Software

Imperial College spin-out Slamcore is developing artificial intelligence based tools to help robots both map their environment and navigate through it – ‘slam’ in the name comes from ‘simultaneous localisation and mapping’. “We are experts in the probabilistic fusion of multiple types of sensor,” Slamcore CEO Owen Nicholson told Electronics Weekly. “Our AI algorithms have been designed to take the ...

Software developed by Mentor is designed to help aircraft projects meet electrical load compliance. The Capital Load Analyzer software reduces risk in aerospace electrical compliance and certification. Anthony Nicoli, IES director of Aerospace and Defense, Mentor explained that the increased information and displays used in the aircraft cockpit for flight control and in passenger in-flight entertainment systems, has increased the ...

Swedish  embedded software provider, IAR Systems, has recognised the increased adoption of RISC-V-based designs, with the introduction of a C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain to support RISC-V cores. The first version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V has been internally tested and the company reports that the C/C++ compiler improves code density, compared to other tools currently available, generating code that ...

Re-thinking neural network algorithms can deliver 10 times more performance from the same hardware, according to Lattice Semiconductor, which has overhauled its ‘sensAI‘ artificial intelligence-based vision processing intellectual property. SensAI is aimed at edge AI – always-on local pre-processing of images to decide whether more powerful remote processing resources need get involved – reducing the need for network bandwidth and ...

Green Hills Software has up-graded two of its software tools for product developers working with Robot Operating System (ROS) middleware. The changes “enable ROS developers on Linux to develop and deploy their projects to Green Hills Integrity RTOS to meet the functional safety requirements that many ROS programs require”, according to the company. “Adding support for ROS is part of ...

Semtech has announced software building blocks to ease the development of devices with LoRa wireless links – LoRa is a low data rate wireless link with a range of over 10km. They are free, supported, open-source software and specification compliant – intended to implement the common functions that all developers of end devices, gateways or applications must implement, according to ...

STMicroelectronics aims to ease the configuration of the finite state machine (FSM) and machine learning (ML) logic that exists in some of its inertial measurement units (IMUs). “The FSM logic lets users run gesture and motion-recognition algorithms directly in the sensor for always-on convenience and low power consumption,” explained the firm. “The ML core implements classifiers for real-time motion and ...

Cadence is aiming at high-end PCBs and motherboards with a 3D electromagnetic modelling package called Clarity 3D Solver. It is intended particularly at the fastest parallel and serial links, such as DDR4 and 112Gbit/s – the latter achieved using PAM4 four-voltage-level signalling. “Chips are getting much faster,” Cadence product director Brad Griffin told Electronics Weekly. “There are no shortcuts with 112G ...

On Semiconductor will be showing enhancements to its cloud-based power development tool, branded Strata, which it announced at CES earlier this year. Search capabilities have been improved, and there is a carousel-style menu that allows compatible devices and boards to be selected, said the firm: “Engineers are able to narrow down viable component and systems solutions options and be confident ...

Lynx Software Technologies is aiming at processors equipped with hardware virtualisation