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GPGPU performance benefits from GPUDirect RDMA
2 April 2014, Rugged Interconnect Technologies
Since GPGPU (general purpose computing on graphics processing unit) computing emerged in 2007, the performance gains offered by GPUs have been offset to a degree by a critical bottleneck: moving the data ...

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Rugged tablet PCs and PDAs
2 April 2014, Centurion Micro Electronics
Tablet computers and handheld PDAs are becoming the electronic work tool of choice in many work situations. Harsh environments are unfortunately not friendly to many commercial tablet PCs. Such environments ...

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Tiny Edison dev board empowers bright ideas
2 April 2014
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled Edison, the company’s new ultra-miniature development board. Housed in an SD card form factor and based on Intel’s ...

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Rack computer excels at OS recovery
2 April 2014, RJ Connect
Moxa’s DA-682A is a 19”/2U embedded rack-mount computer featuring the company’s latest software advance: Smart Recovery, an OS recovery utility with powerful automation features. Built around the latest ...

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ETX computer-on-modules
2 April 2014, Electronic Products Design
Diamond Systems has released new ETX COMs (computer-on-module) for its Pluto ETX and Neptune EPIC families of single-board computers (SBC). The ETX-GT56 features a 1,65 GHz AMD Fusion G-T56N CPU while ...

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Programmable industrial transmitter
12 March 2014, Instrotech
Calog Instruments’ locally designed and manufactured CALOG 9000 – a miniature DIN-rail mount programmable isolated transmitter – has being selling consistently well into the industrial market, due partly ...

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Signal conditioning I/O modules
12 March 2014
Dataforth’s highly flexible MAQ20 industrial data acquisition and control system is now available in South Africa. Incorporating more than 25 years of design expertise in the process control industry, ...

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Rugged PCI/104-Express SBC
19 February 2014, Electronic Products Design
Diamond Systems has débuted Atlas, a rugged PCI/104-Express single board computer (SBC) based on Intel’s dual-core Cedar Trail N2800 CPU. Offering a speed of 1,86 GHz and hyperthreading technology that ...

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Raspberry Pi expansion board
29 January 2014, Electrocomp Express
Designed by Gert van Loo, Gertduino is the successor product to the popular Gertboard. It is Arduino-compatible and plugs directly onto a Raspberry Pi. It features dual Atmel ATmega MCUs, -328 and -48, ...

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Development board based on ARM Cortex A8
29 January 2014, Opto Africa Holdings
New from Artila Electronics is the M-5360A, an ARM Cortex A8 system-on-module. It is housed on a credit card sized board powered by a Freescale 800 MHz i.MX537 ARM Cortex A8 processor with 1 GB DDR3 RAM ...

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Keystone releases version 3.0 of Guinnux
29 January 2014, Keystone Electronic Solutions
Guinnux, a Linux-based operating system distribution developed locally by Keystone Electronic Solutions, was launched in 2012. Since then, the Keystone team of engineers has continued development and ...

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Embedded systems in dusty places benefit from fanless chassis
13 November 2013, Centurion Micro Electronics
Harsh environments that are dusty can be very detrimental to embedded computer systems where fans and heatsinks become clogged and inefficient, causing overheating and system failures. If these embedded ...

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Web-based remote I/O control module
13 November 2013, Opto Africa Holdings
Artila Electronics has released the RIO-2010 web-based remote I/O control module. The device is Ethernet ready and equipped with eight relays, 16 photo-isolated digital inputs and 1-wire interface for ...

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Keystone releases version 3.0 of Guinnux
13 November 2013, Keystone Electronic Solutions
Guinnux, a Linux-based operating system distribution developed locally by Keystone Electronic Solutions, was launched in 2012. Since then, the Keystone team of engineers has continued development and ...

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Expansion board for Raspberry Pi
23 October 2013, Tempe Technologies
Microchip Technology announced the expansion of its Arduino compatible chipKIT platform ecosystem, including a new Raspberry Pi tool that it co-developed with element14: the chipKIT Pi Expansion Board. ...

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Self-powered wireless instrumentation system
23 October 2013
Magnet has extended its range to include Schneider Electric’s Accutech self-powered wireless instrumentation system. The Accutech range provides solutions for telemetry and remote scada in all industries, ...

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Compact controllers for simple processes
23 October 2013
The latest offering from Jumo is a compact, easy-to-use process controller for simple applications. This new Quantrol device with basic functions operates using four buttons on the front that have a defined ...

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Using open source operating systems for embedded system development
9 October 2013, Technews Publishing
We spoke to several key role players about the advantages and disadvantages of using open source versus proprietary operating systems.

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4-port serial PCIe MiniCard
9 October 2013, Electronic Products Design
New from Diamond Systems is the DS-MPE-SER4OPT, a rugged, low cost serial port module in the PCIe MiniCard form factor measuring 30 x 51 mm. The board offers four RS-232/RS-485 opto-isolated serial ports ...

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Gun-style mobile computer
18 September 2013
The Motorola MC9200 gun-style mobile computer from Westcon Mobility Solutions is a rugged unit supporting mobile applications and 802.11n wireless LAN. This new device includes all of the features of ...

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