February 5, 2012
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Stefan Skarin, Trygve Angell, Linda OrtstadIAR Systems® announces that Embedded Norway AS is the new distributor of IAR Systems products for the Norwegian market as of December 5, 2011. Embedded Norway AS is founded by Gerd Aida Refvik and Trygve Angell who both has extensive background and experience from application development. Trygve Angell has also been Chairman of the Board for IAR Systems AB from 2006 to 2010. Embedded Norway AS will sell and support all of IAR Systems products, including the very popular compiler and debugger tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench®. IAR Embedded Workbench is a high-performance C/C++ compiler and debugger tool suite for applications based on 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers. IAR Systems collaborates with all leading silicon vendors worldwide to ensure that the software supports more devices in more processor architectures than any other tool on the market. The market for embedded systems is growing rapidly and reaches into new market and industry segments. Application vendors need to get new products rapidly to the market place, keeping track of quality in all major parts of the development cycle. IAR Systems with its world class products and services is the leading independent vendor of embedded develop
The system specialist ELMA Electronic GmbH, based in Pforzheim Germany, enriches its product range by two very useful improvements. From now on, all type 39 series systems are serially equipped with a new fan controller and optionally with a new system monitor. The new system monitor can process protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, TFTP, SNMP V2, DHCP and Telnet what enables the user to control the system via remote access. Voltage, temperature and fan speed values can be retrieved from the system or special “events” can be set. With the new fan controller, many system settings that so far had to be taken statically can now be preset. Thanks to the integrated micro controller, the user can define temperature regulation and time of ventilation autostart function via serial interface. Values to be controlled are easily accessible via I2C or serial interface. Furthermore, it is possible to activate digital temperature sensors at the fan controller or to connect a LCD display and visualize current temperature and fan speed of the system. In parallel to these upgrades, the company starts a special sales campaign, where various CompactPCI systems of the type 39 series are offered
ODU develops reliable solutions in the connector area for many well-known companies. The result? High quality innovative products for the global market. These connector systems offer clear benefits: • Very large number of mating cycles for profitable demands • Absolute contact stability for reliable action • Easy condition for quick action • Unmistakable connector position for reliable work • High visibility for faultless handling. ODU MINI- SNAP Connectors ODU offers five different series of cylindrical miniature connectors. * Series L and F are compatible with the connectors produced by companies with the same field of application. This is the optimal solution by custom specific developments.Cable assembly using ODU MINI-SNAP Two of the options of connecting the strands to
Adding bootloading capabilities to embedded applications provides the framework to update firmware running on a microcontroller (MCU) at any time. This capability is beneficial if the final firmware image contains a bug, if the firmware image needs to be programmed into an MCU after the final product is assembled, or if an application’s firmware needs to be updated in the field. Any communication protocol can be used for bootloading as long as the MCU has a means of communicating using the chosen protocol and enough free code space to store the bootloader firmware. By Evan Schulz, Applications Engineer, Embedded Mixed-Signal Products, Silicon Labs The Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) or System Management Bus (SMBus) protocols are commonly used by MCUs, require only two wires for communication, and can be implemented in a small amount of firmware, making these protocols ideal candidates to use in a bootloader. Updated bootloader-ready firmware images can be sent to the target device by a separate MCU or a fixed-function communication bridge connected to a PC. Let’s examine general bootloader design considerations, as well as I2C/SMBus-specific implementation techniques for embedded MCU applications. First, we will cover some basic information of the I2C protocol, including hardware and firmware considerations. The I2C protocol requires two signals – serial data (SDA) and serial clock (SCL) -- for communication with other integrated circuits in
The level of performance called for in medical imaging and simulation is often so high that even the latest multicore processors find it difficult to keep up. An efficient alternative to the supercomputers otherwise needed to meet the kind of requirements presented by medical diagnostics and therapy can be found in today’s extremely high-performing general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) technology and tools with which the massive parallel computing power of modern graphics cards is easily channeled. AMD now makes this technology available long-term for the embedded market in the form of the ATI Radeon™ HD 5770 and the new AMD Radeon E6760 GPGPU. The thirst for more performance has been driving processor developments from one extreme to the next — faster clocking, more bit width and ever smaller fabrication volumes are meant to further optimize the performance rewards. The next step in the x86 market was the introduction of multicore technology, consuming about the same power but multiplying performance. Nevertheless, even the new multicore processors are often no match for applications in which you want to process large quantities of data as fast as possible. Because in imaging diagnostics such as MRT and CT, for in-stance, using solutions set up on multicore technology may still mean having to wait severa
