Embedded Systems

Google’s release of Flutter 2.10 – the mobile user interface toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – sees added support for Windows Apps. The embedded UI toolkit embraced Windows, macOS and Linux back in March 2021, but now there is support for Windows as an app target, too. In the announcement, the ...

Power Integrations has switched from a 900V silicon mosfet to a 1,700V silicon carbide transistor to make its automotive-qualified InnoSwitch3-AQ dc-dc converter compatible with 600, 800 and 1200V electric vehicle batteries. What sort of transistor is it? “We don’t go into details of the device,” Power Integrations’ director of automotive business Peter Vaughan told Electronics Weekly. “It looks like a mosfet, ...

Verification and stimulus specialist, Breker Verification Systems, has taken its Cache Coherency TrekApp as the basis for the System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp, which it introduced at DAC58 in San Francisco. The tool uses abstract models of common and novel algorithms to automatically generate high coverage coherency tests for complex, multi-agent system platforms based on coverage directives. The TrekApp can be configured ...

Next year’s Embedded World will take place four months later than usual, as uncertainty due to the Covid-19 pandemic continues. Organiser, NürnbergMesse announced that the show will take place in Nuremberg from 21-23 June instead of its usual February timeslot.Benedikt Weyerer, the exhibition and conference’s executive director, said: “By deciding at an early stage to defer embedded world 2022 until ...

To gain at least an 18 month advantage in getting a product to market, Verific Design Automation builds SystemVerilog, UPF and VHDL parser platforms which accelerates the production cycle because the RTL front end is immediately accepted by the semiconductor industry, says the company. It offers parsers, analysers and elaborators for SystemVerilog IEEE 1800-2005 / 2009 / 2012 / 2017, ...

Joe Sawicki , executive vice president, IC EDA at Siemens, challenged the mutterings that Moore’s law has run its course, and said the semiconductor industry was blighted with pessimism. At this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) he set about looking at the figures in a new light. “There have been morose expectations and miserable prognostics, for like 20 years,” he reasoned, ...

The role of EDA tools to automate manipulating, storing and exchanging data for functional safety systems was in the spotlight at DAC, as engineers wrestle with ways to improve interoperability, traceability and automation. The Accellera Functional Safety Working Group was created in December in 2019 and is dedicated to standardise across system, module, component and IP levels to define an ...

Following its created in April this year, the Open Source FPGA Foundation was at DAC (Design Automation Conference) to advocate for innovation with open source tools and wrestle control from what has been a largely unchanged FPGA space for 30 years. The fledging non-profit foundation has over 20 members from academia and more than 1,000 individual members worldwide, said CEO, ...

The first PSA-certified development kit from Arrow Electronics is the PSoC 64 IoT Security Workshop development kit. Jointly developed with Infineon, it is designed to support developers meet compliance with emerging IoT legislation, including NIST 8259A and EN 303 645. Included in the kit are the Infineon PSoC 64 Secure AWS IoT Pioneer kit, Arrow PSoC 6 IoT sensor shield, Shield2Go ...

Here's another book, aimed at professionals, that covers designing embedded systems. Specifically, it's an introduction to the design of FPGAs and is aimed at “engineers in the trenches”, presenting things on a practical level.