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 […]
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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 […]
What is an embedded processor?
(Learning engineering fundamentals is not only for the student engineer. Encouraging more people to take an interest an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) benefits everyone. Sometimes, all it takes is a taste of the basics. In this series, we introduce some fundamental microcontroller terms and concepts, add context around them, and offer […]
Real-time processor targets, motion, power inverter apps
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the RZ/T1 Group, a new factory automation solution with built-in industrial network functionality for use in many industrial applications such as AC servo drives, motion controllers, inverter control and general industrial equipment that require high speed, responsiveness, and excellent real-time performance. Traditional solutions […]
IoT from the ground up: MCUs and connectivity building blocks
In the emerging world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the tiny MCU is becoming the mighty MCU. But why and how does a device that has been around for decades figure into the ultra-low-power, connected, and still-unrealized world of the Internet of Things? And why is IoT connectivity any different from the connectivity we […]
