XEM3050 - Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA Integration Module

The XEM3050 FPGA Module promises to help in cutting design times and verification times of heavy electronic engineering projects.

In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the XEM3050 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 2.0 for configuration downloads, enabling an almost instant reprogramming of the FPGA.

Opal Kelly's FrontPanel software handles all the interaction between your software and the FPGA internals, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to interface to a design.

The XEM3050 is ideally suited for product prototyping and integration into OEM devices where a USB interface, flexible hardware solution, or PC software interface would be useful. The XEM3050 can easily be added to a new board design to provide turnkey USB integration with the convenience of Opal Kelly's software programmer's interface and existing USB drivers.

Freescale Semiconductor’s MC9S08JM16

Freescale Semiconductor’s MC9S08JM16 8-bit microcontrollers integrates on-chip USB 2.0 Full-Speed device support.

Features include:

   - 48-MHz S08 core

   - Bus Frequency of 24 MHz

   - Upto 16-KB Flash Memory

   - 1 - KB SRAM

   - 256-Bytes USB RAM

   - Operating Voltage Range of 2.7 V to 5.5 V

   - Other Peripherals :  2x SCI, I²C, 2x SPI, a 7-channel keyboard interface (KBI), a 2-channel 16-bit timer, a 4-channel 16-bit timer, a 12-bit 8-channel ADC, and a real-time clock.

Package Options:  48-pin QFN, 44-pin LQFP, and 32-pin LQFP.

Software Support: Freescale's USB-LITE stack. 

Nordic Semiconductor nRF24LU1+ USB dongle single chip system

Nordic Semiconductor has released the nRF24LU1+ USB dongle single chip for ultra-low power (ULP) wireless peripherals.

The nRF24LU1+ combines Nordic’s nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz radio transceiver with the nRF24LU1 USB dongle single chip device.

This solution includes an integrated voltage regulator that allows the chip to be powered directly from a USB bus, removing the requirement for an external voltage regulator. 

In addition, on-chip flash memory eliminates the need for an external E2PROM memory. The only external components the nRF24LU1+ chip requires are a low cost 16MHz crystal, decoupling, matching network and antenna.

More details can be found here.