Omnivision took home the bronze medal in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards for product innovation. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Omnivision won in the Embedded Computing category, which includes microcontrollers (MCUs) or microprocessors (MPUs) or other custom-designed chips, and supporting software in ROM (Read […]
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Ambarella wins coveted 2022 LEAP Award
Ambarella took home one of the two gold medals in the Embedded Computing category in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards for product innovation. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Ambarella tied for the gold in the Embedded Computing category, which includes microcontrollers (MCUs) or microprocessors […]
Development tools for RISC-V support \SiFive automotive solutions
IAR Systems continues their support for SiFive’s RISC-V Automotive CPU IP: The IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V aims at the latest SiFive Automotive E6-A and S7-A product series which address the needs of automotive applications like infotainment, connectivity, and ADAS. IAR’s complete development solution helps embedded software developers at OEMs and suppliers to maximize the […]
ECO software speeds chip design tasks
To boost productivity and enhance the power, performance, and area (PPA) of advanced electronic designs, Synopsys, Inc. announced the breakthrough golden signoff ECO solution that addresses lengthy engineering design closure times. The Synopsys PrimeClosure solution combines Synopsys’ leading engineering change order (ECO) signoff solutions, Synopsys PrimeECO and Synopsys Tweaker ECO, with breakthrough innovations, delivering the fastest ECO […]
Automotive radar transceivers feature improved phase noise, output power, noise figure
NXP Semiconductors released its 2nd generation RFCMOS radar transceiver family to production. The TEF82xx is the successor to the market-proven TEF810x, which has already shipped tens of millions of units. Optimized for fast chirp modulation, the device supports short-, medium- and long-range radar applications, including cascaded high-resolution imaging radar. It enables 360-degree sensing for critical […]
IDE enables ECU-level automotive software development
Renesas Electronics Corporation launched a new integrated development environment that allows engineers to rapidly create software for automotive ECUs (Electronic Control Units) containing multiple hardware devices. The fully integrated environment supports co-simulation, debug and trace, high-speed simulation, and distributed processing software over multiple SoCs (System-on-Chips) and MCUs (Microcontrollers)—all without the need for actual hardware. This […]
Cool technology at the Siemens IESF Automotive Conference 2022
The Integrate Electrical Solutions Forum came about in 2000 as a conference for the automotive engineering community. The original events were organized by Mentor Graphics and SAE. Since Mentor’s acquisition by Siemens, the event has been run by the Siemens Digital Industry Software group. The current version of IESF includes a mix of technical […]
Automotive gigabit ethernet switch sports optical ports
KDPOF introduces the first automotive Ethernet switch EVB9351-AUT-SW-NXP with five 1000BASE-RH optical ports, each comprised of KDPOF’s KD9351 FOT and KD1053 PHY IC. The EVB9351-AUT-SW-NXP automotive Ethernet switchboard has two SJA1110 switches from NXP on board. This part integrates an ARM Cortex-M7 @200MHz processor for autonomous and secure operation: 512 kB integrated SRAM as Instruction […]
Arm cortex-M0+ core MCU features functional safety, cybersecurity, AUTOSAR compatibility
Microchip Technology Inc. announces the PIC32CM JH microcontroller (MCU). This is the industry’s first MCU based on the Arm Cortex-M0+ architecture with AUTOSAR support, Memory-Built-In Self-Test (MBIST), and secure boot. The PIC32CM JH is compatible with AUTOSAR, an open software architecture, providing suppliers with the ability to change to lower-level hardware but keep the original application code, […]
Platform helps create ML models for real-time mapping
Hyperspec AI released a new tool for developers working on ADAS-enabled and autonomous vehicles (AV). The company has developed a unified platform called RoadMentor that allows users to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for real-time mapping. Hyperspec integrates the map into the ML training loop so that real-time mapping models can be […]