Tech Source Visit the Sarsen Technology Offices

Left to right: Colleen Jameson (Sarsen), Laura Jeffs (Sarsen), Tim Norris (Sarsen), Selwyn Henriques (Tech Source), Robbie Burns (Sarsen), Nigel Norman (Sarsen) & Bill Fox (Tech Source).

It was great to welcome Selwyn Henriques & Bill Fox of Tech Source to our offices in January. The customer interest in their Condor series of high performance COTS XMC or VPX form factor graphics and video solutions was considerable and a number of exciting new projects were kicked off. Link to the Tech Source web site:

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White Paper: The X-ES Approach to Developing COTS Boards with Freescale® QorIQ® Processors

Just published on the Sarsen Technology web site is a white paper entitled "The X-ES Approach to Developing COTS Boards with Freescale® QorIQ® Processors". Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) is committed to developing COTS boards that support the entire Freescale QorIQ Communications Platforms product line, beginning with the first generation of processor families: P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5. This technical paper describes the process behind the design and development of the X-ES QorIQ products in seven different form factors, including air-cooled PMC/XMC, conduction-cooled PMC/XMC, 3U VPX, 3U cPCI, 6U VPX, 6U cPCI, and VME. Follow this link for the white paper: The X-ES Approach to Developing COTS Boards with Freescale® QorIQ® Processors.

Selwyn Henriques and Bill Fox of Tech Source are visiting Sarsen Technology

Selwyn Henriques and Bill Fox of Tech Source are visiting Sarsen Technology next week. The Tech Source Condor series of embedded products for Mil/Aero applications consists of high performance COTS XMC or VPX form factor graphics and video solutions. The Condor series is based on the AMD Radeon family. Air or rugged conduction cooled variants offer Open GL/3D, H.264, video windowing plus GPGPU capabilities. Linux, Windows and RTOS drivers are supported. As a graphics/imaging specialist, Tech Source can provide customized solutions for especially demanding applications for Avionics, Vetronics, Naval Shipboard, Training/Simulation and related applications.

Follow this link for more details on the Tech Source XMC & VPX graphics solutions: Tech Source.

Freescale P2020 QorIQ 3U VPX-REDI Single Board Computer

The Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) XPedite5570 is a high-performance 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on the Freescale P2020 QorIQ processor. With dual PowerPC e500 cores running at up to 1.2 GHz, the P2020 delivers enhanced performance and efficiency for demanding embedded computing applications such as airborne radar, battlefield sensor and electronic warfare.

Read more about the Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) XPedite5570: XPedite5570.

Automated Trader: BittWare delivers FPGA Boards for High Frequency Trading

Bittware's high performance Altera FPGA solutions for high frequency financial trading are featured in Automated Trader. BittWare, a provider of fully-validated, deployable Altera-based off-the-shelf FPGA and signal processing boards, has announced the First Customer Shipment (FCS) of the S5-PCIe to a technology leader in the finance and trading industry. The S5-PCIe is the first of a family of PCI Express slot-cards that BittWare is offering to the financial acceleration/HFT (High Frequency Trading) market. Providing CPU offload, high performance transceivers, and optional TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), the S5-PCIe is a PCIe-compliant deployable slot-card based on FPGA - Altera's Stratix® V.

Link to the Automated Trader web site: Automated Trader.

Sarsen Technology Kit Sponsors for Marlborough Youth FC U10s

Sarsen Technology is delighted to be the kit sponsors for the Marlborough Youth FC Under 10s football club.

Link to the Marlborough Youth FC web site: Marlborough Youth FC.

Four input H.264 compatible video capture XMC card

Selwyn Henriques and Bill Fox of Tech Source will be visiting Sarsen Technology at the end of January. One of the technologies they will be promoting is the Tech Source Condor VC 100x XMC video capture and compression card. The VC 100x has been designed for use in various applications such as surveillance, image detection, video recording, unmanned vehicles (UAV) and other camera based video recording/analysis applications. The VC100x is an H.264 compatible video capture XMC format card with up to 4 video inputs and typical markets for the Condor VC 100x are military, avionics, industrial and UAVs.

Please call us on 01672 511166 or contact us via our web site if you would like to meet with Selwyn & Bill. Sarsen Technology

High Density x16 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Backplane

New from Trenton Technology is the BPG8032 high density x16 PCI Express 2.0 graphics backplane. It is ideal for video display wall controllers and GPU computing applications and the BPG8032 supports up to 17 high-end video and graphics processing cards with high-speed & low-latency x16 PCIe 2.0 links. It is designed to enable complete video display wall and data solutions using Matrox™ Mura MPX Series cards & Trenton high-performance system host boards.

Please visit our web site for more details: Trenton Technology BPG8032

Laura Jeffs Promoted to Product Manager Role

Laura Jeffs has been promoted to Product Manager with responsibility for the VersaLogic product line in the UK, and will be focussed on promoting their best-in-class range of rugged, small form factor Single Board Computers to instrumentation, transportation and aerospace sectors in the UK and Ireland. Nigel Norman, Sarsen Technology MD “Laura is a great asset to the Sarsen team and she fully deserves the promotion. Laura has the creativity and energy to build on VersaLogic’s success in the UK and I look forward to working with her in her new role”. You can follow Laura on Twitter at @Laura_Sarsen.

Link to the VersaLogic product line:VersaLogic

XPedite7470 Sandy Bridge Intel i7 VPX Board

The Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) Intel i7 VPX solutions include the XPedite7470 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on the Sandy Bridge Intel Core i7 CPC and Cougar Point QM67 chip set. This board is very similar to the XPedite7370 and is similarly priced but obviously provides the power of the Sandy Bridge i7 processor. Drivers for VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, Green Hills Integrity, Linux and Windows are available. Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) XPedite7470