Microprocessors

Move-X is aiming at tracking applications that need meter-level accuracy and a long-range battery-powered wireless connection with a module that is physically compatible with Arduino’s 63mm long MKR boards. Called Cicerone, it is built around u-blox’ MAXM10S GNSS (sat nav) receiver module and Move-X’ MAMWLE LoRa transceiver module, which has a Semtech SX126x inside. “This combination allows for synergy between ...

ARM’s Neoverse V2 core, Demeter, has been optimised for customer server workloads including the BERT ML framework. The flow of the BF16 instruction was tuned to boost performance and the instruction cache for the core is doubled to 2Mbits. Arm has also increased the vector performance of the core with four lanes of 128bit wide interconnect for the scalable vector ...

Microchip is aiming to meet ISO 26262 functional safety and new ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards with a family of Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers with memory-built-in self-test, secure boot and support for Autosar – the latter an open software architecture that allows lower-level hardware to be changed without changing the original application code. “When using Autosar, Microchip offers ASIL B microcontroller abstraction ...

In a flurry of announcements alongside its developer converence, Silicon Labs has revealed a chip set for metropolitan Wi-Sun radio, a low-power IC for battery-powered Wi-Fi 6 links and a hardware-software development kit for Amazon Sidewalk. Wi-Sun For Wi-Sun (which is wireless smart utility network), and proprietary sub-GHz protocols, in cities and other built-up environments, it announced an RF microcontroller ...

STMicroelectronics is aiming at electric vehicle drive-trains and domain-oriented systems with a group of microcontrollers announced today “The real-time ‘Stellar P6’ automotive microcontrollers integrate motion-control and energy-management domains with actuation capabilities” for software-defined drive-traction architectures,” said ST automotive v-p Luca Rodeschini. “As the automotive industry begins work on vehicle platforms for model-year 2024, ST is ready with the microcontrollers to ...

Alibaba Group’s T-Head chip design company has adopted Imagination Technologies B-Series GPU and Series3NX neural network accelerator for an artificial intelligence IoT SoC. The Hertfordshire company joined T-Head’s ‘Wujian platform alliance’ in 2019 . “Imagination has been collaborating with T-head to build a heterogeneous GPU-NPU architecture based on Xuantie C910,” said Imagination. Yesterday, Wujian 600 platform was unveiled at the ...

At this week’s HotChips 2022, UntetherAI has announced its second generation at-memory architecture to accelerate AI interference. SpeedAI (codenamed Boqueria) improves efficiency by up to 100x, compared to the company’s first generation architecture (runAI200) and has 80 times more throughput to accelerate neural networking. The second generation architecture also quadruples performance achieving 2Petaflops with a power budget of 30Tops per ...

RISC-V and mixed signal design were strong themes from this year’s DAC in San Francisco, reports Caroline Hayes. At last month’s 59th DAC (Design Automation Conference), a significant announcement was made by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Acknowledging the growth of mixed signal design, and the complexities it brings, the company announced Symphony Pro, an extension to its Symphony suite of ...

Renesas is aiming a set of microcontrollers at industrial equipment needing real-time Ethernet control. Dubbed RZ/N2L, the MCUs have an integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) compliant three port Gigabit Ethernet switch and an EtherCAT slave controller. They support industrial network communication protocols including EtherCAT, Profinet RT, the new Profinet IRT, EtherNet/IP and OPC UA. “By using the RZ/N2L as a companion ...

Microchip has expunged some of the tricky bits of system design with its ARM926EJ-S based SAM9X60 MPU, by introducing a system-on-module that pre-pairs the processor with 1Gbit of DDR2 dram, a 4Gbit of NAND flash and 1kbit of serial eeprom – on top of the chip’s own 64kbyte of internal sram. Actually built around a 600MHz SAM9X60D1G, and called SAM9X60D1G-SOM, ...