Freescale VortiQa Solutions for Security Appliance
Freescale Semiconductor announced four new solutions for the UTM/security appliance market. The offerings enable OEMs to quickly and cost effectively develop a range of security applications including UTM appliances, IPS/IDS appliances, content security appliances, secured routers, VPN routers, secured switches and business gateways. The PowerQUICC-MPC8572 and MPC8540 solutions are available now. The QorIQ-P2010 and P2020 [...]
Tensilica ConnX Atlas Reference Architecture for Long-Term Evolution
Tensilica announced the ConnX Atlas LTE (Long-Term Evolution) reference platform. ConnX Atlas LTE is a heterogeneous seven-core reference architecture for a complete multi-standard programmable radio for advanced mobile devices. Atlas is designed to support the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE standard and other complementary standards such as HSPA+ (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access), in a [...]
Mercury Computer OpenVPX Reference Design Kits
Mercury Computer Systems introduced their OpenVPX Reference Design Kits. The OpenVPX Reference Design Kits provide an engineering blueprint for developing OpenVPX-compliant 6U and 3U payload and switch modules. The OpenVPX V1.0 System Specification is the first system VPX specification dedicated to interoperability of multi-vendor system and sub-system building blocks. The kits leverage industry-standard CAD tools [...]
XMOS USB Audio 2.0 Reference Design
XMOS introduced a reference design for USB Audio 2.0. The solution enables standard computer-based systems to deliver bit-perfect prosumer quality sound. The reference design works with the Mac OS-X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Audio 2.0 native class driver, and XMOS has teamed with Thesycon to provide Audio 2.0 Class driver support for Windows. The XMOS USB [...]
Freescale MCF51EM Polyphase Meter Reference Design
Freescale announced a turnkey metering reference design built upon an advanced microcontroller (MCU) customized for the electrical metering market. The polyphase reference design, based on Freescale’s advanced MCF51EM256 ColdFire MCU, is a cost-optimized implementation of a single-phase or three-phase smart electrical meter. The reference design contains necessary hardware and software to make development of smart [...]
Pigeon Point Systems Module Management Controller BMR Starter Kit
Pigeon Point Systems (PPS) unveiled a Module Management Controller (MMC) Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kit based on the Renesas H8S/2472 microcontroller. The MMC BMR kit offers a solution for the mandatory management controllers used in AdvancedMC modules, both for AdvancedTCA (ATCA) carriers and MicroTCA shelves.
Mixed Signal/Radio Frequency Reference Design Kit
Cadence Design Systems and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) introduced the Mixed Signal/Radio Frequency Reference Design Kit (MS/RF RDK). The RDK accelerate analog, mixed-signal, and RF designs and RF SoC verification and integration. The MS/RF RDK Initially targets 65nm process and was developed with Cadence Virtuoso mixed-signal technology. The TSMC 65nm MS/RF RDK is available [...]
Quickfilter QF Audio Dragon Docking Station Reference Design
The Quickfilter QF Audio Dragon docking station reference design contains all the required electronics to implement a high quality, low-cost docking station. The reference design includes equalization filters, microcontroller firmware, schematics, BOM, and layout files. Docking station manufacturers can customize the reference design by adding speakers, custom designed equalization filters (using QFPro1Da software), and plastic [...]
Reference Design for Video Surveillance Applications
Conexant Systems and Maxim Integrated Products jointly developed a reference design for PC-based video surveillance products with digital video recording (DVR) capabilities. The new reference design is based on Conexant’s CX25853 multi-port video decoders and CX258521 media bridge. It also includes Maxim’s MG3500 H.264 video compression solution, which increases recording capacity on DVRs and supports [...]
Ambarella A5 Hybrid Camera Platform
Ambarella, Inc. introduced the A5 system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform for hybrid cameras. The A5 platform features 10 mega-pixel (MP) still images, full high-definition (HD) recording, and simultaneous dual-resolution recording for fast internet sharing. The A5 SoC platform enables consumers to take high-quality photos and video in affordably priced pocket-sized cameras. Consumer hybrid cameras based on the [...]
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