Software

The industry and many markets have embraced big data analytics but this will mean a re-think for chip designers who will need new tools to create competitive solutions. According to Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president and general manager of IC verification solutions, Siemens EDA. AI and software are pushing sensing and electronics to the network edge in order to provide ...

Following on from acquiring Numeca and Pointwise, Cadence Design Systems has introduced suite of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for vertical markets including automotive, turbomachinery, marine and aerospace. Called Fidelity, it “introduces a next-generation flow solver featuring high-order numerics, scale-resolving simulations and massive hardware acceleration”, according to Cadence. Included are specialised flow solvers for marine and turbomachinery applications, as well ...

Segger has tied up with Renesas to add DLM (device lifecycle management) and Trustzone partitioning during mass production for Renesas’ Arm Cortex-M33 based RA4 and RA6 microcontrollers. The new features are additions to Segger’s ‘Flasher’ line of in-circuit programmers, and are available to owners of existing Flashers as a software update with “no charge, no license cost and no hidden ...

Securing Our Connected Future is More Important Than Ever. The Internet of Things (IoT) and the data it collects are allowing us to work and live connected lives like never before. IoT devices are unlocking innovation that is digitizing all industries. While traditionally the rate of IoT security adoption has lagged behind the pace of digital transformation, recently we have ...

NXP has announced a package of processing algorithms for automated driving. Called the ‘Premium radar SDK’ (PRSDK), the software will initially cover: interference mitigation, MIMO waveform optimisation and angular resolution enhancement, and is intended to be used with the company’s S32R45 or S32R41 radar processor. “It is planned to continue to evolve over time, expanding the list of algorithms through regular ...

Secured Linux on Arduino for enterprise users is the aim of a tie-up between UK-based Foundries.io and the Arduino organisation. The chosen hardware is the new multi-core Arduino Pro Portenta X8, which is a processing heavyweight with quad Arm Cortex-A53 cores, a Cortex-M7 and two Cortex-M4 cores. “Today, you cannot think about a Linux-based device without anticipating the challenges of ...

Bristol IC maker Xmos has added automatic vehicle number plate recognition to its algorithm portfolio. Developed with Cloudtop to run on Xmos’ xcore.ai branded silicon, the AI-based software needs no cloud connection – all processing is local – and is aimed at car parks, optimised to read slow-moving number plates at a between three and five metres range using low-cost ...

IAR Systems is supporting 64-bit Risc-V and the RV64I base instruction set with Embedded Workbench. ‘Embedded Workbench for Risc-V’ version 3.10 is a C/C++ compiler and debugger IDE with code quality analysis tools, supporting RV64 cores from Andes, Codasip, Microchip, Nuclei and SiFive. “64bit support is an important milestone for our investment in the RISC-V technology and ecosystem,” said IAR CTO ...

Tektronix has released SignalVu 5G NR analysis software for its 6 Series B MSO oscilloscopes. The package enables pass/fail testing of the 5G NR physical layer to qualify transmitter designs per the 5G NR standard established under the 3GPP release of 15/16 test specifications. It includes signal quality measurements such as error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel power (ACP), spectral ...

Green Hills Software has teamed up with NXP to support driver assistance radar image processing. NXP is providing the hardware: the 16nm S32R45 imaging radar processor, while Green Hills is providing its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and software development tools. “Common software and hardware architecture spanning the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors enables OEMs and Tier 1s to develop ...