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ARM® supports the Apollo family of
ARM Cortex®-M4F microcontrollers
from the semiconductor company
Ambiq Micro.
Since the start in 1983, IAR
Systems has been building and
expanding a strong network of
partners. The company is the hub
of a powerful partner ecosystem,
including all leading semiconductor
vendors worldwide. Thanks to
this, the complete C/C++ compiler
and debugger toolchain IAR
Embedded Workbench supports
more microcontrollers in more
architectures than any other tool on
the market. All available ARM cores
from all major vendors, in total more
than 4,000 devices, are supported
by IAR Embedded Workbench,
and IAR Systems continually adds
support for new devices.
TheApollo family of microcontrollers
from Ambiq Micro offers leading
power numbers in both activemodes
and sleep modes. These power
savings combined with a high-
performance processing engine
make the Apollo MCUs a good
choice for battery-powered devices
including wearable electronics,
activity and fitness monitors, and
wireless sensors.
“We are really pleased that our
Apollo MCUs are supported by IAR
Systems’ complete development
tools,” says Mike Salas, Vice
President of Marketing and Strategy,
Ambiq Micro. “The combination of
the ultra-low power performance
of the Apollo MCUs and the high-
quality development toolchain IAR
Embedded Workbench for ARM will
help developers worldwide to bring
new innovative products to life.”
IAR Embedded Workbench is a
powerful development toolchain
that incorporates a compiler, an
assembler, a linker and a debugger
into one completely integrated
development environment. The
toolchain
provides
extensive
debugging and profiling possibilities
such as complex code and data
breakpoints, runtime stack analysis,
call stack visualization, code
coverage analysis and integrated
monitoring of power consumption.
For complete code control, IAR
Systems also offers integrated
add-on tools for static analysis and
runtime analysis. More details about
IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM
and trial versions are available
at
www.iar.com/iar-embedded-workbench/arm/.
congatec introduces
Server-on-Modules with new
Intel® Xeon®/Core™
processors
congatec AG, a leading technology
company for embedded computer
modules, single board computers
(SBCs) and embedded design and
manufacturing (EDM) services,
has expanded its COM Express
Basic portfolio with new server-
class embedded modules. The new
Server-on-Modules are equipped
with 6th generation Intel® Xeon®
and Intel® Core™ i3 / i5 / i7
processors (codenamed Skylake).
The DDR4 memory of the conga-
TS170 modules provides up to
twice as much system memory
performance for data-intensive
applications while consuming 20
percent less energy and requiring
only half the footprint of DDR3 RAM
that is expected to become legacy
in future applications. In addition,
the modules offer faster processor
speeds, a 60 percent accelerated
system bus and an enlarged Intel®
Smart Cache (up to 8 MB) as well
as the PCIe Gen 3.0 support for all
PCIe Lanes and the new Intel® HD
Graphics P530. Overall, users can
expect to benefit from enhanced
system performance and packing
density with lower space and energy
requirements.
The new modules have been
developed for the server-class of
embedded designs that operate
within a thermal power envelope of
25-45WTDP and require custom I/O
and IoT interfaces. The new conga-
TS170 modules equipped with
Intel Core processors are suitable
for applications including test and
measurement equipment, back-end
systems in medical imaging, high-
performance industrial workload
stations as well as intelligent
vending machines.
The Intel® Xeon® module variants
additionally provide ECC memory
protection, which extends their
usage to data critical server and
gateway applications. Applications
can be found in industrial IoT
and cloud servers with big data
analytics, carrier-grade edge node
servers as well as connected
Industry 4.0 automation servers that
host multiple virtual machines or
media servers with multiple stream
real-time video transcoding.
In addition, the new conga-TS170
modules offer powerful tools to
manage distributed IoT, M2M and
Industry 4.0 applications. Thanks
to Intel® vPro technology and
congatec’s board management
controller with watchdog timer and
power loss control, the modules
are fully equipped for remote
monitoring, management and
maintenance tasks, right down to
out-of-band management.
For cost-sensitive applications