Software

Congatec is to ship an installed hypervisor with many of its x86 computer-on-modules as standard. The hypervisor in question is related to RTS Hypervisor from Real-Time Systems – a company owned by Congatec, and installed as part of the BIOS. “It uses the same technology as RTS Hypervisor, but it is integrated in the modules” the company told Electronics Weekly, ...

The analogue and mixed signal simulation gives power designers the ability to evaluate designs with this free-to-use tool. In addition to SPICE basics, it supports “vast amounts of digital logic without performance penalties” for fast and accurate results for reliable power-based simulation. Judges deemed the technology “excellent”. Shortlist * Advantech Europe – DeviceOn AIoT device management and edge orchestration * ...

When selecting the optimal OS for an embedded systems project it is important to compare the available options – will RTOS or Linux serve best? asks Graeme Wintle. At a top level, the choice is between a full OS, such as Linux, with general purpose features and a wide range of drivers, middleware and applications or a more targeted system ...

The  Linux Foundation is to form the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF).  Through a series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and advance a portable software stack for high performance computing (HPC) by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts. As use of HPC becomes ubiquitous in scientific computing and digital engineering, and AI use cases multiply, ...

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 ...

To increase security when using containers to deploy and manage software, Wind River has added Sigstore’s Cosign to the container engine within VxWorks, the company’s RTOS (real-time operating system). “Containers are creating a major impact across mission-critical industries, such as automotive, aerospace, defense and industrial, and are helping to advance a software-defined approach to these markets,” said Wind River chief ...

To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, because captured signals are one-time encrypted. The scheme is implemented by the company’s Flasher Secure programmer hardware, combined with software dubbed ‘Telp’ for ‘target encrypted link package’. It works like ...

Faster on-die memory access for AI processing could spring from a collaboration between network-on-chip intellectual property company Arteris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). Memory access is important with neural network algorithms as their execution requires large quantities of data to be transferred between processing elements and memory, increasing emphasis on the performance of the access ...

AI rock fall detection has been installed on the railway between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren stations in Devon, where it runs beneath cliffs. The “platform uses cutting-edge analytics and machine learning to provide automated incident alerts and previously hidden data insights”, according to Warwick-based infrastructure company Telenet. It “can send incident alerts in real time to station control rooms by ...

Ittia has ported its DB IoT database for microcontrollers to a sub-set of the STM32 MCU family, via the STM32CubeIDE integrated development environment. “Real-time data capture and edge analytics are becoming common requirements for edge devices, including machine learning and AI applications,” according to Ittia. “Manufacturers selecting STM32 microcontrollers to build gateways, industrial systems and medical devices can now locally ...