Spoerle, a division of Arrow Electronics today launched its Embedded Platform Concept, and announced Analog Devices (ADI) as the first company to participate in the venture.
According to the distributor there is much more to this concept than the technical consulting provided by distribution to date. The company has pulled together hardware and software development services spanning the complete lifecycle of industrial applications, enabling, it says, a faster launch into the market. The background to the launch, according to Spoerle is cutbacks in suppliers’ development resources and increasingly complex semiconductor applications and their constituents. The Embedded Platform Concept has been devised to plug this gap. Using modular reference boards and matched IP and service modules Spoerle says it can offer developers technically optimised solutions for future use, within the framework of this concept. The company has also signed up specialised, external development partners.
At Embedded World, Analog Devices was announced as the first semiconductor company to sign up with the venture, supplying its Blackfin ADSP-BF257 based processor module and a board with its power management components (pictured). Design engineers using these products will also be able to access ADI’s’ development tools, software and third party offerings. “ADI’s mission is to ease the application development process by providing customers with high performance products including free, downloadable software,” said Stephen Daly, channel marketing director for ADI’s General Purpose DSP Group.
Spoerle’s stand featured ADI-based modules including the complete kit of Blackfin ADSP-BF527 processor module and DC/DC board. Daly says the boards will be available in April.
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