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"The e-CAM33_USB is an integrated UVC+UAC solution that can support autofocus, manual focus, GPIO functions through UVC Extension. This is an ideal solution for customers interested in USB cameras for non-traditional applications by leveraging the UVC extension features of the camera" said Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems. Read More

The Microsoft MCC Award recognizes the developers who have made notable contributions in Microsoft online community forums such as TechNet, MSDN® and Answers. The value of these resources is greatly enhanced by participants, who voluntarily contributed their time and energy to improve the online community experience for others worldwide. Microsoft Community Contributor Award recipients contribute to Microsoft online technical communities in a range of ways, including providing helpful answers, translating online resources into local languages and serving as moderators.

"We are pleased to award Vinoth Rajagopalan the title of Microsoft MCC in recognition of his contributions to Microsoft online technical communities have been recognized with the Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) Award, specifically Windows Embedded CE," said Nestor Portillo Director, Community & Online Support, Microsoft Corp. "Becoming a Microsoft Community Contributor Award recipient includes access to important benefits, such as complimentary resources to support Vinoth in his commitment to Microsoft online communities."

"I am excited to receive Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) award, thanks to Microsoft for recognizing me with this award. I would also like to thank e-con for allowing me to share my knowledge with the technical community through MSDN newsgroups, forums, publishing technical articles and blogs related to Windows Embedded CE during my active working hours which also helped me in achieving this. " said Vinoth Rajagopalan.

Compared to the earlier models of e-con's camera boards for Gumstix Overo COMs, the e-CAM50_CU35x_GSTIX will give the customer a choice of choosing the lens from a wide variety of lenses based on their application. This camera solution is targeted for applications like Low Vision Products, OCR and Video Conferencing among others.Read More

e-con Systems Inc., an embedded Product Development partner, based in St. Louis, MO and Chennai, India announced its new software for Windows CE Devices. eImageViewer is a feature rich image viewing application for Windows Embedded CE based devices and this could be the only application to view the images on the devices that run Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3.

eImageViewer from e-con addresses the most common requirements for image viewing is aimed at being a default image viewing application for Windows CE and Windows Embedded Compact devices. This freeware application can be ported on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone operating systems. This application helps users in contrast to the Internet Explorer on the devices which allows only the basic image viewing features and is less user-friendly. Read More

e-con Systems Inc., a company specializing in COMs, reference designs, camera modules and camera daughter boards announced its Android BSP support for its reference platform Alioth targeting Industrial applications such as rugged handhelds, Industrial Controllers, In-Vehicle Telematics, Vehicle Mount Systems, Test & Measurement Equipments, etc

The Android BSP and Stack is customized to support non-mobile peripherals & applications. e-con Systems has added necessary blocks in the HW abstraction layers of Android and has modified and developed necessary Android libraries to enable users access peripherals like the ADC, GPIOs, CAN controllers among others. Read More

e-con Systems Inc., a company specializing in camera modules and camera daughter boards announced the launch of the e-CAM1M_CU10630_MOD, a 1M pixel Wide Dynamic Range HD camera module with S-mount Lens holder. The camera module has a parallel interface and is specially targeted for surveillance and automotive applications. The camera module features the OV10630 sensor with a dynamic range of 100dB and hence very effective when capturing images with high contrast and varying lighting conditions

The module has 4.2µm pixel based on OmniPixel3-HS™ and has got very good low light sensitivity. The camera module can also stream in 720p @30fps which is an important feature in security and automotive applications. The camera module is available with a S-mount lens holder and is compatible with standard Smount M12P0.5 lenses.Read More

e-con Systems Inc., a leading embedded design services company specializing in development of advanced customized camera solutions, related products and services extended its 5MP High definition (HD) camera solutions for Sitara™ (AM3703,AM3715) / DaVinci™ (DM3725, DM3730) processors from Texas Instruments

The company feels that the daughter card will be helpful for customers who are targeting applications such as OCR, HD Video recording @30fps, Facial Recognition and other applications that would involve higher frame rates to be received and processed by the host processor
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e-con Systems announces its Android camera driver with its e-CAM50_OMAP35x camera add-on board as it interfaces with OMAP evaluation board housing OV5642 camera sensor. e-CAM50_OMAP35x connects to the high speed CMOS sensor interface of the TI OMAP35x offering tremendous processing power through the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 core running at 600MHz, says e-con.

e-con has developed a camera driver and integrated it to the camera subsystem of Android offering a better picture quality and perfect lossless compression with a super fine image quality that can be stored on the SD card on a less memory space involving best quality in the process of compression. Android has much to offer for developers in embedded applications beyond phones. Most of today's embedded devices share several attributes with phones: small form-factor LCD/touch screens, rich GUIs, low-power processors, broad connectivity options (cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc), battery operation, etc. Read More

e-con Systems Inc, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partner based in St. Louis, MO and Chennai, India, announced yet another Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awarded to Prabu Kumar by Microsoft.

The Microsoft MVP Award recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their deep, real-world knowledge about Microsoft technologies with others. Award recipients for their technical expertise with Windows Embedded or other Microsoft technologies are nominated by the technical community members, current and former MVPs, and Microsoft personnel who have noted their leadership and their willingness and ability to help others make the most of their Microsoft technology and users could built team spirit and develop their know-how and knowledge. The Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP program is comprised of MVPs worldwide dedicated to Windows Embedded activities.

e-con Systems Inc., a leading embedded product development company based out of St Louis, USA and Chennai, India has announced its support for Windows Embedded Compact 7 ported on its eSOM300 computer on module with device drivers allowing customers to engage with lots of demanding applications requiring the flexibility in component selection for applications on platforms like Digital signage, Industrial Controllers, Handhelds and Smaller footprint devices with multi-touch and gesture support. e-con Systems has the Windows CE 7.0 beta version running on its Alioth development platform based on eSOM300 Computer on module.

When compared to WinCE 6.0, the latest of Microsoft's WinCE 7.0 brings in better user interface options with Silverlight 3.0 and Windows Embedded tools like Multi-Touch, custom gesture, Internet Explorer 7 with support for Adobe Flash 10.1 and simplified access to information through Exchange 2010 AirSync to transfer data between PCs to devices is one of the most important features in this release making it a reliable platform that gives users the power to create solutions and devices with a streamlined developer experience.Read More...

e-con Systems Inc., an embedded Product Development company based in St. Louis, MO and Chennai, India, today launched their e-CAM50_OMAP_GSTIX, a 5M Pixel High Definition (HD) Camera Solution designed for the OMAP35x-based Gumstix® Overo™ computer-on-module series. Read More...

e-con Systems Inc., an embedded Product Development partner, based in St. Louis, MO and Chennai, India announced its support for Ångström distribution on its Development Boards.

Ångström is the future for the world of machines and highly portable and reconfigurable core, built using the OpenEmbedded build system. It is intended to run on all devices with a 2.6.x kernel OpenEmbedded supports, with special attention to embedded devices (PDAs, handhelds, phones, routers, etc.). Ångström is a modern Linux-based distribution targeted for Embedded Devices, and thus offers all features that are used with a "desktop" distribution.

"Angstrom offers Embedded Developers a configurable Linux Distribution built on top of Open-Embedded platform. Having the Angstrom on our Development Boards, e-con provides a starting point for our customers interested in developing fully packaged Embedded Products. This also enables our customers to leverage the numerous open-source applications that are packaged with Angstrom distribution", said Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems.

Today, e-con Systems, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold partner based out of India, announced a new Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Vinoth Rajagopalan, Windows Embedded Technical Lead at e-con Systems.

The Microsoft MVP Award recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their deep, real-world knowledge about Microsoft technologies with others. Award recipients for their technical expertise with Windows Embedded or other Microsoft technologies are nominated by the technical community members, current and former MVPs, and Microsoft personnel who have noted their leadership and their willingness and ability to help others make the most of their Microsoft technology. The Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP program is comprised of MVPs worldwide dedicated to Windows Embedded activities.

"I am excited to be an MVP among less than 83 MVPs in the Windows Embedded. Depth of knowledge in Windows Embedded technology is required to be an MVP - Windows Embedded. Sharing my knowledge with the technical community through MSDN newsgroups, forums, publishing technical articles and blogs related to Windows Embedded CE on websites took me to this level and indeed e-con had given me an opportunity in this Technology front." Says Vinoth Rajagopalan. Read More...

e-con Systems recently appeared on EFYGroup Publication "Linux For You ", a monthly Complete Magazine on Open Source. e-con Systems gives its developers a chance to play with open embedded systems like device driver development, rapid product development kits, computer on modules running linux, Linux application development etc. Check out for quotes by Maharajan Veerabahu, Project Manager at e-con Systems. Read More...

e-con exhibited its Computer on modules, OMAP Camera solutions, Reference designs to an interested audience at ESC. e-con demonstrated the latest product codenamed, Alioth – PXA300 based reference design and OMAP35x camera board with 5M pixel OV5642 based HD camera for Gumstix Overo modules.

e-con Systems also exhibited its New wireless module based on Marvell 88W8688 that provides full function of 802.11g/b and Bluetooth class 2.1 EDR.

A small size and low profile physical design makes it easier for system design to enable high performance wireless connectivity without space constrain. The low power consumption and excellent radio performance make it the best solution for OEM customers who require embedded 802.11g WiFi + Bluetooth features, like Wireless PDA, slim type Notebook, VoIP phone etc.

Moreover, e-con shared information about its computer on modules, SW Applications, Product Design Services, and Camera IP, highlighting some of its new products in addition to its Software BSPs.

"The ESC show was important to us and we had exhibited our new PXA300 Computer on modules and our new 5M pixel HD camera boards based on OV5642. We found several interested customers and we are glad that we went there. I would like to thank you all who visited us at the booth. " Says Ashok Babu, President.

e-con Systems Inc., an embedded Product Development partner, based out of St. Louis, MO and Chennai, India today announced the release of the PXA300 Reference design code named Alioth for their eSOM300 - PXA300 system on module.

This release is an ideal generic platform to get customers application development started. Alioth is unique when compared with its market leading cousin Regulus – eSOM270 Reference design in terms of application-specific carrier board, specifically designed for Industrial applications like Industrial Controllers, In-Vehicle Telematics, Vehicle Mount Systems, Test & Measurement Equipment, Mobile devices and MIDs WebPads.

Other than bringing out all the peripherals that are supported by the eSOM300 on to the carrier board like Ethernet, Touch screen, SDIO, SPI, I2C, LCD controller, 3 UARTs, 1 wire, local bus expansion, USB high speed client, camera interface, the Alioth board supports peripherals like CAN controller, 8 channel 16 bit ADC controller, Analog VGA, USB 2.0 host and RS485. Optionally, customers can choose to have a LCD of 4.3" (480x272) / 7" (800x480) with Touch screen. As part of the rapid development kit, e-con Systems provides detailed schematics, hardware user manual, Bill of material, application notes to help the customers design their custom board faster and therefore speed up the time to market.

e-con Systems provides a production ready Windows CE 6.0 R3 BSP for the Alioth rapid development kit. The BSP is available with the device drivers for all peripherals and is completely customizable.

About eSOM300 Computer on Module:
eSOM300, the computer on module consists of XScale® PXA300 ultra low power microprocessor, MDDR SDRAM, flash memory, power management IC, Ethernet, Camera Interface. This module is available with Windows CE 6.0 R3 support.

Please see e-con's PXA300 Computer on Module for more information.

e-con Systems launched the eSOM300, a Computer-on-Module based on Marvell's PXA300 processor, suitable for embedded applications requiring a combination of low power consumption and mid-range processing and GUI performance. Some of the applications where it can be used are point of sale, handheld and mobile terminals, vehicle mount systems, Kiosks, test & measurement equipment and gaming machines.

"The eSOM300 - PXA300 Cmputer on Module will help our customers who have been requesting us for higher memory requirements and features like graphics acceleration and USB 2.0 device interface. The PXA300 is an ideal processor for Industrial Embedded Solutions, Handheld Devices and devices such as portable navigation devices (PNDs because it scales up to 624Mhz in clock speed with power consumption as low as 1.5W and to less than 100mW in low power modes. This is one of the processor offering the best cost, performance and power consumption" said Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems.

"With the successful launch of eSOM300, our ecosystem partner e-con Systems is bringing the power of Marvell's hugely popular general purpose CPU PXA300, in a highly integrated, low power, small form-factor CPU module. This pluggable eSOM300 module, a new entrant in e-con's Marvell CPU based module product line will drastically reduce the base board design complexity and thereby reducing the time-to-market for customers designing embedded products" Said Anand Ramamoorthy, General Manager, Application Processor BU, Marvell Semiconductor Inc. "Customers can leverage e-con's vast and proven experience in Marvell's Application processors in the form of their CPU modules and associated design services, that will eventually help Marvell's customers to get their products based on Marvell's PXA300 CPU fast and efficient way", added Anand.

About the eSOM300 module:
eSOM300 is the latest edition to the eSOM family of computer on modules of e-con Systems, which is based on PXA300 application processor from Marvel and is an ideal choice for embedded applications requiring a combination of low power consumption and mid-range processing and GUI performance, both in consumer and industrial environments.

e-con Systems Inc., a leading embedded design services company specializing in development of advanced customized camera solutions, related products and services announced that it has licensed its e-CAM Camera solution to Samsung Electronics, Korea. The e-CAM Camera solution offered by e-con Systems provides device drivers which supports wide variety of features ranging from color correction, gamma correction, dead pixel correction, color space conversion, sharpen filter etc.

With an in-depth knowledge of camera hardware/firmware and related Embedded applications, e-con Systems serves its customers globally to develop camera drivers, applications and help them optimize the camera performance for different range of applications viz. handheld terminals, surveillance systems, 1D/2D barcode reader, Digital Microscopy, Low vision aid appliances, Video conferencing, Marine navigation, Facial detection and Video/Image capture etc., both on Windows CE 5.0/6.0 and Linux operating systems.

On the image sensors side, e-con has been working very closely with Omnivision and has been using the OV sensors from VGA up to 5Mega Pixel. In addition to working on general purpose image sensors, e-con Systems works on specialty sensors from OVT such as High Dynamic Range sensors for outdoor usage, 720p HD and 1080p Full HD sensors for security and surveillance applications, and CCD replacement sensors for low light ambience etc. e-con has built a strong technical support-alliance with Omnivision to provide world-class customized optimal solutions and consultation services to the customers.

About e-CAM
e-CAM is e-con's reference design featuring a camera board interfaced to a processor on its high speed CMOS interface. Customers also license the Direct Show Windows CE drivers and V4L2 based Linux drivers for the reference design. For processors that don't have the Camera ISP pipeline, e-con Systems provides the complete software stack for raw image sensors. The software stack has a wide variety of features ranging from color correction, gamma correction, dead pixel correction, color space conversion, sharpen filter etc.

e-con also offers individually crafted custom designs for customers interested in camera modules, other than the ones which are currently being offered as "off-the-shelf" solutions.