Month: March 2011

Cypress PSoc5 Cortex-M3 at Embedded World 2011

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Cypress Semiconductor shows their new PSoc5 Cortex-M3 based solution and development kit based on their PSoc Designer 5.0 software. They also do solutions for 10-finger or more capacitive touch detection and proximity sensing.

Toshiba ARM Cortex-M3 32bit MCU for Motor Control and Multi-touch resistive system

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Toshiba shows some of their new embedded technologies such as their ARM Cortex-M3 MCU TMPM374FW with BLDC, hardware vector engine for AC-induction motors, for industry, field oriented control and home appliance. Then they also show their multi-touch resistive touch screen solution using their ARM9 TMPA900 processor, for using touch screens with pen stylus or with gloves.

Mentor Graphics UI tools free for i.MX51/53 customers

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Mentor Graphics provides 3D UI tools on top of Android, customers who use the Freescale i.MX51 or i.MX53 can get access to these tools from Menthor Graphics for free.

Freescale Xtrinsic MAG3110 magnetometer

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Freescale shows their new 3-axis magnetometer at Embedded World 2011 in Nurenberg. In addition, Freescale shows the the Xtrinsic MMA9550L accelerometer with a 32bit microcontroller inside which has nominated for the embedded award.

MSI Wind Box DC100, AMD E350 compact desktop

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Here’s a concept for a potentially $200 AMD Fusion E350 based compact desktop nettop thing. MSI will release it if customers want it.

ASrock E350M1-USB3, AMD E350 Mini-ITX Motherboard

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

ASRock is one of the major motherboard makers, here they have their new AMD Fusion E350 based Mini-ITX board.

Zinwell ZSA-3210, virtual surround speakers with HDMI pass-through

Posted by Charbax – March 4, 2011

Zinwell releases this virtual surround sound system with HDMI passthrough, they also make a version with a built-in media player.

Trim Slice Tegra2 ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core Desktop!

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011

Compulab is showing this Tegra2 desktop for the first time at a trade show, it’s a full ARM Powered desktop computer based on the Nvidia Tegra2 processor. Has 2 HDMI outputs, one for full HDMI video, one for a secondary display, Gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB hosts, stereo audio output, audio in, SPDIF output, 12V power connector, connector for wireless antenna for WiFi and Bluetooth, SD slot, RF232 Serial Port, Micro-USB slave. They also have a slightly bigger version that can slot in a 2.5″ Sata hard drive. 1GB RAM, it also has an internal Micro-SD slot to store the OS. So if you want to upgrade or change the OS, just change the MicroSD card and reboot. It also ships with 32GB Flash storage. They are launching this with Ubuntu 10.10 and they will add support for Honeycomb by launch. Availability is June, the price is targeted at below $200 in bulk (can be re-branded as ODM) and to be about $250 at retail. You can find more information and follow the latest official news about it at http://trimslice.com

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Hard Kernel presents Samsung Exynos 4210 ARM Cortex-A9 1Ghz Dual-core in 10.1″ capacitive tablet

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011

Here is Hard Kernel’s new Exynos based development kit tablet device. Hard Kernel is a company based in South Korea working very hard with Samsung’s kernel to create reference development kits for developers to develop software for Samsung’s processors. This is Hard Kernel’s newest awesome looking Exynos based 10.1″ tablet form factor device. Find more informations at: http://hardkernel.com/

Specs:
Processor: Samsung Exynos 1Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-core
Graphics: Mali-400
RAM: 1GB
Flash Storage: 8GB
Screen: 1366×768 10.1″ capacitive
WiFi: WiFi-b/g/n (Broadcom BCM4329)
Bluetooth: 2.1 EDR
GPS: Built-in AGPS with 3G receiver
Video support: HDMI 1080p (codecs limitations bitrates etc to be tested)
USB: USB 2.0 Host
Cellular: HSPA+ (ST Ericsson, up to 21 Mbps download, 5.7 Mbps upload)
Battery: 9000mAh
Sensors: Gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, electronic compass
Availability: Available from end of March
Price: $750

Texas Instruments DaVinci DM816x and DM814x, does 4K2K video playback

Posted by Charbax – March 3, 2011

Playsback 3x1080p@60fps, for use in set-top-boxes, could be in Google TV boxes (imagine this powering 4K2K Google TV), it costs around $100. Video security, video conferencing, video signage, thin clients, products online monitoring, portable medical devices with strong imaging.