Embedded Systems

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Benchmarking consortium EEMBC has created a tool to measure the combined energy consumption of an IoT edge node’s sensor interface, processor, and Bluetooth LE radio interface. Part of the IoTMark benchmarking suite, it is called IoTMark-BLE benchmark. IoTMark-BLE models a node consisting of an I²C sensor and a BLE – radio through sleep, advertise, and connected-mode operation. At its centre ...

Siemens PLM Software and STMicroelectronics will present keynotes at next month’s DVCon Europe 2018. The event for chip architects, design verification engineers and IP integrators is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative. This year’s keynotes reflect the design and verification methodologies and standards for the IoT, machine learning, and automotive safety. On the first day of the Design and Verification Conference ...

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Amplicon has introduced its first DIN Rail PC to feature Intel Atom processors.   Designated the Impact-D 100AL, it is a fanless design with a standard operating temperature of -20°C to 70°C, with options for -40°C to 80°C in outdoor operations. The Apollo Lake processors support high end 4K graphics and fast video acceleration, which makes the embedded PC suitable ...

Infineon enables a new open source software stack which aims to make work easier for developers using TPM 2.0

Toshiba is aiming at motor control in consumer and industrial applications with a set of Arm Cortex-M3 microcontrollers with 64 – 144pin packages, 256 – 512kbyte flash programme memory, and 32kbyte data flash memory. Licensed from Silicon Storage Technology, the flash is ‘Super Flash, where the code flash is rewritable up to 10,000 times and the data up to 100,000 times – ...

Long distance cameras in the NileCam series operate up to 15m from the host processor while still supporting low latency and high frame rates, says e-con Systems. The cameras use GMSL technology, a serdes technique, to carry high speed video, bidirectional control data and power over a single coaxial cable. The cameras can be used where long distances are required, for example ...

Two president-CEOs in a room does not often produce the bonhomie witnessed on the Mentor Graphics booth at DAC 2018, observes Caroline Hayes The adage ‘buyer beware’ would seem not to apply in the case of the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens PLM in March 2017. Mentor Graphics’ president and CEO, Wally Rhines and Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ...

Caroline Hayes finds out about the Accellera effect at DAC 2018 As well as EDA, IP and SoC companies, this year’s DAC was distinguished by the number of industry bodies that were promoting their particular brand of technology and establishing standards which the industry should follow. Accellera , the body promoting system level design, modelling and verification standards, was linked ...