Embedded Live - Embedded Systems Design

The event in real time, as was covered by CoverItLive!

In April Cambridge-based smart metering specialist Sentec has been given a Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of its growth over the last three years, during which the company more than trebled its overseas earnings to £4.3m.

Clifford Dive, business development director at Sentec, will present a keynote presentation on Thursday October 21 at Embedded Live, which takes place at Earls Court, London.
   
Sentec's smart metering technology is now included in over five million - around half - of the smart electricity meters installed in the US.

Clifford Dive's presentation is aimed at the 'Connected M2M Devices' audience,  particularly in the smart metering and smart grid sector.

Coming initially from a technical background in the early days of real-time microprocessor products, a large part of Clifford's business life has been dedicated to embedded software development

Before joining Sentec this year, Dive woked for three years with mobile phone giant Qualcomm, initially leading the professional services team, and later promoting product innovation in the User Focused Innovation Team.

Embedded Live 2010 is now taking delegate registrations for the UK exhibition which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

At Embedded Live (Earls Court, London, 20-21 October), Arrow Electronics will be presenting products and technology available through its Arrow Embedded Solutions (AES) team.

Alongside Arrow representatives there will be product specialists from manufacturers including Microsoft, Sharp, Intel, Freescale, Traco, Telit, Digital View and Advantech.

Among the products on display will be: Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system; AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies from Traco; and short range radio devices and 2G/3G cellular modules from Telit Wireless Solutions.

Also featured will be Freescale Semiconductor's Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 32bit microcontrollers, i.MX applications processors, Z-Star accelerometers and ZigBee development tools.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe is to demonstrate its second generation 8-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) for 100Gbit/s optical transport designs based on coherent detection. 

Learn more from Fujitsu Semiconductor at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October.

Implemented in a high-performance 0.9V 40nm CMOS technology, the 65GSa/s ADC demonstration chip has power dissipation for a single channel of 1.2W.

This is 50% less than previous ADC which was fabricated on a 65nm process.

"With this architecture, the ADC is no longer the limiting factor on speed and power," said Ian Dedic, chief ¬engineer of Fujitsu's communications business unit.

ByteSnap Design has become a Silver Partner in the Windows Embedded Partner Programme and will be presenting its capabilities at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place next month at Earls Court, London.

Rohde & Schwarz surprised the test industry in July when it announced its first ever oscilloscopes, which will be on show for visitors to try out at Embedded LIve (October 19-21) in London next month. 

This is a big commitment by the Germany-based RF and microwave test systems specialist.

Rohde & Schwarz has said these first 2GHz and 500MHz product families are the first in a planned line of oscilloscopes.

Peter Kasenbacher, European manager for the oscilloscope product lines at Agilent Technologies, believes this is an exciting period in the oscilloscope market with many technology announcements and product launches this year already.

"I am enthusiastic about the opportunities ahead in oscilloscopes. I believe that ongoing innovation with new scope platforms is particularly important in this environment," says Kasenbacher.