Embedded Systems

Maximizing the Value of Industry 4.0 The manufacturing world has been working toward viable Industry 4.0 (I4.0) for over a decade. [1] In the industrial automation space, I4.0 is undoubtedly one of the most significant megatrends to have shaped modern-day manufacturing.  In addition to – and, in many cases, because of – other drivers such as mobility, sustainability, connectivity, digitalization ...

IAR Systems is aiming at SiFive’s E6-A and S7-A automotive RISC-V cores with its latest iteration of Embedded Workbench. “E6-A series is aimed at a variety of real-time 32bit applications, from system control to hardware security modules, safety islands and stand-alone in microcontrollers,” according to IAR. “S7-A is a 64bit, high-performance real-time core suited to the needs of modern SoCs ...

The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a £1.5 million competition to trial the CHERI security architecture in a defence and security context. CHERI stands for Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, and it addresses memory safety issues and enables fine grain protection of applications. For its part, DASA is seeking proposals to experiment the effects of the CHERI-based ...

Halo Microelectronics is aiming at portable systems with dynamic voltage scaling with a pair of 3A synchronous buck converter that can be programmed on-the-fly over I2C for output voltage and output slew rate. Both run from 2.5 to 5.5V, and are available in multiple variants that affect output characteristics. HL7593 can produce 0.600 to 1.394V in 6.25mV steps HL7594 can ...

Harwin has added male flying leas options to its Kona high-power compact connector range, rated at 1.5kV and 60A per contact. All the new parts are suited to 8AWG wire. “This addition makes it possible to bring male and female cables together for the first time in a cable-to-cable arrangement, whereas previously we were only offering Kona in cable-to-board options,” ...

Google has announced a further upgrade to Flutter, its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code. The release adds improved support for trackpad input, improved text selection, the capability to understand Scribble handwriting input, more consistent presentation for Windows desktop and support for more Material Design 3 components. Version 3.3 of the ...

At this week’s HotChips 2022, UntetherAI has announced its second generation at-memory architecture to accelerate AI interference. SpeedAI (codenamed Boqueria) improves efficiency by up to 100x, compared to the company’s first generation architecture (runAI200) and has 80 times more throughput to accelerate neural networking. The second generation architecture also quadruples performance achieving 2Petaflops with a power budget of 30Tops per ...

At Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg we took advantage of the show to interview Jess Isquith, President of PICMG. Talking points in the interview include Computer-on-Modules and carrier cards, the COM-HPC specification, bridging the gap with COM Express, and processor agnostic open specifications. Thank you to Jess for her time. See all our Embedded World 2022 coverage » Founded in ...

At Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg we took advantage of the show to interview Zeljko Loncaric, a Marketing Engineer at Congatec. Talking points in the interview include computer-on-modules and COM-HPC, moving beyond maker boards, listening to the customer, and working at the Edge. Thank you to Zeljko for his time. Read all our Embedded World 2022 coverage » Congatec is ...

Display Technology is aiming at driving displays up to 4K x 2K at 60Hz with a fanless box-PC from Aaeon. Called Boxer-RK99, it has an HDMI 2.0 port for the display and both video decode and encode to enhance visual display quality. “Combining the Rockchip RK3399’s dual Arm CPU and Mali-T864 GPU, Boxer-RK99 offers diverse deployment options due to its ...