The winner of this week's GreenArray GA144 IC with a SchmartBoard 202-0048-01 board is Ralph Brooks of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. What will Ralph use this prize for? "High speed logic simulation; FPGA to software emulation; microcontroller emulation."
If you'd like a chance to win next week's drawing, sign up today!
It is that time of the week. They day that we brighten up someone's day. Each week in October and November, SchmartBoard is giving away a Schmartboard with GreenArrays IC (202-0048-02) to celebrate the partnership of SchmartBoard with GreenArrays. The winner of this illustious prize this week is Per Ljung who works for Nokia in Berkeley CA. It is no surprise that Per states he might use the IC to design a "low power embedded telecommunications device". Congratulations to Per. If you have not sighed up yet, do so now. We still have 8 of these to award.
Yesterday we have a 1 days special for 80% off on our popular 201-0001-01 through hole board. As you can imagine, we sold through several hundred pieces. Because we did not limit this offer, one person purchased 100 pieces and several others purchased 50. They are set for awhile..better than if we were available at Costco and they did not have to stand in line behind people who were stocking up on toilet paper. What? You did not here about the special? You need to become a SchmartBoard Facebook Page Fan to get this special and future specials that will be equally as extreme.
The First winner of Week 1 the SchmartBoard-GreenArrays Contest has been announced. Each week in October and Novemeber, SchmartBoard will give away a SchmartBoard 202-0048-01 with a GA144 GreenArrays IC.
The winner is Benedikt Rochow who works for Sanmina-SCI
Some of the projects that Benedict might use the GA144 are:
1. high-speed logic probing
2. polyphonic virtual analog sound synthesis 3. some image processing?
4. traditional massively-parallel party pieces like rapid mandelbrot fractal generation
Benedict...ENJOY!
SchmartBoard has now bundles our 202-0048-01 board with the GreenArrays GA144 IC for your conveniece.
The GA144 chip is designed to give you options that have never before existed and to place them under your control by writing software.
At $34.95 it is a steal......but you can also have it for free.
Texas Instruments Development SchmartModule for $20 PLUS a Free T.I. Microcontroller IC In October!
Our Texas Instruments Microcrontroller Development SchmartModule supports almost all of the QFP, 48 and 64 pin T.I. microcontrollers in the MSP430, C2000, and Stellaris Cortex M3 product lines. This board is fully populated except for the TI MCU. You hand solder some headers and the MCU using our "EZ" technology, configure the jumpers for your T.I. part number and start programming. At a suggested retail of only $20, no other T.I. development board can come close to giving you the flexibility and low cost of this product. This one board supports almost all of the 48 and 64 pin MCUs available in the MSP430, C2000, or Stellaris Cortex M3 product lines.
GreenArrays has announced an OEM partnership with SchmartBoard. The GreenArrays GA144 chip is a powerhouse piece of silicon. According to M. Simon of EDN: "GreenArrays, the makers of the GA144 chip, announces an OEM partnership with Schmart Board that will allow hobbyists and experimenters to get in on the fun provided by playing around with a chip with 144 cores that can do around 90 billion instructions per second at a total power of under one watt (typical) while running at full clip and which only uses about 14 microwatts when everything is idle. The cores do their work at 1.5 nanoseconds per instruction when operating and automatically idle when their work is done."
The issue in experiementing and prototyping this IC is that an 88 lead, .4mm QFN is difficult to physically solder. Enter SchmartBoard to the rescue and a match made in Silicon Heaven. GreenArrays has done a fantastic job in docuementing how to best use the Schmartboard 202-0048-01 with the GA144.
SchmartBoard plans to give away a board and chip combo every week in October and November. More to come on that later.
People love our T-Shirts. I believe it is the Professor Schmart character that makes them appealing and wanted by people. Those of us who work at the company are always approached by people when wearing these. While they are for sale, we always look for ways to giveaway t-shirts to those who might actually wear them..which advertises us and makes new friends for the person wearing the t-shirt, in the form of people asking "Where did you get that t-shirt?!"
We have a way for Facebook users to earn a free t-shirt. Get the details here.
Here is SchmartBoard user, Dave Filicicchia, on his vacation in London looking ever so stylish in his SchmartBoard T-Shirt. Would you like to have one of these FREE T-shirts? Get the details here. We'd love to see you in front of the Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China...or local diner.
