Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced a transceiver technology breakthrough, bringing greater cost efficiency to data center interconnects. Xilinx’s Virtex UltraScale devices have achieved compliance to the 25GE, 50GE and 100GE copper cable and backplane IEEE and related specifications which supports up to five meters of copper cabling in the data center and up to one […]
Data-transfer transceiver circuit hits 56 Gbps/channel
Socionext Inc. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that they have developed the world’s lowest power-consuming transceiver circuit that achieves communications speeds of 56 Gbps per channel. Compared to previous levels, this essentially doubles the speed of data transfers between semiconductor chips, used in servers and switches, and optical modules. There is an increasing need […]
Production code generator supports automotive FMI 2.0 and AUTOSAR 4.2 software standards
With its latest Release, dSPACE has optimized its production code generator, TargetLink, to cover prominent standards in the development of embedded software. TargetLink 4.1 supports the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) 2.0 and the latest version of the AUTOSAR standard, AUTOSAR 4.2. Moreover, MISRA C compliance and code efficiency have been increased further and modular, model-based […]
Video link for drones delivers 1080-p HD video at 60 fps
Amimon, the industry leader in HD wireless video transmission solutions for the professional video and broadcast markets, today introduced its new CONNEX mini high-performance wireless HD video link for the growing number of smaller, lighter aerial drones. CONNEX mini delivers full HD video quality, zero latency, digital transmission reliability, encrypted transmission for live and sensitive […]
Ultra-low-power connected platform for IoT and Wearables
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, today launched a complete, ultra-low-power connected platform for cost-optimized applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable markets. The new platform features the world’s lowest power ARM Cortex-M0+, the Atmel | SMART SAM L21, and award-winning BTLC1000 Bluetooth SMART solution, making […]
Customizable, end-to-end solution for rapid IoT build-out
Mentor Graphics Corporation now offers the embedded industry’s first customizable edge-to-cloud IoT solution comprised of an IoT gateway System Design Kit (SysDK), a cloud backend, and runtime solutions on which to build a wide array of IoT edge devices. It enables the most demanding IoT requirements with support from 8-bit microcontrollers to the latest 64-bit microprocessors, […]
SoCs for embedded feature real-time processing and multimedia
The new Sitara AM57x processors from Texas Instruments provide advanced integration of compute, real-time control, connectivity and multimedia capabilities, allowing developers to simplify their designs with a single chip instead of needing multiple chips for each function. This integration is well suited for applications involving industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), factory automation, machine vision, embedded computing, […]
Real-time operating systems for wearable devices in the IoT
by WARREN KURISU, Mentor Graphics Operating systems and the way they handle tasks can make or break applications such as activity trackers and fashion electronics. The wearables industry is still in its early stages of development. The financial firm Morgan Stanley estimates that the wearables market could become a $1.6 trillion business in the next […]
Cost-effective controller speeds USB-C designs
Microchip Technology Inc. announced the addition of the UTC2000, USB-C controller to its portfolio of USB devices. With this new device, designers of a wide range of applications covering the consumer, industrial and automotive markets can now simply and quickly implement the radically updated USB-C connector cost effectively, speeding time to market and minimizing bills of […]
Nucleus RTOS aims to wear IoT well
As an established real time operating system shipped in over three billion devices powered by hundreds of different types of MPUs and MCUs, it is unsurprising that Mentor Graphics’ Nucleus embedded RTOS is ready to fall lockstep into the Internet of Things. New SoC architectures designed for IoT require operating systems such as Nucleus optimized for size and performance. What’s […]
