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PCI-Express
PCI Express (PCIe) is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP standards. PCI Express is used in consumer, server, and industrial applications, both as a motherboard-level interconnect (to link motherboard-mounted peripherals) and as an expansion card interface for add-in boards. A key difference between PCIe and earlier PC buses is a topology based on point-to-point serial links, rather than a shared parallel bus architecture.
Conduction-Cooled PrPMC/XMC Module Targets Dual-Core QorIQ P2020
Conduction-Cooled PrPMC/XMC Module Targets Dual-Core QorIQ P2020 A conduction-cooled PMC/XMC single-board computer based on Freescale Semiconductor’s dual-core QorIQ P2020Read More...
USB 3.0 Boosts Speed 10x, Broadens Embedded-Systems Applicability
USB has become the interface of choice for many PC and consumer products, having reached an installed base of more than six billion units and counting. It is the ubiquitousRead More...
LPC Bus-Legacy Lives On
Legacy buses and I/O appear to be on the chopping block. Large pin count parallel communications buses are being replaced by faster serial architectures. Examples include Serial ATARead More...
And Not Even a Decent Funeral
With the recent surge in interest in all things vampire, either through the book and hit movie Twilight or the HBO series True Blood, this emphasis on the dead who continue to stalkRead More...
Standards: The Bedrock of the Small Form Factor Community
A common thread that runs through virtually all the significant embedded technologies of the past 20 years is their emergence from an independent industry standards organization.Read More...
Software Compatibility with the Flick of a Switch
Ahhh, software. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Or so it seems during some projects. In this new world order of limited development budgets, it’s certainly the 800-poundRead More...
USB I/O for the Embedded OEM
With the advent of the serial interconnect such as PCI Express and USB, the most obvious reaction and approach for designing new I/O has been to continue with just offering a connectorRead More...
Toward a Unified Framework for Embedded Modules
In April of 2008, the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) unveiled a new modular standard for stackable expansion of single board computers. The SFF-SIG’s new standard,Read More...
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High-Density AC-DC Adapters for Medical Applications A series of wall mount switching adapters, designed specifically for medical and information technology equipment (ITE)Read More...
Latest Xeon Processors on New 6U cPCI Boards
One of the first product ranges to feature the quad core 2.13 GHz Intel Xeon processor L5518 or the dual core 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor L5508, is a new family of 6U CompactPCIRead More...
Newest Embedded Technology Used by Industry Leaders
10 GigE Switches Provide IP Carrier Class Routing on 6U cPCI, VME and VPX A family of switches supports jumbo frames, full-wire speed Layer 2 bridging as well as Layer 3 UnicastRead More...
Industry Insider
Intel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, orRead More...
PCI Express Gen 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0 Decode Annotation Speeds Validation and Debug
PCI Express Gen 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0 Decode Annotation Speeds Validation and Debug PCI Express Decode Annotation, which is available on a wide range of oscilloscopes from LeCroy, providesRead More...
USB and StackableUSB: Enabling Efficiency and Scaling for Embedded Designs
Board-level system designers have benefited from Moore’s Law of exponential improvement in size, cost, density and speed over the years as processor boards have packed more horsepowerRead More...
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Radio-via-Ethernet Board for Streaming Audio without a PC A ready-to-go answer for integrating an Internet radio solution that will play streaming audio without the need for aRead More...
The Incredible Shrinking Blade Server: New Possibilities beyond the Data Center
While blade servers have grown in popularity as a high-density, cost-efficient and space-saving alternative to rackmount servers in data centers and server farms, newer computingRead More...
2U Acceleration Platform Supports Eight PCIe x16 Gen 2 I/O Cards in 21” Deep Chassis
A 2UPCI Express acceleration platform supports up to eight PCIe x16 Gen 2 I/O cards. There are three versions of acceleration platforms that include either one or two PCIe x16 Gen 2Read More...
ExpressCard High-Speed Digitizer Captures Data in Two Modes
A wideband signal acquisition card for commercial laptop computers combines a compact, low-power form-factor with a 150 MHz sampling rate on two channels, supporting 14-bit resolutionRead More...
Newest Embedded Technology Used by Industry Leaders
Industrial USB to Four RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 Serial Communication Ports A new serial communication adapter offers users the choice of four field selectable RS-232, RS-422, orRead More...
High-Resolution Digitizer Line Provides High Accuracy, Low Noise, High Performance
Three new PCI digitizers offer sampling rates of 10 MSample/s, 20 MSample/s and 40 MSample/s respectively. The newest members of the PCI-98x6 series from Adlink 98x6 family ofRead More...
PCI Express XMC Module with Dual Channel 1 GS/s 12-bit Digitizer
An XMC I/O module features dual channels of 1 GSample/s 12-bit digitizing with a Virtex5 FPGA computing core, DRAM and SRAM memory, and eight lane PCI Express host interface. TheRead More...
Fanless Box Computer—Ruggedness in Mobile and Extreme Apps
A new rugged box computer complies with the EN 50155 railway standard, fulfills IP67 and has an E1 approval from the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. The RC1 from Men MicroRead More...
PCI-Express Digitizer Capable of Sustained Recordings Over 1.2 GByte/s
PCI Express Digitizer Capable of Sustained Recordings over 1.2 Gbytes/s A new high-speed digitizer in the form of an advanced wideband and high dynamic range A/D board captures signalRead More...
Embedded Form Factors Harness Emerging Technologies to Enable Wireless Systems
Wireless connectivity is merging with technological advancements in silicon, signaling, mass storage and software to meet the high-performance, ultra-low-power requirements forRead More...
Single-Slot PCIe x16 Octal Graphics Card for Mission-Critical Environments
Single-Slot PCIe x16 Octal Graphics Card for Mission-Critical Environments A PCI Express graphics card is capable of supporting eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs fromRead More...
MicroTCA Carrier Hub Family Supports Four Different High Speed Fabrics
MicroTCA Carrier Hub Family Supports Four Different High-Speed Fabrics A new line of modular carrier hubs (MCHs) in the AMC/MicroTCA form factor are aimed at fulfilling theRead More...
PCI Express 48-Channel Digital I/O Card with Change of State Detection
PCI Express 48-Channel Digital I/O Card with Change of State Detection A 48-channel PCI Express (PCIe) card has been designed for use in a variety of digital I/O applications.Read More...
Have no Fear, Embedded World is Here!
The arrival of winter reminds us to make our annual pilgrimage to Nuremberg, Germany to witness the latest small form factor product introductions at the Embedded World show during theRead More...
Low-Cost PCI Express-Compliant FPGAs Enable a Plethora of Peripherals
FPGAs play an important role in embedded processing by enabling customized hardware for protocol bridging, signal processing acceleration and real-time embedded control. Now, twoRead More...
Multi-Channel, Configurable PCI-Express Digitizer with Two Virtex-5 FPGAs
An advanced PCIe-based wideband A/D board captures four synchronized channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or two synchronized channels up to 3 GHz when interleaving the ADCRead More...
10Gb Ethernet PCI Express FPGA Accelerator Card
10 Gbit Ethernet PCI Express FPGA Accelerator Card A low-profile PCI Express FPGA accelerator card features a 10 Gbit Ethernet interface directly coupled to a Xilinx FPGA. TheRead More...
PCI/104-Express SBC with Core2 Duo/Celeron M Processors
A PCI/104-Express single board computer is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo / Celeron M Small Form Factor (SFF) processors and the Intel GS45 Express (Cantiga) chipset. Based on theRead More...
Bigger Jobs in the Same Space
The PC/104 envelope continues to benefit from Moore’s Law, as CPU performance has reached a new plateau of 20 GIPS starting with Intel’s T7400 CPU and continued with the SP9300.Read More...
PCIe? USB? Sorting Out Two COM / SFF Design Decisions
Among all the bus types available in most COM specifications, only USB and PCI Express (PCIe) are well supported, high-level buses, with plug-and-play and excellent interoperability. ARead More...
What Do We Call the Whatchamacallit?
How is it that very smart people seem to have similar ideas at around the same time? In our industry, when such a thing happens we tend to think of a trend, or in other cases of someRead More...
PICMG 1.3 2U Butterfly Backplane for PCI Express Gen 2 System Designs
A 2U Butterfly Backplane for PICMG 1.3-based system designs boasts comprehensive PCI Express Gen 2 support in the smallest of spaces. Compared to competing custom solutions, the PICMGRead More...
LAN’s End is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Device manufacturers and OEMs have been “trained” that processor and chipset vendors determine the life cycle of single board computers (SBCs) and computer-on-modules (COMs)—typicallyRead More...
IEC60601-1 Compliant PCIe Medical LAN Card
An IEC60601-1-compliant PCIe Gigabit Ethernet card can be used for the direct network connection of conventional IT equipment to medical devices. With this card, expensive medicalRead More...
SFFs: Adapt or Perish
To say that the small form factor x86 SBC market moves at glacial speed would be an overstatement. Even the slightest change to a connector pinout or location in a migration product isRead More...
PCIe 1080p Frame Grabber Delivers Uncompressed Images and Video Streaming
A PCI Express frame grabber offers uncompressed image acquisition and video streaming in full 1080p HD. The HDV62 from Adlink Technology provides 1920x1080p resolution, progressiveRead More...
System on Chip (or Two) Coming to a Design Near You?
Are developments in silicon going to play havoc with this explosion of small form factor modules that has been recently sprouting like mushrooms in a moist cellar? With this issue,Read More...
Protocol-Agnostic, Multi-Fabric Interconnect for Intel Embedded Computing Line
A new multi-fabric connectivity solution for Intel processors empowers companies to migrate to open solutions, future-proof their applications and guard their investment by ensuring aRead More...
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Intel Buys McAfee for Over $7 Billion In what turns out to be the biggest purchase in its history, Intel has acquired anti-virus software maker McAfee for $7.68 billion. The dealRead More...
System Area Network Speeds Data Transfer between Servers with PCI Express
The proliferation of the raw processing power of computers has resulted in system architectures where processing tasks are distributed and assigned to various processing elements inRead More...
Qseven Module Uses Atom Z510/Z530 and supports up to 4 PCIe x1 lanes
Built with Intel’s Atom Z510 (1.1 GHz) or Z530 (1.6 GHz) processor and Intel System Controller Hub (SCH) US15W, a new Qseven module supports onboard 1Gbyte or 2Gbyte DDR2 SDRAM,Read More...
COM Solution Uses Latest Atom Embedded Processor Family
A new COM Express board is based on the new Intel Atom E6xxx Series processors, formerly code named Tunnel Creek. The E6xx series is the first Intel Atom processor-basedRead More...
All Aboard! The PCI Express -- Generation 3
The PCI-SIG, an industry consortium that developed and enhanced PCI/PCI Express (PCIe) technology, is in the final stages of developing its third generation of the PCIe specification,Read More...
PCIe-Based 2-Channel, 1.5 GHz Per Channel High-Speed Digitizers
A PCIe-based wideband A/D board captures two synchronized analog channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or one channel up to 3 GHz when interleaving the ADC data. 1 Gbyte of onboardRead More...
Transient Recorders Merge High-speed, High-precision and Long Memories
A family of LAN-controlled transient recorders includes several high-speed modules that offer sampling speeds of 240 MS/s or 120 MS/s at 14-bit or 16-bit vertical resolution. The newRead More...
PCIe over Cable Goes Mainstream
In 2007 the PCI-SIG approved the PCI Express External Cabling Specification that defines how PCI Express can be implemented over a standard cable. This new capability allows the fullRead More...
Quest Continues for the “Sweet Spot” in Configurable ASIC/SoC Design
For some time now, there has been a quest underway among a number of semiconductor vendors. The “Holy Grail” of this particular quest is to devise the ideal piece of silicon thatRead More...
Boundary Scan Platform Scanflex with new PXI Express Controllers
A new family of PXI Express controllers features TAP Transceivers, which are now integrated in the 1 slot/3U controllers. The new Scanflex boundary scan controllers (SFX Controller)Read More...
PCIe-Based 2-Channel, High-Speed Digitizers Hit 1.5 GHz per Channel
A new PCIe-based wideband A/D board captures two synchronized analog channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or one channel at up to 3 GHz when interleaving the ADC data. 1 Gbyte ofRead More...
First PCI Express 3.0 Switches Start Sampling
What appear to be the industry’s first PCI Express 3.0 (PCIe Gen 3) switches have begun to become available as samples from PLX Technology. Each of the six new Gen 3 switches isRead More...
SDK Targeted for Designs Using PCI Express 3.0 Switches
An upgraded and free software development kit (SDK) supports the PLX ExpressLane PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 switches. This suite of software tools works in conjunction with PLX’s on-chipRead More...
Deterministic, Low Latency, High Speed Memory Sharing For Demanding Applications
A low-profile PCI Express reflective memory node card is designed for real-time applications such as simulation and training, industrial process control and data streaming andRead More...
High-Resolution Signal Acquisition Module for Audio and Vibration Testing
A new 24-bit high-resolution dynamic signal acquisition module is specifically designed for audio testing, acoustic measurement and vibration analysis applications. The PCI-9527 fromRead More...
Isolated PCI Express Serial Communication Family with Speeds up to 3 Mbps
A new family of isolated PCI Express serial communication cards features a selection of 4 or 2 ports of isolated, software selectable, RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 serial protocols. 2 kVRead More...
High Density PXI RF Switches in Two Frequency Ranges
A new set of PXI RF switches supports up to 10 off SP4T RF switches in a single module and is available in two different versions based on a common switch design. The 40-755Read More...
Modernizing Legacy Modular Systems Design with CompactPCI Serial
Because CompactPCI is one of the most successful modular system standards, it’s no surprise that the standard has been continually adapted to newer specifications as technology andRead More...
VPX Boards Pair Virtex-5 FPGA with PCIe Interface
A new series of 3U VPX FPGA boards features a configurable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffers and a high-throughput PCIe interface. Field I/O signalsRead More...
Serial RapidIO Reaches a Crossroads with PCIe in Intel-Based DSP Designs
DSP systems designed for use in today’s signal processing applications require optimal bandwidth and reliability in rugged environments. To deliver the near real-time processing ofRead More...
14-Bit PCIe Digitizer Offers High Data Throughput and High Dynamic Performance
A PCI Express digitizer provides 200 MS/s sampling rate of 14 bits of data across one channel. The PCIe-9842 from Adlink Technology is designed for applications such as light detectionRead More...
DSPs with PCI Express Interface Expand Embedded Connectivity Options
While PCI Express (PCIe) has become wildly successful throughout virtually all market segments, a few were slower to adopt this powerful serial interconnect standard. Wireless baseRead More...
14-Bit PCIe Digitizer Offers High Data Throughput and High Dynamic Performance
A PCI Express digitizer provides 200 MS/s sampling rate of 14 bits of data across one channel. The PCIe-9842 from Adlink Technology is designed for applications such as light detectionRead More...
Low-Powered USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Controller
A new Low-Power USB 3.0 to SATA bridge controller features a fully integrated 5V switching regulator. The Via Labs VL701 Low-Power USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge is a single-chip solution thatRead More...
3U OpenVPX PCI Express and Ethernet Hybrid Switch Offers up to Ten Times More Bandwidth
A new 3U OpenVPX PCI Express and Ethernet hybrid switch delivers extremely high transfer rates in centralized VPX and OpenVPX platforms. With up to 4 x 6 Gen1/Gen2 PCIe backplaneRead More...
PMC/XMC Carrier Card for Optimum Performance and Flexibility
A PCI Express PMC/XMC carrier card serves developers wanting to configure PMC and XMC mezzanine cards in high-performance servers and small form factor PCs. The SPR418A hybrid cardRead More...
CompactPCI Serial Challenges VPX as Embedded Shifts to Serial Point-to-Point Architectures
A considerable number of new serial-based standards have been created, which—unfortunately—were optimized for special markets or applications during their initial development. OnlyRead More...
PLX Technology Expands PCI Express Gen3 Switch Family
Three new high-performance, feature-packed devices compliant with the PCI Express Gen3 r1.0 Specification are aimed at enabling new, more powerful designs in servers, storage andRead More...
When did Legacy become a 4-letter word?
Once upon a time, embedded systems engineers would anxiously scan data sheets for new embedded components and boards looking for those magical words “Backward Compatible” or “UpwardRead More...
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The first time I actually met Steve Jobs was back around 1978 or 1979 at a Regis McKenna reception. Regis McKenna was the premier Silicon Valley advertising and PR agency of the day.Read More...
Fast Serial Interconnects— Will They Bypass Embedded or Bring it Along?
It has long been a truism that a great deal of embedded technology has derived from things originally developed for the PC. A big factor in this has, of course, been cost. Once anRead More...
A PCI-SIG Outlook on PCIe 4.0
PCI Express (PCIe) architecture has kept pace with advances in processor and memory subsystems for the past decade and continues to proliferate across the computer and communicationsRead More...
First in a Family of Virtex-7 FPGA SDR Modules for UAV, Radar and Communications
The first member of a new high-performance software defined radio module—the Onyx family from Pentek—is a 4-channel, 200 MHz A/D XMC module based on the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA family.Read More...
PCI Express Radar Acquisition Card
A new PCI Express-based primary radar acquisition card indicates the continued response to the growing adoption of the PCI Express bus as the primary motherboard-level interconnect onRead More...