Specializing in embedded products for video capture, annotation, recording, and streaming, Advanced Micro Peripherals (AMP) has launched the AVC8000nano, a new eight-channel video capture card in a mini PCI Express form factor. The card is designed for high-pressure or extreme environment...

A new Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) architecture from Cypress Semiconductor combines analog and digital fabric with CapSense capacitive touch technology and the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core. The PSoC 4 is a custom mixed-signal SoC with programmable analog and digital blocks combined with...

United Electronic Industries (UEI) offers four new analog input boards featuring 8 analog input channels, 24-bit A/D resolution, and 120 kilosample/second maximum sampling rates. The DNx-AI-218 offers a ±10 VDC input range suitable for most general-purpose data acquisition measurement...

Known for small, low-priced processor boards, Gumstix recently announced Pepper, its first single board computer for the embedded systems market. The module is designed around the Sitara AM3359 ARM Cortex-A8 processor from Texas Instruments and features 512 MB of DDR2 memory, 802.11 b/g/n...

Allowing designers to evaluate the most popular interfaces for embedded applications, MSC Embedded offers ready-to-run starter kits based on Qseven modules featuring the AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The MSC Q7-SK-A50M-EP4 Starter Kit consists of a 3.5" Qseven...

GreenPeak Technologies recently introduced the GP501, a new generation of ZigBee transceivers with a coexistence scheme that allows Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee chips to work side by side in the same device. ZigBee shares the 2.4 GHz frequency band with other Wi-Fi equipment, resulting in...

Built with contributions from hundreds of software experts, the Linux operating system has captured the attention of embedded developers worldwide and is available in commercial distributions throughout the embedded market. To help eliminate the requirement to match a specific Linux config...

With each new project, embedded developers are often challenged to enhance software execution speed and reduce overall code size with fewer resources and a shorter schedule. Offering support for all of their PIC microcontrollers and dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), Microchip Techno...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is a growing trend in embedded design and promises to transform connectivity and remote management across many market segments, including industrial, transportation, health care, utilities, retail, and consumer electronics. Offering designers lower d...

With the performance and portability requirements of critical applications in markets such as industrial automation, embedded vision, video surveillance, and medical imaging on the rise, embedded designers are looking for low-power, cost-optimized components. With these applications in min...

When designers undertake applications with extreme space limitations, such as wireless sensing nodes, home automation systems, and portable health and fitness products, package size becomes a critical component selection factor. Extending its EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers to meet t...

Smartphone technology has become commonplace with the general public, and customers expect similar performance and touch-screen interaction features with all of their electronic devices. Supporting the certification of the human interface portion of embedded design, Renesas Electronics Ame...

As intelligent embedded devices become ubiquitous, designers are searching for small, low-power techniques to provide continuous, autonomous connectivity and effective remote management. To meet this growing demand, Logic PD recently introduced a small form factor, low-power System-On-Modu...

Texas Instruments (TI) recently unveiled the SimpleLink product family of wireless connectivity technologies for low-power, low-cost embedded applications. The most noticeable product is the SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000, a self-contained 802.11 network processor that enables designers to add Wi...

With a focus on low-power, handheld/portable embedded ap-plications, Advantech recently announced the SOM-7565 COM Express module powered by the new Cedar Trail archi-tecture from Intel. Cedar Trail, which is based on the latest Intel Atom processors plus the Intel NM10 Express chipset, of...