Embedded Computing Design

MILPITAS, California – CETECOM announced the first Automotive Experience Lab (AEL), a proof-of-concept testing center for automotive application testing in a simulated environment.

SAN JOSE, Calif – Supermicro’s JumpStart remote access program is based on the company's all-new H13 systems with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors to enable workload testing and application tuning for developers and IT administrators of AI, deep learning, manufacturing, storage, and other industries.

CHANDLER, Arizona— Microchip Technology’s recently announced LAN8840 and LAN8841 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver devices are a standard-based solution designed to provide critical process synchronization to developers of industrial-grade networking solutions, such as process automation applications.

Built from scratch by Southern Methodist University students in Dallas, a DIY, aka do-it-yourself, supercomputer using NVIDIA’s Jetson Nano modules is helping provide the hands-on experience students may not receive with a standard supercomputer, which is often too large for a typical university learning environment.

Wilmington, MA / USA and Munich, Germany – AUO Corporation is utilizing Analog Devices’ matrix LED display driver technology in their automotive widescreen display portfolio to provide local dimming, improved power consumption, and support for functional safety to deliver an immersive widescreen display experience to customers.

Codasip and SiliconArts, provider of photo-realistic ray tracing graphics rendering, have combined Codasip’s RISC-V processor IP and SiliconArts ray tracing GPUs for the development of augmented reality applications.

As electronic devices are continuously shrinking in order to keep up with the demands and advancements of next-generation technologies, semiconductor companies must consistently keep up with those requirements. Storage and memory technologies such as DRAM are embedded in almost every electronic device active on the market today, and they are no exception to the laws of physics in the semiconductor space.

SANTA CLARA, CA – EdgeQ Inc and Vodafone have partnered on the development of next-generation, software-programmable 5G ORAN platforms to deliver the world’s first open programmable and fully in-line acceleration card that will support multi-carrier MIMO and address macro cell deployments by converging a 4G and 5G Physical layer onto a single card.

Monheim am Rhein, Germany – The entire E-Series of SiFive RISC-V cores with the BTM trace module are now supported by SEGGER’s J-Trace PRO with streaming trace, Live Code Profiling, and Live Code Coverage.

Morton, Illinois – Hexagon | AutonomouStuff’s new Honda CR-V by-wire kit is company's latest autonomous platform designed to accelerate autonomous development. The kit is part of the AutonomouStuff platform and incorporates AutonomouStuff’s latest PACMod, a control module that is built internally, and can be used as an interface between the computing system and vehicle to enable autonomy on the Honda CR-V.

ERLANGEN, Germany -- Elektrobit announced that for the new AURIX TC4x microcontrollers (MCUs) from Infineon Technologies AG the company’s created the first automotive-grade, embedded, real-time operating system (OS) and hypervisor, the EB tresos AutoCore OS and new EB tresos Embedded Hypervisor based on the AUTOSAR Classic standard, to enable OEMs and Tier1s to grow and distribute automotive E/E architectures.

MONTREAL — Soundskrit announced the availability of the SKR0400, the world's first bio-inspired directional MEMS microphone built for consumer electronics devices. Designed to replace traditional microphone arrays, the bio-inspired SKR0400 features a new transducer to provide increased audio performance.

Everactive’s new development kit enables third-party developers to build IoT products without batteries. The development kit features self-powered hardware and a managed network to provide physical-world data for hyperscale IoT, and includes two Everactive batteryless IoT devices with sensor suites designed to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, and triaxial acceleration.

CHANDLER, Ariz.,— Microchip Technology is introducing its first Arm Cortex®-M4F-based PIC microcontroller (MCU) family designed to combat wireless connectivity design challenges with the integration of Bluetooth Low Energy functionality, which can be directly integrated into a systems’ components. 

OTTAWA, Canada – GaN Systems announced that the company’s power transistors are now powering Renesas Electronics’ new automotive 48V/12V Bidirectional DC/DC Converter to provide power density improvements. Renesas’ converter utilizes GaN Systems’ GS61008P, a 100V enhancement mode GaN-on-silicon power transistor designed to enable a 46% reduction in system size.

SWINDON, United Kingdom – Sensata Technologies announced its new Brake Pedal Force Sensor for electromechanical brakes (EMBs), designed to decrease a vehicle’s stopping distance and improve braking by efficiently capturing the driver’s braking intent.

Uppsala, Sweden –IAR Systems® announced continued support for SiFive’s RISC-V Automotive CPU IP: The IAR Embedded Workbench™ for RISC-V which is aimed at the most recent SiFive Automotive E6-A and S7-A product series and addresses automotive application needs such as infotainment, connectivity, and ADAS, while also incorporating the single instruction set architecture (ISA) utilized by RISC-V to increase code portability and reduce cost and time-to-market.

The electricity market has traditionally been centralized and controlled by grid operators who deliver fixed amounts of energy based on historical local demand. But as the world moves to counteract climate change using renewable energy, those fixed, centralized policies will no longer be sufficient.

TDK Corporation announced the 200W and 300W rated TDK-Lambda CN-B110 series of half brick DC-DC converters that feature a wide input voltage of 43 to 160Vdc. The new converters are compatible with 72Vdc or 110Vdc nominal railway systems and are ideal for rolling stock, railway trackside equipment, robotics, AGVs and scientific research equipment applications.

Westford, MA USA– Swissbit’s new SSD, the N4200 for the application profiles and requirements of data centers, features a firmware architecture designed to tackle real-world data center workloads with comprehensive workload analysis and data for firmware adaptability, and application-specific optimization. Designed for data center providers, the N4200 is currently available in a 8TB storage capacity, with 16TB to follow (7.68 TB and 15.4 TB, respectively).