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2 level, fully mobile semi-truck trailer designed by Luigi Colani
which turns into a large and spacious mobile tradeshow.
The aim of the NXP Smarter World Tour in Europe is to
allow NXP to engage with their customers, partners, as well
as universities and communities, and let them discover and
experience first-hand the breadth of innovative solutions and
technology expertise of the new NXP. The truck features 138
connected demonstrations on-board, highlighting technologies
and products that are driving the Internet of Things (IoT)
today and connected products of tomorrow, from the world’s
smallest microcontrollers to the most complex networking
infrastructure through the most secured NFC solutions. At the
Embedded World exhibition I got to see this massive truck
and all of NXP's innovations. Among all other developments
NXP Semiconductors N.V has announced how its Near
Field Communication (NFC) solutions can drive innovation
for embedded system designs in the smart home, access
management and home banking as part of the company’s
vision to drive a new era in NFC. The company released its
NTAG I²C plus, which extends the family of connected tag
solutions that combine passive NFC with an I²C interfaces
well known for enabling NFC commissioning, simple “tap-to-
connect” communications between smart devices to the home
network. NXP also introduced the QorIQ LS1012A processor,
delivering enterprise-class performance and security
capabilities to consumer and networking applications, all in
a package size normally associated with microcontrollers,
and the AXP family of logic translators, designed for low-
power and high-performance applications. Another big news
release from NXP was the world’s Smallest Integrated Single
Chip System for the Internet of Things, Customers can now
purchase the 6Dual and 6Quad single chip system
module (SCM), ideal for space-constrained products which
require big processing power and functionality. The SCM line of
products integrate the 6Dual or 6Quad applications
processor, a fully featured power management system,
memory and additional design simplifying components into a
tiny 17mmX14mmX1.7mm package (1GB version-the size of
a U.S. dime.
AMD
AMD announced its 3rd Generation AMD Embedded G-Series
SoCs and the Embedded G-Series LX SoC, providing customers
a broadened portfolio of performance options. The latest
offerings expand developers’ ability to scale x86 platforms,
starting with the entry-level AMD Embedded G-Series LX SoC,
which is pin compatible to the previous generation G-Series SoC
devices. in adittion two new, higher performing 3rd Generation
AMD Embedded G-Series SoCs, codenamed “Prairie Falcon”
and “Brown Falcon,” were announced as well, these introduce
for the first time pin Compatibility for GSeries processors
with the higher performance AMD Embedded R-Series SoC.
These new products expand upon the low power capabilities
of the award-winning AMD Embedded G-Series SoC platform,
bringing scalable performance, power, and price across the
CPU, GPU, multimedia, and I/O controller hardware, helping
to lower development costs for AMD customers. Together, the
new G-Series processors deliver immersive, graphically rich
experiences across a broad range of platforms, from entry-
level to mainstream gaming, digital signage, imaging, and
industrial control.
ANALOG
The leading technologies and embedded solutions that MSC
presented were in the fields of; Healthcare - Wearable Health
Monitoring and IOT Powered By ADPD103 (Universal Optical
Front-End) The Heart Rate Measurement is supported by
the ADPD103 Analog Devices' Universal Optical Front-End.
It takes care of the entire receive-and transmit-signal chain
and communicates over I2C. To reject motion artifacts, the
ultra-low power ADXL362 3-axis Motion sensor is included.
The sensor board for Ectrodermal Activity (EDA) and Galvanic
Skin Response (GSR) is based on a discrete analog front-end
to maximize performance at minimum power dissipation. In
addition the field of Motor Control and Power Conversion
presented A joint Analog Devices and Innovasic effort,
this demonstration shows the real-time Ethernet network
connectivity for field devices. Analog Devices’ reference
designs provide precision, high performance measurement
and diagnostic capability for the temperature and pressure
transmitter designs. In the field of instrumentation they
presented Multichannel Data Acquisition System for Ultra
Low Power Applications Powered by ADP5090 Energy
Harvesting Ultra Low Power Boost Regulator and in the field
of Industry 4.0/IoT the launched the Loop-Powered Sensor
Nodes Diagnostic and Asset Control with HART-Enabled Data
Communications The demo shows a range of 4-20 mA loop-
powered, HART enabled field instruments connected to a
HART enabled analog input card. It provides the capability
at the system level to monitor the process variables as well
as assess instrument health with additional diagnostic and
status information through HART, all within the tight power
constraints of the 4-20 mA loops.
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