Embedded Systems

At Embedded World  today, Raspberry Pi was giving away its Pico development boards to all comers, to emphasise that there is no shortage of its RP2040 microcontroller, which was recently qualified for the industrial -40 to +85°C temperature range – previously it was to -20°C. “We risk-bought quite a lot of wafers, and could sell one to two million per ...

At Embedded World 2022, Kontron has announced the industrial motherboard D3723-R. In a mini-ITX form factor, it includes the new AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000-Series processor, with the “Zen+” microarchitecture. The board – with Radeon Vega Graphics – is suitable for versatile graphics and demanding applications, according to Kontron – compared to V/R1000 APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) from AMD, it delivers ...

NXP has introduced real-time microcontrollers for automotive ECUs, certified to ISO/SAE 21434 for cybersecurity and ISO 26262 ASIL D for functional safety. Part of its S32 range, they are: S32Z for safety processing and domain/zonal control S32Z1 series (future) 4x Cortex-R52 S32Z2 series 8x Cortex-R52 S32E for electric vehicle control and actuation S32E2 series 8x Cortex-R52 E parts are essentially Z parts with a ...

At Embedded World this morning, RISC-V International announced approval of its E-Trace (Efficient Trace for Risc-V) and SBI (RISC-V supervisor binary interface) specifications. E-Trace defines an approach to processor tracing that uses a branch trace, intended for debugging any size of application up to super computers. The documentation specifies the signals between the RISC-V core and the encoder (or ingress ...

NXP will be launching a new microcontroller portfolio at Embedded World. Called MCX, the MCUs will span from highly-secured high pin-count processors with 4Mbyte flash and 1Mbyte of sram, to a Cortex-M in a 16pin package – the smallest Electronics Weekly has yet heard of. Made on a 40nm process and build around Arm Cortex-M33 cores, there will be four fundamental ...

IAR Systems has included Arm’s new Cortex-M85 core in its latest version of the Embedded Workbench tool chain – version 9.30. This is Arm’s highest performance Cortex-M processor, and it has just become available on Arm Virtual Hardware. “Thanks to our collaboration with Arm, we enable early technology adoption of the Cortex-M85 processor, bringing use cases for future embedded applications ...

Unikernel is a technology that potentially combines the benefits of virtualisation and containerisation. Ian Ferguson, at Lynx Software Technologies, believes the time for unikernel is now. Unikernel technology has existed since at least 2016, but it has not been widely adopted, even in secure mission critical applications where it potentially offers the greatest benefits. While the technology still is not ready ...

Rohde & Schwarz has updated its 4 to 16GHz RTP oscilloscope range with a 13.3inch HD touchscreen and redesigned front panel. “Improving overall usability so that test engineers could focus on the design problems at hand and not on operating the test equipment was paramount to our R&D engineers when we decided to update the R&S RTP,” said company oscilloscope president ...

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a series of surface-mount bidirectional transient voltage suppressors in SMC (DO-214AB) packaging for automotive, industrial and telecom use. Surge capability is 3kW at 10/1,000μs to meet the specifications of ISO 16750-2 Pulse b. Called the SMC3KxxxCAHM3_A series, leakage current can be as low as 1μA from 22 to 120V, and operatioj is up to 175°C. For high reliability, ...

Seco has introduced a COM Express Type 6 Compact Module and a 3.5inch single board computer built around 11th Gen Intel Core processors – also known as Tiger Lake UP3. “11th Gen Core processors combine CPU/GPU engines with integrated artificial intelligence acceleration and deep learning capabilities in a low power processing platform, built on Intel third-generation 10nm process technology,” according ...