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awinning
awinning over 16 years ago
Hi,

We'd like to hear your thoughts on dev kits in the market just now. What  kits interest you, or would you maybe like to see on future RoadTests?  Are there any other type of products you'd like to see on RoadTest?  (before anyone suggests, there's no chance of an iPad appearing in the  near term future image )

To get the conversation started we've pasted 9 possible kits below. Tell  us which of these interest you the most and why? As a disclaimer, I'm  not promising to give away the most popular, but we'll certainly talk to  the manufacturers and your views will help us greatly!


1. National Semiconductor’s LM26420 evaluation board demonstrates the  company's LM26420 based solution.

2. International Rectifier's IRS2540 IRS2540/1 buck converter based  development board helps develop HB-LED applications

3. ST's STM3210E-SK/HT helps start development for the company's ARM  core-based microcontrollers.

4. Maxim's MAX9830A evaluation kit uses a filterless class D amplifier to  drive a mono bridge-tied-load speaker.

5. Matrix Multimedia's EB018 E-blocks CAN bus board allows investigation  of the CAN bus protocol.

6. Avago's HFBR-0410HFBR-0410 fiber optics evaluation kit allows first hand  experience with simple DC to 5MBd TTL compatible components.

7. Freescale's RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX 3-axis acceleration sensing demo  board combines demos available for accelerometer applications.

8. Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or PIC24F MCUs.

9. Innovate Software Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based on the TI OMAP L138 processor.
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  • Pavel.Simon
    Pavel.Simon over 16 years ago
    . Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or PIC24F MCUs.
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  • amri_amin
    amri_amin over 16 years ago

    Hi Alistair,

     

    My favourites are:

     

    2. International Rectifier's IRS2540 IRS2540/1 buck converter based  development board helps develop HB-LED applications

    9. Innovate Software Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based on the TI OMAP L138 processor.

     

    I already have the STM32 Primer2 development tool, very interesting platform.

    Any other FPGA boards are welcome.

     

    Thanks.

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    e14 Contributor over 16 years ago

    8. Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive  evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or  PIC24F MCUs.

    i would love to ge my hands on anything from microchip as I am learning programing these at the moment.

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  • firatkocak
    firatkocak over 16 years ago

    Hi Alistair,

     

    Again a new creative idea from you.. Very very well...

     

    All the items listed here are really preferable for every member of this group. Currently, i am focused on LED applications. So the below item is under my interest.

     

    International Rectifier's IRS2540  IRS2540/1 buck converter based  development board helps develop HB-LED  applications

     

    For the others items, i have some of them allready and i do not need the rest, at least now. In the feature ? Maybe ...

     

    Anyway, the truth is all the items are very exciting..

     

    Best regards,

     

    Firat Kocak

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  • KennyMillar
    KennyMillar over 16 years ago

    My vote would be for something like these COM-Express modules from Advantech:-

     

    http://www.advantech.com/products/SOM-5761/mod_1-2ZLRP2.aspx

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  • R_Phoenix
    R_Phoenix over 16 years ago

    Matrix Multimedia's EB018 E-blocks CAN bus board

    or anything CAN bus would be great.

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  • obones
    obones over 16 years ago

    Hello, the following kits would of interest to me:

     

    EB018-00-1 to better understand CAN bus which I intend to use on my model train set to get rid of the dozen of cables used for signaling the various parts of the network infrastructure

     

    IRS2540 to discover the challenges posed by high brightness LED even if I'm not sure I would ever require such lighting sources in my own designs

     

    DM183026 kit to get a better grasp at those capacitive sensors. Once again, the plan is to use them as human interface to the embedded electronics in the model train set

     

    Hawkboard for use as the start point a car embedded project that would be simplified by such an open source tool. Well, a netbook would do as well, but this board seems a bit more robust.

     

    Regards

    Olivier

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  • bbolo1
    bbolo1 over 16 years ago

    I'd like to try:

     

    - The OMAP L138

    - STM3210

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    e14 Contributor over 16 years ago

    7. Freescale's RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX 3-axis acceleration sensing demo  board combines demos available for accelerometer applications.

    8. Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or PIC24F MCUs.

     

    9. Innovate Software Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based on the TI OMAP L138 processor.

     

    Are my interests.... anything in regards to sensors is pretty hot right now in interest....

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  • Woody
    Woody over 16 years ago

    Hi Alistair

     

    8. Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive  evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or  PIC24F MCUs.

     

    Anything from Microchip would be welcome.

     

    7. Freescale's RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX  3-axis acceleration sensing demo  board combines demos available for  accelerometer applications.

     

    This looks like a very interesting product.

     

    Frank

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