EDN on Development Tools: Antenna Measurement, Developing Code on Your MCU, and a review of XMOS Semi's XS1-G Kit
EDN, 3/5/2009

EDN on Development Tools: The Latest News, Development Kit Reviews, Commentary, and Tools from the DEVMonkey
 March 5, 2009

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LATEST NEWS & BLOG POSTS

Take Jon's Quiz!
How does a circular irrigation system stay in sync?


Freescale Offers Free RTOS
Buy a ColdFire MCU and Freescale throws in the MQX RTOS


Antenna Measurement Resources and Tips
Don't let poor antenna design or placement ruin a product


Now You Can Develop Code Right on Your MCU
Your next MCU project might not need a C/C++ cross compiler


Still designing with UARTs? TI's UART Chip Expands I/O Ports
A UART chip works with older MPU families and brings back memories

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BL4S100: Rapidly Deploy a ZigBee to Ethernet Gateway
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PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Corelis BusPro I2c offers bus monitor, debugger, in a compact unit-$995 intro price

Pentek Brings Software-Defined Radio in the PCI Express World-Offering 5 new PCIe Boards

JKL Components LED Designer Kit Provides Designers with a Plethora of Component LEDs

Wurth Electronics' SMD Common Mode Choke Design Kit Offers Users Several Apps

VIDEOS

Short videos (under 4 minutes) feature a wide range of kits, reviewed and tested by DEV-monkey Editor, Jon Titus
From PSoC technology, MCU architecture, short-range wireless 2.4 GHz communications, to processors with lots of I/O devices. Jon critiques, provides ratings and explains what engineers can do with the kit.

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Graphical System Design in a Multicore Environment
The trend toward open-standard technologies offers reduced costs, faster deployment, and the ability to customize and future-proof applications. Discover how to take advantage of dual-core and multicore processor performance for embedded design. Learn about the parallelism in hardware and the key role software plays when designers use multicore processing. Click here.

DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE SHOWCASE

Abracon's MEMSpeed Pro Oscillator Programmer Kits
All hardware and software necessary for the user to easily program custom oscillator frequencies in the field, or in the lab.


Digi Drop-in Networking Professional Dev Kit, $199
Proof-of-concept wireless connectivity dev kit to configure and "drop-in" a low-power mesh or multipoint sensor/device network.


Synapse EK2100 Evaluation Kit
Gain a fundamental understanding of SNAP mesh networking and the capabilities of SNAP nodes.


868 MHz RF Module Kit for European M2M
Embeddable RF modules provide up to 40 km RF LOS transmission and are ideal for urban deployments.


Cirrus Logic Inc EP9315 ARM9 Development Kit
A complete kit – hardware, software, and drivers - optimized for use with the impressive selection of peripherals integrated on the EP9315 ARM9-based embedded processor.


Globally Deployable RF Module Dev Kits
2.4 modules, globally deployable embedded RF modules available in low-power XBee and extended-range XBee-PRO form factors.


Texas Instruments' DLP Pico™ Projector Development Kit
This kit, specifically designed to be used with Texas Instruments' BeagleBoard development kit, provides a new way to include projection into product design.


Digi Jump-Starts Your Embedded Development
Leverage the reliability/flexibility of the royalty-free ThreadX-based NET+OS platform.


TT Electronics/ Optek Technology's OPB780 Color Sensor Eval Kit
Evaluate the capabilities of the OPB780Z color sensor which is a full color sensor with 4 different frequencies relating directly to a specific color seen by the sensor.


Compact, Powerful, Secure Core Module Dev Kit
Digi's ConnectCore 9P 9215 module delivers a powerful, secure, compact network-enabled 150 MHz processor solution with an ARM9 core.


Altera's Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit
The Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit allows FPGA designers to build systems with 60 percent faster performance and 50 percent lower power consumption than comparable products.


Wireless Network-Enabled Core Module Dev Kit
The ConnectCore™ Wi-9P 9215 wireless core module utilizes Digi's NET+ARM processor and Digi's own secure 802.11a/b/g WLAN technology with full WPA2/802.11i support.


Luminary Micro's Stellaris Family Development Kits
This family of kits provides the hardware and software tools that engineers need to develop and prototype embedded applications right out-of-the-box.


Freescale's MPC8313E-RDB Reference Platform
Freescale's reference platform is ideal for hardware and software development for cost-optimized networking applications.


Rabbit Semiconductor's ZigBee/802.15.4 Application Kit
MaxStream's XBee RF modem with the popular RCM3720 RabbitCore module along with an easy-to-use interface to help customers build a practical ZigBee wireless control network.


Digi International's Drop-in Networking Professional Development Kit
This Kit provides the hardware and software tools to rapidly deploy a real-world wireless sensor/device network and proof-of-concept system.

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