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Industrial

Deploying AI in Agriculture Applications to Enhance Efficiency and Cultivate Healthier Crops for a Sustainable Future

Embedded Computing Design Staff

October 28, 2024

The agriculture industry faces numerous challenges driven by environmental, economic, and social factors. Climate change is a major concern, causing unpredictable weather patterns, droughts, floods, and shifting growing seasons, which impact crop yields.

Debug & Test

Back to Basics: Moore’s Law and Hardware Obsolescence

David Sandy

October 25, 2024

In our last article we talked about how tech becomes obsolete, with a focus on planned obsolescence. Today, we’re going to move on to a different form of obsolescence: hardware advancement.

Industrial

Bota Systems opens Customer Experience Center at Innovation Hub

Ken Briodagh

October 24, 2024

In a new release, Bota Systems, a maker of multi-axis force-torque sensors, has announced the opening of its own Customer Experience Center at HEIDENHAIN’s CONNECT Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Fremont, California.

Open Source

Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada - Part 1

Olivier Henley

October 22, 2024

For this three parts series, we implemented a ‘pedal to the metal’ GPIO driven, flashing of a LED, in the context of a Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano development board (kernel-based v4.9.294, arm64) in my favorite programming language … Ada!

Open Source

Caption: Finite state machine programming was used for the auto-beat sequence on this MIDI controller/ Image Credit: Jeremy Cook

Program Latching Button Sequences and More with State Machines

Jeremy S. Cook

October 22, 2024

Consider the humble normally open momentary pushbutton. Push it in, an electrical connection is made, and whatever you want to happen via that input nominally happens. What if, however, you want to use the button to advance through a series of actions? This could be as as simple as a push-on, push-off sequence, or going from state 0, to state 1, to state XYZ, and back again.

IoT

Product of the Week: ASUS IoT’s PE2101N Intelligent Edge AI System

Embedded Computing Design Staff

October 21, 2024

Today’s industrial environments are pressured by the need for real-time data analysis and decision-making at the edge, especially for applications like machine vision, automated guided vehicles (AGV), autonomous mobile robots (AMR), and intelligent video-analytics applications that assist with sorting machinery, performing automated optical inspection (AOI) and defect inspection, and object recognition tasks.

Open Source

The Road to RISC-V Summit: CAST to Highlight 32-bit Solutions in Functional Safety and Ultra-Low Power

Chad Cox

October 18, 2024

During this year’s RISC-V Summit, CAST will be in booth S13 demonstrating its processors offered in ASICs or FPGAs for embedded systems, Internet of Things edge devices, industrial control systems, automotive, and aerospace applications. CAST’s RISC-V IP core line features processors focused on competitive 32-bit solutions in Functional Safety and Ultra-Low Power.

Processing

Tech Leaders Launch x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to Plot Future Path

Ken Briodagh

October 18, 2024

Intel and AMD have launched an x86 ecosystem advisory group that the companies say will bring together technology leaders to shape the future of the x86 architecture. They want to show that x86 is able to meet the needs of the market better than other architectures through performance and interoperability across hardware and software.

Industrial

Application Highlight: DOWSIL TC-5960 Reduces Risks of Thermal Runaway

Embedded Computing Design Staff

October 16, 2024

Silicon manufacturing is ramping up faster all over the world, and with the growing desire for ever-more sophisticated (and power-thirsty) AI processing capability, that’s not likely to slow down any time soon.

Consumer

Back to Basics: Why Tech Becomes Obsolete

David Sandy

October 15, 2024

We see entropy’s influence wherever we go, whether it be our need to replace worn out clothing, buy new car tires, or have to continually clean our houses. Obsolescence is the technology outcome of entropy.

Processing

Product of the Week: Infineon Technologies’ AIROC™ CYW55513 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® Combo IC

Embedded Computing Design Staff

October 14, 2024

Today’s demanding IoT and multimedia applications, like smart homes, wearables, and industrial IoT devices, are often deployed in increasingly crowded wireless environments, requiring high-speed data transmission, reduced latency, and secure communication for users to achieve a seamless wireless connectivity experience.

IoT

MXM GPU Modules: The Key to Enable Powerful, Flexible, and Compact Edge AI Computing

Embedded Computing Design Staff

October 9, 2024

It’s almost hard to imagine a conversation these days that doesn’t involve AI. The topic du jour is how we can enhance Edge AI performance using MXM (mobile PCI Express module) GPU modules. First, let’s briefly explain what an MXM GPU module is and what functions it performs.

Automotive

Embedded Executive: The SDV Is Coming, and It’s Complicated, Infineon

Rich Nass

October 9, 2024

We spend a lot of time talking about the software-defined vehicle (SDV), and there are two very good reasons for that. One is that is it occurring, whether you know it or not or whether you want it or not. The second reason is that it is very complex, even if you’re just dealing with the HMI, as it all ties back together at some point.

To sort through the issues, I invited Marcelo Williams, a Global Senior Director for Infineon Technologies to be my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Processing

Sundance Released its SMT-FMC116, a High-Pin-Count (HPC) FMC Module

Chad Cox

October 29, 2024

Sundance introduced its SMT-FMC116, a High-Pin-Count (HPC) FMC module delivering up to sixteen channels with a max of 125MSPS conversation rate and a 12-bit or 14-bit high-resolution. It features up to four of Analog Devices’ LTC217x quad-channel ADC converters semiconductors with LVDS interfaces and a single 1.8V power supply. The SMT-FMC116 will interface with Altera, AMD, Lattice and Microchip’s family of FPGAs without implementing a specific device-dependent IP-Core.

Storage

Intelligent Memory at electronica 2024

Chad Cox

October 29, 2024

Intelligent Memory will attend electronica 2024 (Hall B4.101) where it will showcase its innovative JEDEC compliant DDR4 devices in x4, x8, and x16 DDR4 DRAM. The excitement is built around its new DDR4s that deliver 16Gb with clock speeds up to 1600MHz and data bandwidth up to 3200Mbps.