Embedded Computing Design

If you’re designing an IoT product, pretty much any IoT product, NXP has the processor for you.

United SiC, now a division of Qorvo, recently announced a next-generation series of 1200-V Silicon Carbide (SiC) FETs with what the company claims is the industry’s best spec for on-resistance.

Texas Instruments is a big company. One thing that’s afforded by a company of its size is a lab that can help the various product groups on their designs. And that’s the role of Kilby Labs at TI.

Sensor Fusion—it sounds like something out of Star Trek, like some super-futuristic technology. In reality, it’s simply combining sensors in one device. While it sounds simple, it’s actually fairly difficult to do, as different sensor types often employ different technology and have different outputs, and obviously different input types.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Combine that with the huge amount of video that’s being captured. When you put these two phenomena together, you can (potentially) do some great things.

This week’s Road to Embedded World takes a different twist, in that we are previewing an event that’ll take place on site—but you needn’t be in Nuremberg, Germany to witness it. In fact, it’s designed for engineers who are not on site, and produced at a time that’s easily digestible for people in North America.

The chip shortage and supply-chain issues are not getting better.

The long-awaited COMPUTEX Taipei 2022 will be grandly held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, from May 24 to May 27, 2022. Taiwan External Trade Development Council, co-organizer of COMPUTEX, will also organize various events, including the COMPUTEX CEO Keynotes & Forum, that professionals look forward to during the exhibition. CEOs and senior executives from global tech giants are invited to attend the Keynotes & Forum.

Machine vision is the concept of using cameras as an aid in industrial applications, including factory automation. “Aid” can mean different things to different people. For example, if you are responsible for product quality on an assembly line, you can use machine vision to inspect each product as it rolls off the line to ensure that it is being manufacturing to the required specifications and that there are no defects.

The hardware side of RISC-V is ready for prime time. No one questions that.