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TRACKING TRENDS

IoT and the elderly

By Rory Dear, Technical Contributor

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Are those least familiar with technology those that can benefit the most?

As with any new technology solution, one naturally first ponders, “How can this benefit me and my life?” The reality is often that those most outside of the technological loop, thus never pondering this for themselves, can be the group that most benefit – in the case of the Internet of Things (IoT), perhaps it’s the elderly. In the UK alone the latest census tallies more than 10 million people over the age of 65; this number is predicted to rise by 50 percent in the next two decades, and globally it’s a similar story.

The medicinal and health technology improvements we’re currently overseeing increase lifeexpectancy, thus in themselves bear responsibility for these census figures. Recent studies also show that, on average, parents and children tend have greater distances between them geographically than ever before – translating naturally to fewer visits of elderly parents to ensure their wellbeing. Local health authorities try desperately to bridge that gap with home care services, though with budgets bursting at the seams more than ever before, acceptable levels of care can only be stretched so far when numbers are rising and budgets are falling.

One could argue the medical advances we’ve seen owe gratitude to the significant contribution our own embedded computing industry has had. I believe we are the very same industry that can provide the solution to how we maintain those standards of care in the future when traditional methods edge toward untenable.

With the similar advancements in motion detection technology within cameras, one could be forgiven for briefly considering therein lies the solution. If we temporarily forget that the elderly we wish to monitor are humans, with emotions, then one could argue it is ideal – a remote carer could see exactly what is going on live and react to any untoward scenario. Perfect, right? If you answered yes, take a moment to consider how you would feel being under constant surveillance, whether it’s for your benefit or not; none of us are comfortable with having our privacy taken away, especially in the sanctity of our own homes.

So immediately any monitoring technology involving video recording in the home becomes out of the question. www.embedded-computing.com

Perhaps we need to take a step back and ask ourselves what type of events we actually want to monitor. What would first spring to mind is likely to be those most terminal, such as receiving the information that someone has had a fall, stopped breathing, or worse. Such events can be tracked directly – in fact using the very same XeThru (www.xethru.com) technology I recently reviewed to monitor baby’s breathing movements (opsy.st/XeThruMonitoring) – via embedded sensors dotted around the home; detecting both irregular movements or the complete lack of, such sensors can also be utilised to monitor internal environmental statistics throughout the home to flag any that jeopardise their level of comfort.

The second approach is less direct. Companies such as Eurosoft Systems (www.eurosoft-systems.com) are pioneering the injection of IoT gateway technologies into every day equipment the elderly use to aid their mobility, such as stair lifts. With embedded intelligence, that stair lift can make judgements on abnormal behaviour based on gathered information of normality – for instance alerting when someone is upstairs for an irregular period of time.

Monitoring beyond the “tier 1” of potentially life-threatening incidents, what we’d describe in our industry as “maintenance tasks” and in this circumstance a task such as the taking of medicine at specific time frames, is arguably equally important as any failure to adhere properly to a doctor’s advice of what and when medication should be taken can cause a tier 1 scenario in itself. The SMARTpack looks to address just that. It’s a smart, Internet-enabled pill dispenser that can be flexibly programmed to alert the patient, or their relatives, should the time-specific compartment not be opened within a specified time frame.

With so many possibilities emerging in this rapidly expanding application area, it’s true that no one solution on its own can provide the desired level of care – they must be used in combination. Combining such technologies relies on the manufacturers implementing open infrastructures, which it’s refreshing to see they are from the very start of this elderly care revolution.

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IoT INSIDER

MEMS microphones add reliability for symphony of IoT apps

By Brandon Lewis, Assistant Managing Editor

Acoustics is one of those sciences most of us take for granted on a regular basis, not because we overlook the importance of sound in our daily lives, but because we underestimate its possibilities beyond speech, music, and as an environmental indicator. Ultrasound, sonar, and noise cancellation are just a few applications that leverage sound waves in capacities that transcend the lay perception of audio.

A prime example of how many of us undervalue sound is probably in your pocket right now. Today, smartphones include arrays of MEMS microphones that are used not only to capture and amplify voice during calls, but also to eliminate ambient noise and enable farfield audio zoom using beamforming techniques. Delivering these features requires high-quality microphones with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that typically meets or exceeds 64 dB, as even the most sophisticated audio processing algorithms are restricted by the capabilities of the microphones that are capturing sound. Combined with the large quantities of the smartphone space (billions of MEMS microphones are shipped annually), the demand for quality microphones has resulted in a curious phenomenon in the MEMS market in which the majority of growth and production is occurring at the high end. While the correlation between the smartphone mic market and embedded

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Why mics matter At this point you may be asking, “Brandon, why are you talking about smartphone mics in your IoT column?”

The reason is that, although speech recognition technology still leaves a lot to be desired, voice will continue to grow as one of the preferred user interfaces for the Internet of Things. Despite the frustratingly low success rate of Siri, “Ok Google,” and Dragon (trust me, I’ve tried almost everything to transcribe interviews), verbal interaction is simply the most effortless form of communication in many scenarios, particularly as everyday objects become Internetenabled. Think of the possibilities in a smart home that allows you to verbally command your TV, thermostat, and lights (see Amazon Echo), and then think further into the future where microphones could be leveraged in a vehicle to record and transmit engine noises known to be associated with problems or failures, or in a variety of other scenarios for identity management.

Fortunately, that curious fact about the smartphone market driving better quality microphones should catalyze the performance gains needed for some of the advanced applications mentioned previously, but there is also room for growth in other areas of MEMS microphones, notably reliability. As many of us have experienced over the dayto-day grind with our diaphragm backplate smartphone sidekicks, the microphones they equip are highly susceptible to water, dust, and other environmoving plates mental particulates,

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and once they’ve been damaged there’s little to no hope of them ever again operating at an acceptable level. In part, this has to do with the fact that most MEMS microphones today are based on capacitive, two plate architectures that include a diaphragm and backplate (Figure 1a). What often happens when these microphones lose quality is that debris gets caught between these two plates, preventing air/sound waves from passing through the diaphragm freely, or, in some cases, puncturing the diaphragm itself.

Recently however, Vesper (www. vespermems.com), a startup out of the University of Michigan introduced a piezoelectric MEMS microphone that relies on four triangular cantilevers (Figure 1b). The advantages of this are twofold. First, the piezoelectric material used converts sound energy directly to electrical voltage, which helps provide a higher quality signal (68 dB typical SNR). Furthermore, because the use of cantilevers eliminates the air gap where particles or residue can get trapped.

According to Vesper CEO Matt Crowley, the result is a waterproof, shockproof, and dust- and particle-resistant design.

Their latest part, the VM101, is also pin compatible with capacitive MEMS products, helping ease technology transitions and reduce design cycles.

In the wild of the IoT, reliability and cost are precursors for most any hardware.

Given the long life cycles, designers must be able to depend on system components for years or decades, and in order to reach projected numbers of connected devices, price points for advanced silicon must be in line with those of a high-volume market.

These are the precursors for an IoT app enabler. Piezoelectric MEMS mics are on the right track.

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Stretchable batteries for flexible wearables

By Monique DeVoe, Managing Editor

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Feature-packed wearable devices have a bit of a bulk problem – non-“smart” clothing is thin and oftentimes a bit stretchy. The latter may not be a property that comes to mind when you think of electronics, batteries in particular. However, an Arizona State University research team has created a “stretchable” battery, which may disruptively impact wearable designs.

In a demonstration, a prototype was sewn into an elastic wristband attached to a Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch, which retained all functionality when stretched (See a video of the demo: opsy.st/KirigamiVideo).

Associate Professor in the School for Engineering Matter, Transport and Energy Hanqing Jiang and his team drew inspiration from kirigami, a variation of origami that involves cutting as well as folding, adding an extra step for flexibility that other origami-inspired batteries haven’t. The kirigami-inspired lithium ion battery involves three special patterns that are especially suited for stretchability and bending (See the patterns in the team’s Scientific Reports article: opsy.st/KirigamiPaper). The batteries can stretch to more than 150 percent without losing functionality, and a “plastic rolling” technique is used in the design’s creases to reduce fracturing in the battery due to cutting and folding.

The Samsung Gear 2’s original battery has a 300 mAh energy capacity, whereas the team’s 51.3 mm long x 27 mm wide x 2.6 mm thick (size when compacted) kirigami battery is 80 mAh. If scaled up to cover the full band size (250 mm long x 30 mm wide x 3 mm thick), its capacity increases to about 700 mAh, exceeding the Samsung Gear 2’s original lithium-ion battery, and has an energy density at 160 Wh/Kg, which is comparable to smartphone batteries.

Another advantage besides flexibility and thickness appears to be temperature; where the original Samsung Gear 2 battery’s temperature increases during a discharge test, the kirigami battery’s temperature stayed consistent with the ambient air temperature.

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Purdue supports pre-college STEM education with focused school

By Monique DeVoe, Managing Editor

Many STEM outreach programs across the country are working to get students introduced to and interested in science, technology, engineering, and math from a young age, opening up these fields as potential career paths they might not have considered. With the interest these programs generate hopefully comes the desire to learn more and gain necessary skills to pursue a technical career. The U.S. Department of Education reports that only 16 percent of American students are proficient in mathematics and consider a STEM career, and of those only half end up going on to work in a STEM-related career. While the Department of Education aims to fill a nationwide goal of recruiting young minds to these important fields, Purdue University has unveiled a targeted approach to getting students in its home state of Indiana to succeed in STEM. In August 2017 in Indianapolis, Ind., Purdue plans to open Purdue Polytechnic High School, a STEM-focused charter school designed to get students to be successful high school students with the opportunity to be directly admitted to Purdue University.

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Purdue’s engineering program has been ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The curriculum and teaching methods will be designed to mirror the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s program, combine K-12 and postsecondary education, and prepare students for success in the 21st century workplace.

Problem- and project-based learning with a connection to realworld challenges make up the first two years of the program.

Eleventh graders will choose a specific pathway and begin earning college credit and industry credentials. And in their last year students will complete an internship in their particular chosen field.

In addition to focused and hands-on STEM learning, programs helping students transition from high school to college will also be provided to ensure students succeed in their education.

Read more about the announcement: opsy.st/PurdueHighSchool Embedded Computing Design | August 2015

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Using multicore and virtualization for efficient and flexible development

Robert Oshana Director, Global Software R&D and Enablement, Digital Networking Freescale Semiconductor ulticore has gone from a M buzzword about seven years ago to something that’s mainstream.

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Not much. It’s going to be so mainstream that people will stop talking about it at conferences. It’s like how the RTOS in embedded was the talk of the town a couple decades ago. Things got ubiquitous and it’s not a big discussion topic anymore; its just assumed that people use them, just like multicore in seven years.

Different people have different definitions of virtualization.

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Efficiency of resource management and utilization. Virtualization spans many areas, like “server” or core-based virtualization with things like KVM, containers, and hypervisors. But now, virtualizing entire “networks” using technology like network function virtualization (NFV) is www.embedded-computing.com

Use of multicore processors in embedded systems has dramatically increased over the past several years, and virtualization is an important component to for developers to get the most out of multicore. Rich Nass interviewed Robert Oshana, Director, Global Software R&D and Enablement, Digital Networking at Freescale Semiconductor about the usefulness of virtualization when developing with multicore processors, strategies to make these technologies most effective, and the future of multicore. Edited excerpts follow. common. In either case, you’re making it easier for developers to consolidate applications and/or control onto a single multicore device without having to go through expensive porting to get the consolidation. If I can easily move multiple applications using multiple operating systems (OSs) onto a single multicore processor without having to port to a single OS, that’s a time to market advantage.

What’s the connection between multicore and virtualization?

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This enables me to take two or more applications running on disparate processors and OSs and move them to a single multicore device where the OS talks to the virtual machine (VM) instead of the HW. So I can have multiple OSs running on the same device (or even the same core on the device) without having to port from one OS to another. This provides me increased flexibility, increased utilization of multicore resources, and faster time to market. Multicore and virtualization fit hand in hand.

ow much of the burden of H virtualization should fall on the OS vendors verses the processor vendors, and why?

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It needs to be both. Ultimately, the OS vendors will produce a product, but the processor vendors need to design for this technology. For example, there are optimizations that can be made to make virtual I/O faster and more efficient, to enable more efficient communication between VMs, etc. There’s an added overhead to using virtualization so HW/SW co-design should be brought to bear to make this “system” more efficient and optimized.

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What determines the point of diminishing returns?

The economics say that there will be more cores added; they’re so cheap these days, so why not? The utilization

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of these many cheap cores will be application dependent. For “embarrassingly parallel” applications and applications that fit more into Gustafson’s Law as opposed to Amdahl’s Law, the more cores the better. For more “bound” applications, it will depend on how effective the developer can achieve the right algorithmic transformation and how well the tools guys can spread the load!

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There are two interesting lemmas in the multicore industry that allow applications to scale faster than Amdahl’s Law would predict. One says, “There exists workloads that are gaseous in nature: When provided with more compute power, they expand to consume the newly provided power.” An example of this is graphics. If I get more compute power, I will just run my frames at a higher resolution or with more details, for example. Another example is weather prediction. If I get more compute power, I’ll just run my software longer to get more accurate predictions.

The other lemma is, “When the problem size is increased, the parallel portion expands faster than the serial portion.”

Martix-Matrix-Multiply (MMM) is an example of this. In the setup of MMM, i.e., initializing the matrices increases linearly with the size of the matrix.

However, the actual compute is O(n^3).

For a system where the problem size is not fixed, performance increases can continue to grow by adding more processors. But both of these lemmas have to be true for this to work. sing virtualization (VMs) in U conjunction with multicore processors is a technology that helps designers get the most out of limited resources. Especially as we seek to push more and more resources to the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT), when does it make sense to leverage virtualization technology?

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There are a few key use cases for virtualization, many of which apply to the IoT space. They are: 1. Consolidation 2. Utilization 3. Dynamic resource management 4. Security and sandboxing 5. Failover Virtualization offers a new level of flexibility that was not present before.

Besides better usage of limited resources, a virtualized infrastructure can scale much better than a traditional one.

With the constant increase of IoT devices, the infrastructure needs to be more elastic to use the resources present in customer location and cloud. One example is vCPE where the network functions can be processed either on the CPE, in cloud, partially in CPE, and partially in cloud. iven the benefits of G virtualization, what types of virtualization technology are available to embedded developers now, what are their pros and cons, and how would you prescribe investigating the right solution for a particular application and/or target processor?

Current processing virtualization technologies are: Hypervisor based, offering Virtual Machines booting various OSs (Guests).

The user will see an OS and resources like a physical machine but it will not know on what HW the resources are running. There are open-source hypervisors (KVM/QEMU, XEN, etc.) and proprietary hypervisors. For accelerating the Guest OSs and offering the required isolation between Guests, various HW extensions were added by the core (PPC, ARM, x86) providers.

Container-based containers share the same kernel and only one OS (kernel version) is supported. The user will have an experience similar with a VM but the isolation is at the process level, and the control on resources is done in the kernel at SW level. Containers don’t use extensions, as they are intended to be lightweight hypervisors (rapid and flexible), but with a trade-off on isolation. There are many open-source solutions targeting different use cases, like LXC and libvirt_lxc. Their goal is mainly to deliver an application that’s self-contained.

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There are type 1 and type 2 virtualization approaches. This mainly just has to do with whether an underlying OS is present. Type 1 hypervisors run directly on the hardware and offer advantages of efficiency and low overhead but many of these are vendorcentric, which may or may not be an issue to the developer. KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a type 2 hypervisor, integrated into Linux. This is an open-source technology, which has benefits but is generally slower than a type 1 given its integration into Linux.

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decoupled by the HW infrastructure (switches and routers) programmatically creating the network slices (virtual networks). The networks are created, reconfigured, and destroyed in a flexible manner following the VM migration.

This trend is called software defined networking (SDN).

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facilitate or ease virtualized system design? Further, as chip vendors are increasingly being asked to provide development tools and software stacks to embedded engineers, what are you offering or partnering on in terms of hypervisor/container solutions that can help designers make the right decisions when starting virtualization projects?

Yes, we invest a lot in architecting SoCs with virtualization in mind. We design our I/O subsystems to support virtualized I/O for example. We design mechanisms that allow VMs to more easily communicate with each other, to help route interrupts to the right VM, and so forth. Even though we use a community-based virtualization technology (KVM), we can differentiate at the SoC level. We focus on optimizing our SoCs for the use cases we are interested in, e.g., networking, wireless access, etc.

Then we build optimized enablement software and SoC software drivers to allow the developer to take advantage of these SoC features.

The strategy is to offer HW isolation between VMs at all levels, such as core, I/O subsystem, and accelerators, and to accelerate using HW assistance all the SW parts that add overhead, like hypervisors and virtual switches.

From a SW perspective, Freescale offers its SDK that contains plenty of technologies optimized for Freescale platforms (KVM, proprietary hypervisor, LXC, libvirt_lxc, Docker, Libvirt, and OpenVSwitch) with many reference applications. There are build cloud reference applications on top of these technologies using the orchestration support offered by OpenStack to manage VMs, networks, storage, and so on.

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Evolutionary vs. revolutionary design needs

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New system designs that become market-leading products are the result of innovation that’s not only evolutionary and revolutionary, but also elegant, easyto-use, and high-quality system design.

Market surveys, statistics, and customer panels have a track record of pin-pointing evolutionary design concepts; however, revolutionary concepts are more elusive, as evolutionary customers tend to think in a linear fashion based on what exists.

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cycles. Each core would need access to the other processor core set of registers, for example. In addition, many programs have tight loops to process application critical information, and if a single-thread program is run on both cores, then could each core process even/odd flows of this application critical loop simultaneously? And sequential single cycle instructions outside of loops could be executed on separate cores simultaneously? While

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with estimated power consumption in milliwatts, based on the standby, active, wait, and idle power states (Figures 3 and 4).

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there might be many dual-core related issues with this approach, what might be the theoretical performance/power improvement of this approach?

One solution is a system-level dual vs. single-core model that assumes 80 percent integer instructions and 20 percent floating point instructions per 1,010 instructions, including ten loops with 1,000 instructions each (Figure 1). To simplify the analysis, assume that there were no prior instruction dependencies; however, this could be added with an additional day of effort. www.embedded-computing.com

This model was used to determine the effectiveness of having the compiler issue instructions to a dual-core configuration and utilize the extra registers on each core in terms of performance and power consumption (Figure 2). First, two blocks were added to generate executable binaries in the form of mnemonic instruction arrays, according to the order of execution. Next, two standard library blocks with four-stage pipelines were added, including the common Instruction_Set block, which sets the cycles per instruction. The Power_Manager was added

The dual- versus singlecore model provides answers to many questions including, what might be the theoretical performance/ power improvement of this approach? Looking at the results, the performance is better than expected, namely the dual-core configuration requires 6,370 cycles to complete a thread, whereas the singlecore configuration requires 17,160 cycles to complete the same thread. The dual-core configuration completed the thread 63 percent faster, whereas common sense would suggest it might complete 50 percent faster.

In terms of power consumption, it’s about the same for both configurations. Thus, system-level modeling was able to generate results that show a dual-core, instructionsynchronized execution for a single thread was 63 percent faster than a single core at the same power level.

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IoT mobile application platform brings agile techniques and available libraries to IoT development

By Curt Schwaderer, Editorial Director

Mobile applications can be challenging and time consuming to develop. The complexity doesn’t stop with look and feel or communication with the cloud.

Security and human factors play a critical role in their success or failure. An agile mobile application platform promises to bring a full-featured mobile application platform with service libraries that address key Internet of Things (IoT) features and capabilities.

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devices, and provide a simple, intuitive program and graphical interface for controlling these devices and getting statistical information from them.

IoT encompasses sensors, gateways, and the cloud. Gateway devices like smartphones must provide interconnectivity with a variety of sensors, an easy, intuitive graphical interface for users, and high security that can prevent hacking or unauthorized control.

Evolution of the smart device It wasn’t too long ago we were sarcastically mocking the “Internet-enabled coffee pot” or “smart light bulb.”

Yet here we are – it’s the summer of 2015 and many of these seemingly mundane devices have now found usefulness within the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. The evolution of these smart devices may not be proceeding like we joked about many years ago – we’re not going to be putting a 64-bit multicore processor into a light bulb anytime soon. However, the IoT world leverages Internet devices like smartphones and home gateways that can communicate in simple ways to smart light bulbs, outlets, and temperature control “sensor”

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Mobile application platforms Ayla Networks (www.aylanetworks.com) focuses on mobile application platforms that work at making “dumb things smart.” Things you’d want to control using your smartphone. Rod McLane, Senior Director of Marketing at Ayla Networks mentioned Ayla got its start by looking at a variety of connectivity chips and trying to figure out what the next wave in connectivity for low-end devices would be. Ayla has a number of connectivity chip manufacturers like Qualcomm, Broadcom, and NXP who embed their software into their chips. From there, extensions to the smartphone and application development were a natural fit.

“Most companies doing these things aren’t experienced,” McLane says.

“They set out to create a platform to enable people to bring dumb devices to the IoT realm quickly and securely.”

In response to this trend, Ayla began investigating the components needed for smart home connectivity. From the smartphone control perspective, Android and iOS are the primary operating systems. Providing mobile libraries as freeware for connectivity and security makes development easier by having to write and test less code.

On top of these mobile libraries, Ayla has source code for building out the entire primary mobile application feature set for iOS and Android. Things like secure sign-in and registration, device set-up and configuration, creating schedules for the device, and push notification support are included.

Secure sign-in and configuration It’s important for an IoT mobile application to provide enterprise level security.

Ayla has designed that into the mobile platform sign-in and authentication libraries. The environment provides for

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mobile apps and connected devices to be authenticated separately.

In some cases, end-to-end data encryption can add an additional level of security for the IoT application. Access and authorization control provides for different types of users having different privileges. Activity auditing was also touched on in order to identify potential issues in the system prior to the problem arising. It’s this big-picture security architecture within the IoT application that can provide a measure of security and reliability.

Control layers The control layers involve what are the devices you are controlling and what’s the best way to allow the user to control them through the mobile application. The Ayla platform provides overlays that can adapt designs to show a variety of information about the device. For example, different zones of the household may display different information about temperature, the devices in that zone, cameras, or power consumption.

Creating a customer experience Coupled with these control layers is the customer experience. Navigating through the control options is a critical design and layout decision. The mobile application platform has a number of starting points that can be customized depending on the application requirements. Often for less technical users you want large icons that clearly state what the control element is. Then through touching on that item an expandable section is displayed relating to everything you can control for that device. One of the examples McLane showed was an overall home control application that had a kitchen area you could select, then a number of items in the kitchen. Selecting the coffee pot item opened up to a control slider to turn the coffee pot on or off, set a timer for the coffee pot, show the weekly/monthly schedule, and even statistics on the historical usage of the coffee pot.

The mobile application platform comes with a number of sample scheduler pages and pages that manage use of general things that can be customized for the application. www.embedded-computing.com

Perhaps the actual look and feel of an application seems simple – but as McLane pointed out it may be the hardest thing to get right.

“Perhaps the biggest advantage of the platform is the ability to mock-up the application and get a feel for how easy or hard it is for the target audience to use,” McLane says. “Even things as simple as color scheme and gesture control can be critical human factor decisions.”

The mobile application environment comes with a number of gesture control capabilities as well as the ability to change color schemes quickly and easily. Combining layouts, color schemes, quick timers, usage graphs, and schedules are all things that are typically needed for sensor control.

The platform has a variety of capabilities in these areas to start with an outof-the-box experience, then customize as requirements are identified.

Ayla has their own cloud that has been tested on AWS in multiple regions.

Their cloud environment coupled with connectivity firmware in silicon and the Ayla mobile application platform provides a flexible end-to-end solution for IoT applications and connecting dumb devices to the Internet.

Oliver Cockcroft, Senior Product Manager Mobile at Ayla Networks also stressed the importance of supporting, adding, and enhancing the platform to support the latest advances in IoT devices.

“It’s important for an IoT platform to keep up with the latest trends, products, and applications since this market moves so quickly” Cockcroft says. “We’re currently adding support for Apple Watch applications scheduled for release [in August]. New features and capabilities enable platform users to grow capabilities and market share.”

Mobile development for the IoT IoT is a unique mix of sensor, gateway, and cloud. Flexibility with the ability to leverage common components is key to an effective deployment. Mobile application platforms like Ayla’s are showing the way to providing fast-time-to-market application for IoT.

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Intelligent transportation systems, sensors, and IoT:

Overcoming the challenge of integrating connected vehicles and intelligent transportation systems

By Ron Felice

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What is an intelligent transportation system (ITS)? The best definition comes from the European Telecommunication Standards Institute: “Intelligent transport systems (ITS) include telematics and all types of communications in vehicles, between vehicles (e.g., car-to-car), and between vehicles and fixed locations (e.g., car-to-infrastructure). However, ITS are not restricted to road transport – they also include the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for rail, water, and air transport, including navigation systems.” How do we realize this complex vision of an ITS? A few issues must be addressed, including achieving the communication specified above and having an effective means of accommodating multimodal transportation. The system needs to be capable of consuming a nearly incomprehensible amount of data and producing information useful to the traveler. This information needs to guide travelers to their destinations in the most efficient way possible, and interact with infrastructure to facilitate relief of traffic congestion. And it needs to do all these things in real time.

Data, data, every where, / And thus the world did shrink[1] We hear frequently that the world is shrinking. What we mean by this is that because of accessibility to modes of high

speed transportation and a significantly increased capability for sharing information, the people of the world are more closely connected than ever. It is fair to say then that building an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is a key to shrinking our world.

wheel. By looking at differences in the measurements reported by these sensors, the traction control system is able to make the determination of when and by how much the engine power to the wheel needs to be reduced and whether or not braking is necessary.

situation Assessment”[3] the authors indicate that information fusion provides for situation assessment and that situation assessment involves deriving relations among entities, for example the aggregation of object states (i.e., classification and location).

The information we share is a fusion of data. This data derives from multiple sources. Each of us consumes a significant amount of data every day, yet it is a tiny fraction of the data that is produced every day. In fact, some estimates place the amount of data created each day around 5 exabytes.

To put that number into perspective, there is an estimated 5 to 20 petabytes of data in the Library of Congress in various formats. Every day we produce from 250 to 1,000 times that amount of data and this will continue to grow.

Sensor fusion provides us with some important analytics capabilities within the vehicle. If we stop there, however, we are missing some other potential, particularly when we start working with off-board systems.

Now consider an example of situation assessment. Given the behavior of the traction control system, if this information were combined in some way with information about the ambient air temperature or rain sensing systems, it would then be possible to make some assessment of the situation in which the wheel slip occurred.

According to a 2011 study by the McKinsey Global Institute[2], the automotive industry will be the second largest producer of data by 2015; if we combine automotive with travel and logistics the amount of data grows by an additional 30 percent. Much of this data comes from sensors inside the vehicle.

As vehicles incorporate more safety and convenience features this number will grow significantly. Granted not all this data has a role in an ITS, and certainly not the raw sensor data.

Adding intelligence to sensor systems This is where information fusion comes in to play. Information fusion can be viewed as a combinatorial approach to reducing uncertainty. Information from a variety of sources is gathered and analyzed within a shared context to gain further insight and reduce uncertainty about a situation.

This is a non-trivial undertaking, but given the significance of what this can enable it is worth the effort. In their paper “Issues and Challenges in

If the ambient air temperature sensor reports that the temperature is below freezing and the ABS wheel speed sensor reports slippage, the situational assessment might be that there is ice in the area. If the one doing the situational assessment is not the driver, but instead it is a cloud-based analytics system receiving real-time telemetry from the vehicle, then there is an improved capability for assessment.

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Automotive sensor fusion An individual sensor gives a piece of data, which by itself may serve some limited purpose, but when we consider it in the context of other sensor data, we are able to gain some insights into performance or behavior and with the proper controls in place can improve the system performance. This is called sensor fusion.

In today’s vehicles, an example of sensor fusion in action would be the traction control system. This system detects when a wheel on the vehicle is slipping and adjusts engine power and, when necessary, applies the brakes. But how does the traction control system know when the wheel is slipping? If it depended on the wheel speed sensor of a single wheel for detection, this may be difficult.

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Instead of just one car reporting wheel slip, now there could be multiple vehicles in a geo-fenced area reporting wheel slip. Given a statistically significant number of occurrences reported, the analytics engine could with high confidence conclude that there is ice in the area. This cloud-based system could now push this information out to subscribers in the form of an alert, warning drivers entering the area of the presence of ice.

In the event a crash is detected (airbag deployment signal received by intelligent transportation system along with other contextual telemetry), the ITS would be able dispatch first responders and begin rerouting traffic automatically. In the event of unanticipated traffic congestion, the ITS could automatically adjust traffic light intervals to adjust the flow of vehicles through the congested area as well as send alternate routing information directly to connected vehicles.

Broadening the scope, the cloud-based system could now report this information to the operations center as well. The operations center could broadcast this information to digital signs on the roadways in the surrounding areas, warning drivers outside of the geo-fenced area that ice had been detected, giving them the opportunity to re-route if possible.

These are just a couple of examples of what could be realized if vehicles were more connected and vehicle data were made available.

This is just one example of how connected vehicles could integrate with and support an ITS.

Connecting the vehicle The next critical piece that needs to happen to support and extend the capabilities of the ITS is connectivity. Connectivity is present in a number of vehicles today, but this is typically done for navigation and concierge services. The vehicle data needs to be made available off-board, to the infrastructure.

Once this is done a number of things can be achieved.

Designing in security There are challenges with this sort of connectivity, however. The most serious of these is security. There has been much publicity around vehicles being hacked. Initially, all intrusions required physical access to the vehicle. There are now many wireless access points into the vehicle increasing the attack vectors for hackers. But to what end?

There is little value to a hacker in controlling a vehicle remotely.

Where the true value lies is using an insecure connection point, like a connected vehicle, as a point of entry into the infrastructure and backend systems. Accessing a single vehicle provides little benefit to a hacker, but being able to effect hundreds or thousands of vehicles, or gaining control of the ITS, could result in significant gains or significant pains. These far-reaching implications mean that security must be considered from inception, not patched or considered as an afterthought. Managing security impacts many facets of the system, including architecture and interfaces. Adopting best practices in security analysis and applying them throughout the entire engineering life cycle is critical to maintaining the integrity of both vehicle and off-board systems.

One such best practice is threat modeling. Threat modeling provides a structured approach to the classification of cybersecurity threats. A threat model will:

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Identify the potential threats and preconditions Categorize and group threats Identify impact of safeguards on the threat Identify areas to apply mitigation

There are different types of threat models, but in its report on automotive security threat[4] NHTSA recommends a composite approach for automotive cyber-physical systems.

Another consideration is privacy. It is impossible to guarantee the complete security of the vehicle, since new threats will surface over the life of the vehicle. It is, therefore, necessary to take measures to ensure that even if access to the vehicle network is achieved, the information on the network is secure.

This could be managed in one or a combination of ways. For example encryption of data or authentication of nodes within the vehicle and out to the infrastructure.

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Given the need for security and the challenge of integrating two highly complex systems, the connected vehicle and the ITS, “system of systems” engineering is required. System of systems engineering addresses the development and operations of evolving programs. While traditional systems engineering seeks to optimize an individual system, system of systems engineering seeks to optimize the network of various interacting legacy and new systems brought together to satisfy multiple objectives. By taking a system of systems approach, it is possible to create an integrated architecture, providing for standardized interfaces and the necessary protocols to address concerns, such as security.

Requirements management Engaging in systems thinking, engineers working in disparate domains can more readily identify and understand the interdependencies and interactions present in this system of systems.

Applying modeling not just to security, but also to the capture and elaboration of these elements of the system in terms of their architectures, behaviors, and communication facilitates the correlation to requirements, both functional and regulatory. Further, the resultant model provides a comprehensive view at a higher level of abstraction, which enables a deeper understanding of the system. Through simulation of the model, it is possible to visualize the system behaviors to perform preliminary verification of the system specification and to avert potential conflicts and pitfalls prior to implementation.

same challenges, the situation will be exacerbated by the growth in scale and complexity. The solutions employed in the development of these systems must enable close collaboration, extensive traceability, and must scale to meet the demands of developing complex, integrated systems. Further, those working on the systems must have immediate, real-time access to the information necessary to engineer them successfully.

References [1] Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

[2] http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/big_data_the_ next_frontier_for_innovation [3] Blasch, E., Kadar, I., Salerno, J., Kokar, M. M., Das, S., Powell, G. M., . . .

Ruspini, E. H. (2006). Issues and Challenges. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.

[4] McCarthy, C. H. (2014). Characterization of Potential Security Threats in Modern Automobiles. Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. doi:Report No. DOT HS 812 074

Ron is a Solution Architect for IBM and a Functional Safety Certified Automotive Engineer.

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GNAT Pro GNAT Pro is a robust and flexible Ada development environment based on the GNU GCC compiler technology. It provides: • a full Ada compiler that implements Ada 83, Ada 95, Ada 2005, and Ada 2012; • the GPS (GNAT Programming Studio) and GNATbench (Ada plugin for Eclipse) Integrated Development Environments; • a comprehensive toolset including a visual debugger; and • a set of libraries and bindings.

With GNAT Pro, users can develop pure Ada applications as well as Ada components in multi-language systems. GNAT Pro is distributed with complete source code, and is backed by frontline support service supplied by the product developers themselves – the world’s largest and most experienced team of Ada experts.

GNAT Pro has been used by industry and government customers worldwide in professional, mission-critical software products ranging from small-footprint realtime embedded applications to large-scale information management systems. It is available on more platforms, both native and embedded, than any other Ada technology.

Benefits GGNAT Pro meets the real requirements of the professional user: Ada 2012 support: GNAT Pro is the first Ada environment to implement the latest versions of the language standard. With GNAT Pro, developers can exploit Ada 2005’s features such as enhanced object-oriented programming support, additional APIs, and the Ravenscar Profile. GNAT Pro users can likewise take advantage of Ada 2012’s many innovations including contract-based programming (pre/postconditions and type invariants), subtype predicates, conditional/case/parameterized/quantified expressions, and improved support for multiprocessors/multicores.

Multi-language development: Thanks to the open standards used by GCC, GNAT Pro eases the job of developing applications comprising Ada and other languages such as C, Fortran, and C++. The Ada interfacing facilities are fully implemented.

Support for safety-critical and high-security applications: Specialized GNAT Pro editions – GNAT Pro Safety-Critical and GNAT Pro High-Security – are respectively oriented towards applications that require certification against software safety standards such as DO-178B / DO-178C, and security standards such as the Common Criteria. These versions of GNAT Pro include several language profiles (including the Ravenscar tasking subset) whose run-time support libraries simplify the certification effort. For safety-critical applications a source-to-object code traceability analysis is available, which directly supports one of the Level A verification objectives in the DO-178 standards.

Excellent code quality: Efficient object code is achieved through a combination of Ada-specific and GCC back end optimizations; a supplemental tool reduces code size by removing unused subprograms from an executable. The run-time libraries have been tuned to provide high performance, with a special focus on efficient exception handling and tasking.

Ease of transitioning from other Ada compiler systems: GNAT Pro implements several attributes and pragmas that ease the porting of existing Ada 83 or Ada 95 code bases to GNAT, and the Project Manager facility allows developers to adopt the same file naming conventions and directory structure as were used in the previous system.

For more information, please visit: http://www.adacore.com/products

technical FEATURES ĄĄ Full Ada implementation (Ada 2012, Ada 2005, Ada 95, and Ada 83),

including all Specialized Needs Annexes

ĄĄ GPS (GNAT Programming Studio), a powerful, extensible and

tailorable Integrated Development Environment

ĄĄ Visual debugging support, including a remote interface for debugging

an embedded target

ĄĄ Stack usage analysis tool (GNATstack) ĄĄ Compiler switch to help traceability of source to object code, for

GNAT Pro Safety-Critical product (-fpreserve-control-flow)

ĄĄ Coding standard verification tool (GNATcheck) ĄĄ Additional tools, including a heap usage monitor, a unit testing

framework, a pretty printer, a program browser, an HTML generator, and a program metrics generator

ĄĄ Libraries and bindings supplementing the standard Ada API,

including packages for services such as operating system interfaces, text manipulation and pattern matching, data structures and algorithms, and I/O operations

ĄĄ Detailed and understandable documentation, including the GNAT Pro

User’s Guide and GNAT Pro Reference Manual

Other GNAT Pro advantages: ĄĄ Source code inclusion, allowing developers to understand important

implementation decisions.

ĄĄ Quality assurance, based on a rigorous configuration management

process and extensive test suites.

ĄĄ Dependable support is intrinsic to all AdaCore products and is

supplied by the GNAT Pro developers themselves. In essence, AdaCore serves as online consultants to customers’ projects. Questions on all aspects of Ada and GNAT Pro are answered promptly, comprehensively, and accurately. Blocking issues receive immediate attention; if appropriate, a wavefront release with the relevant repair can be provided.

ĄĄ AdaCore can also provide specialized engineering and/or training

services based on specific customer requirements.

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CoreFire Next Design Suite The CoreFire Next Design Suite (compatible with all Annapolis Virtex™ 7 and Altera Stratix® V FPGA processor and I/O boards) is a dataflow-based development system that brings new levels of ease and speed to FPGA programming on Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. high-performance motherboards, I/O cards, and mezzanine cards.

The CoreFire Next environment supplies user-made connections between ready-made programming modules, or cores, and manages multiple domain requirements automatically. CoreFire Next eliminates the need for hardware design languages: the user simply creates dataflow diagrams by dragging and dropping cores, or building blocks, from the libraries, and connecting their ports. Cores automatically work together to handle synchronization, manage clocks and other low level hardware signals, and guarantee correct control by design. CoreFire Next allows standard data types (see Data Types and Values) and supports data type propagation, where modifying a data type will automatically propagate through the rest of the CoreFire Next design. As a result, CoreFire Next allows the user to program and debug complex FPGA designs at a high level of proficiency.

CoreFire Next’s drag-and-drop method of building designs allows for ease of use, which helps make the tool easy to learn. CoreFire Next presents the user with a simple way of visualizing designs, rather than extensive and confusing code. Because of this, the user does not have to be a skilled or experienced digital hardware designer. Designers of many different disciplines can use CoreFire Next to create applications.

FEATURES ĄĄ Build Designs for FPGAs on WILD™ Boards ĄĄ Works from High Level, Data Flow Concept of the Application ĄĄ Combines GUI Design Entry and Debug Tools with Tested, Optimized

CoreFire Next™ IP Cores

ĄĄ Drag and Drop High and Low Level Modules ĄĄ CoreFire Next™ Modules Incorporate Years of Application Development

Experience – Highly Optimized and Tested

ĄĄ CoreFire Next™ Tools and Modules are Intelligent ĄĄ Modules Automatically Handle Synchronization ĄĄ Manage Clocks and Other Low Level Hardware Signals ĄĄ Guarantee Correct Control by Design Modules “Know How” to Interact

with Each Other

ĄĄ Board Support Packages Incorporate Hardware Details of the

Boards – Invisible to Users

ĄĄ Single Precision Floating Point, Integer and Floating Point Complex

Data Types and Array Types. Provides Java File

ĄĄ Supports Conversion Between Data Types – Bit, Signed and Unsigned

Integers Single Precision Floating Point, Integer and Floating Point Complex Data Types and Array Types

ĄĄ Integrates with Matlab™ Simulation Flow ĄĄ Works with all Annapolis Virtex™ 7 and Altera Stratix® V FPGA

processor and I/O boards

Benefits ĄĄ Save Time to Market ĄĄ Save Development Dollars ĄĄ Easy to Learn, Easy to Use ĄĄ Works with Proven COTS Boards ĄĄ Concentrate on Solving Your Problem ĄĄ Reuse Your Design ĄĄ Training Classes, Application Support

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FPGA Application Development Team

Annapolis Micro Systems employs a select team of experienced FPGA designers dedicated to helping you solve your real-world processing challenges while minimizing your Time to Market. Our patented CoreFire and Corefire Next Design Suites provide high-speed solutions that get the application developed in record time, drastically reducing program cost and risk.

Annapolis Application Engineers are here to help you in the following ways: Architect A Custom System Using Our Powerful COTS Products Annapolis Application Engineers will help you create customized system architectures and determine appropriate hardware configurations using our COTS products. This service is provided for free in order to accelerate your program’s progress and guarantee the best and most efficient system architecture available.

Our process begins with a discussion of feasibility with a member of our sales team, and then moves to a roundtable conversation with our lead engineers. We can collaborate with your staff to determine your project’s ideal system architecture and establish its hardware requirements.

Some customers choose to task their own in-house engineers on the design phase. If that option is selected, we can provide training for both our CoreFire and VHDL Application Development paths.

Learn more about our training classes.

Develop FPGA Application and Integrate into a Turn-Key system Annapolis can also help you with your FPGA Application Development. In these instances, we will work with your team to document the project’s specifications, including its functional needs, schedule, and First Article Test (FAT) requirements.

Depending on the customer’s desire the application may involve passing data around the key data paths and the customer will implement the processing IP later, while in other cases Annapolis will implement the whole application including the processing and GUI as a TurnKey system.

The effort required to develop the application is then estimated and you are provided with a quote. If agreeable, we contract the project and our Applications Engineers develop the application with the CoreFire (Next) Design Suite, perform the FAT, and deliver the application. In addition we can provide integration support at the customer site when needed. embedded-computing.com/p372789

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LynxSecure • LynxOS 7.0 • LynxOS-178

RTOS and Secure Virtualization Software from Lynx Software Technologies LynxSecure LynxSecure provides one of the most flexible secure virtualization solutions for use in Intel® architecture based embedded and computer systems, including the new 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7 and Core™ i5 processors. LynxSecure is based on separation kernel technology and was designed from the ground up with security as a key design goal. Adding virtualization to the separation kernel allows for multiple different guest Operating Systems (OSs), both real-time and general purpose, to run in secure domains on a single embedded system. LynxSecure 5.2 is the latest version of this established product and adds a new feature that offers real-time detection of stealthy advanced persistent threats such as rootkits.

FEATURES LynxSecure LynxSecure runs fully virtualized guest OSs such as Windows®, Solaris, Linux®, Android, and Chromium OS, requiring no changes to the guest OS ĄĄ LynxSecure offers the ability to run guest OSs that have Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) capabilities ĄĄ Designed to maintain the highest levels of military security offering a MILS architectural approach ĄĄ

LynxOS 7.0 LynxOS 7.0 provides the ability for developers to embed military-grade security directly into their devices ĄĄ LynxOS contains networking support for long haul networks with TCP/IPV4, IPV6, 2G/3G/4G cellular and WiMax communication stacks. It also supports the short-haul networks common with M2M applications such as 802.11 WiFi, ZigBee wireless mesh and Bluetooth ĄĄ LynxOS is a true fully preemptive hard real-time OS with a POSIX application interface ĄĄ

LynxOS 7.0 LynxOS 7.0 is a deterministic, hard real-time operating system that provides POSIX-conformant APIs in a small-footprint embedded kernel. LynxOS provides symmetric multi-processing support to fully take advantage of multi-core/multi-threaded processors. LynxOS 7.0 contains new security functionality designed for M2M devices. LynxOS 7.0 supports the most popular reference targets in the ARM and Intel PowerPC architectures, including the new 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7 and Core™ i5 processors.

LynxOS-178 LynxOS-178 provides full POSIX conformance, enabling developers to take advantage of the time-to-market and investment-protection benefits of open standards-based development ĄĄ Supported standards include ARINC 653 as well as support for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard currently under development ĄĄ LynxOS-178 is the only time- and space-partitioned RTOS that has been awarded the FAA Reusable Software Component (RSC) for DO-178B certifications ĄĄ

LynxOS-178 LynxOS-178 is a safety-critical COTS RTOS that fully satisfies the objectives of the FAA DO-178B level A specification and meets requirements for Integrated Modular Avionics developers.

LynxOS-178 delivers the security and real-time responsiveness needed for safety-critical systems and provides a low-risk path to DO-178B certification for developers to meet the technical requirements in the production of software for airborne systems.

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GizmoSphere: Development Unleashed GizmoSphere is an x86 open source initiative. A community of developers. An embedded design environment. GizmoSphere is all that, accessed through one convenient portal. Launched in 2012 by semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices and open source firmware solutions provider Sage Electronic Engineering to support embedded developers everywhere, GizmoSphere provides resources that spark design innovation. GizmoSphere.org is free for visitors and members. Members enjoy extras including entering contests and participating in online discussions.

MISSION Open source isn’t just a nice idea anymore. It’s what’s expected. And that’s exactly how it should be. GizmoSphere is leading the way in open source x86 embedded development. We supply open source software, open source hardware, and even open source firmware.

GIZMO 2 specifications

VALUES

ĄĄ Processor/performance: AMD Embedded G-Series SoC –

Together with our partners, we foster a worldwide community of developers who are passionate about creating better designs – and eager to share their technical savvy. Because when ideas are exchanged freely, everybody wins.

GIZMO 2 – POWERFUL. EXPANDABLE. PRACTICALLY UNBELIEVABLE. The Gizmo 2 platform is the second-generation x86-based DIY single-board-computer (SBC) from Gizmosphere. Expanding on the community’s first platform, Gizmo 2 merges a performance increase coupled with a power-consumption decrease and direct access to a wide range of interfaces − GPIO, ADC/DAC, PWM, SPI, USB, SATA and PCIe – plus an updated selection of peripheral interfaces, including the much-requested HDMI dedicated port, an mSATA port for connecting SSDs, and a microSD card slot.

Built upon the CPU and GPU technology behind today’s leading video game consoles, data centers and PCs, and coupled with a complete open-source development ecosystem, the limitations of Gizmo 2 are only bound by your imagination.

GX210HA – 1GHz Dual-Core/85 GFLOPS

ĄĄ Board size: 4"x 4" form factor ĄĄ Processor TDP: 9W ĄĄ USB: 8 total with 4 onboard, 2 USB 2.0/additional USB 2.0

header, 2 USB 3.0 others can be brought out

ĄĄ Audio: HD audio in/out ĄĄ Ethernet: RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port ĄĄ HDMI/DisplayPort/LVDS: HDMI video/audio output ĄĄ Memory: 1GB DDR3-1600 SDRAM ĄĄ SD: microSD card slot ĄĄ PCIE: 4x1 links of PCIe Gen2 for GPP and 1x4 links of PCIe

for GPU

ĄĄ SATA: 2x Gen3 – mSATA/mini PCIe connector ĄĄ Embedded I/O: USB, GPIO, SPI programming port on board

DAC, ADC

ĄĄ Tools: JTAG header ĄĄ Operating systems: TimeSys Embedded Linux and Qt UI loaded

on uSD and Linux, Minoca, RTOS, Windows Embedded 7 and 8

Power your ideas

ĄĄ Kit contents: Gizmo 2 board;12V 2A universal power supply,

international plug; adapter, uSD and coin cell

with the Gizmo Board.

ĄĄ Price: $199

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Wild40 12-Slot OpenVPX 6U Chassis 11U Rack mountable, 12-slot OpenVPX chassis with OpenVPX switched topology backplane capable of 10Gbps+ signalling compromising of 2 switch and 10 payload 1" slots. Option of additional secondary 4-slot OpenVPX power-only (Shown) or 5-slot VME/VXS backplane.

The Wild40 12-Slot OpenVPX 6U Chassis is an OpenVPX-compatible (VITA 65) chassis capable of accepting up to ten 6U tall by 160mm OpenVPX Payload Front Plug-in Modules (FPMs) and two 6U tall by 160mm OpenVPX Switch FPMs and up to twelve 6U tall by 80mm Rear Transition Modules (RTMs) in its Primary Backplane. Plug-in Module slot spacing is 1″VITA 48.1.

The Wild40 12-Slot OpenVPX 6U Chassis’ Primary Backplane is a very high performance backplane which is capable of Serial I/O signaling at rates up to 10Gbps on the Data Plane and up to 8Gbps on the Expansion Plane. The Data Plane of the backplane is arranged in a dual-star configuration with two Fat Pipe connections from each Switch Slot to each Payload Slot. The Expansion Plane is a chain connecting adjacent Payload Slots.

In addition to the Primary Backplane there is also an option for a Secondary 4-Slot VPX Power-Only or 5-slot VME/VXS Backplane. The 4-slot VPX backplane supports four OpenVPX VITA65 slots with a 1″ VITA 48.1 slot spacing. These slots are not connected to each other on the Data or Expansion Planes, instead all of their connections go straight through the backplane to the RTM backplane connectors.

These slots are ideally suited for Clock Distribution boards, Tuners or other non-IO intensive FPMs. The chassis includes a Chassis Monitoring system which displays DC voltages, slot temperatures and fan Revolutions Per Minute (RPMs) on the front panel of the chassis and can be used to set fan speed.

The Chassis Monitor can be accessed and controlled remotely via the Serial or Ethernet interfaces.

The card cage is recessed from the front of the chassis so that cabling can be used between Plug-in Modules and be contained within the frame of the chassis.

FEATURES ĄĄ ĄĄ

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10U High with Front Mounted OpenVPX Card Cage Primary 12 Slot OpenVPX High Speed Switched Backplane with RTM Support Optional Secondary 5 Slot VME/VXS or 4 slot VPX Backplane for Power Only Payload Cards

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Up to 3200 Watt Power Supply

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Backplane Profile: BKP6-CEN12-11.2.X

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Payload Profile: SLT6-PAY-4F1Q2U2T-10.2.1

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Switch Profile: SLT6-SWH-16U20F-10.4.2

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We offer training and exceptional special application development support, as well as more conventional support. embedded-computing.com/p372673

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AMTELCO PCI and PCI Express E&M Interface Boards AMTELCO E&M interface boards accommodate connections to a transceiver interface, with manual push-to-talk signaling control, echo suppression, and VOX resources. Standard Type I, Type IV, and Type V E&M protocols are also supported. Audio interfaces support both 2-wire and 4-wire modes and can be configured on a per-port basis. AMTELCO E&M interface boards are available as 4-port (x1) half-height boards for HMP environments, as well as 8-port (x1) full-length boards for H.100 TDM switching environments. Software drivers are available for most common operating systems, including channel drivers for use in Asterisk® environments.

AMTELCO boards are also available for alternate line interface types, in both HMP and H.100 form factors. Interfaces include Station interface (FXS), Loop Start interface (FXO), and T1/E1/ISDN digital interfaces.

FEATURES ĄĄ If you have an application requiring connections to a transceiver inter-

face, with manual push-to-talk signaling control, echo suppression, and VOX resources, the AMTELCO E&M interface boards are a great solution!

ĄĄ Standard Type I, Type IV, and Type V E&M protocols are also supported.

Audio interfaces support both 2-wire and 4-wire modes and can be configured on a per-port basis.

ĄĄ AMTELCO E&M interface boards are available as 4-port (x1) half-height

boards for HMP environments, as well as 8-port (x1) full-length boards for H.100 TDM switching environments.

ĄĄ Software drivers are available for most common operating systems,

including channel drivers for use in Asterisk® environments.

ĄĄ AMTELCO boards are also available for alternate line interface types, in

both HMP and H.100 form factors. Interfaces include Station interface (FXS), Loop Start interface (FXO), and T1/E1/ISDN digital interfaces.

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MitySOM-5CSx: Altera Cyclone V SoC-based SOM The MitySOM-5CSx combines the Altera Cyclone V SoC, memory subsystems and onboard power supplies into a highly-configurable, small form-factor System on Module (SOM). All products in the MitySOM-5CSx family are pin-for-pin compatible, allowing development teams room to grow and the flexibility to quickly and cost-effectively meet customers’ ever-changing needs.

The MitySOM-5CSx family offers a wide range of processing densities, speed grades, and temperature options at competitive costs. Critical Link designed the SOM family with rigorous industrial, medical, and defense applications in mind, ensuring long-term production and professional support for our customers.

Standard SOMs and development kits are available today from numerous major distributors. If a standard variant does not meet your specification, contact Critical Link to discuss developing a custom solution.

MitySOM-5CSx features a Hard Processor System (HPS) providing up to 4,000 MIPS at speeds of up to 925MHz per core and is combined with a NEON coprocessor with double-precision FPU. The MitySOM-5CSx combines a Cyclone V with up to 2GB of DDR3 CPU/FPGA RAM with ECC, 512MB of dedicated DDR3 FPGA RAM (optional) and up to 48MB of QSPI NOR Flash creating a highbandwidth system for embedded applications. The ARM architecture supports several high level operating systems, including Embedded Linux, Micrium uC/OS, Android, QNX, and Windows Embedded Compact.

By combining six 3.125Gbps transceivers, one PCIe hard core, up to 133 user I/O, and dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the system can simultaneously acquire and efficiently process large amounts of data. embedded-computing.com/p372770

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InterShell Enclosures Intermas develops electronic enclosure systems:

FEATURES

Cabinets, housings, subracks, and an extensive range of accessories for the 19" rack systems and small form factors used in the fields of PCI, VME/VME64x, cPCI, IEEE, and communication applications with stateof-the-art EMI- and RFI-shielded protection.

ĄĄ InterShell is a new aluminum housing enclosure composed of a top

Intermas has an extensive product range of more than 10,000 separate components and more than 30 years’ experience.

ĄĄ Color options are unlimited and customer-specific print is possible.

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and bottom, two front panels, and four screws.

ĄĄ The simple housing design offers an uncomplicated solution for small

form factors for easy and quick assembly.

ĄĄ InterShell is used for the packaging of small electronic units such as

Eurocard formats with 100x160 mm, universal formats, or as mITX formats for example.

ĄĄ Excellent EMC compliancy. ĄĄ InterShell is available in the following standard dimensions (h/w/d)

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450/40 and 300/40 Series ATCA Systems 450/40 and 300/40 ATCA chassis are designed to support the next generation of ATCA board requirements, minimizing the time to market for critical, high-availability applications where high performance is crucial.

With superior physical construction, optimal cooling, reliable power supplies, efficient data distribution and secure system management, Pentair’s Schroff ATCA solutions are your choice for a dependable solution.

The 450/40 series ATCA systems offer generous head room for power and cooling capabilities. Both product families feature Pentair’s leading edge 40 Gbps backplane design, shelf management and proven hardware quality.

Deploying these chassis ensure your integrated solutions will continue to perform at the highest level as network requirements grow and higher performing ATCA boards become available.

FEATURES • 2, 6 and 14 slot backplanes • 40 Gbps (10GBASE-KR) transmission rate • Up to 450 watts/slot cooling • AC & DC power entry modules • Various cooling configurations available • Designed to meet NEBS, PICMG 3.0 • Proven performance, test reports available embedded-computing.com/p372873

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Express Programs Express Programs: When product is needed fast Need systems, subracks, cases or front panels quickly for prototyping or small projects? Express service provides rapid delivery turn-arounds for solutions engineered to meet your design requirements – in a matter of days.

Systems Express • ATCA, MicroTCA, CompactPCI, and CompactPCI Serial models available • Shipped in as few as 15 days

FEATURES

Subrack & Cases Express

• Conform to PICMG specifications

• EuropacPRO subrack kits, parts and accessories • RatiopacPRO case kits, parts and accessories • Delivered in as few as 15 days

• ATCA, uTCA, CompactPCI standards • Standard and customized solutions available

Front Panel Express • 5 to 50 front panels • Custom cut-outs, handles and silk screen • Delivered in as few as 5 days

• Local and global design and product support • Drawings and models available • Part and quantity restrictions may apply embedded-computing.com/p372874

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Interscale M Flexible Enclosure Platform for Small Form Factor PCBs A market leader in modular 19-in. systems, Schroff® has expanded its electronics protection capabilities with the new Interscale M. This new, versatile enclosure platform for PCBs offers a solution for 19-in. and smaller form factor applications. Designed to meet changing market trends toward miniaturization and individualization, Interscale M minimizes integration time with quick assembly and easy access to PCBs. Interscale M protects valuable electronics with EMC shielding, and is available in a variety of designs and finishes tailored to unique specifications and corporate identities. It offers simplicity, flexibility and innovation in one unique package.

FEATURES • Available with three levels of service options: off-the-shelf, modified or customized • Off-the-shelf configurations are available in 1, 2 or 3U and various widths and depths • 21 different case sizes with solid side panels and 19 case sizes with perforated side panels for forced air cooling • Removable front and rear panels for easy modification • Easy assembly and disassembly with only two screws for simple integration of PCB • Integral EMC protection with interlocking case walls • Additional modifications include case color, cut-outs and printing on front and rear panels embedded-computing.com/p372875

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RTV 2602 Talon Serial FPDP Value Rackmount Recorder The RTV 2602 supports up to four independently clocked Serial FPDP links using copper or optical cables with single-mode or multimode fibre with flexible baud rate selection to support virtually all popular Serial FPDP interfaces. It is capable of both receiving and transmitting data over these links and supports real-time data storage to disk and playback from disk. Up to four channels can be recorded or played back simultaneously with an aggregate rate of up to 400 MB/sec.

Providing 4 TB of data storage, the six enterprise-class, hot-swappable front-panel disk drives can be easily replaced by empty drives when full.

Ease of Operation

FEATURES

All Talon recorders are built on a Windows 7 Professional workstation and include Pentek's SystemFlow® software, featuring a GUI (graphical user interface), signal viewer, and API (Application Programming Interface). The GUI provides intuitive controls for out-of-the-box turn-key operation using point-and-click configuration management.

Configurations are easily stored and recalled for single-click setup.

User settings to configure data format for the signal viewer provide a virtual oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer to monitor signals before, during and after data collection. The C-callable API allows users to integrate the recorder control into larger application systems.

Free Demo Pentek provides a Talon Recording System Simulator for evaluation of the SystemFlow software package. This free trial package is available for download.

Talon Family Summary RTV Value Series: Low Cost Rackmount Systems laboratory environments

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Complete Serial FPDP record and playback system

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Lowest-cost entry into serial FPDP

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Quick delivery: Model RTV 2602 ships from stock

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4U 19-inch industrial rackmount PC server chassis

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Windows® 7 Professional workstation with high-performance Intel® CoreTM i3 processor

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Real-time aggregate recording rates up to 400 MB/sec

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4 TB of data storage to NTFS RAID disk array

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SystemFlow® recording software

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C-callable API for integration of recorder into application

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File headers include time stamping and recording parameters

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Optional GPS time and position stamping

RTS Commercial Series: Rackmount Systems for laboratory environments RTR Portable Series: Rugged Portable Systems for field use RTR Rackmount Series: Rugged Rackmount Systems for field use RTX Extreme Series: Rugged Rackmount Systems for extreme environments

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Available in three performance levels; single, dual, and quad core. The quad core model delivers 2x the performance of a “Montevina” Core 2 Duo processor, with a 38% reduction in power consumption!

Bengal includes an extensive set of features including PCIe/104 expansion and a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip. The Bengal’s powerful feature set, combined with a low-power draw and compact PC/104 footprint, enables the next generation of intelligent medical, military, and industrial systems to be smaller, lighter, and more energy efficient.

With its high performance and low power consumption, Bengal is a natural fit for new product designs, and for migration or upgrade from older PC/104 products. It is an excellent upgrade for systems currently using Atom or Core 2 Duo processors.

The Bengal is backed by VersaLogic’s 5-year warranty and product life extension programs that can continue delivery well past the year 2025.

FEATURES High Reliability • -40° to +85°C Operating Temperature • No moving parts • Latching connectors • High shock and vibe Product Highlights • One, two, and four-core models • 4th Generation Intel® Atom™ processor • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) • VGA and dual DisplayPort • Mini PCIe/mSATA socket • Two gigabit Ethernet ports • USB 3.0 and five USB 2.0 ports • Windows, Linux, VxWorks, etc. embedded-computing.com/p372876

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This next generation of VersaLogic Embedded Processing Unit (EPU) format combines processor, memory, video, and system I/O into an extremely compact full function embedded computer with a footprint the size of a credit card!

The Hawk was engineered to meet the military, avionic, and medical industries’ evolving requirements for smaller, lighter, and more powerful embedded systems. Roughly the size of a credit card and less than one inch thick, it combines the new 4th generation Intel® Atom™ “Bay Trail” processor, with system interfaces, in a highly integrated format designed to withstand extreme temperature, impact, and vibration.

Hawk is available in single-, dual-, and quad-core models. The quadcore model delivers more than 5X the performance of previous generation products with an 18% reduction in power consumption! The single-core version provides over 2X the performance of the previous generation product, with a 25% reduction in power. The quad-core is ideal for UAV video applications where higher performance and light weight are important The Hawk is backed by VersaLogic’s 5-year warranty and product life extension programs that can continue delivery well past the year 2025.

FEATURES SWaP • Small size: 55 x 84 x 22 mm • Low weight: 102 grams (< 4 oz.)

• Low power: Single core < 6W • Low power: Quad core < 7W Product Highlights • Quad-, dual-, and single-core models • 4th Generation Intel® Atom™ processor • -40°C to +85°C operation; Wide input voltage (8V – 17V) • Soldered-on RAM (up to 4 GB); Soldered-on eMMC Flash (up to 8 GB) • Mini PCIe/mSATA expansion socket • microSD flash socket • Gigabit Ethernet • Two serial/COM ports; Four USB 2.0 ports • MIL-STD-202G Shock and Vibration; LVDS video output embedded-computing.com/p372877

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mPCIe-COM Family PCI Express Mini Cards ACCES I/O Products is pleased to announce the release of a new family of mini PCI Express (mPCIe) multi-port serial communication cards. These small, low-priced, PCI Express Mini cards feature a selection of 4 or 2-ports of software selectable RS-232/422/485 asynchronous serial protocols on a port by port basis. These cards have been designed for use in harsh and rugged environments such as military and defense along with applications such as health and medical, point of sale systems, kiosk design, retail, hospitality, automation, gaming and more. The small size (just 50.95mm x30mm) allows for maximum performance in applications where space is a valuable resource.

Each RS-232 port is simultaneously capable of supporting data communication rates up to 921.6 kbps. RS-422/485 modes support data communication speeds up to 3 Mbps. The cards provide ±15kV ESD protection on all signal pins to protect against costly damage due to electrostatic discharge. Existing serial peripherals can connect directly to industry standard DB9M connectors on the optional breakout cable accessory kits.

The mPCIe-COM cards were designed using type 16C950 UARTs and use 128-byte transmit/receive FIFO buffers to decrease CPU loading and protect against lost data in multitasking systems. New systems can continue to interface with legacy serial peripherals, yet benefit from the use of the high performance PCI Express bus. The cards are fully software compatible with current PCI and PCI Express 16550 type UART applications and allow users to maintain backward compatibility.

FEATURES ĄĄ PCI Express Mini Card form-factor (mPCIe) type F1, with latching I/O con-

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ĄĄ 4 or 2-port serial communication cards with optional DB9M connectivity ĄĄ Software selectable RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 protocols, per port

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up to 921.6 kbps) Custom baud rates easily configured ±15kV ESD protection on all signal pins CTS, RTS, 9-bit data mode, and RS-485 full-duplex (4 wire) fully supported RS-232 only and RS-422/485 versions available embedded-computing.com/p372691

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mPCIe-ICM Family PCI Express Mini Cards The mPCIe-ICM Series isolated serial communication cards measure just 30 x 51 mm and feature a selection of 4 or 2 ports of isolated RS232 serial communications. 1.5kV isolation is provided port-to-computer and 500V isolation port-to-port on ALL signals at the I/O connectors. The mPCIe-ICM cards have been designed for use in harsh and rugged environments such as military and defense along with applications such as health and medical, point of sale systems, kiosk design, retail, hospitality, automation, and gaming.

The RS232 ports provided by the card are 100% compatible with every other industry-standard serial COM device, supporting TX, RX, RTS, and CTS. The card provides ±15kV ESD protection on all signal pins to protect against costly damage to sensitive electronic devices due to electrostatic discharge. In addition, they provide Tru-Iso™ port-to-port and port-to-PC isolation. The serial ports on the device are accessed using a low-profile, latching, 5-pin Hirose connector. Optional breakout cables are available, and bring each port connection to a panel-mountable DB9-M with an industry compatible RS232 pin-out.

The mPCIe-ICM cards were designed using type 16C950 UARTS and use 128-byte transmit/receive FIFO buffers to decrease CPU loading and protect against lost data in multitasking systems. New systems can continue to interface with legacy serial peripherals, yet benefit from the use of the high performance PCI Express bus. The cards are fully software compatible with current PCI 16550 type UART applications and allow for users to maintain backward compatibility.

FEATURES ĄĄ PCI Express Mini Card (mPCIe) type F1, with latching I/O connectors ĄĄ 4 or 2-port mPCIe RS232 serial communication cards ĄĄ Tru-Iso™ 1500V isolation port-to-computer and 500V isolation

port-to-port on ALL signals

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ĄĄ Industrial operating temperature (-40°C to +85°C) and RoHS standard ĄĄ Supports data communication speeds up to 1 Mbps simultaneously ĄĄ Custom baud rates easily configured ĄĄ ±15kV ESD protection on all signal pins ĄĄ 9-bit data mode fully supported ĄĄ Supports CTS and RTS handshaking embedded-computing.com/p372557

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AmITX-HL-G Mini-ITX Embedded Board The AmITX-HL-G is a Mini-ITX embedded board supporting the Desktop 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 and Pentium®/Celeron® Processor with Intel® Q87/ H81 Chipset. The AmITX-HL-G is specifically designed for customers who need high-level processing and graphics performance with a long product life solution.

The AmITX-HL-G features three DisplayPorts, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, USB 3.0 ports, USB 2.0 ports, SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and High Definition Audio with 7.1 channels. Expansion is provided by one PCIe x16, one PCIe x1, and two mini-PCIe slots. The onboard feature connector provides GPIO, SMBus, and I2C support. The board is equipped with SPI AMI EFI BIOS, supporting embedded features such as hardware monitor and watchdog timer.

The ADLINK AmITX-HL-G with built-in SEMA Cloud functionality is ready-made for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. AmITX-HL-G is able to connect legacy industrial devices and other IoT systems to the cloud, extract raw data from these devices, determine which data to save locally and which to send to the cloud for further analysis. The results these analyses can provide valuable information for policy decision making and generate innovative business opportunities.

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ĄĄ Dual SODIMM DDR3L-1600 memory sockets supportingup to 16 GB ĄĄ PCIe x16, PCIe x1 and Mini PCIe expansion slots ĄĄ DisplayPort outputs on rear IO ĄĄ High Definition Audio with 7.1 channels ĄĄ 12V DC-in and ATX power supply unit support, 12V DC-in support

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Power and Performance Scalability with the Key Features for Industrial Control and Automation Solutions With factory-floor and other industrial applications becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, AMD’s embedded solutions for Industrial Control and Automation address the evolving demands of these markets with very low power, scalable, x86 performance-based solutions. AMD Industrial Control and Automation solutions serve diverse applications ranging from headless sensor and control systems to complex display systems with easy-to-use human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and highly integrated controllers.

AMD INDUSTRIAL CONTROL AND AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS For low power and cost sensitive applications, the processors in the AMD Embedded G-Series family are built around an optimized power efficient core that delivers CPU and graphics performance in a compact ball grid array (BGA) package, providing a good fit for low-power and low-cost designs. For high performance applications that require the integration of functions or high performance, the AMD Embedded R-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) deliver exceptional CPU, graphics and compute performance in a solution that is still power efficient.

While traditional benefits of these solutions include longevity and low power consumption, applications built around the AMD G-Series APUs and SOCs and R-Series APUs also offer graphics and compute capabilities not typically found in solutions targeting Industrial Control and Automation.

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consumption through service alerts, remote diagnostics, and the ability to remotely schedule the turn on or off of stations.

I/O Support – Ongoing support of legacy I/O such as fieldbus, and discrete I/O interfaces. Migration path to the latest in high-speed I/O through support of PCI Express, USB 3.0 and SATA. Ruggedization – Platform designs that operate reliably in high-shock and vibration environments through small footprint BGA package options.

Compatibility – PC-compatible x86 architecture provides native support for Microsoft Windows®, Linux®, and a variety of popular real-time and safety certified operating systems.

Integration – Support for AMD-V™ hardware virtualization enables a graphics centric non-deterministic operating system to run alongside a deterministic hard real-time operating system.

Scalability – Footprint compatible options within processor families help enable a single design to serve the needs of multiple performance, power and price solutions.

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Industrial BC50R The new IP65-rated, maintenance-free box computer is ideal for data acquisition in extreme environments throughout a number of in-vehicle applications, such as trains, commercial vehicles, mobile machines and ships.

All external interfaces, including USB, digital I/O, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN bus and legacy serial I/O, are implemented on rugged M12 connectors for reliable data transmission. Offering a protection class of IP65, certifiable to EN 50155 (railway) or EN 60945 (shipping) and conforms to ISO 7637-2 (E-mark for automotive).

The BC50R starts with a powerful, energy-efficient T48N AMD Embedded G-Series APU running at 1.4 GHz. Inside the system, two PCI Express Mini card slots with two SIM card slots offer WLAN, GPS, other GNSS or 3G/4G functionality.

The BC50R is equipped with 2 GB of DDR3 SDRAM and offers SD card and mSATA slots. Additional memory resources include 64 KB of L1 cache and 512 KB of L2 cache. An extremely robust aluminum housing protects the internal electronics, and the system’s fanless design operates at temperatures from -40°C to +70°C (+85°C for up to 10 minutes).

The new box PC supports either a 24 VDC and 36 VDC nom. (10 V to 50.4 V) class S2 power supply in compliance with EN 50155 or power supplies with a nominal input voltage of 24 V that either comply with ISO 7637-2 or EN 60945.

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AMD Embedded G-Series APU IP65-protected housing Ethernet, USB 2.0, CAN, Serial I/O at front WLAN, GSM (2G), UMTS (3G), LTE (4G) via 2 PCI Express Mini Card slots GPS or GLONASS onboard 24 VDC and 36 VDC nom. (10 to 50.4 V) class S2 power supply, incl. ignition -40 to +85°C operating temperature, fanless Compliant to EN 50155 (railways) Compliant to ISO 7637-2 (E-mark for automotive) Compliant to EN 60945 (ship) embedded-computing.com/p372851

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COM Express COM Express is a widely supported implementation of Computer on Module (COM) design. The COM Express architecture reduces the complexity, cost and time required for custom computer system design by combining the processing, memory, video, Ethernet and USB functionality in a small, highly-integrated module.

COM Express modules install on a carrier board that provides the application specific I/O and external connectors best suited for the system requirements.

FEATURES ĄĄ Variety of Processors and Form Factors ĄĄ Application Specific I/O ĄĄ Rugged, Solid State Operation ĄĄ Vibration Resistance ĄĄ Extended Operating Temperature ĄĄ Long-term Availability ĄĄ Superior Life Cycle Management embedded-computing.com/p372880

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cPCI, PXI, VME, Custom Packaging Solutions VME and VME64x, CompactPCI, or PXI chassis are available in many configurations from 1U to 12U, 2 to 21 slots, with many power options up to 1,200 watts. Dual hot-swap is available in AC or DC versions. We have in-house design, manufacturing capabilities, and in-process controls. All Vector chassis and backplanes are manufactured in the USA and are available with custom modifications and the shortest lead times in the industry.

Series 2370 chassis offer the lowest profile per slot. Cards are inserted horizontally from the front, and 80mm rear I/O backplane slot configuration is also available. Chassis are available from 1U, 2 slots up to 7U, 12 slots for VME, CompactPCI, or PXI. All chassis are IEEE 1101.10/11 compliant with hot-swap, plug-in AC or DC power options.

Our Series 400 enclosures feature side-filtered air intake and rear exhaust for up to 21 vertical cards. Options include hot-swap, plug-in AC or DC power, and system voltage/temperature monitor.

Embedded power supplies are available up to 1,200 watts.

Series 790 is MIL-STD-461D/E compliant and certified, economical, and lighter weight than most enclosures available today. It is available in 3U, 4U, and 5U models up to 7 horizontal slots.

All Vector chassis are available for custom modification in the shortest time frame. Many factory paint colors are available and can be specified with Federal Standard or RAL numbers.

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PPM-C407 – Low Power PC/104 SBC with Long Term Availability The PPM-C407 from WinSystems utilizes the E3800 family of Atom™ processors from Intel® to provide low power and performance in the versatile PC/104 form factor. Designed for harsh environments and reliability, it includes soldered RAM for added shock and vibration resistance with an operating temperature range from -40°C up to +85°C.

FEATURES ĄĄ Multi-Core Intel® Atom™ E3800 Processors ĄĄ Up to 2 GB Soldered Down DDR3 RAM

WinSystems is offering the PPM-C407 in multi-core options depending on the application requirements. The scalable performance allows you to choose between low power single-core and higher performance dual or quad-core solutions.

ĄĄ Two Fully Independent Displays (VGA, DisplayPort & LVDS)

Linux, Windows, and other x86 operating systems can be booted from the CFAST, mSATA, or USB interfaces, providing flexible data storage options.

ĄĄ 24 Bidirectional GPIO with event sense

ĄĄ 1 Gb Ethernet Controller ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature ĄĄ 4 Serial Ports and 4 USB 2.0 ports ĄĄ Bus Expansion: MiniPCIe, PC/104 & PC/104-Plus ĄĄ Bootable SATA, CFAST, and mSATA embedded-computing.com/p372685

WinSystems

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SBC35-C398Q – Industrial ARM® SBC with Real-Time Linux Designed for industrial applications and long-term availability, WinSystems’ SBC35-C398Q SBC features a quad-core ARM® processor with options for expansion and customization. The combination of processing power and industrial I/O provides a flexible solution for a number of applications including security, industrial control, medical, transportation and MIL/COTS. This low-power design operates from -40° to +85°C without a fan or heatsink for improved reliability.

Kick-start development with our SD Cards, available preloaded with our newly released real-time Linux distribution or Android™. Our factory engineers offer technical support from pre-sales through production.

FEATURES ĄĄ Freescale® i.MX 6™ Quad-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 Processors ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature ĄĄ Powered by PoE or +10-50VDC Input ĄĄ 10/100/1000 Ethernet with IEEE-1588™ ĄĄ USB 2.0 and USB On-The-Go Ports ĄĄ FlexCAN and RS-232/422/485 Serial Ports ĄĄ 24 GPIO tolerant up to 30VDC ĄĄ Mini-PCIe and IO60 (I2C, SPI, TTL, and PWM) expansion embedded-computing.com/p372204

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SBC35-CC405 – Industrial Small Form Factor Computers The SBC35-CC405 series of small form factor computers utilizes the Intel® Atom™ E3800 family of processors in a standard 3.5-inch SBC format. The COM Express based solution includes two Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IEEE 1588 time-stamping, two serial channels, USB 3.0, and +10 to +50V DC input.

FEATURES ĄĄ Multi-Core Intel® Atom™ E3800 Processors

Engineered for rugged applications, the low-profile thermal solution creates a sturdy base that protects the PCB assembly, provides convenient mounting, and enables fanless extended temperature operation.

ĄĄ Up to two independent displays (VGA, LVDS and DisplayPort)

Linux, Windows, and other x86 operating systems can be booted from the CFAST, mSATA, or USB interfaces, providing flexible data storage options. WinSystems provides driver for Linux and Windows 7/8, as well as pre-configured operating systems.

ĄĄ Four USB ports (1xUSB 3.0 and 3xUSB 2.0)

ĄĄ Two Ethernet Controllers with IEEE 1588 time stamping ĄĄ Two RS-232/422/485 Serial ports ĄĄ Bus Expansion (Two MiniPCIe and IO60) ĄĄ Bootable SATA, CFAST, and mSATA ĄĄ Wide range 10 to 50V DC input ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature embedded-computing.com/p372206

WinSystems

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SYS-398Q – Enclosed Industrial ARM with Real-Time Linux WinSystems’ SYS-398Q quad-core industrial computer combines highperformance multimedia graphics with a rich mixture of Industrial I/O. The Freescale® i.MX 6Q™ processor’s integrated power management provides excellent efficiency and allows operation from -40° to +85°C without active cooling. It is designed for demanding graphics applications in security, transportation, medical, and digital signage.

The low power, high-performance of ARM® cores coupled with readily available software tools make them an excellent choice for embedded systems. Leveraging Freescale’s proven track record in long term product support with the operating system and application development driven by consumer ARM® devices, the SYS-398Q is ideal for off-the-shelf industrial designs.

WinSystems OS starter image now ships with real time patches applied to the Linux kernel for improved determinism in process control applications.

FEATURES ĄĄ Freescale® i.MX 6Q™ Industrial Processor @ 800MHz ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature ĄĄ Powered by PoE or +10-50VDC Input ĄĄ High Performance Video and Graphics ĄĄ Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) with IEEE-1588 ĄĄ Six USB 2.0 Ports and One USB On-The-Go Port ĄĄ Two CAN Ports ĄĄ Five (RS-232/422/485) Serial Ports up to 1Mbps ĄĄ 24 Lines GPIO Tolerant up to 30V DC ĄĄ CFAST, SD, and MicroSD Sockets embedded-computing.com/p372687

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SYS-405 – Rugged Industrial Computers The SYS-405 series of industrial computers utilizes the Intel® Atom™ E3800 family of processors in a tough aluminum enclosure. The solutions include two Gigabit Ethernet controllers with IEEE 1588 time-stamping, two serial channels (RS-232/485/422), four USB, audio, and +10 to +50V DC input.

The rigid enclosure base is engineered for rugged applications and provides the thermal solution for the processor. The 5052 aluminum alloy enclosure protects the PCB assembly and includes access to the CFAST connector.

Linux, Windows, and other x86 operating systems can be booted from the CFAST, mSATA, or USB interfaces, providing flexible data storage options. WinSystems provides driver for Linux and Windows 7/8, as well as pre-configured operating systems.

FEATURES ĄĄ Multi-Core Intel® Atom™ E3800 Processors ĄĄ Up to two independent displays (VGA and DisplayPort) ĄĄ Two Ethernet Controllers with IEEE 1588 time stamping ĄĄ Two RS-232/422/485 Serial ports ĄĄ Internal Bus Expansion (Two MiniPCIe and IO60) ĄĄ Four USB ports (1xUSB 3.0 and 3xUSB 2.0) ĄĄ Bootable SATA, CFAST, and mSATA ĄĄ Wide range 10 to 50V DC input ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature embedded-computing.com/p372202

WinSystems

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 www.linkedin.com/company/winsystems-inc-  twitter.com/WinSystemsInc Automotive Executive Speakout

Designing safe, reliable automotive PCBs

By Isola Group Today’s automobiles contain in excess of 100 electronic control units, managing virtually all aspects of their operation. Electronic control units and sensors are used to improve engine performance and efficiency, provide stability and traction control including braking, deploy active safety systems such as airbags and increasingly provide driver safety systems.

Reliability is a key driver for PCB designers in the automotive market.

Isola has developed products to provide superior thermal endurance, both with respect to operating temperature and thermal cycling performance, achieved with patented filler technology, meeting or exceeding the most demanding automotive customer requirements.

The need for advanced automotive safety and driver assistance systems such as collision avoidance and emergency braking, blind spot detection and lane departure warning are increasing with both regulatory mandates and consumer demand for improved safety. Isola have been successful in developing extremely cost-effective alternatives to PTFE and other commercial microwave laminate materials in order to engage with the mass-market deployment of these systems.

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Astra® MT laminate materials have been successfully evaluated with Freescale® Semiconductor radar ICs in automotive advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Astra MT laminates are a breakthrough, very low-loss dielectric constant (Dk) product for millimeter wave frequencies and beyond.

Astra MT laminate materials exhibit exceptional electrical properties that are very stable over a broad frequency and temperature range.

Astra MT is suitable for many of today’s commercial RF/microwave printed circuit designs. It features a dielectric constant (Dk) that is stable between -55°C and +125°C at up to 20 GHz. In addition, Astra MT offers a lower dissipation factor (Df) of 0.0017, making it a costeffective alternative to PTFE and other commercial microwave laminate materials.

Key applications include long antennas and radar applications for automobiles, such as adaptive cruise control, pre-crash, blind spot detection, lane departure warning and stop and go systems. www.isola-group.com/product-category/automotive

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Industrial Storage

www.atpinc.com ATP DRAM and NAND Flash Products ATP Industrial Grade DRAM Products ATP DRAM Modules are designed for high-performance, missioncritical applications such as Industrial PC and Networking/Telecom, where high levels of technical support, operating consistency, and wide operating temperature ranges are required. Built with high quality IC components and 100% tested, the ATP DRAM module family includes a full spectrum of form factors including VLP, ULP, UDIMM, RDIMM, SODIMM, and MINI-DIMM, as well as multiple generations of DRAM technologies.

ATP has a long history of providing long-term support and addressing specific requirements of OEM customers. The new ATP Manufacturing, Testing and Validation facility offers enhanced manufacturing quality and TDBI/ATE testing capabilities on all DRAM product lines.

ATP Industrial Grade NAND Flash Products Flash Product Line Summary: Memory Cards (microSD/SD), Embedded Modules (SATA, USB, eUSB), and HDD Replacement SSD (2.5" SATAII/III).

ATP Industrial Grade NAND Flash Products are designed for highperformance, mission-critical applications such as Automotive, Healthcare, Networking/Telecom, Military, etc, where high levels of durability, operating consistency, and wide operating temperature ranges are required. All ATP Industrial Grade NAND Flash products implement ECC and wear-leveling algorithms to maximize NAND Flash component utilization and long-term data integrity. The product line is also built using SLC (Single Level Cell)-type NAND Flash components, which are specified to at least 20 times greater the rating for program/erase cycles (lifetime) compared to commercial and consumer level MLC-type NAND Flash.

ATP is a true manufacturer with over twenty years of experience in the production of NAND Flash memory solutions and DRAM memory modules. ATP offers in-house design, testing and product tuning, as well as extensive supply chain support with controlled/ fixed BOMs and long product life cycles.

FEATURES ATP Industrial Grade DRAM Products JEDEC compliant Extensive support on DDR4,DDR3, DDR2, DDR1, and PC133 SDRAM generation memory modules ĄĄ Industrial Grade temperature range (-40°C to 85°C) ĄĄ Conformal coating for environmentally rugged applications ĄĄ Long-term supply chain commitment upon module qualification ĄĄ ATP patented TDBI System – the next generation test during burn-in ĄĄ Extra 30μ" thickness golden finger ĄĄ ĄĄ

ATP Industrial Grade Flash Products SLC NAND Flash Components ĄĄ ATP patented PowerProtector Technology – Data integrity during a sudden power down ĄĄ SMART Life Monitor Technology – Flash health status feedback to host ĄĄ Integrated Secure Erase Technology ĄĄ Industrial Grade temperature range (-40°C to 85°C) ĄĄ Supply chain road maps by BOM upon product qualification ĄĄ Onboard AES Encryption (SSD Products) ĄĄ

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Internet of Things Executive Speakout

The right security for the Internet of Things

By Steve Hanna, Senior Principal Technical Marketing, Chip Card & Security Division, Infineon Technologies The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into the information network. The IoT will change the way we live, work and communicate. No business will be unaffected in the long term. With such huge potential to connect billions of objects, new services and opportunities are continually arising through Machineto-Machine (M2M) communications and applications such as Smart Home, Connected Car, Industrial Automation as well as Information and Communication Technologies. However, even though these markets and applications are built on diverse technologies and requirements, they all share a common set of security threats: confidential data can be revealed, devices can be manipulated to inject fake measurements and control/ network components may be manipulated to send incorrect commands.

Furthermore, IoT users demand remote access to their devices from anywhere, but still need ease of use and strong security. Username and password authentication often fails to meet these requirements since passwords are painful to enter and can easily be stolen. Therefore, when designing IoT systems and other systems that link cyberspace and the physical world, strong identity implemented with secure hardware is

an essential requirement. Fortunately, standards and technologies for strong identity (e.g., FIDO, JavaCard, and TPM) are available without sacrificing ease of use. Hardware security is required to limit the impact of software vulnerabilities, which are ever present.

As numerous headline-grabbing recent attacks have shown, IoT systems cannot be adequately protected with software alone. Security software may easily be bypassed by clever attackers, who can then remotely control physical systems. The combination of software and hardware offers an optimal balance between security and flexibility as security chips provide protection even if software is compromised.

As a leading provider of security solutions with a proven track record spanning 30 years, and with more than 20 billion security controllers already shipped to the market, Infineon offers complete product-to-system solutions for IoT and embedded applications that are easy to implement and increase security without detriment to the end-user experience.

For more information go to www.infineon.com/iot-security.

IoT

SMARC Full Size Module System-on Chip The SMARC ("Smart Mobility ARChitecture") is a versatile small form factor computer Module definition targeting applications that require low power, low costs, and high performance. The Modules will typically use ARM SOCs similar or the same as those used in many familiar devices such as tablet computers and smart phones.

Alternative low power SOCs and CPUs, such as tablet oriented X86 devices and other RISC CPUs may be used as well. The Module power envelope is typically under 6W. The Modules are used as building blocks for portable and stationary embedded systems. SMARC form factor module, the LEC-BT, is certified by Intel for Intel® Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) using Windriver and McAfee software integration. Paired with ADLINK's device-to-cloud platform SEMA Cloud (Smart Embedded Management Agent) that enables remote monitoring control and management, the LEC-BT is an ideal building block for developing IoT devices with a secure interconnection to the cloud.

The ADLINK LEC-BT computer-on-module with built-in SEMA Cloud functionality is ready-made for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The LEC-BT is able to connect legacy industrial devices and other IoT systems to the cloud, extract raw data from these devices, determine which data to save locally and which to send to the cloud for further analysis. The results these analyses can provide valuable information for policy decision making and generate innovative business opportunities.

FEATURES ĄĄ Single, dual or quad-core Intel® Atom™ Processor E3800 Series

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IoT

Ayla Cloud Connectivity Modules Ayla Networks’ wireless connectivity modules act as vendorspecific serial drivers to IoT cloud devices to provide highly secure wireless cloud connectivity for essentially any Internet of Things (IoT) products. The Ayla Cloud Connectivity Module extends a wireless provider’s serial-to-Wi-Fi connectivity module, transparently establishing wireless connectivity from a connected product to the Ayla cloud – without customers writing any module software programming work.

For instance, until now, a manufacturer wanting to make a connected home air conditioner used a cloud vendor’s agent and a wireless module provider’s SDK to provide Wi-Fi cloud connectivity between the air conditioner, the homeowner’s LAN and the cloud to enable control and data collection. Providing connectivity to the cloud – so that the homeowner could control the air conditioner from anywhere using a smartphone app – required that manufacturers’ embedded designers program the cloud networking connections themselves.

The Ayla wireless connectivity module bypasses the SDK step, taking care of everything needed to seamlessly and securely connect a product via a particular wireless vendor’s Wi-Fi module first to the end user’s wireless LAN, and then to the Ayla cloud. This means that embedded designers do not need to become networking or cloud experts to add cloud connectivity to an IoT product.

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Contains all the code needed to connect an IoT product to the LAN and to the Ayla cloud, via a specific vendor’s Wi-Fi module.

Works transparently; no new SDKs to learn, embedded designers get a library to use with their current host so that it works like a serial port.

Cloud “programming” becomes a configuration step instead of platform development.

Adds nothing to the component cost; it’s available as an optional extension to wireless vendors’ existing Wi-Fi modules.

The result is that Ayla compresses design cycles for manufacturers of IoT products, while reducing risk, development friction and time to market. An example is the Murata LBEWB1ZZYDZ-683 available from Mouser, or the USI BM-14A module. Both these modules convert the Broadcom WICED BCM43362 module from serial-to-Wi-Fi programmable devices to fixed serial-to-cloud devices.

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Medical

Medical Imaging: AMD Meets the Demands for Performance, Scalability, and Longevity Medical imaging applications – including mobile, portable, or cart-based ultrasound systems, endoscopes, X-ray, and high-end MRI and CT scanners – all have unique data throughput, image transformation, and post-processing requirements. AMD embedded solutions offer the capabilities necessary to meet these requirements through scalable offerings that can help to reduce development and system costs while delivering a versatile and high-performance software-defined solution to support next-generation features.

To help OEMs who have been tied into just one vendor’s solution from generation to generation, OpenCL™ – the royalty-free open standard for parallel processing software development – can help to reduce system costs through compatibility with CPUs, GPUs, and some DSPs and FPGAs from a variety of vendors. And OpenCL compatibility across the AMD G-Series SoC, AMD R-Series APU, and AMD Embedded Radeon™ discrete graphics platforms enables software-defined solutions that can leverage a single code base to scale across a portfolio of products, which can help reduce software development costs.

For products that target cost sensitive emerging markets or where healthcare reform is applying cost pressure on medical imaging applications, the AMD G-Series SoC and AMD R-Series APU offer up to 10 years of product availability. This can reduce frequent system redesign and certification, helping to make products more competitive.

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and highly integrated solution through Heterogeneous System Architecture and heterogeneous Unified Memory Architecture. These can help balance the performance between the CPU and GPU and can help reduce latencies and maximize memory access to both the CPU and GPU for data-intensive imaging applications.

The exceptional computation capabilities of the AMD R-Series APU and AMD Embedded Radeon™ discrete graphics processors can reconstruct images from sparse data. This helps to make low-dose X-ray imaging feasible.

To increase efficiency and reduce fatigue of surgical staff, imaging-assisted surgical systems based on the AMD R-Series APU and AMD Embedded Radeon discrete graphics can help to enable real-time procedure visualization from multiple angles on multiple independent displays.

To help reduce the size, weight, power, and cost for full-featured imaging applications, the highly integrated AMD R-Series APU offers high-performance image processing and support for up to four independent display outputs, which can help to eliminate the need for a discrete graphics card in some applications.

The AMD G-Series SoC for low-power and small form factor applications can help to enable mobile emergency medical response teams with advanced medical imaging capabilities.

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Enhancing Communication Infrastructure’s Security, Reliability, Scalability and Flexibility with Embedded x86 and ARM® Solutions Ubiquitous internet, pervasive content, social networking and mobile technologies are driving explosive data growth. By some recent estimates, internet data is doubling every three to four years. This is driving the transformation and on-going convergence of traditionally diverse Web, Enterprise, Telecom and Mobile businesses. End-to-end (network as well as server) virtualization, cloud computing and software-defined networking (SDN) are some of the technologies addressing this transformation and they provide both opportunities and challenges as they help more people than ever connect for business and personal collaborative endeavors. AMD offers a winning Networking and Communications industry solutions roadmap, which includes offerings in embedded x86 and ARM® processors as well as powerful graphics processors to help customers address this transformation.

SUPPORT FOR OPEN STANDARDS AMD provides extensive support for open standards, including OpenCL™, OpenGL and Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA). AMD supports the OpenCL and OpenGL Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within its hardware, and provides tools for graphics and computational programming that work with Windows®, Embedded Linux®, and Thread X. The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is easy to use and inexpensive for developers, and enables excellent performance and power efficiency in a variety of uses.

FEATURES ĄĄ AMD Embedded R-Series APUs are designed to meet the needs of

customers with powerful graphics and computational requirements.

ĄĄ The AMD Embedded G-Series Family of processors – including APUs

and SOCs – are especially suited for low-power, low-cost, lowmaintenance networking and communications applications.

ĄĄ New AMD G-Series CPUs (no onboard GPU) provide a robust feature

set including ECC and PSP, and deliver superior single threaded performance for cost-optimized storage controllers and Network Attached Storage systems.

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Networking

PCI Express Gen 3 Host adapter/PXH810 The PXH810 Gen3 PCI Express Host Adapter is our high performance cabled interface for distributed processor subsystems and I/O expansion applications. The host adapter extends PCI Express over cables to external systems. Based on PLX Gen3 PCI Express switch architecture, the PXH810 host adapter includes advanced features for non-transparent bridging (NTB) and clock isolation.

For high performance application developers, the PXH810 host adapter combines 64 Gbit/s performance with less than one microsecond latency, significantly improving overall inter-system communication. Inter-processor communication benefits from the high throughput and low latency.

The PXH810 performs both Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Programmed IO (PIO) transfers, effectively supporting both large and small data packets. RDMA transfers result in efficient larger packet transfers and processor off-load. PIO transfers optimize small packet transfers at the lowest latency. The combination of RDMA and PIO creates a highly potent data transfer system.

Dolphin’s software suite takes advantage of PCI Express’ RDMA and PIO data transfer scheme. Delivering a complete deployment environment for customized and standardized applications. The suite includes a Shared-Memory Cluster Interconnect (SISCI) API as well as a TCP/IP driver and SuperSockets software. The SISCI API is a robust and powerful shared memory programming environment. The optimized TCP/IP driver and SuperSockets™ software remove traditional networking bottlenecks, allowing standard IP and sockets applications to take advantage of the high performance PCI Express interconnect without modification. The overall framework is designed for rapid development of inter-processor communication systems.

With the implementation of clock isolation, the PXH810’s signal quality is excellent. By isolating the system clock and transmitting an extremely low jitter high quality clock to downstream devices, the PXH810 offers users high signal quality and increased cable distances. The PXH810 supports PCI Express fiber optic cables up to 100 meters. These cables are x8 fiber optic cables. The improved signal quality and fiber optic support makes the PXH810 ideal for simulation systems. The PXH810 is also used in applications such as test and measurement equipment, medical equipment, and storage subsystem seeking high performance and data quality.

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PCI Express® 3 compliant - 8.0 Gbps per lane

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Networking

Chronon™ Ultra-low Loss Laminates and Prepreg Chronon™ is Isola’s latest ultra-low loss, high-speed laminate and prepreg materials engineered to mitigate skew issues in high-speed designs that have differential pairs. It also delivers the necessary thermal robustness for lead-free applications and for electrical (low loss) applications that require tighter control of loss and skew. In addition, it delivers the necessary thermal robustness for lead-free applications and electrical bandwidth (low loss) for applications that require more stringent signal integrity. It also has PCB designer friendly advantages because the Dk and Df ratings are close enough in value that they can be considered constant for all of the specified cores and prepregs.

Chronon is a proprietary high-performance, 192°C glass transition temperature (Tg) system for multilayer Printed Wiring Board (PWB) applications where maximum thermal performance and reliability are required. Chronon products use spread glass and reduced profile copper to mitigate skew in differential pair designs. The use of ultra-smooth cooper is enabled by very high adhesive bond between the resin and the metal.

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Chronon has a nominal dielectric constant (Dk) of 3.68 and a very low nominal dissipation factor (Df) of 0.0038. Both are stable between -55°C and +125°C up to 40 GHz. Chronon laminate materials are available in optimized laminate and prepreg forms in typical thicknesses and standard panel sizes to provide a complete material solution for high-speed digital multilayer backplanes and daughter cards.

ĄĄ Engineered to eliminate skew issues on differential pair on high data

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rate designs

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Networking

PPM-N409 – Dual PC/104-Plus Ethernet with SFP Interface The PPM-N409-2 PC/104-Plus Dual Ethernet module features Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers, controlled by dual Intel® I210 Ethernet Controllers, bringing the latest in technology to your legacy design.

Both module housings are compatible with the large variety of SFP transceivers that range from optical single mode, optical dual mode, and GbE twisted pair copper.

The small form factor and negligible heat signature of the PPM-N409-2 makes it ideal for installation in confined spaces. Combined with its exceptional range of operational temperatures, low physical profile, and rugged design, the PPM-N409-2 can be deployed in even the most demanding environments.

Give your systems the advantage of compact design, low power consumption, and high precision time synchronization of the PPM-N409-2 Ethernet controller from WinSystems. Custom design options are available upon request.

FEATURES ĄĄ Intel® I210 Ethernet Controllers ĄĄ Two Fully Independent Ethernet Connections ĄĄ Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) Interface ĄĄ Accepts the Wide Range of SFP Ethernet Modules ĄĄ Fanless -40° to +85°C operational temperature ĄĄ PC/104-Plus Form Factor ĄĄ IEEE 1588 Precision Time Synchronization over Ethernet ĄĄ Robust Communication over Long Distances ĄĄ Supports Linux, Windows, and DOS Operating Systems embedded-computing.com/p372686

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Processing

AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) The embedded evolution continues with x86 CPU, integrated discrete-class GPU and I/O controller on the same die.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW The AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform is a high-performance, low-power System-on-Chip (SOC) design, featured with enterprise-class error-correction code (ECC) memory support, dual and quad-core variants, integrated discrete-class GPU, and I/O controller on the same die. The AMD G-Series SOC achieves superior performance per watt in the low-power x86 microprocessor class of products when running multiple industry-standard benchmarks.1 This helps enable the delivery of an exceptional HD multimedia experience and provides a heterogeneous computing platform for parallel processing. The small-footprint, ECCcapable SOC sets the new foundation for a power-efficient platform for contentrich multimedia processing and workload processing that is well suited for a broad variety of embedded applications.

SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE PER WATT The AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform delivers an exceptionally highdefinition visual experience and the ability to take advantage of heterogeneous computing while maintaining a low-power design.

• AMD G-Series SOC’s next-generation “Jaguar”-based CPU offers 113% improved CPU performance vs. AMD G-Series APU and greater than a 2x (125%) advantage vs. Intel Atom when running multiple industry-standard compute-intensive benchmarks.2 • AMD G-Series SOC’s advanced GPU, supporting DirectX® 11.1, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL™ 1.23, enables parallel processing and high-performance graphics processing that provides up to 20% improvement vs. AMD G-Series APU and a 5x (430%) advantage vs. Intel Atom when running multiple industry-standard graphics-intensive benchmarks.4 • Excellent compute and graphics performance with enhanced hardware acceleration deliver up to 70% overall improvement vs. AMD G-Series APU and over 3x (218%) the overall performance advantage vs. Intel Atom in embedded applications when running multiple industry standard compute- and graphics-intensive benchmarks.5 ENABLING LOW-POWER, INNOVATIVE SMALL FORM FACTOR DESIGNS The AMD G-Series SOC is a small-footprint and low-power solution that reduces overall system costs.

• The SOC design offers 33% footprint reduction compared to AMD G-Series APU two-chip platform6, simplifying design with fewer board layers and simplifed power supply.

• AMD G-Series SOC enables fan-less design that further helps drive down system cost and enhance system reliability by eliminating moving parts.

• With an array of performance options and universal pin compatibility across the AMD G-Series SOC portfolio, the AMD G-Series SOC platform allows OEMs to utilize a single board design to enable solutions from entry-level to high-end.

• The SOC design enables new levels of performance in small SBC (single board computer) and COMs (computer-on-modules) form factors.

• AMD G-Series SOCs support Thermal Design Profiles (TDPs) from 5W to 25W and offer dynamically configurable TDP capabilities.

FEATURES ĄĄ Supporting ECC memory and providing a dedicated Platform Security Processor (PSP) compatible with ARM® TrustZone, AMD G-Series SOC platforms will help to penetrate markets previously inaccessible to x86 products in these power envelopes, at this price point. ĄĄ The AMD G-Series SOC helps achieve higher system quality, reliability, and energy efficiency, which contribute to overall lower TCO. ĄĄ Multiple performance levels offer upgrade paths to protect software and hardware ecosystem costs. ĄĄ AMD’s commitment to long-term availability and support (5-10 years) maximizes ROI.7 ĄĄ The AMD G-Series SOC platform is well suited for low-power and highperformance designs in a broad range of markets, including Industrial Control & Automation, Digital Signage, Thin Client, and Electronic Gaming Machines. ĄĄ New AMD G-Series CPUs (no onboard GPU) provide a robust feature set including ECC and PSP, and deliver superior single threaded performance – 33% more performance per dollar than competing Intel solutions – for cost-optimized storage controllers and Network Attached Storage systems.8 1 The low-power x86 microprocessor class includes: GX-420CA @ 25W TDP (scored 19); GX-415GA @ 15W (25), GX-217GA @ 15W (17), GX-210HA @ 9W (20), G-T56N @ 18W (12), G-T52R @ 18W (7), G-T40N @ 9W (14), G-T16R @ 4.5W (19), Intel Atom N270 @ 2.5W (20), Intel Atom D525 @ 13W (9), Intel Atom D2700 @ 10W (12) & Intel Celeron G440 @ 35W (5). Performance score based on an average of scores from the following benchmarks: Sandra Engineering 2011 Dhrystone ALU, Sandra Engineering 2011 Whetstone iSSE3, 3DMark® 06 (1280 x 1024), PassMark Performance Test 7.0 2D Graphics Mark, and EEMBC CoreMark Multi-thread. All systems running Windows® 7 Ultimate for Sandra Engineering, 3DMark® 06 and PassMark. All systems running Ubuntu version 11.10 for EEMBC CoreMark. All configurations used DirectX 11.0. AMD G-Series APU system configurations used iBase MI958 motherboards with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. All AMD G-Series SOC systems used AMD ”Larne“ Reference Design Board with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Atom D2700 was tested with Jetway NC9KDL-2700 motherboard, 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Celeron system configuration used MSI H61M-P23 motherboard with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Atom N270 system configuration used MSI MS-9830 motherboard with maximum supported configuration of 1GB DDR2 (per http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/manuals/320436.pdf,) and Intel GM945 Intel Atom D525 used MSI MS-A923 motherboard with platform integrated 1GB DDR3 and integrated graphics.

2 AMD GX-415GA scored 209, AMD G-T56N scored 98, and Intel Atom D525 scored 93, based on an average of Sandra Engineering 2011 Dhyrstone, Sandra Engineering 2011 Whetstone and EEMBC CoreMark Multi-thread benchmark results. AMD G-T56N system configuration used iBase MI958 motherboard with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. AMD GX-415GA system configuration used AMD ”Larne“ Reference Design Board with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Atom D525 system configuration used MSI MS-A923 motherboard with platform integrated 1GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. All systems running Windows® 7 Ultimate for Sandra Engineering and Ubuntu version 11.10 for EEMBC CoreMark.

3 OpenCL 1.2 currently supported in the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7; Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7; Microsoft Windows 8; Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 8; Linux (Catalyst drivers). OpenGL 4.2 currently supported in the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 7; Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7; Microsoft Windows 8; Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 8; Linux (Catalyst drivers). Ongoing support options TBA. 4 AMD GX-415GA scored 864, AMD G-T56N scored 724, and Intel Atom D525 scored 162, based on an average of 3DMark® 06 1280x1024 and PassMark Performance Test 7.0 2D Graphics Suite benchmark results. AMD G-T56N system configuration used iBase MI958 motherboard with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. AMD GX-415GA system configuration used AMD ”Larne“ Reference Design Board with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Atom D525 system configuration used MSI MS-A923 motherboard with platform integrated 1GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. All systems running Windows® 7 Ultimate with DirectX 11.0.

5 AMD GX-415GA scored 369, AMD G-T56N scored 218, and Intel Atom D525 scored 116, based on an average of Sandra Engineering 2011 Dhrystone ALU, Sandra Engineering 2011 Whetstone iSSE3, 3DMark® 06 (1280 x 1024), PassMark Performance Test 7.0 2D Graphics Mark, and EEMBC CoreMark Multi-thread. AMD G-T56N system configuration used iBase MI958 motherboard with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. AMD GX-415GA system configuration used AMD "Larne" Reference Design Board with 4GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. Intel Atom D525 system configuration used MSI MS-A923 motherboard with platform integrated 1GB DDR3 and integrated graphics. All systems running Windows® 7 Ultimate for Sandra Engineering, 3DMark® 06 and PassMark.

All systems running Ubuntu version 11.10 for EEMBC CoreMark. All configurations used DirectX 11.0.

6 AMD G-Series SOC FT3 BGA package dimension 24.5mm x 24.5mm = 600.25 mm2 SOC; AMD G-Series APU FT1 and Controller Hub two-chip platform: 19mm x 19mm + 23mm x 23mm = 890 mm2; 33% improvement.

7 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year support offered, depending upon the AMD product. Please contact your AMD representative for more details.

8 Performance comparison is based on the EEMBC CoreMark v1.0 benchmark. The kit price of GX-416RA is $25, and the kit price of Celeron 1037U is $25. The performance delta of 34% was calculated based on GX-416RA’s CoreMark score of 24699 and Celeron 1037U’s CoreMark score of 18461. The performance-per-$ delta of 34% was calculated based on the GX-416RA’s performanceper-$ ratio of 987.96 and 1037U’s performance-per-$ ratio of 738.44. The AMD Steppe Eagle GX-416RA used an AMD Larne development board with 4GB DDR3-1600 memory and 80GB Hitachi HDD. The Intel Celeron 1037U used a Toshiba Satellite C55-A5220 motherboard with 8GB DDR3-1600 memory and 256GB Sandisk HDD. Both systems ran Ubuntu Linux 11.1 (EMB-105).

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Processing

2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series APU The 2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series APU (previously codenamed: “Bald Eagle”) boosts processing performance, power efficiency, and multimedia immersion by leveraging Heterogeneous System Architecture.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW The 2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit (APU) delivers breakthrough graphics performance and power efficiency for a new generation of embedded systems designed to provide ultra-immersive HD multimedia experiences and parallel processing compute performance.

Harnessing the processing power of AMD’s “Steamroller” CPU core and a new graphics core based on the AMD Radeon™ HD 9000 platform, the AMD R-Series APU offers next-generation performance-per-watt compute efficiency in the x86 product category by allowing system designers to take advantage of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA).

The high-performance CPU and GPU cores within the 2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series APU can be allocated to the best suited compute tasks by utilizing HSA. As noted below, this enables outstanding system performance and multimedia interactivity, superior battery life, and small, sleek system form factors for a wide range of graphics and compute-intensive embedded applications including embedded gaming, digital signage, medical imaging, and more.

SKY HIGH PERFORMANCE AT LOW POWER 2nd Generation AMD R-Series APUs deliver up to 66% more compute performance1 and up to 55% more 3D graphics performance than previous generation AMD Embedded R-Series APUs.2 Compared to Intel Haswell Core-i CPUs with 35W or lower thermal design power (TDP), the new AMD R-Series APUs provide up to 46% more compute performance3, and up to 44% more 3D graphics performance.4 Supporting TDPs ranging from 17W to 35W, 2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series APUs equip system designers to achieve aggressive performance and energy efficiency profiles while helping to minimize heat dissipation constraints. AMD’s Temperature Smart Turbo CORE technology complemented by the configurable TDP feature enables advanced power management capabilities that allow designers to optimize TDP for their target application by adjusting the clock speed of the underlying CPU and GPU, increasing overall performance-per-watt by up to 12%.5 BREATHTAKING GRAPHICS AND MULTIDISPLAY IMMERSION 2nd Generation AMD Embedded R-Series APUs enable stunningly crisp 3D, 4K, and HD video content and offer support for up to four independent displays (4096 x 2160 resolution per display output). The AMD Dual Graphics6 configuration allows you to combine the power of the 2nd Generation AMD R-Series APU with an AMD Embedded Radeon™ E8860 discrete GPU to provide up to 64% more 3D graphics performance than a standalone 2nd Generation AMD R-Series APU.7 AMD Eyefinity technology allows the AMD R-Series APUs to drive multiple displays simultaneously as a single large surface.8

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Offers dual-channel DDR3 support and error-correction code (ECC) memory support for high integrity applications.

Features a new audio coprocessor that enables low-latency audio signal processing for crisper sound and audio effects.

Enables hardware accelerated video encode and decode using Unified Video Decode (UVD) 4.2 and Video Compression Engine (VCE) 2.0.

1 The AMD RX-427BB scored 76.5 and AMD R-Series 464L scored 46.1, when running BasemarkCL 1.0 benchmark. The performance delta of 66% was calculated based on RX-427BB’s performance score of 76 and R-464L’s performance score of 46. The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD. The R-464L used an AMD DB-FS1r2 development board with 8GB DDR3 memory and 160GB Hitachi HDD. Both systems ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-95).

2 The AMD RX-427BB scored 2051 and AMD R-Series 464L scored 1326, when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark. The performance delta of 55% was calculated based on RX-427BB’s performance score of 2051 and R-464L’s performance score of 1326. The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD. The R-464L used an AMD DB-FS1r2 development board with 8GB DDR3 memory and 160GB Hitachi HDD. Both systems ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-91).

3 The AMD RX-427BB scored 76 and Intel Haswell Core i7-4765T scored 52, when running BasemarkCL 1.0 benchmark. RX-427BB’s TDP is 35W and Core i7-4765T’s TDP is 35W. The performance delta of 46% was calculated based on RX-427BB’s performance score of 76 and Core i7-4765T’s performance score of 52. The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD. The Core i7-4765T used a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p with 8GB DDR3 memory and 128GB Crucial M4 HDD. Both systems ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-94).

4 The AMD RX-427BB scored 2051 and Intel Haswell Core i7-4765T scored 1424, when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark. RX-427BB’s TDP is 35W and Core i7-4765T’s TDP is 35W. The performance delta of 44% was calculated based on RX-427BB’s performance score of 2051 and Core i7-4765T’s performance score of 1424.

The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD. The Core i7-4765T used a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p with 8GB DDR3 memory and 128GB Crucial M4 HDD. Both systems ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-93).

5 The AMD RX-427BB (configured at 35W) scored 2,434 and RX-427BB (configured at 30W) scored 2,332 based on a geometric mean of various industry benchmarks, comprised of 3DMark®06, 3DMark®11P, Passmark v7, Pov-ray v3.7, EEMBC CoreMark MT 1.0, and BasemarkCL 1.0. The performance-per-watt delta was calculated by dividing the configured RX-427BB’s performance-per-watt score (2332/30) by the RX-427BB’s performanceper-watt score (2434/35). The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD (EMB-96).

6 AMD Dual Graphics technology combines the 3D graphics rendering resources of the APU’s discrete-class graphics processor with the discrete graphics processor to accelerate the Microsoft® Direct3D function for software applications using Microsoft DirectX® 10 or DirectX 11 technology.

7 The AMD RX-427BB scored 2,051, and the AMD Radeon™ E8860 paired with RX-427BB at dual-graphics mode scored 3,359 when running 3DMark®11P benchmark. The AMD Bald Eagle RX-427BB used an AMD Ballina motherboard with 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM memory and 256GB SanDisk HDD. The AMD Radeon E8860 used an AMD DB-FS1r2 motherboard with 8GB DDR3 memory, 64GB Crucial M4 HDD, and RX-427BB. The system ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-97).

8 AMD Eyefinity technology works with applications that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. AMD Eyefinity technology can support up to 4 displays using a single enabled AMD R-Series APU or up to 6 displays using a single enabled AMD graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems – the number and type of displays may vary by board design. Some implementations may require DisplayPort 1.2 multi-streaming technologies with compatible monitors and/or hubs. SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.

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AMD Radeon™ E8860 Embedded GPU The latest evolution in AMD Radeon™ embedded GPUs leverages advanced Graphics Core Next architecture, delivering breakthrough performance and power efficiency gains.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW The AMD Radeon™ E8860 Embedded discrete GPU – the first embedded GPU developed on the groundbreaking Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture – pushes AMD Radeon graphics and parallel processing performance to unprecedented new heights while increasing power efficiency.

Providing 2x higher 3D graphics performance1 and 33% higher single-precision floating point performance than the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU , the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU2 delivers industry-leading 3D video graphics performance, enabling stunning, multi-display visual experiences for a range of embedded applications spanning digital gaming, digital signage, medical imaging, and avionics.

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE AND POWER EFFICIENCY The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU supports DirectX® 11.1, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL™ 1.2, enabling high-performance graphics and massive parallel processing. The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU delivers 92% higher 3D graphics performance per watt than the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU3, and up to 22% higher 3D graphics performance and up to 61% higher performance per watt than power-comparable NVIDIA GeForce GPUs4. Supporting thermal design power of 37 watts, the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU provides the optimal performance-per-watt profile for embedded applications that require outstanding multi-display experiences, superior visual quality, and massive parallel compute but have exacting power efficiency and heat dissipation requirements. Low thermals help enable superior system cooling flexibility that helps developers conserve valuable board space and increase system ruggedization for harsh environments.

SUPERIOR MULTIDISPLAY VERSATILITY The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU provides multi-display flexibility, supporting up to five 3840x2160 @30Hz displays simultaneously in clone mode and extended desktop in static screen. Competitive NVIDIA GPUs can only support up to four independent displays.5 The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU supporting AMD Eyefinity technology6 can expand a high-resolution picture across multiple displays. In addition, one display of 4096x2160 @60Hz over one HDMI™ or DP1.2 interface can be supported, providing a superior viewing experience. This flexible, one-to-many system-to-display configuration capability enables ultra-immersive visual experiences via a single small form factor system.

OPTIMIZED FOR GRAPHICS-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU was designed to increase multimedia processing performance and power efficiency for a range of embedded applications, including: Digital gaming. Supporting rich 3D and 4K video graphics and advanced multidisplay capabilities, the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU enables breathtaking gaming experiences and excellent display configuration flexibility for casino, arcade and pachinko/pachislot gaming.

Digital signage. Ultra-high resolution multimedia playback across multiple displays helps capture and hold viewers’ attention like never before, with minimal strain on system power budget and form factor.

Medical imaging. The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU helps facilitate crisp, 360-degree medical image visualization and other advanced graphics-driven capabilities, which can help doctors provide improved care for patients.

Avionics. The high-performance graphics and parallel processing provided by the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU is an excellent choice for graphics-intensive avionics applications such as geographic information systems, 360-degree situational awareness, diminished vision enhancement, and more.

FEATURES ĄĄ The underlying GCN architecture7 enables the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU to efficiently manage workloads and programming languages traditionally handled exclusively by the main processor, and provides image quality-enhancing benefits including partially resident textures, improved anisotropic filtering, and improved DirectX 11 tessellation. ĄĄ The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU is a multi-chip module (MCM) consisting of GPU and GPU memory integrated on a single substrate, providing compatibility of GPU and memory for the lifetime of product supply. AMD is currently the only provider of such a solution on high-end embedded GPUs. ĄĄ The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU supports seven-year product longevity8, providing long-lifetime availability and support. ĄĄ The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU features 2GB of GDDR5 frame buffer and delivers up to 80% more memory bandwidth than NVIDIA’s sub-50W GeForce GPUs9. ĄĄ The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU is available in multiple form factors to support a wide range of embedded applications. These include chip-down for custom platform designs and industry-standard MXM, PCIe®, and CompactPCIe. ĄĄ The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU supports AMD PowerPlay™ technology, AMD ZeroCore power technology10, and AMD Enduro™ technology, which can enable the GPU to deliver full potential performance while conserving power.

1 AMD Radeon™ E8860 scored 2689 and AMD Radeon E6760 scored 1327 when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark paired with the AMD R-464L APU. AMD Radeon E8860 and AMD Radeon E6760 used an AMD DB-FS1r2 motherboard with 8GB DDR3 memory, 64GB Crucial M4 HDD, and the AMD R-464L APU. The system ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-79).

2 The AMD Radeon E8860 GPU’s single-precision floating point is 768 GFLOPS; the AMD Radeon E6760 APU's single-precision floating point is 576 GFLOPS (EMB-80).

3 AMD Radeon™ E8860 scored 2689 and AMD Radeon E6760 scored 1327 when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark paired with AMD R-464L APU. The performance-per-watt data was calculated by dividing the 3DMark 11P score by the GPU's thermal design power. The performance-per-watt delta was calculated based on the E8860 GPU’s performance-per-watt score of 72.7 and the E6760 APU’s performance-per-watt score of 37.9. The E8860 and E6760 used an AMD DB-FS1r2 motherboard with 8GB DDR3 memory, a 64GB Crucial M4 hard disk drive, and AMD R-464L. The system ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-81).

4 AMD Radeon™ E8860 scored 2689, AMD Radeon E6760 scored 1327, NVIDIA GeForce GT630 (Kepler) scored 1784, and NVIDIA GeForce GT640 (GDDR5) scored 2209 when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark paired with the AMD R-464L. The performance-per-watt data was calculated by dividing the 3DMark 11P score by the GPU’s thermal design power. The performance delta was calculated based on the E8860 GPU’s 3DMark11 score of 2689 and the GeForce GT640 (GDDR5)’s 3DMark11 score of 2209. The performance-per-watt delta was calculated based on the E8860 GPU’s performance-per-watt score of 72.7 and the GeForce GT640 (GDDR5)’s performance-per-watt score of 45.1. AMD Radeon E8860, AMD Radeon E6760, NVIDIA GeForce GT630 (Kepler), and NVIDIA GeForce GT640 (GDDR5) used an AMD DB-FS1r2 motherboard with 8GB DDR3 memory, a 64GB Crucial M4 hard disk drive, and AMD R-464L APU. The system ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-82).

5 http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650/specifications 6 AMD Eyefinity technology supports up to six DisplayPort monitors on an enabled graphics card. Supported display quantity, type, and resolution vary by model and board design; confirm specifications with manufacturer before purchase. To enable more than two displays, or multiple displays from a single output, additional hardware such as DisplayPort-ready monitors or DisplayPort 1.2 MST-enabled hubs may be required. A maximum of two active adapters is supported.

See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details.

7 The GCN Architecture and its associated features (AMD Enduro™, AMD ZeroCore Power technology, DDM Audio, and 28nm production) are exclusive to the AMD Radeon™ HD 7700M, HD 7800M and HD 7900M Series Graphics and select AMD A-Series APUs. Not all technologies are supported in all system configurations – check with your system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.

8 Planned seven-year availability. Additional availability possible under contract. Contact your AMD sales representative for further information.

9 AMD Radeon™ E8860 scored 2689, AMD Radeon E6760 scored 1327, NVIDIA GeForce GT630 (Kepler) scored 1784, and NVIDIA GeForce GT640 (GDDR5) scored 2209 when running 3DMark® 11P benchmark paired with AMD R-464L. The performance-per-watt data was calculated by dividing the 3DMark 11P score by the GPU’s thermal design power. The performance delta was calculated based on the E8860’s 3DMark 11 score of 2689 and the GeForce GT640 (GDDR5)’s 3DMark 11 score of 2209. The performance-per-watt delta was calculated based on the E8860’s performance-per-watt score of 72.7 and the GeForce GT640 (GDDR5)’s performance-per-watt score of 45.1. AMD Radeon E8860, AMD Radeon E6760, NVIDIA GeForce GT630 (Kepler), and NVIDIA GeForce GT640 (GDDR5) used an AMD DB-FS1r2 motherboard with 8GB DDR3 memory, a 64GB Crucial M4 hard disk drive, and AMD R-464L. The system ran Windows® 7 Ultimate (EMB-83).

10 AMD PowerTune, AMD ZeroCore Power and AMD PowerPlay™ are technologies offered by certain AMD Radeon™ products, which are designed to dynamically manage GPU power consumption and performance. Not all products feature all technologies – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.

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WILDSTAR 7 Conduction Cooled for OpenVPX 6U WILDSTAR 7 Conduction Cooled for OpenVPX 6U boards provide up to two Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGAs per board with VX690T or VX980T FPGAs, up to 8 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 51.2 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth or up to 64 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 32 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth. Up to 1.9 million logic cells and 3.3 million multiplier bits per board. Air or Conduction Cooled.

These FPGA boards include two Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGAs with 64 High Speed Serial connections performing up to 13.1 Gbps. The IO Processing Element (IOPE) FPGA has a choice of QDRII+ SRAM or DDR3 DRAM. The DRAM option has four 32-bit DDR3 DRAM ports clocked at up to 800 MHz while the SRAM option has two 72-bit QDRII+ SRAM interfaces clocked up to 500 MHz. With included High Speed Serial (HSS) FPGA cores (including 40GBASE-KR), there is up to 20 GB/s of bandwidth on the VPX data plane which can go directly to other VPX cards or to a switch, depending on backplane topology. In addition, there is 16 GB/s of PCI Express Gen 3 bandwidth on the VPX Expansion Plane with an 8x Gen3 connection to each FPGA through a non-blocking PCIe switch. When using 40GBASE-KR, there is the added reliability of Forward Error Correction (FEC) to achieve a much lower Bit Error Rate (BER).

If IO is required, Annapolis offers extraordinary density, bandwidth and analog conversion choices. Each 6U card has 2 mezzanine IO sites which can support up to four WILDSTAR Mezzanine cards as well as a QSFP+ option (on WS7 and WS A5 board) that allows for six QSFP+ transceivers per slot. These options can be mix and matched to meet customer needs. Some configurations utilize a second slot (for example the QSFP+ option and WILDSTAR Mezzanine card used in a single IO Site).

WILDSTAR A5 and V7 FPGA boards are hot swappable allowing for more system reliability. This feature is unique to Annapolis and was developed because our experience with OpenVPX systems has shown it invaluable so a whole chassis does not need to be shutdown to remove a single board.

Annapolis OpenVPX FPGA cards include an on-board dual core 1.2 GHz PowerPC. This also has a connection to PCIe infrastructure (which includes FPGAs) and can be used by customers for application requirements. It is also used to query board health like FPGA temperature and power. It is connected to the OpenVPX control plane via 1GbE. There are also plenty of user backplane signals available on the Annapolis 6U Rear Transition Module (RTM) such as LVDS, FPGA HSS, IRIG, Ethernet and clocking. RTM HSS is also capable of 10Gbps signalling and supports multiple channels of 40GbE.

FEATURES ĄĄ One or Two XILINX VIRTEX 7 FPGAS • VX690T or VX980T • Up to 8 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 51.2 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth or up to 64 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 32 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth • PCIe Gen3 8x from each FPGA to on-board PCIe switch ĄĄ Backplane I/O • 16x High Speed Serial IO lanes to VPX Data Plane (P1) for 20 GB/s of Full Duplex Bandwidth • 16x High Speed Serial FPGA connections to P5 • 8x High Speed Serial IO lanes to P4 • Two PCIe Gen3 8x Connections to VPX Expansion Plane (P2) • 24 LVDS and 8 Single Ended lines to P3 • Backplane Protocol Agnostic connections support 10/40Gb Ethernet, SDR/DDR/QDR Infiniband, AnnapMicro protocol and user designed protocols ĄĄ Front Panel I/O • Accepts Standard Annapolis WILDSTAR Mezzanine Cards, including a wide variety of WILDSTAR ADC and DAC Mezzanine Cards • Three or six optional built-in Front Panel QSFP+ Transceivers running at up to 52.4 Gbps each for 39 GB/s of Full Duplex Bandwidth • 1 Gb Ethernet RJ45 connector for Remote Host Access • External clock and IRIG-B Support via Front Panel SMA • QSFP+ Protocol Agnostic connections support 10/40Gb Ethernet, SDR/DDR/QDR Infiniband, AnnapMicro protocol and user-designed protocols ĄĄ Dual Core Processor APM86290 • Host Software: Linux API and Device Drivers • Each core runs up to 1.2 GHz • 2 GB of DDR3 DRAM • 4 GB SATA SSD and 16MB NOR Boot Flash • 4x PCIe Gen2 connection to on-board PCIe Switch ĄĄ Application Development • Full CoreFire Next™ Board Support Package for Fast and Easy Application Development • 10/40Gb Ethernet and AnnapMicro Protocol Cores Included • Open VHDL Model including Source Code for Hardware Interfaces • Open VHDL IP Package for Communication Interfaces • Chipscope Access through RTM ĄĄ System Management • System Management using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) • Diagnostic monitoring and configuration • Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors • Hot Swappable (exclusive to WILDSTAR OpenVPX EcoSystem) ĄĄ Mechanical and Environmental • 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant, 1" VITA 48.1 spacing • Supports OpenVPX payload profile: MOD6-PAY-4F1Q2U2T-12.2.1-n • Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener • Available in Extended Temperature Grades • Air Cooled with Conduction Cooled path • RTM available for additional I/O embedded-computing.com/p372742

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WILDSTAR 7 for OpenVPX 3U The WILDSTAR 7 for OpenVPX 3U contains one VX690T or VX980T Virtex 7 FPGA per board with up to 2 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 12.8 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth and up to 32 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 8 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth. It has up to 1 million logic cells and 1.6 million multiplier bits per board.

These FPGA boards include a Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGA with 64 High Speed Serial connections performing up to 13.1 Gbps. There are two 36-bit QDRII+ SRAM interfaces clocked up to 500 MHz and two 32-bit DDR3 DRAM ports clocked at up to 800 MHz. With included High Speed Serial (HSS) FPGA cores (including 40GBASE-KR), there is up to 10 GB/s of bandwidth on the VPX data plane which can go directly to other VPX cards or to a switch, depending on backplane topology. In addition, there is up to 20 GB/s of bandwidth on the VPX Expansion Place. When using 40GBASE-KR, there is the added reliability of Forward Error Correction (FEC) to achieve a much lower Bit Error Rate (BER).

If IO is required, Annapolis offers extraordinary density, bandwidth and analog conversion choices. Each 3U card has 1 mezzanine IO sites which can support up to 2 WILDSTAR Mezzanine cards as well as a QSFP+ option (on WS7 and WS A5 board) that allows for 3 QSFP+ transceivers per slot. These options can be mix and matched to meet customer needs. Some configurations utilize a second slot (for example the QSFP+ option and WILDSTAR Mezzanine card used in a single IO Site).

WILDSTAR A5 and V7 FPGA boards are hot swappable allowing for more system reliability. This feature is unique to Annapolis and was developed because our experience with OpenVPX systems has shown it invaluable so a whole chassis does not need to be shutdown to remove a single board.

Annapolis OpenVPX FPGA cards include an on-board dual core 1.2 GHz PowerPC with direct FPGA 4x PCIe connection which can be used by customers for application requirements. It is also used to query board health like FPGA temperature and power. It is connected to the OpenVPX control plane via 1GbE. There are also plenty of user backplane signals available on the Annapolis 6U Rear Transition Module (RTM) such as LVDS, FPGA HSS, IRIG, Ethernet and clocking. RTM HSS is also capable of 10Gbps signalling and supports multiple channels of 40GbE.

FEATURES ĄĄ General Features • One Xilinx Virtex 7 VX690T or VX980T FPGA • Up to 2 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 12.8 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth • Up to 32 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 8 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth ĄĄ Backplane I/O • 24x High Speed Serial IO lanes to VPX Backplane (P1/P2) for 30 GB/s of Full Duplex Bandwidth • Two PCIe Gen3 8x Connections to VPX Backplane (P1) • Eight LVDS lines to P2 • Backplane Protocol Agnostic connections support 10/40Gb Ethernet, SDR/DDR/QDR Infiniband, AnnapMicro protocol and user designed protocols • External clock and IRIG-B Support via Backplane • Radial Backplane Clock Support for OpenVPX backplane signals AUXCLK and REFCLK

– Allows points-to-point, very high quality backplane connections to payload cards – Allows 10MHz clock and trigger from backplane to synchronize and clock compatible ADC/DAC mezzanine cards without front panel connections needed – Allows 1000s of analog channels across many backplanes/chassis to be synchronized via backplane

ĄĄ Front Panel I/O • Accepts Standard Annapolis WILDSTAR Mezzanine Cards, including a wide variety of WILDSTAR ADC and DAC Mezzanine Cards • Three optional built-in Front Panel QSFP+ Transceivers running at up to 52.4 Gbps each for 39 GB/s of Full Duplex Bandwidth • Simultaneous QSFP and Mezzanine Card use • QSFP+ Protocol Agnostic connections support 10/40Gb Ethernet, SDR/DDR/QDR Infiniband, AnnapMicro protocol and user-designed protocols ĄĄ Dual Core Processor APM86290 • Host Software: Linux API and Device Drivers • Each core runs up to 1.2 GHz • 2 GB of DDR3 DRAM • 4 GB SATA SSD and 16MB NOR Boot Flash • 4x PCIe Gen2 connection to Virtex 7 FPGA ĄĄ Application Development • Full CoreFire Next™ Board Support Package for Fast and Easy Application Development • 10/40Gb Ethernet and AnnapMicro Protocol Cores Included • Open VHDL Model including Source Code for Hardware Interfaces • Open VHDL IP Package for Communication Interfaces • Chipscope Access through RTM ĄĄ System Management • System Management using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) • Diagnostic monitoring and configuration • Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors • Hot Swappable (exclusive to WILDSTAR OpenVPX EcoSystem) ĄĄ Mechanical and Environmental • 3U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant, 1" VITA 48.1 spacing • Supports OpenVPX payload profile: MOD3-PAY-2F4F2U-16.2.10-n • Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener • Available in Extended Temperature Grades • Air Cooled with Conduction Cooled path • RTM available for additional I/O embedded-computing.com/p372457

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WILDSTAR 7 for PCIe Supports up to three Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGAs per board with VX690T or VX980T FPGAs, up to 4 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 25.6 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth and up to 128 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 64 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth. Up to 2.9 million logic cells and 4.9 million multiplier bits per board.

PCIe boards connect to the host system via a Gen 3 PCI Express switch which provides a x16 interface to the host (up to 16 GB/s) and x8 Gen3 interfaces to each FPGA (up to 8 GB/s).

There is also plenty of on-board inter-FPGA HSS connections for data movement.

If IO is required, Annapolis offers extraordinary density, bandwidth and analog conversion choices. Each PCIe card has 1 mezzanine IO sites which can support up to 2 WILDSTAR Mezzanine cards as well as a QSFP+ option (on WS7 and WS A5 board) that allows for 3 QSFP+ transceivers per slot. These options can be mix and matched to meet customer needs. Some configurations utilize a second slot (for example the QSFP+ option and WILDSTAR Mezzanine card used in a single IO Site).

There is also an optional IRIG-B module, which occupies it’s own slot and provides a connector to access LVDS FPGA signals as well as an SMA for the IRIG-B input.

To ensure safe and reliable processing, WILDSTAR 7 for PCIe boards come equipped with a proactive thermal management system. Sensors across the board monitor power and temperature, with automatic shutdown capability to prevent excessive heat buildup. WILDSTAR 7 for PCIe boards are built with a rugged, durable design.

FEATURES ĄĄ One, Two or Three XILINX VIRTEX-7 FPGAS

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VX690T or VX980T Up to 4 GB of DDR3 DRAM for 25.6 GB/s of DRAM bandwidth Up to 128 MB of QDRII+ SRAM for 64 GB/s of SRAM bandwidth PCIe Gen3 8x Connections from each FPGA to on-board PCIe switch

ĄĄ Mechanical and Environmental

• Accepts Standard Annapolis WILDSTAR Mezzanine Cards, including a wide variety of WILDSTAR ADC and DAC Mezzanine Cards • Integrated Air-Cooled Heat Sink available in Passive or Active configurations • Heat Sink also serves as a Ruggedizing Board Stiffener • Available in Extended Temperature Grades • Auxiliary Power Connector

ĄĄ PCI Express Bus and Front Panel I/O

• 8x or 16x PCIe Gen3 bus to Host • DMA support on PCIe Bus for 7 GB/s of bi-directional bandwidth • Three optional Front Panel QSFP+ Transceivers running at up to 52.4 each Gbps for 19.5 GB/s of Full Duplex Bandwidth • QSFP+ Protocol Agnostic connections support 10/40Gb Ethernet, SDR/DDR/QDR Infiniband, AnnapMicro protocolnand userdesigned protocols

ĄĄ Application Development

• Full CoreFire Next™ Board Support Package for Fast and Easy Application Development • 10/40Gb Ethernet and AnnapMicro Protocol Cores Included • Open VHDL Model including Source Code for Hardware Interfaces and Chipscope Access • Open VHDL IP Package for Communication Interfaces

ĄĄ System Management

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WILDSTAR A5 for PCI Express Supports up to Three 56G FDR InfiniBand, Three 40Gb Ethernet, or Twelve 10Gb Ethernet Connections.

WILDSTAR A5 for PCI Express uses Altera’s newest Stratix V FPGAs for state-of-the-art performance. This is the first of a series of Altera Based FPGA Processing Boards from Annapolis.

FEATURES

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. is a world leader in high-performance, COTS FPGA-based processing for radar, sonar, SIGINT, ELINT, DSP, FFTs, communications, Software-Defined Radio, encryption, image processing, prototyping, text processing, and other processing intensive applications. It accepts one or two I/O mezzanine cards, including Single 1.5 GHz 8 Bit ADC, Quad 250 MHz 12 Bit ADC, Single 2.5 GHz 8 Bit ADC, Quad 130 MHz 16 Bit ADC, Dual 2.3/1.5 GSps 12 Bit DAC, Quad 600 MSps 16 Bit DAC, Universal 3Gbit Serial I/O (RocketIO, 10 Gb Ethernet, InfiniBand), and Tri XFP (OC 192, 10G Fibre Channel, 10 Gb Ethernet). Our boards work on a number of operating systems, including Windows and Linux. We support our board products with a standardized set of drivers, APIs and VHDL simulation models.

ĄĄ Up to Three Altera Stratix V FPGA Processing Elements – GSD4,

Develop your application very quickly with our CoreFire™ FPGA Application Builder, which transforms the FPGA development process, making it possible for theoreticians to easily build and test their algorithms on the real hardware that will be used in the field.

CoreFire, based on dataflow, automatically generates distributed control fabric between cores.

Our extensive IP and board support libraries contain more than 1,000 cores, including floating point and the world’s fastest FFT. CoreFire uses a graphical user interface for design entry, supports hardware-in-the-loop debugging, and provides proven, reusable, high-performance IP modules. WILDSTAR A5 for PCI Express, with its associated I/O Cards, provides extremely high overall throughput and processing performance. The combination of our COTS hardware and CoreFire allows our customers to make massive improvements in processing speed, while achieving significant savings in size, weight, power, person-hours, dollars, and calendar time to deployment.

ĄĄ Supports up to Three 56G FDR InfiniBand, Three 40Gb Ethernet,

or Twelve 10Gb Ethernet Connections

GSD5, GSD6, GSD8, GXA3, GXA4, GXA5, GXA7, GXA9, GXAB

ĄĄ Up to 4 GBytes DDR3 DRAM in 2 Memory Banks and Up to 192

MBytes QDRII + SRAM in 12 Memory Banks per WILDSTAR A5 for PCI Express Board

ĄĄ Programmable FLASH for each FPGA to Store FPGA Images ĄĄ 16X PCI Express Bus Gen 1, Gen 2, or Gen 3 to Host PC through

On Board PCIe Switch

ĄĄ Supports PCI Express Standard External Power Connector ĄĄ Multi Channel High Speed DMA ĄĄ Full CoreFire Board Support Package for fast, easy application

development

ĄĄ VHDL model, including source code for hardware interfaces and

ChipScope Access

ĄĄ Available in both commercial and industrial temperature grades ĄĄ Proactive Thermal Management System – Board Level current

measurement and FPGA temperature monitor, accessible through Host API

ĄĄ Includes one year hardware warranty, software updates, and

customer support

ĄĄ Training available

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We offer training and exceptional special application development support, as well as more conventional support. embedded-computing.com/p372673

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Processing

Digital Receiver Instrumentation Series The Digital Receiver is a turnkey solution providing an integrated data logger, digital down conversion (DDC), and a spectrum analyzer (FFT) in a compact system. The solution consists of three parts: An FPGA-based analog digitizer module and a PC-based host controller plus an optional firmware development kit to allow customization.

A development kit is available to support creation of advanced custom firmware by logic developers. Netlist versions of the IP cores used to build the Digital Receiver are provided, so developers can integrate with their own custom cores to create an enhanced receiver design.

Existing Innovative XMC module owners need only purchase the software/firmware to achieve full Digital Receiver functionality.

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FEATURES V61x Series (Air Cooling) ĄĄ Dual XMC I/O Module Sites ĄĄ Xilinx Virtex-6 SX475T-2 FPGA ĄĄ Intel i7 Quad Core, 16GB RAM, SSD

K70x Series (Conduction Cooling) ĄĄ Dual FMC I/O Module Sites ĄĄ Xilinx Kintex-7 XC7K410T-2 FPGA ĄĄ Intel i7 Quad Core, 16GB RAM, SSD embedded-computing.com/p372747

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Processing

Digital Transceiver Systems The Digital Transceiver is a turnkey solution providing a integrated data logger, digital down conversion (DDC), digital up conversion (DUC), and a spectrum analyzer (FFT) in a compact system.

The V615 digital transceiver supports one or two plug-in modules, each featuring four independent channels of DDC, two DUC, and one spectrum analyzer embedded in the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. It allows users to monitor the wide-band or narrow-band spectrum and record the data directly from the ADCs or downconvert the channels modulated on the IF band. The embedded PC can do contiguous recording at 2,000 MByte until running out of disk space. The transmitter can play the recorded baseband waveform of different bandwidth, up-convert and modulate it on the IF band on the DACs. The V616 digital transceiver supports one or two plug-in modules, each featuring four independent channels of DDC, two DUC, and one spectrum analyzer embedded in the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. It allows users to monitor the wide-band or narrow band spectrum and record the data directly from the ADCs or down-convert the channels modulated on the IF band. The embedded PC can do contiguous recording at 2,000 MByte until running out of disk space. The transmitter can play the recorded baseband waveform of different bandwidth, up-convert and modulate it on the IF band on the DACs.

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Intel i7 Quad Core, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD, Win 7 Pro 64-bit Two, independent XMC module sites Sustained logging rate up-to 2,000 Mbyte/s Per-Module Features Two 12-bit, 1000 MHz ADCs; analog bandwidth: 1000 MHz (AC Coupled) Two 16-bit, 1000 MHz DACs; analog bandwidth: 1000 MHz (AC Coupled) Xilinx Virtex-6 SX475T-2 FPGA Embedded power meter PCI Express Gen 2 (3,200 MByte/s) Digital Down-Converter (DDC) Four independent 16-bit DDC channels Digital Up-Converter (DUC) Two independent 16-bit DUC channels Spectrum Analyzer Single wide-band/narrow-band 32K points FFT embedded-computing.com/p372705  sales@innovative-dsp.com  805-383-8994

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Rugged Systems

ADLMES-8200 – Rugged Modular Enclosure Systems The ADLMES-8200 is a highly innovative embedded enclosure design.

Its highly configurable modularity makes it possible to expand or reduce a system without replacing the entire enclosure. Side wall modules may be added or removed as system requirements evolve. Three standard profiles provide quick turn inventory availability. A broad portfolio of PC/104 SBC Options Ranging from low-power Intel® Atom™ to high performance 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors are available.

Potential aPPlications include: • • • • • • •

Rugged Industrial Applications Communications Applications Mobile Routers and Other Network Appliances Military and Defense – Rugged SFF Railway Train Control Transportation Imaging Applications

FEATURES ĄĄ Modular Sidewall Design Supports Variable PC/104 Stack Heights

(2 - 6 Cards) or Expanded 3.5" SBC Intelligent Systems

ĄĄ High and Low IP (Ingress Protection) Systems Possible via High IP,

Modular Chassis Design Coupled with Full Custom, Quick-Turn I/O Panels

ĄĄ Broad Portfolio of PC/104 SBC Options Ranging from Low Power

Intel® E3800 Atom™ to High Performance 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processors

ĄĄ Fully Supported by ADL Embedded Solutions’ Team of Solidworks

Engineers for Model and or Design Support

ĄĄ Options for MIL-STD 810, MIL-STD 461, and MIL-STD 704/1275 embedded-computing.com/p372181

ADL Embedded Solutions Inc. www.adl-usa.com

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Storage

WILD Data Storage Solution When Storage capability is needed, Annapolis offers the highest density OpenVPX storage solutions on the market with up to 9.3 TB of capacity in a single 1" slot with up to 4.5 GB/s of write bandwidth. It also features a removable hot swappable canister with a connector rated for 10,000+ mating cycles. The WILD Data Storage Solution comes with standard images to support XAUI, 40GbE and AnnapMicro Protocol (Annapolis low FPGA utilization, full flow control protocol ideal for inter-FPGA communication).

The WILD Data Storage Solution is comprised of two pieces fitting in a single 1" OpenVPX slot, the “storage canister” which holds up to 12 1.8" SATA disks, and the “Storage Carrier” that plugs into the VPX backplane and holds the disk canister.

The Storage Carrier/Canister is specifically designed to support 10,000+ insertion cycles of the disk canister for frequent drive removal. Both the canister and the entire assembly (Storage Canister + Storage Carrier) are also hot swappable for minimum system down time and highest reliability. This OpenVPX compliant payload card supports 40Gb serial I/O on the VPX Data Plane on P1 to support four channels of 40GbE (proper backplane required for faster rates).

To ensure safe and reliable processing, WILD Data Storage Solution boards come equipped with a proactive thermal management system.

Sensors across the board monitor power and temperature, with automatic shutdown capability to prevent excessive heat buildup. WILD Data Storage Solution boards are built with a rugged, durable design.

Sensors can be accessed with a chassis manager (ChMC).

New heatsinks have been tested with great success on WILD Data Storage Solution boards. These larger heatsinks also act as stiffeners for the boards, making them sturdier.

FEATURES ĄĄ General Features

• 9.3 TB of Storage Per Each 6U VITA 65 Compliant OpenVPX Slot • Up to 4.5 GB/s Write and Up to 5 GB/s Read Bandwidth (write bandwidth determined by system environmentals) • Scalable Depth and Bandwidth • Hot Swappable Drive Canister with 10,000 Insertion Cycles & Hot Swappable Carrier (exclusive to WILDSTAR OpenVPX EcoSystem)

ĄĄ Backplane I/O

• Up to 40Gb Ethernet on each of Four Fat Pipes on P1, for a total of 20GB/s on P1 • 1 Additional Fat Pipe on P4 providing QSFP+ connection via RTM • 1Gb Ethernet Connection on P4

ĄĄ System Management

• Client/Server Interface for WILDSTAR FPGA Boards and Linux and Windows-based CPU systems • Extensive System and Drive Diagnostic Monitoring and Configuration over 1 Gb Ethernet via P1 and P4 Ethernet • Standard Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to Monitor Current, Voltage and Temperature • Front Panel Status LEDs for all 12 SSDs and all Backplane Control and Data Plane Connections

ĄĄ Physical Features

• 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant, 1" VITA 48.1 spacing • Supports OpenVPX Payload Profile: MOD6-PAY-4F1Q2U2T-12.2.1-n • Integrated Heat Sink • Air Cooled with Product Path to Conduction Cooling embedded-computing.com/p372456

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Storage

Micro SATA Disk Chip/μSDC Micro SATA Disk Chip/μSDC – Apacer’s ultra-small 16x20mm SSD – complies with the JEDEC MO-276 specification. It performs at a maximum sequential read/write speed of 515/165 MB/sec. Breaking the traditional size restrictions, it integrates key components such as a controller, flash and DRAM in a single chip with the ball grid array (BGA) technology. In addition, its features such as wide temperature (-40°C ~ +85°C) and surface-mount technology (SMT) provide a stable storage installation even at the highest altitude.

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Storage

SATA Disk Module Apacer SATA Disk Module adopts a 7-pin SATA connector. Its innovative hook design can effectively protect the inner parts of the system from possible loosening during any movement, ensuring operational stability. It comes in various angles (90°, 180°, 270°), heights, and widths, so users can flexibly install the storage device in accordance with their own mechanical designs. Moreover, selected designs of the product facilitate airflow within a unit’s body for better heat dissipation. Boot Protect Technology can be supported as well.

With the built-in power pins on the 7-pin SATA connector, the module can operate without an external power cable. In addition, its unique locking mechanism provides secure connectivity to a motherboard during shock. The optional Write Protect switch can also disable the host from performing any write to the device.

FEATURES ĄĄ 7-pin SATA connector ĄĄ Unique Hook Design ĄĄ TRIM Command Support ĄĄ Product Housing Selection (Optional) ĄĄ Built-in ATA Secure Erase and S.M.A.R.T. Functions ĄĄ Global Wear-Leveling and Block Management embedded-computing.com/p372850

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Systems or Modular Systems

ePC-Duo The ePC-Duo is a user-customizable, turnkey embedded instrument that includes a full Windows/Linux PC and supports a wide assortment of ultimate-performance XMC modules. With its modular I/O, scalable performance, and easy to use PC architecture, the ePC-Duo reduces time-to-market while providing the performance you need.

Distributed Data Acquisition – Put the ePC-Duo at the data source and reduce system errors and complexity. Optional GPS-synchronized timing, triggering and sample control is available for remote I/O. Limitless expansion via multiple nodes.

Up to 4 HDD for data logging.

Uniquely customizable – Dual XMC sites for I/O, user-programmable FPGA for I/O interfaces, triggering and timing control, USB ports.

Remote or Local Operation – Continuous data streaming up to 2000MB/s (quad local SSDs or dual 10 GbE LAN). Optional, stand-alone, autonomous operation with GPS or network-synchronized sampling.

Rugged – SSD boot drive support in a compact, rugged 250x195mm footprint that is ready for embedded operation.

8-36V DC-Only Operation – Perfect for portable or automotive data loggers or waveform generators.

FEATURES ĄĄ Combines an industry-standard COM Express CPU module with dual XMC I/O modules in a compact, stand alone design ĄĄ Small form factor: 3.3" H x 7.7" W x 9.8" D ĄĄ Stand-alone operation: Able to operate diskless and headless ĄĄ Windows, Linux and RTOS support ĄĄ Dual PCI Express XMC I/O module sites. Add anything from RF receivers to industrial control modules. ĄĄ PCI Express I/O sites (VITA 42.3) deliver >3400MB/s to CPU memory** ĄĄ Integrated timing and triggering support for I/O includes optional GPS, IEEE-1588 or IRIG-disciplined clock ĄĄ Supports Innovative X3, X5, and X6 I/O module features for private data channels, triggering and timing features ĄĄ USB3, 10 Gb Ethernet, SATA3 x4, DisplayPort, HD audio ĄĄ System expansion supported with dual 10 GbE ethernet links ĄĄ FPGA for custom I/O and interfaces **Data rate dependent on the COM Express module capabilities.

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Systems or Modular Systems

ePC-K7 The ePC-K7 is a user-customizable, turnkey embedded instrument that includes a full Windows/Linux PC and supports a wide assortment of ultimate-performance FMC modules. With its modular I/O, scalable performance, and easy to use PC architecture, the ePC-K7 reduces time-to-market while providing the performance you need.

Distributed Data Acquisition – Put the ePC-K7 at the data source and reduce system errors and complexity. Optional GPS-synchronized timing, triggering and sample control is available for remote I/O. Limitless expansion via multiple nodes. Up to 4 HDD for data logging.

Uniquely customizable – Dual FMC I/O module sites – add anything from RF receivers to industrial control modules. User-programmable FPGA for I/O interfaces, triggering and timing control, USB ports.

Remote or Local Operation – Continuous data streaming up to 1000MB/s or 2 x Gb/s Ethernet. Optional, stand-alone, autonomous operation with GPS-synchronized sampling.

Rugged – SSD boot drive support in a compact, rugged 8x11" footprint that is ready for embedded operation.

8-36V DC-Only Operation – Perfect for portable or automotive data loggers or waveform generators.

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FEATURES ĄĄ Combines an industry-standard COM Express CPU module with dual FMC I/O modules in a compact, stand alone design ĄĄ Programmable Kintex 7 325/410 and Spartan 6 FPGAs ĄĄ Small form factor: 5" H x 8" W x 11" D ĄĄ Conduction cooled design: Fins or cold-plate ĄĄ Stand-alone operation: Able to operate headless, booting from SSD ĄĄ Windows, Linux OS support ĄĄ Dual VITA 57 FMC I/O module sites. Add anything from RF receivers to industrial control modules. ĄĄ I/O sites (VITA 42.3) deliver >3000MB/s to CPU memory ĄĄ Integrated timing and triggering support for IO includes GPS, IEEE1588 or IRIG-disciplined clock ĄĄ Supports Innovative and third-party FMC modules for private data channels, triggering and timing features ĄĄ USB3.0 x6, Gb Ethernet x2, SATA x4, DisplayPort, Touch Screen ĄĄ Up to 4 SSD or HDD (2.5 in) AC or DC operation embedded-computing.com/p371726  sales@innovative-dsp.com  805-383-8994

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Systems or Modular Systems

mini-K7 The mini-K7 is a user-customizable, turnkey embedded instrument that includes a full Windows/Linux PC and supports a wide assortment of ultimate-performance FMC modules. With its modular I/O, scalable performance, and easy to use PC architecture, the mini-K7 reduces time-to-market while providing the performance you need.

Distributed Data Acquisition – Put the mini-K7 at the data source and reduce system errors and complexity. Optional GPS or IEEE1588-synchronized timing, triggering and sample control is available for remote I/O. Limitless expansion via multiple nodes. Up to 4 SSD for data logging.

Uniquely customizable – Dual FMC sites for I/O, user-programmable FPGA for I/O interfaces, triggering and timing control, USB ports.

Remote or Local Operation – Continuous data streaming up to 3200 MB/s to SSD or Gb/s Ethernet. Optional, stand-alone, autonomous operation with GPSsynchronized sampling.

Rugged – SSD boot drive support in a compact, rugged footprint that is ready for embedded operation.

9-18V DC-Only Operation – Perfect for portable or automotive data loggers or waveform generators.

FEATURES ĄĄ Combines an industry-standard COM Express CPU module with a single FMC I/O module in an extremely compact, stand alone design ĄĄ Programmable Kintex 7 325/410 and Spartan 6 FPGAs ĄĄ Small form factor: 4" H x 7" W x 10" D ĄĄ Conduction cooled design: Fins or cold-plate ĄĄ Stand-alone operation: Able to operate headless, booting from SSD ĄĄ Windows, Linux OS support; RTOS availability ĄĄ Single VITA 57 FMC I/O module site. Add anything from RF receivers to industrial control modules. ĄĄ Integrated timing and triggering support for I/O includes GPS or IEEE1588-disciplined clock ĄĄ Supports Innovative and third-party FMC modules for private data channels, triggering and timing features ĄĄ 4 USB ports, 1Gb Ethernet, SATA (up to 4), DisplayPort Touch Screen ĄĄ Up to 2 SSD (1.8 in); AC or DC operation

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Security capabilities for embedded and IoT apps

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Floodgate Security Framework (FSF) provides engineers developing embedded devices with a comprehensive security solution allowing them to build secure, authenticated, trusted devices. IT security practices require endpoints to be authenticated, trusted, secured, and managed before they are allowed to operate on the corporate network. IT/OT convergence and the emergence of security standards in various industries require embedded devices provide the same security capabilities as IT devices. The Floodgate Security Framework provides the building blocks for achieving compliance with security standards including EDSA, ISA/IEC 62443, and NIST Cybersecurity guidelines.

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MIPS opens architecture for universities Imagination Technologies has announced that the MIPS CPU will be releasing a fully open MIPS CPU to academic institutions worldwide at no cost. Academic institutions will have access to the RTL for study and research that Imagination Technologies believes will lead to a new wave of innovations in both processor technologies and advancements in applications like IoT, mobile, and automotive. The MIPS architecture features a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture with memory management, caching, and debug interfaces well suited to running full-featured operating systems like Linux as well as a variety of embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Among those signed up for the program include Harvey Mudd College, Imperial College London, University College London, Keio University, Tsinghua University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Universities interested in joining the program can do so by registering at community. imgtec.com/university/university-registration.

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Virtex-7 FPGA carriers VadaTech announced the introduction of new Virtex-7 FPGA carriers that utilize the 690T device, which provides more than 693K logic cells and 3,600 DSP slices. The carrier includes banks of 64-bit and 16-bit DDR3 memory and onboard P2040 PowerPC. The AMC527 carrier is similar, but includes 144 Mb QDR-II memory and no onboard PowerPC. Both carriers include a slot for an FPGA Mezzanine card (FMC) per VITA 57 standards. VadaTech also offers a variety of FPGAs, processors, graphics, digitizers, and chassis platforms in many form factors to complement these new Virtex-7 FPGA carriers.

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