Software

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 ...

The connected car market is set for strong growth, spurred by government regulations and increased use of in-vehicle safety features (see below). Figure 1 – Technavio has announced its latest market research report titled Global Connected Car Market 2023-2027 As more vehicles become more connected and thus vulnerable to malicious cyber attacks, the importance of managing cyber risk grows. Cyber ...

Segger has announced development tool support for ST’s new STM32H5 family of Cortex-M33-based MCUs. This includes the tool company’s J-Link debug probe, flashers, and its emPower OS operating system. Other Segger tools that are now STM35H5 enabled are the Embedded Studio IDE, its real-time software analyser tool, and the J-Link debugger and performance analyser software.

Green Hills Software announced support for NXP’s S32G3 vehicle network processor at Embedded World in Nuremberg today. “This combines connected-car middle-ware with essential foundational software that includes safety and security-certified MPU and MCU real-time operating systems, secure virtualisation and an integrated development environment,” said Green Hills. “The combination of the S32G3 processors with real-time operating systems like Integrity and µ-velOSity ...

OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT AI chatbot, has announced new APIs for both its ChatGPT and Whisper offerings. The latter being a speech-to-text model it open-sourced in September 2022. The new ChatGPT API calls the gpt-3.5-turbo model, which is now being used in the ChatGPT product. The company also describes it as its best model for many non-chat use ...

Infineon Technologies has introduced a first-look design tool for LCC power converters. “Power factor correction plus LCC resonant topology for constant current output has proven to offer outstanding efficiency combined with a large output voltage range in high-power LED lighting applications,” according to the company. The “topology is 5 to 6% more efficient than other commonly used two-stage topologies. However, ...

Google has begun its journey towards Android 14, its next major release of the mobile OS. It has released Developer Preview 1. As always, such a release is not for general users but for developers, providing an early look at the next version of Android, for testing, development, and feedback. Note that you will need to manually install a system ...

Google has updated its cross-platform, embedded mobile GUI toolkit with the release of Flutter 3.7. The open source toolkit creates embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code. What is in the newest version? There’s the ability to create custom menu bars, cascading menus, improved Material 3 support, and some new debugging and internationalisation tools. Menus For ...

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 ...

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 ...