Avnet Zynq®-7000 AP SoC Mini-ITX Development Kit

Microchip Technology’s BodyCom™ Technology

Microchip Technology has announced the introduction of BodyCom™ Technology which makes use of the human body as a secure communication channel. BodyCom™ Technology works by capacitive coupling to the human body. The human body is used as the secure communications channel between a Base Unit and a Mobile Unit without any form of antenna being required:

BodyCom technology is activated by capacitively coupling to the human body. The system then begins communicating bidirectionally between a centralized controller and one or more wireless units. There are a broad range of applications where secure wireless communication is essential, and there is no more secure channel than the human body. This is especially true when you add bidirectional authentication that supports advanced encryption, such as KeeLoq® technology and AES. For example, BodyCom technology helps prevent the “Relay Attack” problem that is typical in automotive passive-keyless-entry security systems.

BodyCom™ Technology is supported by the free BodyCom Development V1.0 Framework and software libraries that work with all 8, 16 and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers. The Microchip BodyCom Development Kit is also available to aid development of BodyCom designs.

Video demonstration of the BodyCom™ Technology development kit by Microchip:

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Microchip’s BodyCom™ Technology is World’s First to Use Human Body as a Secure, Low-Power Communication Channel

List of DSP articles published on Embedded.com

An extensive list of the DSP related articles published on Embedded.com is now available. The list currently covers articles published up to and including 2010.

More about designing with Embedded DSPs

Enhanced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 specification sees speeds double to 10 Gbps

The development of an updated USB 3.0 specification has been announced by the USB group. A number of enhancements to USB 3.0 are planned, including more efficient data encoding, which will see speeds double to 10 Gbps. The new USB 3.0 (Super Speed) specification should be available around mid 2013 and will be compatible with existing USB 3.0 software stacks, connectors and cables. The new specification is designed to compete with Thunderbolt.

New USB 3.0 specification increases speeds to 10 Gbps usb.org/press/USB-IF_P…
— DSP Embedded (@DSPEmbedded) January 7, 2013

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite WebPACK Edition

A free version of Vivado Design Suite is now available from +Xilinx Inc. Xilinx Vivado Design Suite WebPACK Edition is provided as a no cost but device and feature-limited download. The WebPACK Edition includes the full Integrated Development Environment and Software Development Kit (SDK) and a limited version of the Vivado Simulator. The Vivado Logic Analyzer, Vivado Serial I/O Analyzer, High-Level Synthesis features, and System Generator for DSP are not included in the WebPACK edition. 

Xilinx Vivado Design Suite WebPACK Edition is available for download now and supports the Artix-7 and Kintex-7 devices. In addition, customers can evaluate the full design suite for 30 days.


Xilinx Vivado Design Suite WebPACK Edition Press Release 

Vivado Design Suite Evaluation and WebPACK

The NXP LPC800 Switch Matrix

Some recent articles detailing the NXP LPC800 ARM® Cortex™-M0+ microcontroller and the configuration of the device's switch matrix:

LPC800 Switch Matrix: Making life easier one pin at a time bit.ly/V2UoTH
— DSP Embedded (@DSPEmbedded) December 17, 2012

LPC800 Switch Matrix: Making life easier one pin at a time

DIP package is back, great post! RT @armembedded: #ARM Blog: The un'NXP'ected #LPC800 j.mp/T3umiD @nxp #Cortex-M0+ #MCU

— NXP Semiconductors (@LPCZone) December 17, 2012

The un’NXP’ected LPC800

Read more about the NXP LPC800

Adding sound to embedded designs - with the Silicon Labs Class D ToolStick

Silicon Labs Simplifies Digital Class D Audio Development for 32-Bit Embedded Designs

Texas Instruments introduces a new real-time operating system for microcontrollers: TI-RTOS

Development on MCUs just became worlds easier with TI-RTOS!ow.ly/fGR5b
— Texas Instruments (@TXInstruments) December 6, 2012

Texas Instruments has introduced a new real-time operating system for TI microcontrollers: TI-RTOS. The new RTOS is a complete operating system for microcontrollers that provides a real-time multitasking kernel along with additional components including TCP/IP stacks, USB stacks, a FAT file system and other device drivers.

TI-RTOS comes as a free download and is royalty free and works with TI Code Composer IDE v5.2 and above. The new operating system can be configured by means of a graphical tool or a text editor. TI-RTOS is available now for select TI microcontrollers including the ARM Cortex-M4 and the C2000 dual core C28x + ARM Cortex-M3.