element14 offers development kits for the Internet of Things

element14, in association with its technology partners Freescale, Atmel and Texas Instruments, among others, has unveiled a host of exclusive new technologies, products and design resources for the Internet of Things (IoT) market in Australia.

The company is excited to be bringing a wide range of IoT-enabling solutions to Asia geared towards inspiring engineers with the ideas and building blocks to turn the Internet of Things into a reality, said Pete Davis, regional director, element14 Asia Pacific. The IoT is one of the most important trends globally that will boost the electronics industry. Within these few years it will impact nearly every segment of the economy and society, he said.

The open source, single board platform Revolutionizing the Internet of Things (RIoT) board is based on Freescale’s i.MX 6Solo processor and supported by an active Community at element14 and application developers at RIoTboard.org. Join the roadtest before 16 June at http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1306.

The PSoC 4 Pioneer Development Kit from Cypress lets designers discover the capabilities of the PSoC 4 programmable system-on-chip architecture, which combines Cypress’s PSoC analog and digital fabric with ARM’s power-efficient Cortex-M0 core.

element14 has partnered with Freescale to launch the MagniV S12ZVML-MINIBRD, a variable speed motor control development kit.

Atmel’s SAMA5D3 Xplained evaluation kit, a fast prototyping and evaluation platform for microprocessor-based design, comes with a set of ready-to-use connectivity and storage peripherals, along with Arduino shield-compatible expansion headers.

For HMI, element14 and Texas Instruments have created the HapTouch BoosterPack that allows developers to rapidly integrate haptics technology into their designs. It combines MSP430TCH5E haptics MCUs and TI’s DRV2603 haptic driver into a familiar game controller form factor.

A high-performance, full NFC expansion board, EXPLORE-NFC is suitable for implementing external user interfaces for industrial and consumer devices that meet NFC compliance with Reader and P2P modes and Card Emulation standards. Based on the PN512 NFC solution from NXP Semiconductors, the board features an integrated antenna, extensive software package and a flexible SPI interface.

The low-power, low-cost device in the PSoC 1 family features Cypress’s new CY8C24x93 low-power PSoC1 and brings the power of PSoC to life in an ultralow-power and low-pin count configuration.