A Quick Note...

We’ve been out and about this month, taking part in events and visiting customers all over the UK. We’ll be on the road again in May, so if you’d like to arrange a visit with Nigel, Tony or Christos please get in touch.

Best regards,

The Sarsen Team

The dspInstrument family from Danville Signal Processing is a collection of semi-custom instruments that can be tailored for the specific needs of your audio interfacing & signal processing applications or acoustic & vibration measurement systems.

While the majority of dspInstruments start from a specific customer requirement, Danville has many pretested circuits and existing PCB layouts, all of which fit into a standardised enclosure. Building on pre-existing hardware and software allows Danville to facilitate the design process quickly and efficiently.

Danville can create a dspInstrument to meet your specific needs, but without the cost of a full custom design, and in a much shorter time-frame.

Standard dspInstrument products are also available, and most include SHARC DSP, USB, digital I/O and two audio channels.

dspInstrument - More Information

BittWare has announced an OpenPOWER CAPI Developer’s Kit for its Xilinx FPGA-enabled accelerator cards.

Providing a fast, efficient way to connect the Xilinx All Programmable FPGA to a CAPI- enabled IBM POWER8 system, the kit includes the FPGA accelerator card, IBM Power Service Layer (PSL) IP to provide the connection to the POWER8 chip, CAPI host support library, and an example CAPI design.

The FPGA accelerator card included in the kit is BittWare’s XUSP3S, which is a ¾-length PCIe board featuring the Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale™ VU095.

Learn More: OpenPOWER CAPI Dev Kit

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has recently released a modified, lightweight version of the NXP hypervisor that supports partitioning and isolation for X-ES’ NXP QorIQ single board computers and processor mezzanine modules.

The NXP (formerly Freescale) hypervisor is a special low-level software program that facilitates secure partitioning. It acts as a partition’s resource and security manager, presenting a virtual machine to the operating system running in each partition.

X-ES is an active contributor to NXP’s open-source hypervisor software.

Read full Press Release

The West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF) is a membership trade association that supports the interests of the aerospace and defence industry in the South West of England

This week Tony Seal represented Sarsen Technology at the WEAF Technology Showcase, held at Renishaw Plc. Our display included the TRC2008 2U chassis from Trenton Systems, a selection of x86 boards from VersaLogic including the new Bengal 'Bay Trail' based module, and the Lumineq and BORA working model from DAVE Embedded Systems.

We have put a few photos from the event on our blog - See the photos here

Nigel attended the UK Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Industry Day this week, to find out more about how FPGAs and high performance Single Board Computers can enable the implementation of this remarkable project.

The SKA will be the largest radio telescope and scientific instrument on the planet once construction is complete. 50 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope (even though it's ground-based), the SKA will need to manage more data per day than the world’s total daily internet traffic – a requirement that is driving technological innovation in Big Data computing and data handling with huge potential for social and economic benefit.

Find out more - Square Kilometre Array

On April 25th Trenton Systems moved their headquarters to a  52,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art electronic manufacturing and engineering facility in the Atlanta, GA suburb of Lawrenceville.

After nearly 30 years in business Trenton's product engineering, world-class customer support, technical sales, and marketing teams continue to focus on their ever expanding array of industrial computers, GPGPU computing systems, MIL-STD certified and designed-to-meet military computers, video display wall controllers, single board computers, backplanes, and embedded motherboards.

The new facility looks great - see for yourself by visiting the Trenton Systems Blog.