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HIGHLIGHTS FROM EMBEDDED WORLD VGA and one XMC site. Software support on the products includes UEFI BIOS for an improved customer experience, and a wide range of operating systems including VxWorks and Linux from Wind River, Windows XP Embedded, Red Hat Fedora Linux, Green Hills INTEGRITY and LynuxWorks LynxOS. Emerson Network Power also introduced the innovative RapiDex board customization service. The Intel Atom processor is the first to be supported, with other Intel embedded processors being added during 2011. Users of the RapiDex service specify the processor, memory, I/O and connectors, and boards are built to the exact dimensions desired for ease of mounting in custom enclosures. With Emerson’s RapiDex service, customers simply pay a small manufacturing set-up fee to receive first article boards. A simple specification procedure and a new Emerson Network Power manufacturing process enable fast execution of customer requests. Customers receive first article boards in as little as four weeks from order. On approval of these first article boards, customers can order volume shipments with a low minimum order quantity of only 100 units. Unit prices are competitive with prices of equivalent standard motherboards. Diamond Systems unveiled the Corona multi-function SUMIT-ISM I/O module, combining WiFi, dual Ethernet, USB, and solid-state disk expansion capabilities. The compact, rugged module is engineered to meet the wide operating temperature, high shock and vibration, and mission-critical reliability requirements of fixed and mobile application environments, whether indoors or exposed to the elements. The onboard 802.11a/b/g WiFi function is based on a socketed wide-temperature mini-PCI card, which implements a dual-channel/dual-antenna WiFi radio and supports 108 Mbps transmit/receive rates, average power of 23 dBm, and peak power of up to 28 dBm. The onboard SDVO-to-VGA converter can be used for converting the SDVO output signals of Diamond’s Aurora SBC into standard analog VGA format. The optional onboard 2.5-inch SATA SSD accommodates local data storage prior to its offload via either Corona WiFi or Ethernet communications functions. Diamond board-level 2.5-inch SATA SSD modules, also announced at Embedded World, further simplify system integration and reduce size, weight, power, and cost. Corona derives its PCI Express and USB host interface signals from the host SBC SUMIT-A connector, but does not use signals or power from its PC/104 bus stackthrough connector. The two types of stackthrough buses enable SUMIT and PC/104 modules to be stacked above Corona in systems supporting those buses. To support the temperature extremes of fixed and mobile applications in both indoor and outdoor environments, the Corona module – including its onboard WiFi and SATA SSD card options – is rated for the extended operating temperature range of -40 to +85°C. Device drivers for Windows XP and Linux 2.6 are available. n March 2011 12 Product News n Eurotech: Everyware Software Framework Eurotech demonstrated a complete wireless gateway solution based on Intel’s hardware and software development kit that allows for M2M devices, applications and services to get to market quicker. Based on Intel Atom processor technology, Wind River Linux, and Eurotech Everyware Software Framework, this new class of hardware incorporates the density of a complete appliance with the flexibility of an embedded industrial computer to enable mission critical applications. News ID 13370 n Axiomtek: 3.5-inch Embedded board with Atom D425/N455/D525 Axiomtek announced CAPA801, a new 3.5-inch embedded board, equipped with the new Intel Atom processor D525 dual core 1.8GHz, D425 single core 1.8GHz, and N455 single core 1.66GHz. The low power CAPA801 has a 204-pin DDR3 667/800MHz SO-DIMM max up to 4GB capacity. Dual displays are supported by an 18-bit single channel LVDS port and VGA port. It also comes complete with several I/O like six USB 2.0 ports, four COM ports, PCI Express Mini card, two Gigabit Ethernet, and HD audio. News ID 13164 n Kontron: AMCs with Freescale Power Architecture processors Kontron announces support for Freescale Semiconductor’s advanced QorIQ family of communication processors, which deliver best-in-class energy efficiency and a broad range of performance and integration capabilities on AdvancedMC processor modules. With these two Power Architecture based communication processor platforms, designed for networking and control applications with general processing needs, Kontron extends its portfolio of single-width midsize AdvancedMCs both for low-power and high-performance packet processing applications. News ID 13332 n Eurotech: Everyware Device Cloud solution at embedded world Eurotech presented its Everyware Device Cloud (EDC), solution at Embedded World. EDC is a platform that represents the most effective way for customers to design and deploy device-tocloud solutions that deliver valuable data between distributed devices and business applications. With EDC, M2M solutions that connect embedded devices to a network and capture valuable data can be deployed in minimal time. Before EDC, this kind of deployment could take months or even years to plan, procure and execute. News ID 13307
Board customization program for embedded Intel processor users n The market for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded computer motherboards is vigorous, healthy and competitive. The range of choices available to system designers is very wide, and many different combinations of processor, memory and interface options are available as standard products. For many designs, the choice of standard parts is adequate. Normal embedded design procedure is to define system architecture and derive a desired motherboard specification from this. Then the design team will scan the COTS motherboard market, looking for the standard part that best fits the desired specification. In many instances, this best fit is a good enough fit; it is, though, rarely a perfect fit. Unfortunately, the alternative – commissioning a unique, custom board – has in the past been commercially unattractive. Custom boards made to the user specification provide a perfect fit for the design requirement, but customization services have been slow, inflexible, burdened with complex legal provisions and, above all, expensive. For the vast majority of embedded design projects, a custom board has been out of reach. OEMs have learned to work around the design compromises that go along with accepting COTS motherboard with a good enough fit. To address the need for optimized board designs when a COTS board is not suitable, Emerson Network Power has introduced the RapiDex service, a rapid board customization program that allows OEMs to specify processor, I/O, connector and other options within a custom board form factor. The service is available for boards using Intel embedded processors. The RapiDex service is fast and remarkably straightforward for the customer to use: no special contracts, no statements of work and no project supervision are required. And unlike conventional customization engagements, the customer need make no commitment on production volume numbers, and the minimum order quantity is merely 100 units. The RapiDex service is also priced to reflect the resources of the vast majority of embedded design projects: the customer pays a small manufacturing setup fee, no non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees, and unit costs per board shipped are comparable to the price of a standard part. This new service is the result of innovative developments in design and manufacturing automation pioneered by Emerson Network Power, and it brings the advantages of board customization to a far wider range of embedded OEMs than could previously benefit from it. At the start of an embedded design project, COTS By Rod Anliker, Nigel Forrester and Shlomo Pri-Tal, Emerson Network Power A new board customization program requires no special contracts, no statements of work and no project supervision, but leads to cost-effective customized COTS solutions. The service is straightforward to use and the customer need make no commitment on production volume, the minimum order quantity being only 100 units. the preference of the team is to find a standard embedded computer motherboard that fits into its end-product architecture. A standard part can be shipped immediately, and the only cost the customer pays is the unit price per board. This method of sourcing an embedded motherboard or computer is the fastest and cheapest available. Indeed, embedded computing manufacturers such as Emerson Network Power succeed in meeting the common needs of the majority of users with their standard parts designs. But certain classes of design requirement are not well served by standard boards. These designs fall into one of two categories. 1) Outliers: design projects with uncommon requirements. The specifications are in limited demand, so it is not economical for embedded board manufacturers to make a standard part to meet them. 2) Long-lived platform products: it is difficult to maintain uniformity of board specifications over time and over multiple product variants when sourcing from board manufacturer standard parts, since the specifications of these change frequently to keep pace with changes in technology and customer demand. In both cases, the use of standard boards from a catalogue is disadvantageous. It can result in one or more of the following drawbacks: compromised design, 13 March 2011
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