ECN - November 15, 2013

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34 years of induction experience
and the leaders’ choice for
low-profile inductors

Kit eases development of Bluetooth-enabled smart phone docks

Microchip Technology announced the new PIC32 Bluetooth Audio Development Kit. The kit enables custom application development on the PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) for Bluetooth and USB digital audio solutions. The PIC32 Bluetooth Audio Development Kit that ships with audio streaming demo code delivers up to

24-bit, 192-kHz audio and has been tested with over 100 different Bluetooth audio enabled devices, spanning 18 different manufacturers. The Bluetooth Hardware module and the Bluetooth A2DP audio software have been Bluetooth.org certified, saving the developer significant certification costs. The modular design allows developers to swap out the included daughter boards (one for Audio and one for Bluetooth), to create their own custom versions with their preferred audio and wireless solution. The kit also supports USB Host and Device connectivity, Apple device authentication module interface, a two-inch color LCD, five general-purpose button switches, five LEDs and a Plug-In-Module interface for PIC32 microcontroller upgrades.

Microchip Technology Inc., www.microchip.com

ARM board is configurable, production-ready Direct Insight announced a flexible, production-quality ARM board, which is configurable by changing a tiny (68 mm x 26 mm) processor module — from ARM9 to quad core ARM Cortex-A9, thus offering a production solution for Linux, Windows CE and Android-based products. The TRITON-TXFB is fully production-ready, with industrial temperature range support and protected I/O. It is intended for low and medium volume use in end-user products. Projects which can use an off-the-shelf board are said to gain an advantage in cost and time-to-market compared with the creation of a custom baseboard. TRITON-TXFB can be used with any of the current generation of pin-compatible 3.3v I/O TRITON-TX modules, from a TRITON-TX28S based on a Freescale i.MX283, to a TRITON-TX48 based on the TI AM335x processor as used in the popular Beaglebone community board, to the TRITON- TX6Q with quad ARM Cortex-A9 based i.MX6 from Freescale. In each case, the combination of baseboard and module forms a complete production-ready solution, according to the company. The range of available interfaces includes Ethernet, USB Host and OTG, SD Card and 2x RS-232.