Software

Renesas and partners have collected together hardware, operating systems, software and design tools needed to develop the electronics in a software-defined vehicle. Branded ‘R-Car Open Access’ and ‘RoX’, with it “engineers can start building their software using an integrated tool chain even before the hardware is available”, according to Renesas. “This is made possible through the cloud environment and the ...

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskite solar cells can be made to run for 1,000 hours at 85°C while loosing under 3% efficiency, according to Rice University. “Right now, we think that this is state-of-the-art in terms of stability,” said Rice engineer Aditya Mohite (right). The key was to grow its FAPbI3 from a solution containing a custom two-dimensional perovskite, designed to ...

Segger has introduced microcontroller security feature configuration to its in-circuit programmers, debug probes and trace probes. “Modern chips require an increasing level of customer and device-specific configuration,” according to the company. “The driving force is security, especially as more and more devices connect to the Internet. Unfortunately, there is no industry standard for provisioning device security and configuration. Options differ ...

Google has announced the second beta of Android 15, the next major version of Android, which is due for official release in the autumn. A number of features for the planned release have been highlighted by Google, including the use of Private Spaces, improved large screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture (PiP) changes, security measures to make intents safer, and some new fonts ...

Renesas has increased support for its first RISC-V-based general-purpose microcontrollers by integrating Segger’s Embedded Studio into version 1.1.0 of Renesas’ RISC-V Smart Configurator code generator for R9A02G021 group MCUs. Smart Configurator is a graphical tool that generates source code that will configuring peripherals such as timers, interfaces and interrupt controllers. In this case, the source code is ready to be ...

Edge Impulse has introduced AI software for Arm microcontrollers and Nvidia processors intended to spot previously unseen and untrained anomalies in images, for industrial inspection, medical imaging and logistics, for example. It is based on ‘Gaussian mixture models’ – GMMs. “Neural networks are powerful but have a major drawback: handling unseen data, like defects in a product during manufacturing, is ...

Sony has publicly released its “Camera Remote Command”, a list of commands enabling developers to remote control any of 29 Sony cameras. This removes restrictions to third party software to remotely control aspects of shooting, monitoring, and file transfer in Sony cameras, highlighted the company. Camera Remote Command Possible applications for Camera Remote Command include 3D image scanning (automating the ...

Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning (ML) applications. Machine learning is implemented at the edge of the network, explained Mouser’s Mark Patrick in order to make decisions very quickly at the [network] edge. [Edge Impulse’s] products ...

Infineon has lined up a Rust programming language compiler for two of its TriCore architecture processor families: the existing TC3x and forthcoming TC4x. “Rust, with its unique memory safety features, has emerged as a viable complement or potential substitute for C/C++ in automotive software development,” according to the company. Working with Infineon, HighTec EDV-Systeme has released an ISO 26262 ASIL ...

Xmos has teamed up with audio software specialist DSP Concepts to add graphical audio and voice processing design software to development tools for xcore.ai audio processing ICs. Audio Weaver is the drag-and-drop graphical design software. “DSP Concepts has ported their platform software, AWE Core [embedded processing engine], on to xcore.ai platform that runs along with Xmos platform software,” Xmos told ...