Embedded Systems

At DAC 2024, Efabless celebrated a milestone of 40 commercial companies designed chips using its chipIgnite and Google-sponsored OpenMPW programme. Of these, some are ready for production volumes, the majority are at the prototype/proof of concept stage, said CEO, Michael Wishart. The platform allows start-ups and smaller companies to prototype designs and innovate without having to buy a license, he ...

At DAC 2024, Altair showcased its 3D-IC design and SimLab multi-physics modelling and simulation tool. Today, the company has announced the acquisition of Metrics Design Automation, a Canadian company led by Joe Costello , former CEO of Cadence Design Systems (1988-1997). The company described DSim as a full feature System Verilog and VHDL RTL simulator. It enables designers to simulate ...

DAC 2024: Accellera Systems Initiative, the EDA standards body, reflects the industry’s shift of focus from chip to systems, with the formation of a new working group. The Federated Simulation Standard (FSS) working group will focus on the Interoperability of simulators, models, and other components that together form systems-of-systems simulation environments, said Martin Barnasconi, Accellera’s technical committee chair and chair ...

Aaeon is aiming at in-vehicle surveillance systems for busses and law-enforcement with a PC built around Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX artificial intelligence processor and equipped with eight power-over-Ethernet ports. Called Boxer-8658AI, there are two versions: one with a hex-core Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64bit CPU and 8Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory, and the other with 16Gbyte and an octa-core processor. “For in-vehicle or ...

DAC 2024: Believed to be the first cloud-based NoC (network on chip) design tool, the iNoCulator is available on an early access basis from SignatureIP. Today, there is a need to design multiple chipets and design scalable designs with chiplet-based systems, explained Purna Mohanty, CEO of SignatureIP. As the interconnect between compute, storage, memory and I/O blocks on a chip, ...

NI has set out its stall for AI in the test industry. Following the announcement of LabView AI assistant at the end of last year (currently in beta testing), CTO of technology and innovation, Kevin Shultz spoke to Electronics Weekly about what will be the role of AI in test. He explained that the increasing complexity of products being tested ...

Synthara, the Swiss in-memory computing startup, has raised $11 million in funding through investments and European and Swiss grants. The round is led by Vsquared Ventures, with OTB Ventures, Hermann Hauser’s Onsight Ventures, Deep Tech Labs, along with existing investors such as High-Tech Gründerfonds, DeepIE, Excellis, ZKB and first investor  Sandeep Raju. Hauser also joined the company as an advisor. ...

We caught up with Advantech at Hardware Pioneers 2024 as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Darren Chapman – Sales Director UK of Advantech – discusses emerging markets such as EV charging and AI-integrated robotics. In the spotlight at the show, also, were embedded products such as its Industrial Box-PCs for End-to-end Edge AI Solutions and a variety ...

Expanded to occupy six halls in the Nuremberg Messe, this year’s Embedded World was large and busy; it was impossible to see everything in three days, but here are some highlights. By Caroline Hayes. This year’s Embedded World welcomed more than 32,000 visitors, from more than 80 countries. This figure is nearly 20% more than 2023’s 27,000 visitors and the ...

At Embedded World last month distributors were a strong presence and united in a show of optimism for the future of the industry, writes Caroline Hayes. All industry gatherings are an opportunity to exchange views, and Electronics Weekly asked Mark Burr-Lonnon, Mouser’s senior vice-president of global service and EMEA, APAC business about market conditions. The market is cyclical, he observes. ...