Archive : 4 November 2015 год

Solid State Supplies has announced a UK franchise distribution agreement with Luminus Devices, a global manufacturer of high-performance LEDs.

Robert de Jonge, senior director of sales for the EMEA region at Luminus, said: “Our plan is to be a key supplier and business partner with Solid State Supplies to ensure that customers in the UK have access to our product portfolio as part of a comprehensive, competitive supply chain solution.”

Luminus develops and markets solid-state lighting solutions to help its customers migrate from conventional lamp technologies to long life and energy efficient LED illumination. Combining technology originated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with innovation from Silicon Valley, Luminus offers a range of LED solutions for general lighting markets, as well as high output speciality lighting solutions for performance driven markets including consumer displays, entertainment lighting and medical applications.

John Macmichael, managing director of Solid State Supplies, added: “These highly versatile light source products and technologies from Luminus are a significant addition to our portfolio and will enable us to address an increased number of important applications.”

Author
Tom Austin-Morgan

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Digi-Key Electronics have teamed up to launch the ‘Power without Boundaries' contest. The companies are asking electronics experts and tinkerers alike to proffer creative ways to incorporate wireless charging capabilities into products by using IDT’s 5W kits.

Judges will be looking for designs that demonstrate the advantages wireless charging systems offer, such as convenience, the ability to develop a waterproof charging system, or the elimination of failure-prone charging contacts. The winner of the global competition will receive a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 edge+, plus a Gear S2 Smart Watch; second and third place winners also will receive Samsung products featuring wireless charging enabled by IDT chips.

David Sandys, Digi-Key director of Technical and Strategic Marketing, said: “IDT’s wireless power kits dramatically simplify integrating wireless charging capabilities into an existing design-so much so that even engineers without specific power design expertise can create a functioning prototype within hours. We look forward to watching the creativity unfold as we get these kits into the hands of innovators from around the world.”

With plug-and-play integration, IDT’s Qi-compliant transmitter and receiver reference kits are built around proven IDT wireless power semiconductors, and include reference boards and design support collateral. Support materials include instructional videos, user manuals, foreign object detection (FOD) tuning guides, layout guides, layout instantiation modules, schematics, bill-of-materials (BOM), Gerber files, and more.

Mario Montana, IDT vice president and chief sales officer , said: “With this contest, we’re turning directly to the masses, asking today’s innovators from around the world to unleash their creativity and develop entirely new sets of applications that can be wirelessly powered, whether it’s an electric shaver, one of your kid’s toys, or even a battery-operated back scratcher. Your imagination is the limit.”

The contest will be hosted by hackster.io. The deadline for submitting designs is 31 December, and the winners will be announced 15 February, 2016.

Author
Tom Austin-Morgan

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

Mentor Graphics has launched Vista virtual platforms for Altera’s Arria 10 SoC FPGA range. The platforms, said to be fully functional simulation models of processor subsystems and peripherals, are offered as downloadable prebuilt binaries. The Altera SoC Virtual Platform executable combines an instruction set simulator CPU model with models of the processor peripherals into a binary executable.

Chris Balough, Altera’s senior director of marketing, said: “Our technology partnership with Mentor lessens our customer’s risks by accelerating embedded system development through identifying design issues that would be difficult or too late to find in the physical hardware.”

Vista platforms allow embedded engineers to begin development and debug before silicon becomes available. The binaries can be installed on a host PC and run together with a prebuilt Linux image. In addition, a model of custom functions in the FPGA fabric can be linked to the virtual platform for system-level simulation. The platforms support bare metal/RTOS and Linux environments.

Guy Moshe, general manager of Mentor’s Design Creation Business Unit, noted: “Our virtual platform solution allows developers of Altera SoC FPGAs to realise increased performance, accuracy and cost savings, whilst accelerating their software development.”

Using Vista Architect, hardware and system engineers can access the Altera hardware platform source and customise and manipulate the SoC and FPGA models. According to the partners, this enables users to test, analyse and explore hardware configurations, peripheral alternatives, memory hierarchies and resource utilisation.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk

Intel has released a set of IoT Platform reference architecture and hardware and software products as part of an effort to build out one of the most comprehensive offerings for the IoT marketplace. The platform includes two reference architectures and a portfolio of products from Intel and its ecosystem to address opportunities within the IoT.

Doug Davis, senior vice president, IoT Group at Intel, said: "Intel is making it easier for our customers to scale from things to cloud with new Intel Quark processors for IoT and Wind River's free cloud-connected OS for microcontrollers."

Intel says it is working with a variety of companies across market segments to scale from a proof of concept to pilot to deployments.

The platform is claimed to provide a blueprint for delivering innovations to market by reducing complexity and defining how smart devices will securely connect and share trusted data to the cloud.

The addition of Intel Quark processors for IoT provides low-power silicon for intelligent things. The Intel Quark SE SoC and the Intel Quark microcontroller D1000 and D2000 feature low-energy, powerful processing. The products are suited to the IoT, offering extended temperature for demanding environments and claimed to have long life reliability. The Intel Quark SE SoC for IoT is said to offer an integrated sensor hub as well as pattern matching technology to deliver real-time insights from complex sensor data.

Wind River’s operating system is designed to help makers and commercial developers simplify and accelerate IoT application and device development. It is said that it gives designers the ability to start building applications in 10 minutes. It also includes free cloud-connected multi-architecture operating systems, Wind River Rocket and Wind River Pulsar Linux, and a cloud suite of software-as-a-service products.

This ‘things to cloud’ solution offers customers a path from experimentation to development to full commercial deployments.

A key ingredient to the Intel IoT Platform is the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP), which helps make data actionable and can be integrated in an end-to-end IoT solution. Designed for developers and data scientists, TAP is a suitable platform for industries such as healthcare, retail and industrial. It integrates with the Intel IoT Platform reference architecture for data management, protocol abstraction, workload distribution and compute.

Author
Tom Austin-Morgan

Source:  www.newelectronics.co.uk