Embedded Systems

NXP has announced a real-time processor for vehicle central control computers with 16 1.2GHz Arm Cortex-R52 processors. Hardware isolation and virtualisation are provided to allow sharing of on-die hardware between different code blocks without interaction “to support the consolidation of cross-vehicle electronic control units in vehicle central compute applications”, said NXP. “Vehicle functions can be independently managed, including fault handling ...

Automation and AI will be in evidence at this year’s show, writes Caroline Haye. It is not as common as it once was for companies to launch products at exhibitions, but Renesas is launching a new, low-power microcontroller series at the show. It will also be showcasing its RZ/V2H microprocessor with new AI technology. Renesas: Hall 1-234 Silicon Labs will ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Fortec Integrated has introduced a 3.5inch format single-board computer with a choice of Intel Raptor Lake processors. Made by Taiwanese company iBase, it is called IB961 and comes in four versions: i7 with 14cores (6 performance, 8 efficiency, 20 threads) i5 with 12 cores (4p, 8e 16t) i5 with 10 cores (2p, 8e, 12t) i3 with eight-cores (4p, 4e, 12t) ...

Nvidia has added to the Ada Lovelace architecture-based family of laptop GPUs, with the RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs for portable mobile workstations. As with the recently released RTX 2000 (Electronics Weekly RTX 2000 Ada GPU meets AI visualisation demands (electronicsweekly.com),the GPUs have both an NPU (neural processing unit) and the company’s RTX GPU, with Tensor cores ...

To meet the increased demand for generative AI in embedded and edge applications, Nvidia has released the RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU. According to the company, it offers up to 1.5 times the performance of the earlier RTX A2000 12GByte processor. It enhances AI-powered design tools and high resolution visuals in industrial 3D design, such as structural analysis in civic ...

NXP has fleshed out the MCX A microcontroller series it announced in 2022. The ‘A’ series is the lower-cost branch of the MCX family, and like other MCX MCUs, the devices are built around an Arm Cortex-M33 core – this is the security-enabled M3. The first parts are MCX A14x (48MHz core) and MCX A15x (96MHz core), which come in ...

Rohm has added a lineup of 600V super-junction mosfets in 6.5 x 7 x 1.66mm SOT-223-3 packaging. “In recent years, power supplies for lighting and motors for pumps are required to be smaller as devices become more sophisticated – spurring the demand for compact mosfets that are essential for switching operation,” said the company. “Generally, however, it has been difficult ...

Renesas Electronics has introduced a 64bit MCU for 5G IoT edge devices and Gigabit Wi-Fi 7 gateways, part of its RZ/G Series. RZ/G3S can stand-by for 10µW, run Linux, and provides a PCI Express interface “that enables high-speed connectivity with 5G wireless modules”, said the company. “Additionally, the device boasts enhanced security features such as tamper detection to ensure data ...

Würth Elektronik has introduced two families of surface-mount multi-channel galvanic isolators for digital signals. Devices in the WPME-CDIP family have four 100Mbit/s isolated channels and a built-in dc-dc converter that provides isolated power from one side to the other. Different versions have different combinations of digital isolator directions: all from input to output, three in that direction and one returning, ...