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Advantech’s ARK3000 series suits a range of applications such as kiosks and in-vehicle installations. The fanless case supports a 1.5-GHz Celeron M and up to 2 Gbytes of SODIMM DDR2 memory with an operating range of –20°C to 55°C.

The latest version of National Instruments' LabVIEW includes a number of improvements. Key enhancements include its 3D Math Plots, Verification and Validation support, Partial Block Cleanup, Icon Editor, MathScriptRT Module, FPGA Compile Window, StatechartAutoDocs, VI Snippets, Real-Time Hypervisor, and LabVIEW versioning.

Anyone who has attended NI Week comes to expect a certain level of innovation to be on display, based on products such as LabVIEW. NI Week is, of course, the annual pilgrimage of LabVIEW users to a three-day conference, hosted by National Instruments, that’s filled with education, motivation, excitement, and just plain fun. This year did not disappoint.

Technology editor Bill Wong sets up a pair of NAS systems based on VIA Technologies ArTiGO A2000 and Marvell’s SheevaPlug.

Technology editor Bill Wong takes a look a Fujitsu’s half terabyte external USB HandyDrive.

Technology editor Bill Wong sets up a pair of NAS systems based on VIA Technologies ArTiGO A2000 and Marvell’s SheevaPlug.

Technology editor Bill Wong checks out WinSystem’s line of industrial Compact Flash.

At least for the last decade, we have been hearing about the worlds of embedded software and hardware growing closer, but there has been very little measurable evidence to back up those claims. Still, I’m cautiously optimistic that we are starting to see a shift toward true co-development of hardware and software, or at least its co-debug. My optimism is driven by the results of a couple of user surveys Synopsys conducted last year.

The Nano-Air Flow Differential Pressure Sensors from Microbridge target medical (MB-LPS2-01) and industrial HVAC (MB-LPS-01) applications. The sensors incorporate a thermal anemometer element and analog conditioning circuitry to monitor a micro-flow channel that has a very high impedance, allowing accurate sensing of low differential pressures over a wide dynamic range.

The Platform for Medical Devices from Green Hills Software now incorporates Secure Guest OS Virtualization support for the Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS). It’s designed to reduce the cost and risk for Class II and Class III medical product approval, premarket notification for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 510(k), or the more stringent Premarket Approval (PMA) process.

Cavium Networks’ NITROX DPI CN17xx L7 Content processor is designed to deliver rule-based packet inspection and processing at full line rates from 4 to 20 Gbits/s. The scalable system can handle millions of flows while providing deterministic, low-latency operation.

The controller-area network (CAN) often works in isolation—that is, the network bus needs to be electrically isolated from the attached nodes. This is often done using one or more opto-isolator chips and non-isolated CAN driver chips. Texas Instruments’ ISO1050 uses galvanic isolation of up to 4000 V with a life expectancy above 25 years. It is designed for rugged environments such as automotive applications.

Microchip’s PIC18F87J93 8-bit microcontroller features direct LCD-drive plus the mTouch Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU) peripheral for capacitive touch-sensing systems. The 16-channel, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and hardware real-time clock and calendar (RTCC) support make it ideal for many low-power or mobile medical and metering applications.

ARM’s Cortex M3 is at the heart of Ember’s EM300 line. The EM351 includes a 24-MHz Cortex M3 core, 128 kbytes of 64-bit wide flash, and 12 kbytes of RAM. The EM357 ups the flash capacity to 192 kbytes. They both have a 2-kbyte and 512-byte flash block for storing a boot loader and tokens. The RAM is retained even in sleep mode.

Freescale’s i.MX line now includes the i.MX25 family, which targets a pair of chips for automotive applications and three chips for the industrial space. Common to all is the 400-MHz ARM926E-J-S core plus 128 kbytes of RAM, a DDR2/DDR/SDRAM memory controller, and a NAND/NOR flash controller.

Ceitec S.A. has opened the first IC design center in Latin America. The Brazilian-based company, which specializes in ASIC development and production, plans to add 60 engineers to its team, to design RFID, digital media, and wireless communication chips. The Brazilian government’s investment in this fabrication facility, which is close to production, has reached nearly $210 million USD.

Kontron’s microETXexpress-DC Computer-on-Module features a 1.6-GHz N270 Intel Atom processor with the 945GSE and ICH7M chipsets. The 3D graphics accelerator handles dual independent displays with support for SVDO, LVDS, VGA, and TV-out.

The Atom-based ML936-B16 fits into the 105- by 146-mm Embedded Compact Extended (ECX) form factor sponsored by Intel. This is a nice match with 3.5-in. form factors. The single-board computer includes a low-power, 1.6-GHz Z530P Intel Atom processor and a US15WP System Controller Hub (SCH).

The F50x family of rugged CompactPCI single-board computers and conduction-cooled racks is designed for for –40°C to 85°C environments.

Silicon Laboratories continues to push down the size of 8-bit microcontrollers. Its C8051T606 mixed-signal microcontroller comes in a 2- by 2-mm, 10-pin mini small-outline package (MSOP). It is also available in 3- by 3-mm, 14-pin small-outline IC (SOIC) and 10-pin quad flat no-lead (QFN) packages.

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