Embedded Computing Design

Thief River Falls, Minnesota. DigiKey announced a portfolio expansion in the first two quarters of 2024, featuring the addition of more than 150 new suppliers and over 340,000 new products across its DigiKey Marketplace and Fulfilled by DigiKey. Suppliers added include AEM, FLEXEMATIC, Faulhaber, Nexcom, and Pacific Lasertec.

Tokyo, Japan. eSOL now supports the Arm Cortex-R82AE, highlighting enhancements utilizing virtual prototypes of Arm's leading Automotive Enhanced IP under Arm Virtual Hardware (AVH), developed by Corellium. Arm's Cortex-R82AE processor, implementing the 64-bit ISA, is designed for applications requiring advanced real-time control while ensuring system functional safety. With the ability to run eMCOS POSIX on the Cortex-R82AE and Arm’s Cortex-A processors, eMCOS POSIX becomes a scalable OS, supporting microcontrollers to high-end SoCs, making it optimal for mission-critical systems.

Bellevue, Washington. Graid Technology and OSNexus recently announced a new certification for SupremeRAID, enabling integration with OSNexus QuantaStor. With GPU acceleration, SupremeRAID enhances SSD performance and usable capacity, delivering an 8x to 10x performance gain over traditional hardware and software RAID through its patented out-of-path technology that separates control and data paths.

Eurotech released its Everyware GreenEdge for AWS Marketplace, an advanced software solution that streamlines the management of Edge computing and AIoT deployments. The solution was designed to address the challenges of development and enrollment, while implementing security standards like zero-trust architectures as well as compliance with cybersecurity guidelines such as EU’s NIS 2 Directive and Cyber Resilience Act, the US IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, and more commonly used security frameworks.

Cincoze released its rugged, palm-sized (150 x 105 x 52.3 mm), and power-efficient DA-1200 that leverages the Intel N97 processor (Alder Lake-N) designed for IIoT gateways in industrial applications such as collecting device data, performing edge computing, and transmitting data between devices and cloud services. 

Throughout the last year, CXL vendors have attracted interest from IT organizations by promising products that deliver increased memory bandwidth and capacity for applications that require significant memory. Announcements for CXL memory modules and software support have come from MemVerge, Red Hat, and VMware. The final piece needed to provide customers with CXL technology is the availability of servers.
 

Chicago, Illinois. Innovative Arduino PRO industrial kits are available exclusively from Newark and Avnet. The kits are developed to aid professionals and hobbyists in meeting challenges associated with the advance development of specialized projects. The Arduino PRO offers tools such as advanced microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators.

Los Angeles, California. Premio Inc. finalized the confirmation of Inductive Automation's "Ignition Ready" software on select rugged Touchscreen Panel PCs and Edge Computers. The computers will carry the "Ignition Ready” certification badge to verify they have been certified to work with Inductive Automation's "Ignition Ready" software. According to Premio, the Ignition software is not included in the device purchase and requires “Ignition Ready” licenses sold from Inductive Automation.

At the 2024 Future of Memory and Storage (FMS), FADU’s CEO, Jihyo Lee, will co-keynote with Meta's Ross Stenfort and Western Digital's Eric Spanneut, unveiling next-generation datacenter solutions focused on low power and high efficiency.

Soracom, Inc. unveiled two offerings intended to expedite the deployment of larger, more complex IoT projects by embedding Generative AI (GenAI) features more comprehensively within the IoT connectivity stack.

Ji-Hyo Lee, CEO of FADU, will deliver a keynote at Future of Memory and Storage on August 6th. The focus will be “Navigating the AI Revolution.” Lee will present an in-depth examination of flash storage innovation as hyperscalers and the AI market expand. He will consider the connection between hyperscaler infrastructure advancements and flash storage demands and discuss the effects on standardization efforts through the Open Compute Project (OCP) and other initiatives.

ATP Electronics announced the N651Si Series E1.S solid state drives (SSDs), designed for performance, endurance, and data retention in the most demanding applications. These SSDs support an industrial temperature range of -40°C to 85°C, and feature hardware power loss protection (HW PLP), ensuring high reliability and cost-effectiveness in rugged environments

Harriet Coverston has contributed significantly to file systems and archival storage systems, showing that high-performance archiving and file systems can be integrated on a large scale. She developed the Quick File System (QFS), which led to the creation of SAM-QFS, the first multi-node clustered file system that incorporated archiving to meet the high-performance scaling requirements of large real-time streaming data systems.

AAEON released two compact and fanless All-in-One Panel PCs, the ACP-1075 and ACP-1078, featuring 7” WSVGA projected capacitive touch screens. The solutions are ideal for industrial and retail markets such as data accumulation, monitoring in manufacturing, and inventory management.

AVerMedia announced the compatibility of its Jetson Orin equipped Box PC family with the latest NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 SDK featuring enhanced AI model performance, support for the latest CUDA and cuDNN libraries, and security features for mission-critical use cases. The latest Board Support Package (BSP) with NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 is available for download.
 

NplusT released its TMC-100, the newest solution in its TESTMESH family. It was developed purposely for dependable evaluation of neuromorphic computational arrays. The TMC-100 is delivered with analog instrumentation such as waveform generators, reference voltages, and current sensing and measurement circuits, while incorporating digital signal competences to support complex test arrays.

San Jose, California. Edge Impulse announced an innovation enabling visual anomaly detection on any edge device, from NVIDIA GPUs to Arm MCUs, through the first model architecture of its kind, FOMO-AD (Faster Objects, More Objects - Anomaly Detection). To enhance the productivity of visual inspection systems, the scalable FOMO-AD can train models to identify and index anything outside set criteria as an anomaly in video and image data.

Hillsboro, Oregon. Lattice Semiconductor added its logic-optimized Lattice Certus-NX FPGA devices to its FPGA portfolio. The Certus-NX-28 and Certus-NX-09 support power efficiency, small size, and adaptable migration preferences. The solutions are built on the Lattice Nexus FPGA platform.

Phoenix, Arizona. Avnet launched Tria, and Tria Technologies, to merge its compute design and manufacturing offerings. “The new brand embodies Avnet’s unique ability to deliver standalone modular embedded compute solutions in a world where OEMs are increasingly looking to move from their own chip-down manufacturing to part- or full- pre-made embedded compute platforms,” said Thomas Staudinger, president of Embedded Solutions, Avnet. “It brings together all of Avnet’s compute design and manufacturing capabilities under one brand.”

Taipei, Taiwan. BIOSTAR released its fanless MS-1315UE/MS-1315URE/MS-1345UE/MS-1345URE industrial application platforms. The flexible solutions leverage the Intel Raptor Lake SoC Core i3 and i5 processors delivering efficiency within CRM SI builds. Users can govern customer contact details, transaction history, accounts, and communications.