Foundational components of RTI Connext Drive are now certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D. This is the most stringent Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) for road vehicles. Connext Drive is already proven-in-use as the underlying software framework for multiple production vehicle models on the road today, leading to more than 64% compound annual revenue growth […]
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Positioning module uses inertial sensors to delivery meter-level GNSS accuracy
u-blox has announced the NEO-M9V global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver. The first u-blox positioning receiver to offer both untethered dead reckoning (UDR) and automotive dead reckoning (ADR), NEO-M9V is a perfect fit for fleet management and micro mobility applications that require reliable meter-level positioning accuracy even in challenging GNSS signal environments such as urban […]
Gallery: Sights from 2021 Automotive Tech Week, Novi, Mich.
The Automotive Tech Week event running Nov. 15-19 covered automotive interiors, ADAS and autonomous vehicle technology, advanced propulsion, and automotive user experience topics. The exposition associated with the event featured examples of technical advances now making their way into the designs of automotive OEMs. Here are a few of the more notable developments we saw […]
Development platform handles NXP S32K3 MCUs
IAR Systems presented the latest addition to its extensive list of microcontrollers (MCUs) supported by IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm. Now available is support for NXP’s S32K3 MCU family. S32K3 MCUs are designed for evolving body electronics, battery management, and zone and domain controllers. This extended MCU support will help developers maximize application performance, maintain […]
Embedded MXM graphics modules build on NVIDIA Ampere architecture
ADLINK Technology Inc. introduced the industry’s first embedded MXM graphics modules based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, built for accelerated computing and AI workloads at the edge. The new embedded graphics modules deliver real-time ray tracing, AI-accelerated graphics, and energy-efficient AI inference acceleration in the compact mobile PCI express (MXM) form factor. These modules enhance responsiveness, precision, […]
Palm-sized AI computer delivers 600 TOPS, 6x performance gain
NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the world’s smallest, most powerful, and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for robotics, autonomous machines, medical devices, and other forms of embedded computing at the edge. Built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, Jetson AGX Orin provides 6x the processing power and maintains form factor and pin compatibility with its predecessor, Jetson […]
Synthetic-data-generation engine helps train AIs
NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator, a powerful synthetic-data-generation engine that produces physically simulated synthetic data for training deep neural networks. In its first implementations of the engine, the company introduced two applications for generating synthetic data: one for NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, a virtual world for hosting the digital twin of autonomous vehicles, and another for […]
Driver monitoring system platform optimized to run on latest automotive-grade MPUs
Tata Elxsi announced their collaboration for a Driver Monitoring System (DMS) platform that combines advanced DMS software (V.O.E.O.S.Y.S)(1) and AUTOSAR Adaptive from Tata Elxsi integrated with the safe and secure INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) from Green Hills Software optimized to run on the latest families of automotive-grade microprocessors. This flexible and standards-based DMS platform enables OEMs and Tier […]
MCUs for ADAS – what’s the difference?
The emergence of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is changing how designers use and specify microcontrollers (MCUs), but it’s only one dimension of the changes occurring in the design of automotive systems (Figure 1). This FAQ will begin with the basics of AEC-Q100 requirements for automotive integrated circuits – those requirements are not going away […]
Rugged AI platform enhances inference computing in data-driven embedded systems
The new Jetsys-5320 from Elma Electronic Inc. meets the growing data processing needs of extremely rugged and mobile embedded computing applications by easily handling data-intensive computation tasks. It provides complex GPGPU inference computing at the edge for deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) operations in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Used for high-performance intelligent video analytics (IVA), […]