Software

The  Linux Foundation is to form the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF).  Through a series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and advance a portable software stack for high performance computing (HPC) by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts. As use of HPC becomes ubiquitous in scientific computing and digital engineering, and AI use cases multiply, ...

NXP has invested in a high-resolution distributed aperture radar software start-up, and will use its software in ICs for vehicle radar. “Distributed aperture radar offers a path to enhance the resolution of radar systems while eliminating the need for thousands of antenna channels,” according to NXP. “It coherently fuses information from multiple radar sensors on a vehicle to create a ...

To increase security when using containers to deploy and manage software, Wind River has added Sigstore’s Cosign to the container engine within VxWorks, the company’s RTOS (real-time operating system). “Containers are creating a major impact across mission-critical industries, such as automotive, aerospace, defense and industrial, and are helping to advance a software-defined approach to these markets,” said Wind River chief ...

To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, because captured signals are one-time encrypted. The scheme is implemented by the company’s Flasher Secure programmer hardware, combined with software dubbed ‘Telp’ for ‘target encrypted link package’. It works like ...

Faster on-die memory access for AI processing could spring from a collaboration between network-on-chip intellectual property company Arteris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). Memory access is important with neural network algorithms as their execution requires large quantities of data to be transferred between processing elements and memory, increasing emphasis on the performance of the access ...

AI rock fall detection has been installed on the railway between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren stations in Devon, where it runs beneath cliffs. The “platform uses cutting-edge analytics and machine learning to provide automated incident alerts and previously hidden data insights”, according to Warwick-based infrastructure company Telenet. It “can send incident alerts in real time to station control rooms by ...

Ittia has ported its DB IoT database for microcontrollers to a sub-set of the STM32 MCU family, via the STM32CubeIDE integrated development environment. “Real-time data capture and edge analytics are becoming common requirements for edge devices, including machine learning and AI applications,” according to Ittia. “Manufacturers selecting STM32 microcontrollers to build gateways, industrial systems and medical devices can now locally ...

STMicroelectronics has announced software to simplify connecting its STM32H5 microcontrollers to Amazon’s AWS cloud and Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub X-CUBE-AWS-H5 and X-CUBE-AZURE-H5 are expansion packages for ST’s STM32Cube development tools, and both contains a set of libraries and application examples. They are built on the FreeRTOS real-time operating system and ST’s ‘Secure Manager’ embedded security software. Of the Azure package ...

Security at the device level can complement existing protocols for smart devices to meets security requirements in the Matter specification, says Rohit Ravichandran. Thread and Wi-Fi protocols provide secure and encrypted wireless communication between devices. The security features of these protocols, however, protect only the transmission channels and the data flowing in them, they do not protect the end devices ...

Machine Learning Development Suite is a toolkit from Microchip that supports some of its 8, 16 and 32bit microcontrollers. “Machine Learning is the new normal for embedded controllers, and utilising it at the edge allows a product to be more secure and use less power than systems that rely on cloud communication for processing,” according to Microchip v-p of development ...