Embedded Systems

ARM TechCon which takes place in California this week (26-27 October) will major on design platforms for IoT networks and gateways. Key to this is the ARM open environment called mbed OS 5 which incorporates a real-time operating system (RTOS) in the core of the operating system. For example, IoT gateways modules from u-blox now make the most of mbed OS ...

Segger wants to make it easier to get true instruction trace up and running with its new Cortex-M Trace reference board.

Four years ago Raspberry Pi was launched as a “toy computer” to help teach children about programming, but the Raspberry Pi phenomenon was not destined to remain only in the classroom.

A foundation, in the form of not-for-profit company, has been set-up to support the BBC micro:bit educational computer. Prior to this, support has been from a group of companies and other organisations loosely called the ‘micro:bit partnership’. “I’d like to say huge thank you to everybody that has played a part in getting the micro:bit to where it is today.”said Sinead ...

Silicon IP developer Ceva has come up with a slimline processor core that is optimised for running mobile baseband processing in  low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices. The CEVA-X1 IoT processor deploys a single-core processor plus DSP architecture which has been designed for implementing the latest LTE Cat-M1 (formerly eMTC) and Cat-NB1 (formerly NB-IoT) standards as well as future FeMTC and 5G mobile designs. The ...

DFI Tech develops a small form factor single computer featuring 6th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 processors.

Arrow has signed an agreement with IoT secure connectivity specialist Electric Imp to sell its IoT platform across Europe. Electric Imp’s platform includes full-life cycle secure connectivity, interoperability and managed operations. It can be used to move from a prototype to secure production and then to maintenance and update of field-deployed devices for years. Electric Imp also provides connectivity to ...

Operators of high-performance parallel computers can now gauge their power consumption in detail as the Adept Project releases open-source energy measurement tools. Over its 3-year lifespan, the Edinburgh-based Adept project brought together experts from high-performance computing (HPC) and embedded computing to develop a suite of hardware and software tools that help evaluate and optimise system energy and power usage. “This ...

Avnet Embedded has signed a global distribution agreement with VMware, a supplier of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure software. Virtualisation is a software design technique which reduced cost of hardware by running virtual machines on standard multi-core processors. The concept essentially separates software applications from the underlying hardware platform and enables multiple operating systems and applications to run upon the same ...

What is going to happen to Atmel’s 8bit AVR microcontrollers now that Microchip has bought the company? Nothing bad, is the short answer, according to Microchip’s strategic marketing manager for 8bit MCUs Lucio Di Jasio. “There is a new generation of AVRs coming in the summer, if anyone doubted it,” he said. Long-time Microchip employee Di Jasio is now free ...