Tag Archives: design software

Infineon has lined up a Rust programming language compiler for two of its TriCore architecture processor families: the existing TC3x and forthcoming TC4x. “Rust, with its unique memory safety features, has emerged as a viable complement or potential substitute for C/C++ in automotive software development,” according to the company. Working with Infineon, HighTec EDV-Systeme has released an ISO 26262 ASIL ...

Optimised packages of AI models and workflows with API have been packaged as NIMs (Nvidia Inference Microservices) which developers can use as building blocks to develop generative AI for healthcare, from drug discovery, med-tech and digital health products. Nvidia announced 25 NIMs at its developer conference, GTC 2024, offering advanced imaging, natural language and speech recognition, digital biology generation, prediction ...

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

The robotics software ROS 2, on Ubuntu 20.04, is now available on iWave’s 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX single-board computers with i.MX 8QM, i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 8M Mini application processors. ROS is a software run-time and communication protocol, intended to allow complex software to be designed without specific hardware knowledge. Also available on Windows and MacOS, ROS versions for Ubuntu ...

IAR Systems has added PX5 RTOS support to its Embedded Workbench for Arm development tool suite – a development tool-chain with a C/C++ compiler and debugging. “The PX5 Industrial RTOS is an advanced 5th-generation RTOS designed for the most sophisticated and developed embedded applications, and is deterministic regardless of system load,” said IAR. It “helps embedded systems developers to manage the ...

Axivion has added checks for MISRA C++ 202x rules with the release of its Axivion Suite 7.5 code analysis tools. “Especially when developing safety-critical embedded systems, compliance with the latest coding standards is a must to ensure code quality throughout the whole development process,” according to the company. “Now Axivion Suite 7.5 safeguards compliance with several new MISRA C++ 202x ...

Solid Sands is now qualifying “all versions of the C standard library specification, not just a sub-set that is commonly used or a sub-set that fits on a restricted embedded target” following an update to its SuperGuard requirements-based test suite for C standard libraries. “Based on the experience of SuperGuard being used in library qualification projects as well as feedback ...

Toshiba has introduced PC-based design tools for motor control, as part of ‘MCU Motor Studio’ which includes firmware its TXZ+4A microcontrollers and hardware evaluation boards. “The MCU Motor Studio firmware suite supports all common motor control strategies including sinewave commutation and field-oriented vector control, sensor-less or with position sensing,” according to the company. “There is a choice of single-shunt and ...

There are too many computers here, and some rationalisation is needed. Most of them are pre-owned with valid Windows 10 licences, but installing a clean Windows 10 seems impossible now without setting up a Microsoft account and its associated control freakery – which I don’t want. If I was convinced this account was only for security, I might go for ...

Percepio is supporting Zephyr and Microsoft Azure ThreadX RTOSs with version 4.6 of Tracealyzer. The release includes the company’s next-generation trace recorder library with improved support for snapshot trace – snapshot recording opens the door to using its cloud service (DevAlert) for monitoring application code executing in deployed IoT devices. Trace data can now be saved in a ring buffer on ...