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December 9, 2009

Toradex Releases the Worlds First Pico ITX Board for Nano COM Express Modules

 

 Toradex introduces Daisy, a Pico ITX board for Nano COM Express and nanoETXexpress modules.

Toradex Daisy Pico ITX Board
 Daisy is an embedded base board for credit card sized nanoETXexpress and COM Express computer modules. The board was initially designed to work with the Intel Atom based Toradex Robin module. Together they form a modular computer system that fits in the palm of your hand. With a tiny form factor of 10 cm x 7.2 cm, the Daisy is 75% smaller than a mini ITX board.

Daisy is suitable for application in areas such as, advertising, POS, data acquisition, automation, medical, mobile and many others. When size and power consumption matters, the Daisy embedded computer board is an ideal choice.

The given multimedia interfaces VGA, TV out, LVDS and 7.1 HD Audio, can create a great user experience. LVDS enables you to connect a LCD display in a very direct way. There are 8 GPIOs to connect peripherals like simple buttons or LEDs. Additionally you can find several USB ports. With Gigabit Ethernet, SATA and a PCI Express Mini Card slot, the board is ready for bandwidth hungry applications. For example, the Mini PCIe is a great way to add 3G capability or other wireless technologies.

Toradex recommends using the small Robin COM Express embedded module in combination with the Daisy board. Robin is based on the Intel Atom Z530 or Z510 processor with the US15W System Controller Hub. It has DDR RAM and an SSD disk onboard, therefore an extra hard disk is not necessary. For additional storage requirements, the combination features two micro SD cards slots and one SATA port.

Daisy is available now for only 90 Euro at the Toradex Webshop (single quantity price).

 

For more information, please visit www.toradex.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 27, 2009

Toradex Windows CE5/6 3.5 image released

The Toradex Windows CE5, CE6 and Bootloader Version 3.5 is available for download on http://files.toradex.com/Colibri/WinCE/Images and
http://files.toradex.com/Colibri/WinCE/BSP/

This update contains just a small change in the FlashDisk driver for PXA270 modules. See the image-changelog file for details. (http://files.toradex.com/Colibri/WinCE/Images/Image_ChangeLog.txt)

This is a critical update for customers using Toradex Windows CE6 V3.4 on a Colibri PXA270 module.

November 24, 2009

IMAGE 3.4 CE6 on PXA270 FlashDisk Problem

There is a potential issue with the FlashDisk driver under Windows CE6 when using the Colibri PXA270 module.

FileSystem corruption or loss of data could occur.

Therefore IMAGE 3.4 and CE6 BSP have been removed from our download page.

There will be a 3.5 version available for download in the next days which fixes only this issue.

NOTE: BSP and IMAGE 3.4 on Windows CE5 are not affected by this issue also all Colibri PXA3xx on CE5 and CE6 are not affected.

November 13, 2009

Toradex launches new Windows CE Image Version 3.4

Toradex releases version 3.4 of the Windows CE 5.0 and Windows CE 6.0 images for Colibri and Limestone.

The major improvements are:
-increased display driver performance
-power management improvements
-more registry settings for better flexibility
-several bug fixes

For a complete feature list please check our change log files.

You can find the new Image, Bootloader, and BSP files in our download section

November 6, 2009

Phoenix AwardBIOS released for Robin/Woodpecker

The latest BIOS release for the COM Express based Atom platforms provides additional features such as:
- support for Super-IO (RS232, LPT, PS/2) and SD-HC (up to 32GB)
- additional boot priority configurations
- operation without RTC battery (using CMOS backup)

For further information about the update procedure please contact the Email support team  while providing the product number(s) of the module(s) intended to be updated.

October 22, 2009

Toradex Upgrades its Oak DSS Services to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 - R2

Toradex is pleased to announce that it has upgraded the DSS Services for its Oak USB Sensors to be compatible with the latest release of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 - Release R2.

Please check out Toradex Oak USB Sensors for Microsoft Robotics for more information and visit the Toradex Product Support Wiki for assistance on how to use the new Oak DSS services.

October 2, 2009

Release Candidate Win CE 5.0/6.0 Image V3.4 available

The release candidate for our new Win CE Image Version 3.4 and the corresponding bootloader are available in the download section of our website.  (Version 3.4 beta 4)
 
The BSP is available here.
 
The new image includes bug fixes, new features, and performance improvements.
For a complete list check the changelog.

You can directly contact our Colibri support, in the case that you find any problems.

September 4, 2009

Colibri Computer Module seen on Swiss National TV (SF-DRS)

A Colibri PXA computer module was spottet in a science television emission, named “Einstein”, of Schweizer Fernsehen DRS. The Colibri module seems to be used as a central controller unit of a degradation test instrument. You can download the TV station’s podcast (in Swiss German, 150MB) from here.  To see the the sequence with the Colibri Computer, move to 13.52 minutes.

July 14, 2009

New WinCE 5, WinCE 6 and Bootloader V3.4 Beta2 available

The latest beta version of the Toradex Windows CE 5.0, Windows Embedded CE 6.0, and Bootloader for the Colibri and Limestone family products are available.
You can download it from the download section of our website. It is version 3.4 Beta 2 and includes all Microsoft WinCE updates released so far.

The corresponding BSP is available here.

Check out the WinCE image and Bootloader change-log to see all the changes made in this version.
Some examples are:
- Display driver improvements
- Extended SD card driver
- and a lot more.

May 27, 2009

Microb Technology wins French and European Robotics Cup 2009

A team of robotics enthusiasts, called “Microb Technology“, has won the French and the Eurobot 2009 robotics competition. The team was sponsored by Toradex with a Colibri PXA320 So-DIMM computer module and provided with some basic Windows CE training.
robot from The Droids Corporation

Microb Technology winner robot of Eurobot 2009


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