Renesas Electronics announced the availability of a full reference platform for smart electricity meter design based on its RX21A 32-bit microcontrollers.
The reference platform’s hardware supports both 3-phase 4 wire and single-phase operation, and configurable sensor types including current transformer.
The intention is to allow it…
Arduino Yún is the first Wi-Fi wireless interface module for the Linux-based embedded computing platform.
The module is essentially the Arduino Leonardo, based on the Atmega32U4 processor, with a Wi-Fi system-on-a-chip running Linino – a MIPS GNU/Linux based on OpenWRT. The board adopts…
Renesas Electronics has teamed up with Germany-based software firm Port GmbH to support its RX MCU microcontroller family by offering a free-of-charge commercial software package from Port GmbH up to the value of €20,000.
The software provides sophisticated support for CANopen, POWERLINK, EtherCAT and PROFINET for…
Element 14 has announced a camera peripheral for Raspberry Pi.
It is 25x20x9mm, has 5Mpixel (2592×1944) native resolution for stills, and supports 1080p30, 720p60 and 640x480p60/90 video.
“The camera is supported in the latest version of Raspbian; Raspberry Pi’s preferred operating system,” said Element 14.
Price is $25…
Emerson Network Power says it will now continue selling two of its VMEbus processor boards until 2017.
Originally introduced as long ago as 1999, the MVME5100 board will now have a lifecycle of at least 18 years, in an industry where embedded board manufacturers routinely support their products for seven…
With their Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 4.0.4, PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme is offering test and debug for Texas Instruments Hercules ARM-based microcontroller platform which has been developed especially for security-critical applications in compliance with IEC 61508 SIL-3 or ISO 26262 ASIL D.
The Hercules…
An embedded computer which is equally at home running Android, Linux Ubuntu is the first product from an interesting collaboration between US-based board firm Seco and Italian software design consultancy Aidilab.
Dubbed UDOO, the board is also Arduino-compatible which means you can use the Arduino IDE to build…
XMOS has added an ADC to its multicore processors for industrial applications, such as sensors, actuators and motor controllers.