Embedded Computing Design

The holy grail of Edge AI is in the meeting of computer vision, audio/visual processing, low-latency algorithmic processing and energy efficiency. Now, in a recent announcement Cadence Design Systems, has made public an expansion of its Tensilica HiFi and Vision DSP families that accomplish just that goal.

Silicon Labs has announced the expansion of its microcontroller unit (MCU) development platform with a new family of 8-bit MCUs that the company said are designed to optimize for price and performance.

According to a recent release, Microchip Technology has accelerated the development path for several Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) and Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable (OSFP) Active Electrical Cable (AEC) products using its META-DX2C 800G retimer.

Everyone is buzzing about the amazing excitement and good vibes of this year’s RISC-V Summit, hosted by RISC-V International. The talk around the coffee bar is all about growth, opportunity, and possibility.

It’s been a banner day here at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the RISC-V Summit.

This week on DevKit Weekly, we're going to take a look at the Sona IF573 from Laird Connectivity.

In a recent release, Imperas Software, a RISC-V simulation solutions company, announced that it has teamed up with Tenstorrent, an AI computing company, to make available a model of the Tenstorrent Ascalon processor core as part of the Imperas RISC-V model library.

In a recent release, STMicroelectronics announced its new ACEPACK DMT-32 family of silicon carbide (SiC) power modules for Automotive applications.

RISC-V is growing rapidly in adoption and attention and leading up to the RISC-V Summit, taking place in Santa Clara November 7 and 8, Codasip has introduced its 700 family of RISC-V baseline processors, designed for custom embedded solutions of all types, and it’s also announced the industry’s first commercial implementation of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) security technology for RISC-V.

This week on DevKit Weekly, we're going to take a look at the Sensortile.Box Pro from STMicroelectronics.

The CSA has announced the second update to Matter, version 1.2. It is now available for device makers and platforms to use, and this new version is reportedly loaded with nine new device types, revisions, and additions to existing categories, several core improvements to the specification and SDK, and new certification and testing tools.

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know that generative AI tools are being used to create content in all sorts of areas, from visual art to television and movie scripts and news articles, and for many companies in the embedded space, code.

Today, NVIDIA announced a broad series of major updates to its Isaac robotics platform. The announcements came at the ROSCon 2023 event.

In Smart Home or office, smart cameras are the leading way that owners and operators protect the physical plant, and the success of these systems hinge on the quality of the vision. That trend is likely to continue, and the computer vision market is very likely to grow, according to the recent Status of the CMOS Image Sensor Industry report by Yole Intelligence.

PICMG recently announced its new COM-HPC 1.2 “Mini” specification, which is designed to provide a cost-effective, lower power module for edge applications like autonomous mobile robots, drones, mobile 5G test and measurement equipment.

At next week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) event, the 2023 OCP Global Summit, Axiado Corporation, a company developing hardware cybersecurity, will show off its recently announced SCM3000 family of modules, which the company said is designed specifically for scalability, longevity, and interoperability across enterprise platforms.

It’s hard to think of a category that’s using more resources for embedded computing than automotive. Through its entire supply chain, from raw materials through manufacturing and warehousing, and all the way to the consumer, the automotive industry is using embedded computers to enhance operations, automate process, integrate AI, engage with edge computing, and any number of other implementations.

Autonomous mobility conversations tend to focus on cars or trucks, but one developer in India is leveraging AI and embedded computing to bring autonomous navigation capabilities to wheelchairs.

In automated manufacturing and industrial robotics, no part of the system is more critical to operations, efficiency, and avoidance of downtime than a well-designed and integrated PLC (programmable logic controller), and the MRAM (magnetoresistive random-access memory) configuration memory that gives it stability and reliability.

Windows is well known as one of the more stable and reliable OS choices for embedded and industrial applications, but it’s traditionally only run on machines that are powered by x86 processors. That isn’t the case anymore, and it’s time to start thinking of bringing the advantages of Windows onto your Arm-powered machines.