“EDP offers designers a fast way to develop electronic products,” said Mark Cundle, Technical Marketing Manager, RS Components

RS Components has signed a partnership with ARM to strengthen its Embedded Development Platform (EDP) product line by incorporating microprocessors featured in ARM’s mbed program. The enhancement sees the introduction of an mbed module that provides a fast 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 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. One of the strengths of EDP is that it allows engineers to experiment with processors from competitive vendors on a common platform.

Each PCB meets stringent signal integrity specifications to ensure reliable operation. The components used are manufactured by 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.