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News Release from: Kane Computing | Subject: bf3 embedded communications products
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2002
Dutch tools speed DSP integration
Kane Computing is the new UK distributor for the bf3 range of embedded communications products developed and produced by Windmill Innovations.
Kane Computing is the new UK distributor for the bf3 range of embedded communications products developed and produced by Windmill Innovations Windmill Innovations offer both hardware products and software to support high-speed serial and Ethernet communications between host computers and Texas Instruments DSP systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Windmill Innovations' engineers have created a superior solution for implementing Internet connectivity in embedded applications based on Texas Instruments' TMS320 DSP: the revolutionary bf3Net TCP/IP protocol stack.
Designed from scratch with DSP applications in mind.
Windmill Innovations' bf3Net embedded Internet software is the only eXpressDSP-compliant TCP/IP protocol stack available today.
Leveraging Texas Instruments' eXpressDSP software technology, bf3Net offer unsurpassed ease-of-integration.
The configuration and integration of the bf3Net TCP/IP protocol stack is a straightforward task with the bf3Net tools, which are tightly integrated with the Code Composer Studio 2.0 development environment.
Performance monitoring and profiling tools further simplify the design process.
A bf3Net starter kit is available, which enables application developers to quickly become familiar with the bf3Net TCP/IP protocol stack, and the accompanying bf3Net development tools; it is ideally suited for prototyping and rapidly implementing Internet connectivity in the early development stages of a TMS320-based application.
To provide communications to and enhance the functionality of DSP starter kits, Windmill Innovations manufactures two daughter cards.
The bf3-100-BaseTx Ethernet DSK daughtercard provides 100Mbit/s, full-duplex Ethernet communication, is compatible with the bf3Net TCP/IP protocol stack and includes technical documentation, tested driver software (source code), schematics and Cat 5 UTP cable.
The RS232 UART DSK daughtercard provides dual RS232, full-duplex serial communications and includes similar levels of information and software as the Ethernet daughter card.
Richard White, Managing Director of Kane Computing was very pleased that the company had brought these top quality communications products into its portfolio.
"The DSP market needs fast and reliable ways of communicating with host PCs and these products meet these needs", he said.
"Windmill Innovations is committed to providing advanced solutions for the efficient and time-effective development of DSP applications", said Rutger van Dalen, Windmill Innovations' Vice President Engineering.
"The eXpressDSP-compliant bf2Net TCP/IP protocol stack with its state of the art development tools, and the bf3Scp serial communications protocol as a rapid solution for developing Windows front-ends for DSP applications, clearly reflect the Windmill Innovations' product philosophy". Request a free brochure from Kane Computing ...
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