Thank you very much to our Customers!

We are pleased to inform you that your generous donations, which were collected by Toradex during Embedded World 2012 in support of the German and Swiss Red Cross, sum up to 21’000 Euros. Toradex representatives handed over this money to the Swiss Red Cross in Bern on March 12th. Half of this sum will transferred by the Swiss Red Cross the German Red Cross.

In total, Toradex placed ONE THOUSAND Colibri T20 Performance Kits with qualified engineers and talented students during Embedded World 2012. Don’t hesitate to contact our Email support on colibri[at]toradex.com or visit www.developer.toradex.com for detailed technical information and a whole range of downloads and useful support tools.

82nd International Motor Show Geneva, March 8-18: Colibri T20 hits the road!

Toradex received an exclusive invitation to the 82nd International Motor Show Geneva, where we had a firsthand opportunity to inspect the Colibri T20-powered infotainment system of one of the world’s most exciting cars.

Limited to no more than 150 cars, there’s little chance for most of us to acquire one of these exquisite masterpieces of craftsmanship. However, we also spotted Colibri T20 applications during our visit to the Geneva Motor Show which are more commonly used by many of us…

Increased Production Volumes result in Price Reduction

Toradex is pleased to announce significant price reductions on several of our core products, as increasing volumes have allowed us to achieve steady cost efficiencies. We focus on making our customers more successful, with high performance modules and premium support at very competitive prices. Please visit our web shop at http://www.toradex.com/services/shop/ext_webshop.php to see the latest price changes for Colibri T20, Iris, Colibri Evaluation Board and Oak USB Sensors.

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Embedded World 2012 / February 28th – March 1st / Nuremberg / Germany

We invite you to stop by at one of our four stands at the show and discuss your product development needs with our engineers. In addition, you can secure a fantastic Performance Kit ,based on our Colibri T20 ARM module and Iris board for a donation of only 20 Euros to a good cause, the Red Cross. This embedded module runs out of the box with Windows Embedded Compact 7 or Linux. We will also showcase the latest addition to our Colibri family, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 3 / Tegra T30 embedded processor.

Together with Colibri T20, which comes with a NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 1Ghz Dual Core CPU, it forms a very compact embedded ARM system, providing 1080p video with simultaneous dual screen capability.

Furthermore, the system offers a wide range of interfaces including USB 2.0 High Speed, 3x RS232, micro SD, Ethernet, LVDS, Resistive Touch, I2C, SPI, GPIOs, PWM, Audio, Analog In and may more.

All schematics and design data is available for free on our website, including the complete Altium Project! This makes it the ideal starting point for your own customized board.

You find all the required files here: http://files.toradex.com/Colibri/Iris_CarrierBoard/

They tiny board targets application like Digital Signage, Human Machine Interfaces, Control Applications, Thin Clients and others where a lot of CPU and graphic performance, a small form factor and extreme low power consumption is a requirement. Because all the design data is free available, it is also an optimal board for development and rapid prototyping.

It is now available in our Webshop for purchase:

http://www.toradex.com/En/Products/Colibri_Boards/Iris

See the Iris and the Colibri family live at the ESC in San Jose from May 3rd to May 5th.

Several Toradex Engineers will be happy to answer all your questions.

Additionally, Toradex products will be presented by NVIDIA (Hall 9-578), ARM (Hall 10-343), Eltan (Hall 9-255), Christ-Elektronik (Hall 9-236).

Unprecedented graphics performance: Colibri Tegra 2 Computer Module

Toradex‘ latest generation Colibri SODIMM computer module features the NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 Dual Core. The highly miniaturized low power module boasts unprecedented high end graphics functionality. It is pin compatible with the widespread Colibri ARM® product family, which is currently in use by more than 3000 companies worldwide. All of the Colibri modules encapsulate the complexity of a complete ARM-SoC-design, including mass storage (Flash, RAM), network connectivity, audio, touch, as well as various highly optimized boot loaders and operating systems.

Perfect fit and functionality: Iris Carrier Board for Colibri Modules

Iris is a full featured, miniaturized carrier board targeted for all Toradex Colibri modules. With its Pico ITX form factor (100 x 72 mm) the bundle of Iris and any of the Colibri modules is ideally suited for very compact and low power applications.

The speciality of Iris is to support the additional/enhanced functionality provided by the new Colibri Tegra 2 product, whilst being backward compatible with all the other pin-compatible Colibri modules.

Iris implements the major part of the interfaces available on the Colibri SODIMM connector:

* Video port on a DVI-I connector
* LVDS connector
* Digital RGB connector
* Touch connector
* Micro SD
* USB (host and client)
* LAN
* Serial interfaces: STD, BT, FF UART
* Audio interface (output jack and header)
* SPI, I2C interfaces, 4 ADCs 8 DIOs (header)
* 4 PWMs (header)
* Battery Holder (RTC)

The smallest of its kind: Topaz Single Board Computer based on Intel®Atom™E6xx

Topaz is one of the world’s smallest x86 Single Board Computers (SBC). It features the latest Intel® Atom™ E6xx CPU with the Intel® EG20T chipset. Despite its credit card size, it provides the functions of a standard x86 computer with extremly low power consumption. Topaz is very thin – just 12mm! Long time availability is guaranteed due to the selection of embedded product line components. Click here to view the Topaz product flyer.

New addition: Oak USB Sensor

The Oak Orientation sensor combines a digital 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer into a single package. The sensor has a linear acceleration full-scale of ±2g / ±4g / ±8g and a magnetic field full-scale of ±1.3 / ±1.9 / ±2.5 / ±4.0 / ±4.7 / ±5.6 / ±8.1 gauss, both fully selectable by the user.

Applications range from compensated compassing, display orientation and motion-activated functions, through to gaming and virtual reality input devices, impact recognition and logging, as well as vibration monitoring.

Process the Oak USB Sensor data in the recently launched Oak Studio acquisition tool from Toradex. With this freely available tool, real-time data can be viewed either in graphical or tabular form, can be paused for intermediate review or be exported in CSV format for further analysis and storage.

Completely wireless: Elm ZigBee Sensors

The Elm ZigBee Sensor product family combines the cost and performance advantage of highly integrated precision sensors with the ZigBee PRO Feature Set; the only standards-based wireless technology designed to address the unique needs of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor and control networks in just about any market.

Elm ZigBee Sensors consist of a compact main board with ZigBee Pro interface that is combined with a variety of different add-on boards each with a specific sensor type. First add-on boards feature atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, temperature and distance sensors as well as a UART interface. The Elm ZigBee Sensors can communicate with, for example, the Telegesis ETRX2USB stick or even with the UART interface add-on board when used as coordinator. Power is supplied by a button type battery or optionally through an external power supply.

Monitoring and processing the Elm ZigBee Sensor data can be easily done with the dedicated Elm Studio acquisition tool from Toradex. With this freely available tool, sensor data can be viewed either in graphical or tabular form, can be paused for intermediate review or be exported in CSV format for further analysis and storage. In addition, sensor settings like MAC address, ZigBee channel, sensor name and sample rate can be changed remotely.

Near field coming closer: NFC Demonstration Kit

Toradex has developed an NFC Demonstration Kit featuring NXP Semiconductors’ controller IC PN532. The PN532 offers proximity connectivity targeting 13.56MHz reader/writer applications for POS terminals and handheld devices.

Key features:

• Reader/writer functionality compatible to ISO/IEC 14443 A&B, MIFARE, FeliCa and NFC Forum tag types
• Full peer-to-peer functionality
• Up to 10cm operating distance
• UART interface to host system

Flexible autonomy: Novel Concept for Intelligent Transport System

Toradex Mechatronics has developed a novel concept for an Intelligent Transport System that features:

• Autonomous navigation with battery powered mobile robots
• Wireless communication with host computer
• Simple, compact and flexible system layout with no moving parts nor any cables

The transport system is ideally suited for applications requiring full traceability, high modularity and low maintenance.

Always close to you: Independent Toradex® Companies Worldwide

Toradex AG, Altsagenstrasse 5, 6048 Horw, Switzerland, T: +41 41 500 4800

Toradex Services GmbH, Altsagenstrasse 5, 6048 Horw, Switzerland, T: +41 41 500 4815

Toradex Mechatronics Sàrl, Avenue des Baumettes 3, 1020 Renens, Switzerland, T: +41 41 500 4894

Toradex, Inc., 219 1st Ave South #401, Seattle WA 98104, United States, T: +1 (206) 452-2031

Toradex (China) Ltd., Room 215, Affiliated Building, No. 3688 Jin Du Road, Min Hang District, Shanghai, .R. China 201108, T: +86-21-54380582

Toradex Vina Co.,Ltd., 26 Nguyen Dinh Khoi, Ward 4, Tan Binh District, HCMC, Vietnam, T: +84-90-8172887

Toradex Solutions Pvt. Ltd., 104/A, 4th Cross, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 561-229, India, T: +91-80-4110 3132

Bryony, who is working as an accountant for Toradex in Switzerland, has been talking about running the London Marathon for several years. Finally, she has decided to do something about it!

For Bryony, it’s “the taking part that counts”. And she has chosen to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society because she has seen first hand what a fantastic organisation the MS Society is. According to Bryony, “they are an enormous support to so many in need.”

The London Marathon takes place on April 17, 2011. It is a major sporting event in the UK which combines world class  athletics, participation of the masses and substantial fundraising activities. The course is around 42 kilometers and covers the distance from Blackheath to the finish line at The Mall.

Please visit Bryony’s fundraising page if you would like to support her!

For further information visit the organisers webpage: http://www.embedded-world.de/en/default.ashx

Come and talk to us about our latest products, including the addition of Nvidia’s Tegra T20 Dual Core Processor to Toradex’s Colibri product line (more details on the Colibri Tegra T20)

Our team will be on hand to discuss your projects in more detail and how we can provide solutions with our products / engineering services.

More details on the conference can be found here. We look forward to meeting you soon.

Highlights this year:

- Official start of the new Website including US Webshop
- New Robin module with the Intel Atom Z530 1GB RAM and 4GB SSD on board
- Daisy, a tiny Pico-ITX base board for Robin
- New software features for the Colibri family
- Limestone version 2.0

Visit our booth 1544 to have a chat with our Chief SW Architect or discuss your next project directly with our US team.

You can find more information about the conference here.

We looking forward to seeing you soon.