Embedded Systems

  The benefits of brushless DC (BLDC) motors are clear, and they are used in many applications within vehicles and elsewhere. However, while more powerful, lighter and more efficient they remain more expensive and require more complex control than brushed DC motors. This means that consideration must be given to which motor type is the most appropriate for each application ...

Xilinx  has acquired German C/C++programming tool provider, Silexica.  The privately held company produces C/C++ programming and analysis tools for automotive, aerospace and defence,  wireless comms, robotic and financial markets. Its SLX FPGA tool suite is used to manage the HLS  (high level synthesis) design flow. In February this year, Silexica and Xilinx co-presented at the International Symposium on FPGA, elaborating ...

Adlink Technology has launched an industrial smart camera series that integrates an Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX module for artificial intelligence processing. Called Neon-2000-JNX “the camera’s high performance, small form factor and ease of development open the door for AI vision solutions in manufacturing, logistics, retail, service, agriculture, smart city, healthcare and life sciences, and other edge applications,” claimed Adlink. “The ...

Google has made Developer Preview 3 available for the next major release of Android, version 12, which is due to appear before the end of the year. Note that the only devices that can run the preview are Google’s own Pixel 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 4a (5G), or 5. As always for these developer-only releases, you will need to install ...

Adaptive system on modules (SOMs) make up the Kria family, developed by Xilinx for AI applications at the edge. The range consists of production-ready embedded boards and developer kit. The small form factor embedded boards are available with a software stack for adaptive computing. The first product released is the Kria K26 SOM, which has been designed specifically for vision ...

Andy Conway, sales manager at military embedded system specialist Recab UK, looks at the critical technologies at the edge of the battlefield and beyond, such as the Ethernet-based HSR, PRP and TSN protocols. Technology becomes more important to military and defence operations with each passing year. We need only look to the UK Government’s recent Defence Command paper and budget ...

Clive Couldwell, the group-editor of Electronics Weekly, talks with Chetan Khona, Director Industrial, Vision, Healthcare & Sciences at Xilinx. They discuss how the semiconductor industry is responding to customer demands and the trends around platform-based embedded design. Listen to the interview » Complexity The trend of platform-based embedded design has been rapidly accelerating and the reason for this is clear—it is ...

Google has announced a major upgrade to its Flutter toolkit with version 2.0 adding operating system support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, in addition to Android and iOS. There is also what Google describes as production-quality support for web-based applications, calling Flutter from within HTML. Launched in London back in December 2018, Flutter is a mobile user interface toolkit for ...

Enhanced NXP i.MX8 processors, the i.MX 8M Plus processor is used for the conga-SMX8-Plus modules released by congatec at Embedded World digital 2021. The low power SMARC 2.1 modules have interfaces for camera support and 1GBit for industrial vision systems and AI applications. The  modules feature four quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 based NXP i.MX 8M Plus processors. The processors integrate the ...

To accelerate the work rate of data centres, Xilinx has introduced a suite of products to address networking functions and AI analytics. The company announced a new family of Aleveo SmartNICs, AI video analytics applications and an accelerated algorithm trading reference design for fast (sub-microsecond) trading. The company also launched the Xilinx App store today. The Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs provide ...