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Cavium Octeon-Based SBCs Provide 
Networking Solutions
    
Gateworks has announced the release of the Newport GW6400 SBC, featuring the Cavium Octeon TX Dual/Quad Core ARM processor running up to 1.5 GHz. The GW6400 is the latest Newport family member with an extensive list of features, including five Gigabit Ethernet ports and two SFP fiber ports. The GW6400 comes in two standard stocking models, the Dual Core GW6400 and the fully loaded Quad Core GW6404 (shown)..
The GW6400 and GW6404 are members of the Gateworks 6th generation Newport family of SBCs targeted for a wide range of indoor and outdoor networking applications. The SBCs feature the Cavium OcteonTX ARMv8 SoC processor, up to five Gigabit Ethernet ports and four Mini-PCIe expansion sockets for supporting 802.11 abgn/ac wireless radios, LTE/4G/3G CDMA/GSM cellular modems, mSATA drives and other PCI Express peripherals. 

A wide-range DC input power supply provides up to 15 W to the Mini-PCIe sockets for supporting the latest high-power radios and up to 10 W to the USB 2.0/3.0 jacks for powering external devices. Power is applied through a barrel jack or an Ethernet jack with either 802.3 at or Passive Power over Ethernet. The GW6400 does not have SFP Ports loaded.



Join the RISC-V Workshop at IIT Madras in Chennai July 18-19 and be part of the disruptive force transforming the microprocessor IP market through open standard collaboration.

As with past workshops, this event will bring together the RISC-V community to share RISC-V activities underway around the globe, and build consensus on the future evolution of the instruction set architecture. Experience two days of presentations, keynotes, poster sessions, demos, networking and parties.
 
 

Tiny Apollo Lake Module Targets Factory Automation

The NanoCOM-APL is an Apollo Lake upgrade for customers of Aaeon's similarly COM Express Type 10 Mini form-factor NanoCOM-BT module, which runs on a Bay Trail Atom E3800 SoC. No OS support was listed for the factory automation targeted NanoCOM-APL, but we assume that like the NanoCOM-BT, it runs Linux, as well as Windows.

Three Intel Apollo Lake SoCs are available: the quad-core Pentium N4200, Atom E3950 and the dual-core Celeron N3350. The Pentium and Atom SKUs ship standard with 4 GB LPDDR4, and the Celeron model has 2 GB. Yet, Aaeon also lists a maximum capacity of 8 GB LPDDR4. The only other difference between the SKUs is that the Atom-based model is the only one with 32 GB eMMC 5.0 storage, with an option for up to 64 GB.

The relatively low TDPs of the Atom SoCs compared to other x86 processors enables power consumption of as little as 7 W for the Celeron module, says Aaeon. (The Atom E3950 model runs at up to 12 W.) The low power consumption enables "hand-held, battery powered devices and fully enclosed IP67 applications," says Aaeon. One early customer is already using the module combined with an FPGA and an AI chip for a machine vision system that can scan products to "create 3D images that can be checked for faults," says the company. The vision system can be integrated within a production line or a robotic arm.



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The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), a not-for-profit consortium of companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open specifications will have a booth at this week's Sensors Expo (#1642) to promote its concepts for a new IIoT specification.  Live demonstrations will be performed to illustrate PICMG's approach to connect sensor and the controller endpoints using new Internet of Things (IoT) methodologies.
 
Doug Sandy, CTO of PICMG, will hold a tutorial on Thursday June 28th in the Live Embedded Theater on the subject "Making Sense of Industrial IoT".  Part of the PICMG tutorial and booth live demonstrations will be to illustrate RESTful API "put, get, delete" commands for the connected sensor/computer interaction. PICMG has a working agreement with the DMTF to utilize the well-known Redfish APIs. The new PICMG specification will intend to develop a meta-data model that encompasses a breadth of individual data models for IoT. The booth will include information on a concept for a developer's kit geared to help legacy sensors and PLCs become "IoT enabled". PICMG will also have details on its existing embedded market open specifications for high-performance industrial computing.