Software

SpiderOak, the satellite cybersecurity specialist, has announced a successful demonstration of its OrbitSecure technology for communications with the International Space Station (ISS). Specifically – using an Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Snowcone edge computing device provided by Axiom Space – SpiderOak’s OrbitSecure software was used aboard the ISS. The system demonstrated sending and receiving secure ops traffic between ground and low-Earth ...

Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – to version 3.13. The latest release sees performance improvements to its Impeller graphics renderer, APIs for foldable devices (for example, reporting the physical size, the device pixel ratio, and the refresh rate of the display), supporting wide-gamut ...

Users can add un-supported MCUs to Segger’s range of in-circuit programmers following the introduction of its ‘flasher device support kit’. “Customers have the flexibility to add new devices when required, on their own timeline, independent of Segger,” said company founder Rolf Segger. “They can work with Segger to get their devices supported, or simply do it themselves, even for devices ...

In an effort to create and standardise an open api (application programming interface), multi-domain simulation framework across different industries, Accellera Systems Initiative, has announced a Federated Simulation Standard proposed working group. Its first meeting to “gather input and discuss expectations” will be held in Toulouse, France on 25 and 26 September. Different industries, for example avionics, space, semiconductor, automotive and ...

Functional safety certifications require proof of code coverage for the entire source code, including all variants. ‘Hyper-coverage’ can help to detect untested code, suggests Michael Wittner, managing director of Razorcat Development GmbH. The concept of ‘code coverage’ acts as evidence that all parts of a C/C++ source code have fully undergone testing. Depending on the classification of a safety-critical application, ...

QSPICE circuit simulation software raises design productivity in power and analogue designs through simulation, said Qorvo. It is designed for analogue simulation and allows designers to simulate complex digital circuits and algorithms. It combines schematic capture and fast mixed-mode simulation and is available free of charge. “In the past, power designers relied on analogue circuits and silicon power switches. Today, ...

Functional safety and cybersecurity standards treat the qualification of tools and libraries as independent subjects, but this is inconsistent with ISO standards. Gerard Vink, of Tasking, explains which qualification criteria apply to the various components. The ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards require software libraries, including those that are part of the compiler toolset, to be qualified ...

Distributor RS has added a circuit simulator to its DesignSpark tools. The browser-based tool is rebadged PartQuest Explore from Siemens. “In partnership with Siemen’s PartQuest Explore team, all DesignSpark members, regardless of their subscription option, will have access to the DesignSpark Circuit Simulator tool,” according to RS. It “provides an environment for design, modelling, simulating and analying electronic and mechatronic ...

STMicroelectronics has released software to make its STM32G0 32bit Cortex-M0+ microcontroller into a UCSI ‘platform policy manager’ (PPM) to manage USB Type-C connectors – in particular for its STM32MP135F-DK development board. UCSI is the USB Type-C connector system software interface, controlled by a specification from the USB Implementers Forum. The software, ‘X-CUBE-UCSI expansion package’, consists of libraries, drivers, sources, APIs ...

Segger has added a way to prevent stack overflows to its Embedded Studio for Arm IDE (integrated development environment). It can be switched on in the compiler without any change to application code. Limitations are that it is currently available for Thumb-2 architecture cores such as Cortex-M4, Cortex-M7, Cortex-A9, and Cortex-A15. On ARMv7M architectures, it is ready to use with a ...