Embedded Systems

Electronics Weekly previews some of the highlights of Embedded World, Nuremberg (25-27 February) Automotive technology is a strong theme for this international show in Nuremberg. Rohde & Schwarz (Hall 4, 4-218) will be showcasing its SMBV100B and SMW200A signal generators, used in the AVL Driving Cube, a simulation testbed for developing autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. The Cube ...

Artesyn has announced an unregulated 1,300W quarter-brick dc-dc converter, designed to provide a nominal on-board 12V output from 40-60V – so 48V data center and communications network equipment. Efficiency peaks at over >97%, providing 8.85-12.55Vdc to regulated non-isolated conversion stages further down the power chain. Called BDQ1300, it “has been designed to primarily support two power-conversion architectures,” according to company marketing ...

Lattice has switched to 28nm FD-SOI (fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator) technology for a range of sram-based FPGAs intended for embedded vision and artificial intelligence processing in industrial, automotive and consumer systems. Although they are ram-based, and therefore need to boot from adjacent memory, the firm has found a way to get chip outputs enabled, set and stable within 3ms of power-up – allowing ...

Hyperstone is aiming at reliable industrial flash with X1, a memory controller chip that can operate 3d NAND in SLC mode. “The X1 has been rigorously tested in sudden power fail situations and for reliability, offering superb FIT rates,” claimed the German firm. “The industrial flash controller with full SATA compliance is now in mass production.” It is a SATA ...

Vishay is aiming at position tracking in virtual reality headsets and augmented reality glasses with a set of surface-mount infra-red LEDs. They are: VSMY5850X01 (850nm) VSMY5890X01 (890nm) VSMY5940X01 (940nm) and deliver 30% greater radiant intensity than the firm’s prior-generation devices, and operate over -40°C to +110°C. “Ideal for position tracking in virtual or augmented reality applications, these emitters help simplify ...

A credit card-sized supercomputer from Nvidia, the Jetson Xavier NX targets robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge. It has the performance of the company’s Xavier in the size of the Nano (70mm x 45mm), explained Rob Csongor, vice president of autonomous machines at Nvidia. “Understanding language is more complex than recognising images,” he said, explaining the choice of ...

An Israeli company, Optima Design Automation has introduced two tools for automotive design. The Optima Safety platform consists of Optima-HE and Optima-SE, both based on the company’s Fault Injection Engine (FIE) and designed for fault analysis, targeting safety analysis fault injection for SoC design. The FIE uses parallel simulation and formal verification, rather than fault simulation, and introduces fault list ...

Xilinx embraces open source community and introduces the Vitis software platform for hardware and software development. At this year’s Xilinx Developers Forum, the company introduced the Vitis software platform, which tailors the hardware architecture to the software of algorithm code without intervention. President and CEO, Victor Peng, explained that the unified platform was developed to “empower software developers, with the ...

The company introduced the second-generation NeuPro architecture for edge devices. NeuPro-S processors address the need to scale up its NeuPro architecture to work in heterogeneous systems, explained Yair Siegel, director of segment marketing. There are three processors available, targeting the mobile, home and automotive markets, all have safety standards enabled, added Siegel. Launched at this week’s AutoSens in Brussels, Belgium ...

No desert codenames this time, the new release of Android will simply be known as Android 10.