlights.

News ID 106

03.-05. March

Hall 12, Booth 430

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 12-130/12-142

Atmel acquires MeshNetics ZigBee

intellectual properties

Atmel has acquired all MeshNetics ZigBee Intellectual

Property Rights from LuxLabs BVI.

The acquisition of the MeshNetics ZigBee IP,

includes BitCloud ZigBee PRO software and

ZigBit wireless modules. The BitCloud ZigBee

PRO software stack is a full-featured, second

generation embedded ZigBee certified stack for

reliable, scalable, and secure wireless applications

running on Atmel’s wireless platforms.

News ID 151

Hall-Stand 12-422

Avnet Memec: simultaneous-sampling

ADCs with SPI interface

Avnet Memec introduces the MAX1377 /

MAX1379 / MAX1383 dual, 12-bit, 1.25Msps,

simultaneous-sampling ADCs from Maxim

Integrated Products. Each of the two ADCs features

an independent serial peripheral interface

for host communication, allowing the fastest

clock required on each interface to be reduced

to 20MHz while supporting the maximum

sampling rate. Alternatively, designers can

combine the two data streams to use only a single

SPI port if the sampling rate is slower or if

the host's SPI interface can operate in excess of

40MHz.

News ID 78

Hall-Stand 12-422

Maxim: secure supervisor supports

FIPS 140-2 Levels 3 and 4

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the

DS3645 secure supervisor for servers, cryptographic

coprocessors, POS terminals, and

secure communication applications. The

device integrates a real-time clock, automatic

battery switch, and I2C interface.

The DS3645 provides active tamper detec-

Standards improve quality and enable designers to

share components across different projects.Today,

ARM ® Cortex-M profile processors, combined with

the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface

Standard (CMSIS) and optimized middleware from the

industry’s largest ecosystem, are setting the hardware

and software standards for microcontrollers.

These standards enable leading vendors such as

Luminary Micro, NXP, and STMicroelectronics to

supply advanced microcontrollers, while maximizing

code reuse across multiple platforms.

tion with rapid erasure of key memory, and

is packaged in a leadless CSBGA for

enhanced security. Eight uncommitted

external inputs allow design engineers to

implement additional levels of security.

Designed for applications requiring the

highest level of security, this device supports

FIPS 140-2 Levels 3 and 4, as well as the

highest requirements of Common Criteria.

News ID 150

Hall-Stand 9-283

Curtiss-Wright: integrated radar input

and scan converter

Curtiss-Wright has announced Cougar, a new

radar input and scan converter VME board set.

Cougar provides an open standards-based high

performance solution for capturing, converting

and mixing radar video. Designed for demanding

military radar applications, Cougar

speeds and simplifies the integration of advanced

radar image processing and distribution

functionality into deployed embedded systems.

The flexible, two-slot VME modular

Cougar system provides the complete functionality

required to integrate and implement a

wide range of radar input/scan conversion

configurations.

News ID 152

Hall-Stand 12-436

TI: power management chips increase

efficiency in LED designs

Texas Instruments introduces a high-power

DC/DC boost LED driver (TPS61500) and

high-voltage DC/DC boost converter

(TPS61175), and expanded its step-down

DC/DC converter series with TPS62110.

These devices can support input voltages of

up to 18 V and feature smaller voltage references

for improved LED circuit design. These

energy-efficient devices are cross-functional

Standards Make Sense

Cortex Microcontrollers Make Sense!

The Architecture for the Digital World ®

“We based our award-winning

Stellaris ® microcontrollers on Cortex-M3 to

provide users with 32-bit performance while

eliminating future architectural upgrades or

software tool changes.”

Jean Anne Booth

Chief Marketing Officer,

Luminary Micro

www.onARM.com

and work across a variety of LED applications,

including signage, ambient light, office light,

general illumination, military, medical and

sensors.

News ID 102

Hall-Stand 9-477/12-142/12-314/12-306

Fujitsu Microelectronics acquires Software

Development Centre

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe announces

the expansion of its software capabilities with

the acquisition of Comneon’s software development

centre in Linz, from parent company

Infineon Technologies. Comneon has been a

global supplier of embedded software solutions

for 17 years, providing a comprehensive range

of R&D, applications and software services. The

acquisition, which took effect on January 1st

2009, marked the formation of a new company,

FME Embedded Solutions in Austria, dedicated

to delivering systems solutions to customers

across EMEA.

News ID 107

Hall-Stand 9-235

Gleichmann: whole range of innovative

displays

Gleichmann Electronics presents a whole range

of innovative displays at embedded world

2009. One of the highlights is the 15-inch industrial

display G150XG01V2 with 1024 x 768

pixels XGA resolution and power consumption

of less than 10 W. A brightness of 350 cd/m2

and a contrast ratio of 700:1 typical together

with wide horizontal and vertical viewing angles

of 160 and 140 ensure good readability also

under variable light conditions. The operating

temperature ranges from 0 C to + 65 C and a

supply voltage of 3.3 VDD is required. As with

the CCFL version, this display conforms to the

PSWG standard.

News ID 136

Find us at:

Embedded World

Nürnberg, 3-5 March 2009

ARM – Hall 9, Stand 273

Luminary Micro – Hall 9,

Stand 140

Hall-Stand 9-179

GE Fanuc: Intel Core2 Duo-based

6U VME SBC

GE Fanuc announces the V7875 single board

computer, responding to customer demand for

6U VME solutions with increased processing

performance, lower power consumption,

extensive I/O capability and advanced graphics.

VITA 41.3 for Gigabit Ethernet across the

backplane is also optionally available. Featuring

the Intel Core2 Duo T9400 processor - which

was designed for mobile applications in which

power conservation is a key design factor - running

at 2.53 GHz, the V7875 also provides up to

6MBytesofL2cache.

News ID 133

Hall-Stand 9-235

Gleichmann: more than 120 standard

LCD modules in catalog 2009

The GE Vision product catalog 2009 contains

detailed technical information on more than

120 standard LCD modules from1x8characters

up to panels with 320 x 240 pixels. This catalog

is available immediately free of charge

from Gleichmann Electronics. Most of the

customer-specific modifiable displays are available

in all popular LCD technologies. In addition,

22 models are offered with RGB backlight.

Furthermore, many graphic modules are also

available at attractive prices as a standard

product with analog resistive touchscreen.

News ID 148

Hall-Stand 12-422/9-140

Luminary Micro: next generation of

Stellaris MCUs

Luminary Micro announces it will be offering

previews of its fourth generation family of Stellaris

MCUs at Embedded World. The newest

Stellaris MCUs offer 80MHz performance, integrated

Ethernet, USB, and CAN, a powerful

external interface, and extremely low operating

power. The newest Stellaris microcontrollers are

ideal for advanced motion control, energy

conversion, security access and controls, industrial

control, and connectivity applications.

With this launch, Luminary Micro will have

more than 150 ARM-based microcontrollers

available in the market.

News ID 154

Hall-Stand 12-422

Maxim: 16-bit MCU extends battery life

in portable equipment

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the

MAXQ610 16-bit microcontroller. Designed to

extend battery life in low-power applications, this

device operates from a 1.7V to 3.6V voltage range.

The MAXQ610 consumes an ultra-low 200nA in

stop mode, and delivers up to 12MIPS at 3.75mA

in active operation. In all, the device can lengthen

the life of batteries by several months.

News ID 162

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 12-130/12-142

Atmel: touch-library that resides on

the microcontroller

Atmel announces the availability of its advanced

Touch-library that resides on the microcontroller

instead of a separate chip resulting

in a highly cost effective solution, which will

be provided at no additional cost. The library

consists of precompiled and verified binary files

that can be configured individually as discrete

keys or can be combined at will, as groups, to

form wheels and sliders.

News ID 119

Hall-Stand 9-283

Curtiss-Wright: rugged

CANbus/MilCAN/utility bus I/O PMC card

Curtiss-Wright has introduced the

SPMC/DPMC-214, a new high performance,

rugged PMC card that offloads host processor

cards from CANbus, MilCAN, and Utility Bus

processing tasks. The SPMC/DPMC-214, available

in both air- and conduction-cooled versions,

speeds and eases the integration of the CANbus

and MilCAN data communications protocols

into embedded aerospace and defense systems

deployed in harsh environments. This fully

compliant PMC mezzanine card provides 4

CANBus ports or 4 MilCAN ports along with

the US Army standard Utility Bus, and TTL I/O

functionality.

News ID 125

Hall-Stand 10-412

AbsInt: tools for validation and verification

of safety-critical software

AbsInt Angewandte Informatik introduces four

new tools: The TimingExplorer offers a set of

parameterizable ECU core models to explore

the effects of different ECUs or different configurations

on the worst-case execution time

performance. The ValueAnalyzer automatically

determines which memory areas are read or

written by the tasks of your application. The

TimeWeaver computes task-level WCET

estimates from the execution time of code

snippets obtained from real-time instructionlevel

tracing. ASTRÉE is a static program

analyzer that proves the absence of run-time

errors in safety-critical embedded applications

written or automatically generated in C.

News ID 205

Hall-Stand 12-536

Trenz: high-speed serial communication

with realtime Linux

Trenz Electronic announced that the embedded

device server modules Eddy v2.1 by SystemBase

are small Linux-ready 32-bit ARM9-based modules

supporting high-speed RS-232, RS-422 and

RS-485 serial interfaces at up to 921.6 Kb/s, an extended

temperature range and are equipped with

an Ethernet and Wireless interface.

News ID 91

43 March 2009

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 10-221

NI: plug-in module for teaching fibre

optics communications concepts

Emona Instruments, a National Instruments

Alliance Partner, and National Instruments

are working together to help educators teach

students fiber optic communications fundamentals

with the release of a new add-on fiber

optics experiments board, the Fibre Optics

Telecommunications Experimenter (FOTEx)

for the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation

Suite (NI ELVIS I & II). With

FOTEx and the NI ELVIS integrated design and

prototyping platform, students now can visualize

fibre optics communications concepts in

a hands-on learning environment.

News ID 75

Hall-Stand 11-315

TenAsys: OPC UA communication server

for embedded x86 platforms

TenAsys announces their technology partnership

with Unified Automation and ascolab for

application of the OPC standard Unified Architecture

(OPC UA) SDK to the TenAsys INtime

RTOS. TenAsys’ INtime RTOS plus Unified

Automation’s OPC UA SDK equals an OPC

platform that combines the flexibility of Windows

with the certainty of hard, real time determinism.

The OPC UA communication stack

can be implemented directly on the INtime

RTOS, allowing OPC data services to be tightly

coupled with real-time control applications.

This arrangement reduces resource requirements

and avoids state inconsistencies.

News ID 163

Hall-Stand 10-305

HCC- Embedded: flash controller for

NAND devices

HCC- Embedded presents V-NAND-FC , a full

featured NAND flash controller for SLC type

NAND flash devices. Connecting a NAND flash

device to a micro, which does not have an integrated

NAND controller, results in a significant

additional load being placed on the target and

introduces a performance bottleneck. V-

NAND_FC can be implemented on a small

CPLD and will remove this additonal burden

from your target. It is designed to be used with

microcontrollers which do not have an

integrated NAND flash controller.V-NAND-FC

will take a significant CPU load from the host

microcontroller by managing the NAND control

lines and doing all ECC encode and decode.

News ID 108

Hall-Stand 9-179

GE Fanuc: managed Layer-2 switch

supports 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports

GE Fanuc announces the NETernity RM983RC

VME Ethernet Switch. Designed for demanding

network switching applications in industrial,

commercial, government, telecommunications

and defense applications, the 6U form factor

RM983RC switch provides support for 12 or 24

Gigabit Ethernet ports. It ships with GE Fanuc’s

OpenWare Lite switch management environment,

providing customers with the flexibility

to manage configuration of the RM983RC

from a serial console or via the network.

News ID 117

Hall-Stand 12-565/12-450

Moxa: PoE switch with up to 15.4 watts

per port

Moxa presents EDS-P510 which is equipped

with four IEEE 802.3af compliant PoE ports

and provides connected devices with up to 15.4

watts of PoE power per port. The ability to

transmit data and power simultaneously saves

wiring costs, and is especially suitable for outdoor

applications. EDS-P510 provides many

advanced management functions. A prime

example is the powered device failure recovery”

function for detection of the status of

connected powered devices. When a powered

device fails or shuts down, EDS-P510 can reset

and re-activate the device to ensure that proper

function. Its timetabling function facilitates

configuration of a powered device to work at

specific times, and it saves energy since the

device is not running continuously.

News ID 155

Hall-Stand 9-477/12-142/12-314/12-306

Fujitsu: 56GSa/s 8-Bit ADC technology

for 100G coherent receivers

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe announces

the availability of its new ultrafast ADC IP

based on the CHArge-mode Interleaved Sampler

technology (CHAIS) for use in its standard

65nm CMOS process technology. This

new high-speed ADC technology enables the

integration of multiple ADCs with tens of millions

of gates of signal processing logic and

memory on a single chip. Initially targeting use

in coherent receivers for 100G optical transmission,

the technology is also applicable to

high-end test equipment and any other system

requiring high-speed data conversion and

processing.

News ID 116

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Hall-Stand 11-224

IMACS: tool combines graphical

programming with C/C++ coding

IMACS’s model-based software tool “radCASE”

simplifies the migration to graphical programming

with approved UML diagrams combined

with C/C++ coding. The modelling of

the complete application is done, especially by

integrating data, functions as well as HMI, communication,

meta data into the objects. Along

with the generated simulation, visualization and

documentation the project can be developed to

nearly 100% in virtual mode. radCASE also

generates complete production code which

runs (extended with an API) on any platform.

News ID 169

Hall-Stand 9-209

BCM: Micro ATX motherboard

supports Core2 Quad/ Core2 Duo

BCM is launching the latest Intel Q45 /

ICH10DO Micro ATX motherboard named

MX45Q. MX45Q is designed to support Intel

Core 2 Quad/ Core2 Duo processors, compatible

with Intel 06 processors, and also able to

support Intel next generation 45nm Multi-Core

CPU. With Intel Q45 as Graphics and Memory

Controller Hub and ICH10DO as I/O Controller

Hub, this MB not only supports Intel

AMT5.0 & vPro, but is also equipped with

numerous I/P connections for various usages,

including 2 COM, 12 USB 2.0, 6 SATA/SATAII,

and Intel 82567-LM PCI-E Gigabit LAN.

News ID 165

Hall-Stand 10-219

Artisan: Alstom chooses Artisan Studio

for global SysML strategy

Artisan Software Tools announces that Alstom

Transport has chosen Artisan Studio as the core

platform for its new, global systems engineering

strategy based on SysML. Alstom Transport will

deploy Artisan Studio in its network of 20 design

teams located in five countries worldwide

in order to establish a uniform, company-wide

systems engineering process expected to

improve design quality, speed-up design cycle

times and reduce design costs.

News ID 60

Hall-Stand 12-436

TI: differential ADC drivers enable high

accuracy conversion

A new fully differential amplifier family from

Texas Instruments drives the highest accuracy

data conversion across single- and multi-channel

successive approximation register and deltasigma

ADCs in a wide range of applications, in-

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

cluding industrial, medical and audio. The

THS4521, THS4522 and THS4524 are wellsuited

for applications requiring high resolution

and precision with superior dynamic range,

such as pressure and flow meters, seismic

equipment and electrocardiogram machines, as

well as battery-operated devices and other

applications with sensitive power budgets.

News ID 147

Hall-Stand 10-318

LDRA: automated management of

software requirements

LDRA has created new technology that automates

the administration and traceability of software

requirements. This patent-pending technology

automates the techniques and tools for

the integration of requirements traceability with

software testing and verification. On completion,

the technology will be integrated into TBreq, the

portion of the LDRA tool suite devoted to requirements-driven

testing. LDRA’s patent-pending

automation of requirements-driven testing

and traceability addresses an urgent need in safety-

and mission-critical industries such as avionics,

medical, defence, and nuclear where requirements

traceability and verification consume

a significant portion of project budgets.

News ID 77

45 March 2009

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Hall-Stand 12-441/9-107g

Trinamic: multi-axis motor control

with CANopen support

The CANopen firmware of TRINAMIC’s 3-axis

motion control modules makes it easy to implement

multi-axis controls in decentralized architectures.

The new TMCM-351 controls

three compact two-phase stepper motor controls

with up to 2.8 A per phase. It offers an optional

encoder interface as well as numerous

analog and digital I/O, all in an area of only 160

x 100 mm. The TMCM-34x family consists of

miniaturized 3-axis motion controllers in the

format of a credit-card, each with different output

interfaces.

News ID 118

Hall-Stand 12-122

congatec: COM Express module with

high graphics performance

congatec presents the conga-BA945, its fourth

embedded computer module based on the

Intel Atom processor family. The conga-

BA945 is a COM Express module with type 2

pinout and conforms to the specified COM

Express basic size of 95x125 mm². The Intel

Atom processor N270 has a clock speed of

1.60 GHz, as well as 512 KB cache and a 533

MHz frontside bus speed. Despite the high

processing power, the processor gets by with

a maximum power dissipation of 2.5W.

Thanks to the sophisticated power management

provided by the congatec embedded

BIOS the actual values reached during practical

use remain well below this maximum

level. The congatec conga-BA945 supports

Intel Hyper Threading Technology, which

means with the appropriate software it has the

capability of running two operating systems

in parallel and completely independent of one

another.

News ID 160

Hall-Stand 10-411

Tektronix: oscilloscopes for 3rd generation

serial data analysis

Tektronix announces availability of the highperformance

DPO70000B Digital Phosphor

Oscilloscope and DSA70000B Digital Serial Analyzer

Series. The new “B” models provide the

best vertical noise performance, flattest frequency

response, and greatest effective number

of bits as well as fast hardware-based pattern

triggering for advanced serial data bus speeds at

rates up to 5 Gb/s. In addition, new upgrade

March 2009

options via the Tektronix SpeedBooster upgrade

program, enable “B” series customers to

upgrade their bandwidth from 4 GHz to 6, 8,

12.5, 16 and ultimately to 20 GHz.

News ID 79

Hall-Stand 11-306/12-404

Kontron: 3U CompactPCI CPU board

now supports LynxOS-SE RTOS

Kontron and LynuxWorks have announced

support for LynuxWorks' LynxOS-SE 5.0 on

Kontron’s ITC-320 3U CompactPCI CPU

board which is based on the Intel Core2 Duo

processor. The combination of the Kontron

ITC-320 with LynxOS-SE 5.0 provides a secure

computing solution that is ideally suited for

‘medium robustness’ security applications as

defined by the US Government. The Kontron

ITC-320 series is a range of 3U CompactPCI

CPU boards using a high performance and

long-term available processing chipset from the

Intel embedded architecture.

News ID 72

Hall-Stand 12-545

MEN: reflective memory PMC for

data safety

MENpresentsforthefirsttimeaReflective

Memory PMC mezzanine card. The PMC

module P512 is well suited for use in safetycritical

applications, offers a high transmission

speed and high flexibility. The PMC

module P512 is equipped with Reflective

Memory for redundant memory structures in

safety-critical applications. Reflective Memory

is a memory technology which allows the

user to access different memory components

simultaneously to read from them or write on

them in parallel.

News ID 103

Hall-Stand 12-130/12-142

Atmel: ARM SC100-based MCU ensures

secure digital transactions

Atmel announces that its AT91SC464384RCU

secure microcontroller has been granted Common

Criteria certification EAL4+. This vulnerability

assessment corresponds to today’s

highest proven resistance against any security

attack (AVA_VLA4). This chip has already

received EMVCo approval in May 2008. The

combination of these two certificates ensures

highly secure digital transaction applications

based on Telecom platform.

News ID 126

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