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It's kinda like a deli, with a lot of choices
Some of the best and brightest minds in the industry discuss their thoughts on ways to build small fo... (more)
Rethinking the bus using USB
The versatile USB/104 form factor reduces space and increases integration flexibility in embedded app... (more)
Compact board powers personal weather station
A mini weather station decodes wirelessly transmitted weather data using an embedded board with a rad... (more)
The wireless toolbox
As wireless technologies continue to evolve, more radios and protocols will arise to meet specific de... (more)
COMIT hits the embedded computing world
The embedded industry needs a standard COM specification that utilizes modern connector technology an... (more)
PC/104 powers nanosatellite for space situational awareness
Stackable PC/104 fits the need for a student design project.
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As one of our Executive Forum participants pointed out, more pure bandwidth for data transfers isn’t always a problem. Sometimes the available bandwidth goes into ensuring transfers can get rolling with low latency, and that’s the motivation behind the Connect Tech Xtreme/104-Exp...
Continuing to drive the presence of Intel Atom processors on small form factor modules, congatec is at it again with the conga-BA945. This time, they’ve gone with the Intel 945GME chipset, which facilitates the parallel use of two memory modules, allowing memory to be expanded to a ma...
When we see circular connectors, it usually means rugged, and this product is no exception. ADLINK Technology has taken their system design to the next level for the most extreme environmental conditions with the new MilSystem 800. Using a proven board design from their industrial-strength...
Most PC-style motherboards like Mini-ITX use an ATX-style power input with a variety of voltages. To help reduce system configuration and operating costs, ITOX Applied Computing took a look at that opportunity and decided to make a Mini-ITX variant featuring a single 12 VDC power input. Th...
Small is good, but bigger capacity is definitely better when it comes to Solid-State Drives (SSDs). While the 2.5" SSD form factor is a staple in many systems, the XPG SSD Enclosure from A-DATA Technology is the first one I’ve seen with 512 GB capacity. This drop-in SATA replacement f...
We tend to get caught up in top-performance, high-bandwidth stuff. But the cool part about small form factors is that sometimes, all you need is something little and relatively low-performance that can get the job done efficiently. The DTXM RadioModem from Ritron does that. As the name imp...
Fanless systems come in a lot of shapes and sizes, and the latest from WIN Enterprises shows off what can be done with these systems today. The PL-60590 offers a very capable appliance in a footprint of 8.7" x 8.5" x 3.5". The enclosure is designed to dampen vibration and offers a decent l...
Small processor boards are always fascinating to me because I’ll hear someone talk about how putting that much functionality on a board isn’t possible and then turn around and see someone do it. The Cool XpressRunner-GS45 from LiPPERT Embedded Computers is a good example of that...
Here’s something that could provide hours of entertainment to the nearest 2.5 m. The TrackStick II is pretty self-explanatory – it’s a USB stick that records its position, date, time, speed, heading, altitude, and temperature based on GPS coordinates.
If you can have a Linux community, why not a hardware community? BeagleBoard.org is all about designing a neat little device around a System-on-Chip (SoC) and exchanging ideas on support and applications.
Take a graphics module from the notebook PC world and a PCI/104-Express carrier module, put them together, and you get the DIGITAL-LOGIC MSMMX104EX.
I’ve seen several programmable sprinkler control systems, but this one has a couple of interesting ideas, including a 802.15.4 wireless connection from a PC to the controller and the ability to download an online weather forecast to help project water needs – less on cool or rain...
Code Red’s latest Eclipse-based C development tools now offer more advanced runtime tracing using serial wire-viewing capability in the Luminary Micro Stellaris microcontroller family, a nonstopping technology that gathers information nonintrusively as the target code executes.
I’m always on the lookout for systems that have undergone a significant reduction in size. Those who used an ASIC verification system in the last couple of decades know that the boxes were huge – we’re talking washing machine-sized huge.
Linear Tech’s latest 16-bit delta-sigma ADC family features a pair of converters with a 0.5 microamp shutdown current in a tiny 3 mm x 2 mm, 8-pin package. The LTC2451 has an I2C interface and measures voltages from 0 to Vcc, while the LTC2452 has an SPI interface and measures a diffe... |
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