Thursday 28 October 2010

Freescale P4080 Eight PowerPC e500 3U VPX-REDI Board


The Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) XPedite5470 is keeping us very busy this month. The XPedite5470 is a high-performance 3U VPX-REDI single-board computer based on the Freescale P4080 processor. With eight PowerPC e500 cores running at up to 1.5 GHz, the P4080 delivers enhanced performance and efficiency for today's embedded computing applications. We are seeing great interest for demanding military, research, transportation and medical applications.

The XPedite5470 supports two separate channels of up to 4 GB each of up to DDR3-1333 ECC SDRAM, as well as up to 16 GB of NAND flash and up to 256 MB of NOR flash (with redundancy). The XPedite5470 provides the option of utilizing a PCI Express or Serial RapidIO Fat Pipe P1 interconnect, as well as two SerDes Gigabit Ethernet Thin Pipe P1 fabric interconnects. The XPedite5470 also supports dual Gigabit Ethernet, GPIO, I²C, PMC I/O, XMC I/O, and up to two RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 serial ports through the P2 connector.

The XPedite5470 provides a ruggedized, high-performance, feature-rich solution to support the next generation of rugged embedded applications. Wind River VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, Linux, and Green Hills INTEGRITY Board Support Packages (BSPs) are available.

Wednesday 20 October 2010

United Electronic Industries Appoint Sarsen Technology as exclusive UK distributor


United Electronic Industries announce the appointment of Sarsen Technology as its exclusive distributor in the UK

MARLBOROUGH, WILTSHIRE – 18 October 2010 United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce that it has named Sarsen Technology Limited as its exclusive distributor in the United Kingdom. All UEI sales and marketing activity in the UK will now be handled by Sarsen Technology. The company will also provide first line technical and applications support, but will be fully backed by UEI’s technical support group.

“Both UEI and Sarsen Technology are focused on providing optimum real-time and embedded solutions to our key clients in the defense, aerospace, simulation and transportation markets,” according to Rick Van Nostrand, International Sales Manager at UEI. “Sarsen Technology will give us the in-depth technical and commercial experience our data acquisition and control products deserve. Sarsen’s experience and reputation in serving the embedded electronics marketplace is a welcome addition to UEI’s team of international sales and distribution partners

"We see a tremendous amount of opportunity in the UK for United Electronic Industries’ innovative Cube and RACKtangle™ DAQ and control chassis solutions," stated Nigel Norman, Managing Director at Sarsen Technology. "UEI’s data acquisition and control system products along with their supporting IP and software are the perfect addition to our line card. The UEI solutions will enable our customers to quickly deploy their products and in turn, reduce their time-to-revenue. UEI has arguably the industry’s most innovative industrial and embedded control solutions."

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About UEI
Founded in 1990, UEI is a leader in the PC/Ethernet data acquisition and control, Data Logger/Recorder and Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) markets. UEI’s I/O “Cube” and RACKtangle are compact, rugged platforms, ideal for DAQ, Logging and control applications in a wide range of applications and industries such as automotive, aerospace/aviation, unmanned vehicles, appliance test, simulator control, in-vehicle test, wind and solar power system control, semiconductor manufacturing, medical equipment and more. UEI offers both COTS and custom products to OEMs, end-users, and systems integrators worldwide. With analog, digital, counter, CAN-bus, Serial I/O, ARINC-429, 1553 I/O and more, UEI will have the interface you need. UEI supports all popular Windows, Vista, Linux and Real-time operating systems, programming languages, and application packages such as LabVIEW, MATLAB, and DASYLab.

About Sarsen Technology Limited

Sarsen Technology is United Electronic Industries exclusive distributor in the United Kingdom. Sarsen’s focus is on providing its customers with the very best in embedded digital signal processing, data acquisition and single board computer products and provides full local technical and commercial support. The company’s mission is to bring high technology solutions to market in the shortest possible time to the benefit of both customers and manufacturers represented in the UK and Europe. Please visit www.sarsen.net or call +44 1672 511166 for more details.

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Sunday 17 October 2010

MAE2010 - Sarsen Technology to exhibit


Sarsen Technology will be exhibiting at MAE2010 on Tuesday 30 November in Reading, Berkshire, UK. MAE is the industry's premier one-day technology forum focused on the design and development of military, defence and aerospace electronic systems. Dwight Justice of Trenton Technology will be presenting a paper entitled "High Density Computing Systems In Surveillance and Communications Applications" at the MAE2010 conference. Please visit MAE2010 for full details or call us on +44 1672 511166.

New Company Logo


In our tenth anniversary year, we are launching a new corporate image with a new Sarsen Technology logo.