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Programmierbare Logik & Systeme is offering debug and trace for NXP’s S32N55 16 core software-defined vehicle processor, announced yesterday. It is included in the 2024 version of UDE, the company’s universal debug engine. With UDE “the Cortex-R52 main cores and the Cortex-M7 auxiliary cores are all visible and can be controlled from one common debugger user interface”, according to PLS. ...

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 ...

Industry veteran Rupert Baines is to be CEO at GaN-based motor drive company QPT of Cambridge UK from 1 April. Prior to this, he has been CEO at UltraSoC and CMO of Codasip. “Rupert has been the lead adviser for QPT since January 2022 and his support has been invaluable,” said QPY founder and CTO Rob Gwynne. “We are now ...

NXP has invested in a high-resolution distributed aperture radar software start-up, and will use its software in ICs for vehicle radar. “Distributed aperture radar offers a path to enhance the resolution of radar systems while eliminating the need for thousands of antenna channels,” according to NXP. “It coherently fuses information from multiple radar sensors on a vehicle to create a ...

USB instrument maker Pico Technology has re-written the host software for its head-less vector network analysers to run on PCs, Macs and Linux computers, and Raspberry Pi. Dubbed ‘PicoVNA 5’, and replacing the Windows-only PC-only ‘PicoVNA 3’ software, it “will run at speed on Linux, Windows and macOS, and PCs, Macs, and embedded systems, including Raspberry Pi 3”, according to ...

Open-source licencing needs a re-think in the face of intellectual property abuse, according to open-source advocate Josef Prusa, founder of 3D printer maker Prusa Research (pictured), which publishes full design files for its products. While Prusa concentrates on the stifling effect of open-source leeches on innovation in the 3D printer world, his comments are applicable more broadly. In an open ...

STMicroelectronics has created an on-line version of its STM32 microcontroller artificial intelligence development tool, with a benchmarking service. “We are unveiling the first MCU AI developer cloud, which works hand-in-glove with our STM32Cube.AI ecosystem,” said ST MCU v-p Ricardo De Sa Earp. “This tool brings the possibility to remotely benchmark models on STM32 hardware through the cloud.” STM32Cube.AI is the ...

Liquid Instruments has updated its Moku:Pro (right) software-defined multi-test-instrument, adding laser-locking and enhancing its oscilloscope function. The company’s three Mokus (table below): Moku:Go, Moku:Lab (photo below) and Moku:Pro are multi-channel digitisers and multi-channel DACs with memory and FPGA processing in between, configured into an array of instruments by software. Bandwidth, channel count and price rises through: Go, Lab and Pro respectively. ...

Bristol IC maker Xmos has added automatic vehicle number plate recognition to its algorithm portfolio. Developed with Cloudtop to run on Xmos’ xcore.ai branded silicon, the AI-based software needs no cloud connection – all processing is local – and is aimed at car parks, optimised to read slow-moving number plates at a between three and five metres range using low-cost ...