New components for Arrow Embedded Platform Concept

The new components include the Vipar Internet Chip, an Intel Tunnel Creek Board and a range of adapters to connect EPC hardware with modules from the semiconductor manufacturers in Arrow's portfolio.

The Vipar Internet Chip offers the opportunity to give any application based on a simple microcontroller or single-board computer network compatibility.

It is currently demonstrated as a prototype and will be sampled from the middle of this year.

Parallel to this, evaluation boards will also be released.

In particular, Vipar enables the efficient development of Web 2.0 functionality with completely individual web front-end and plug-and-play networking, without having to adapt the host processor's firmware.

Together with Xyco Technologies, Arrow has developed the Bulldog Board.

It is based on the Intel Tunnel Creek processor with Atom processor core and supports the industrial temperature range.

All the complexities of the Bulldog Board design can be incorporated into client designs as IP blocks.

This enables a completely individual form factor with significantly reduced costs.

Xyco offers a comprehensive range of services for client-specific embedded x86 design.

Alongside the Embedded Platform Concept from Arrow, some semiconductor manufacturers have also started to develop their own modular board concepts.

The interfaces used can now be adapted to the EPC via a series of new adapters.

At Embedded World, Arrow presented EPC adapters for Silabs RF Test Cards, Nxpresso modules, Freescale Tower Boards and circuits from the lab from Analog Devices.

With an Altera FPGA, which acts as a cross-matrix connection between the EPC add-on-board plugs and numerous SDP plugs by Analog Devices, the circuits from the lab adapter offers particular flexibility.