Rugged, versatile and fanless, the VIA AMOS-5000 modular chassis kit leverages dual I/O coastlines for I/O intensive industrial PCs
Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 2009 – VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA AMOS-5000, a specially designed chassis kit for Em-ITX form factor boards such as the VIA EITX-3000, offering fast and easy assembly of a variety of fanless, robust IPC designs.

Built using only five sections the VIA AMOS-5000 has the VIA-developed Em-ITX at its heart, offering developers a wealth of advantages including rich and versatile I/O … Read More → "VIA Announces VIA AMOS-5000 Chassis Kit for Fanless Em-ITX Embedded Systems"

HONG KONG, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX) , the world’s leading provider of programmable logic solutions, today announced that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has incorporated Xilinx® flagship Spartan®-3A FPGAs into the design of its leading edge dynamic LED backlight control technology for flat panel LCD televisions. With Spartan at the heart of the system, ASTRI offers manufacturers of next-generation LCD TVs sharper video image quality and lower power consumption over competing solutions. Because Spartan-3A FPGAs are inherently flexible, ASTRI can tailor its technology to the exact power … Read More → "Xilinx Flagship Spartan FPGA Platform at the Heart of ASTRI Dynamic Backlight Control Technology for Today’s Flat Panel LCD Televisions"

Berkeley, California, November 2, 2009. Eutecus, Inc. has released the latest version of its Multi-core Video Analytics Engine (MVE™) Evaluation Kit supporting HD and composite TV (NTSC or PAL) input for both live and pre-recorded video. The system comes bundled with an assortment of different pre-configured videos allowing users to test MVE’s video analytic capability in various indoor and outdoor scenarios, at different resolutions.MVE is the first solution to embed an entire high-performance video analytics event detection application on a single low-cost FPGA, the Spartan 3A DSP™ from Xilinx.

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More FPGA resources and higher clock rate bring better performance to imaging applications

November 3, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany — At Vision 2009, Matrox Imaging is pleased to announce the Matrox Radient eCL Camera Link® frame grabber now supports the Altera® Stratix® IV processing FPGAs.

“With its 820K logic elements (LEs) the Stratix® IV brings the processing capabilities of the Matrox Radient eCL to a new level,” explains Pierantonio Boriero, Product Line Manager, Matrox Imaging. “More processing elements enable a greater amount of processing parallelism. When greater parallelism is … Read More → "Matrox Radient eCL high-performance Camera Link® frame grabber now supports Altera® Stratix® IV processing FPGA"

MILCOM 2009 – BOSTON, MA – October 18, 2009, — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products and systems for the aerospace and defense market, and Hybricon, a leading supplier of innovative Systems Packaging for Rugged Embedded Computing solutions serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end industrial markets, today demonstrated the industry’s first live OpenVPX™ system. The demonstration system, shown at the MILCOM 2009 Conference, featured an OpenVPX backplane in a Hybricon SFF-4 Small Form Factor conduction cooled chassis integrated with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ small form factor 3 … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls and Hybricon Are First to Demonstrate Live OpenVPX™ System at Milcom Boston"

November 3, 2009, Stuttgart, Germany — At Vision 2009, Matrox Imaging is announcing two PICMG 1.3 boards for its high-performance computing (HPC) platform, Matrox Supersight e2. The new system host board (SHB-5520) and the x86 accelerator board (XAB-5520) support Intel’s latest-generation microarchitecture, Nehalem, through the use of the Intel 5520 chipset.

“The Nehalem microarchitecture features an all-new memory architecture coupled with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI),” explains Pierantonio Boriero, Product Line Manager, Matrox Imaging. “This is good news for demanding image processing applications like semiconductor wafer and mask inspection, flat panel display (FPD) inspection, and CT scanning.”

SiliconCity(R) Flexible Architecture offers easy migration from CAP(R) to a custom ARM-based SoC

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML) today announced that the world’s first cross-platform mobile phone gaming consoles will be implemented in microSD cards, based on a system-on-chip (SoC) developed by FXI Technologies AS using Atmel’s 90nm SiliconCity Flexible Architecture.
When embedded in a microSD card, the FXI die can turn slot-enabled, hand-held devices into high-end “console gaming” platforms. The FXI SoC integrates a 3-D graphics accelerator, interface logic and ARM9(TM) processor that can … Read More → "FXI and Atmel Create World’s First microSD Gaming-Console for Mobile Phones"