Imsys announced a new member of its “Simple Network Application Platform -SNAP ”, The Velox. According to the 2013 Embedded Market Study from UBM, 57 % of all product design projects are delayed and some even cancelled. The new module addresses that issue by offering a solution that can save development time and cost.
Velox is the most cost efficient module in Imsys’ SNAP family, featuring the newest Imsys processor generation and providing full access to the processor’s features. It is ideal for those in need of a ready-made hardware/software platform for minimizing time-to-revenue for a networked product. The versatile Velox module is compact and energy efficient. Velox offers a robust and complete software platform, including a Java environment for the customer’s application code. The module is made for automatic assembly as a surface-mounted component. Module dimensions are 25.4 × 31.9 × 2 mm. An LGA pattern of 156 pads, at 1.8 mm pitch, connects the module reliably to the customer’s PCB together with any other components and connectors in an ordinary reflow soldering process.
The open source hardware Velox Development Kit, VDK, is also a part of this offering. The VDK will ease the designer’s task by offering a network ready platform that can be programmed in Java, C and assembler. It has Ethernet, with optional built-in switch functionality, serial ports (RS-232/-422/-485), micro-SD card, battery-backed RTC, and an 80-pin expansion connector. The kit includes Imsys Developer, a complete Windows-based IDE, for hardware and software debugging and software development in Java, C, and assembler. The main unit of the kit is offered also for use in customer products, and is even usable as the complete hardware part of an OEM controller box product. It is packaged in a standard enclosure for DIN rail mounting, and it allows for a user defined daughter board with additional connectors.
Velox comes complete with MCU, SDRAM, flash memory, 10/100 Ethernet PHY, three UARTs, SPI/I2C, RTC, eight timers, eight channel 16 bit ADC, two 16 bit DAC and a high-speed (83 MByte/s) data channel, and GPIOs. Networking software including a Java VM is integrated as well as a fail-safe RTOS and file system.
Availability & pricing
The Velox is available now with full production in Q4 2013. Estimated price in 5k quantity is around $35 depending on configuration options. The Velox Development Kit is priced at $299.
