Dedicated Innovation Zone to grace Electronics Design Show

One popular feature last year was the introduction of an Innovation Zone, a display of some inspiring engineering achievements from recent years. Such was the interest that it will be repeated at this year's event, which takes place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 22-23 October. Already confirmed in the Innovation Zone are: • Cambridge Consultants, sponsor of the Innovation Zone, will offer a Basketball challenge for visitors, in which cameras will analyse ball trajectory, speed, angle and arc. There will also be an exhibition of the company's DropTag technology. The DropTag platform is a family of connected sensors, smartphone apps and back-end data analytics systems that can be applied in a range of industries. • The iPad controlled two seater all-electric sports car from Potenza Technology • An interactive demo from Bf1systems of its highly engineered road bike. • An example of the new Raspberry Pi B+ model. • Composites expert Gurit will demonstrate some of its latest achievements, including the rear section of the London Routemaster Bus and the front section of a leading sports car. Meanwhile, individual exhibitors are starting to formalise plans for the event. There is a diverse exhibitor base across the Electronics and Embedded Design Shows and that results in a broad portfolio of products and services on display. A full preview will be available shortly, but here are a few tasters. STMicroelectronics, in association with its partner Anglia, will introduce and demonstrate the NUCLEO development platform, along with the STM32CubeMX. This generates initialisation C code for STM32 MCUs, based on a graphical user interface. Resource Group's Embedded Systems and Solutions division will be exhibiting a demonstrator unit for the WheelTug e-taxi project, of which the company is a partner. This product will reduce future aircraft taxi emissions by 40%; saving 300 to 650kg of CO2 per aircraft, per flight. JTAG Technologies will introduce its JT 5705 boundary scan controlled 'MIOS' tester. MIOS (Mixed signal IO System) includes conventional boundary scan tester capabilities , digital I/O, analogue measure and source channels, plus frequency measurements and custom functions. Arrival Electronics will demonstrate what it believes is the answer to the 'develop or buy' conundrum faced by many embedded projects. Its solution is the Mi Embedded series – a customisable embedded computing platform, based around a defined CPU core. The platform has a breadboard area which allows a customer to add their own peripherals and I/O functionality, turning a 'prototype' into a fully working custom board. Another exciting development making its first appearance will be the next generation of Altium's enterprise data management and collaboration platform – Altium Vault 2.0. By centralising, managing and formalising the component libraries, design data and team collaboration using the Altium Vault, design teams will, say the company, be able to achieve significant productivity improvements and reduce errors. For more info, visit www.electronicsdesignshow.co.uk.