Oxford, UK, 20 April 2010 – RS Components today announced that it has signed a partnership with ARM to strengthen its Embedded Development Platform (EDP) product line by incorporating microprocessors featured in ARM’s new mbed program. The enhancement sees the introduction of an mbed module that provides a fast and simple prototype and test route for new designs.
RS EDP enables the rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept of embedded systems. It comprises reusable, reconfigurable Personality and Application Modules, developed in-house to provide a variety of processing and I/O functions. Following the partnership with ARM, RS will offer an mbed module for EDP allowing engineers to move, build and test their mbed designs quickly and easily in a hardware environment. RS is planning to introduce further new modules for EDP and will use the platform as a key element in a major initiative to partner with universities and offer them cost-effective and powerful teaching aids.
“EDP offers designers a fast way to develop electronic products,” said Mark Cundle, Technical Marketing Manager, RS Components. “Its flexibility and configurability offers an almost unlimited palette of possibilities for engineers to quickly develop very sophisticated concepts.”
One of the major strengths of EDP is that it allows engineers to experiment with processors from competitive vendors on a common platform. This means the time and effort saved in building a prototype can be used developing an application. With a growing portfolio of Personality and Application Modules – all of which interoperate seamlessly on the EDP baseboard – engineers finally have a rapid prototyping platform that meets their needs.
The EDP baseboard and modules have been developed by RS to provide the reliability, affordability and flexibility needed in modern electronic products. Each PCB meets stringent signal integrity specifications to ensure reliable operation. The components used are all well established and manufactured by leading vendors including Infineon, NXP, Microchip and ST Microelectronics. Each module conforms to the EDP standard and can be fitted in any position, in any combination, in the two- or four-slotted EDP baseboards.
About RS Components
RS Components is the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, one of the largest global catalogue and web-based distributor of Electronic, Electro-mechanical and Industrial components. The Group serves nearly 1.6 million customers worldwide. Through operations in 27 countries and 17 warehouses, RS distributes 500,000 products from over 2,500 suppliers. The Group has an annual turnover of over £974 million and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. For more details on the Group please visit the corporate website (www.electrocomponents.com).
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