Embedded Systems

Arrow Electronics is targeting the maker market with an IoT design board based on an FPGA. The Arrow MAX1000 board can be installed directly into a custom application or integrated on to a completely separate board. The Intel MAX10 FPGA has 8,000 logic elements. The chip also includes integrated flash memory, a 1Msample/s 12-bit ADC for analogue signals and a ...

NXP and Canonical have ported Ubuntu Core to NXP's quad ARM Cortex-A53 core LS1043A SoC, aimed at IoT gateways and networking equipment.

The Internet of Things, and securing the Internet of Things were very much to the fore.

Art McFall, Marketing Brand Manager of Oscilloscopes at Keysight, talks about the company's new InfiniiVision 1000X series oscilloscope.

Matt Davis, Managing Director of QA Systems, talks about the newly announced version of QA Systems' unit and integration test tool, Cantata.

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution deal with Renesas Electronics which will see it selling the supplier’s Synergy software, development kits and microcontrollers for internet of things (IoT), industrial, and real-time operating system-based applications. The Synergy MCUs Mouser will carry include four different series of software-, architecture-, and pin-compatible devices. The S7 Series high-end MCUs operate at 240MHz, the S5 ...

Lynx Software Technologies has demonstrated its LynxSecure Separation Kernel hypervisor running on a multicore Cortex-A53 on the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC at Embedded World. The firm said this was the first view of LynxSecure on an ARM processor. Robert Day, vice president of marketing at Lynx, writes: “ARM designers are now able to run safety critical environments alongside a general purpose OS ...

Development kits for IoT node designs seem to be everywhere at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week. ON Semiconductor has tackled the problem of designing in the various wireless interfaces by using daughter boards which interface to the Wi-Fi enabled baseboard. In this way it will support a range of IoT wireless interfaces such as: SIGFOX, Thread, EnOcean, Wireless Mbus, Bluetooth Low ...

Green Hills Software has announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg its latest Optimizing C and C++ Compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures from ARM, Intel, Renesas, MIPS and Power Architecture. A feature of this release of the complier is support for the C++11 language, updated functional safety certification and NEON autovectorisation. New hardware-specific optimisations include: Automatic or manual vectorization for ARM NEON instructions. NEON technology ...

At Embedded World 2017, we caught up with Jeffrey Fortin, Head of Product Management at Vector Software, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He talks about VectorCAST/Probe and how it provides a simple way to dynamically instrument an application with blocks of code. Thank you to Jeffrey for his time. Read all our Embedded World 2017 coverage ...