TDK Corporation announces a new generation of flash storage products with five series, available December 2020, optimized for industrial, medical, art grid, transportation, and security applications. All five series use GBDriver GS2, TDK’s proprietary NAND flash memory control IC, which supports serial ATA. As 3D flash memory technology advances, flash storage solutions with capacities over […]
IoT
RISC-V for ultra-low power processing and AI on the edge
RISC-V is an exciting and rapidly-emerging technology. RISC-V is software; it is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. So far, this FAQ series has looked at how “RISC-V is growing and offers stability, scalability, and security,” the “Growing availability of tools reducing the risk of […]
MCUs feature cap-touch sensing, low power consumption for HMI-based IoT apps
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the expansion of its 32-bit RA2 Series microcontrollers (MCUs) with 20 new RA2L1 Group MCUs, increasing the RA Family to 66 MCUs. The general-purpose RA2L1 MCUs use the Arm Cortex-M23 core operating up to 48 MHz. The RA2L1 MCUs are supported by the easy-to-use Flexible Software Package (FSP) and Renesas’ partner ecosystem, […]
IDE offers pushbutton approach to edge AI development
Cartesiam announced the availability of NanoEdge AI Studio V2, the first integrated development environment (IDE) that simplifies the creation of machine learning, inference, and now classification libraries for direct implementation on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs). Thousands of commercially available industrial IoT (IIoT) embedded devices are already in production with NanoEdge AI Studio V1 for anomaly detection. With […]
Reference platform speeds design of Wi-Fi HaLow devices based on IEEE 802.11ah spec
Palma Ceia SemiDesign announced the availability of the company’s Wi-Fi HaLow Reference Platform, including all necessary hardware and software, for the design of Wi-Fi HaLow devices and systems based on the IEEE 802.11ah specification. Wi-Fi HaLow is the Wi-Fi Alliance’s designation for products based on the IEEE 802.11ah standard for wireless network transmissions commonly referred […]
LTE-M development kit speeds IoT connectivity projects
Avnet makes the development of IoT devices more efficient with the new Monarch LTE-M Development Kit. By providing developers with a complete set of components, software, and services from NXP Semiconductors, Sequans, Microsoft, Verizon, and Avnet, the kit speeds time to market for the development of IoT solutions using LTE-M connectivity. The kit is powered […]
Secure prototyping/production platform handles Renesas RX MCUs
Secure Thingz announced support for Renesas E2 Lite in Secure Desktop Provisioner, a component of the company’s secure prototyping and production platform Secure Deploy. Together with the recently announced Security Development Environment Embedded Trust version 1.50, the platform enables rapid development, implementation, prototyping, and volume production of secure embedded applications based on Renesas RX MCUs. […]
Development tools help meet EN 303 645, consumer IoT security standards
Secure Thingz, an IAR Systems Group company, presents updated versions of its security development tools Embedded Trust and C-Trust. These new versions support next-generation Secure Install technologies intended to prevent malware throughout device lifecycles, enhance the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) and inhibit the cloning and counterfeiting of embedded applications. These new capabilities will also […]
LoRa Alliance white paper details practical trials and proof-of-concept deployments
Selecting an intelligent multi-radio strategy is becoming increasingly important to succeed in a connected world, as illustrated in a new whitepaper released by the LoRa Alliance and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). The paper, “Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Trials – An Overview of Use Cases Across Regions Combining Two Technologies,” provides details on practical trials and proof of concept deployments (POCs), […]
SMARC-standard carrier board hosts latest Intel Atom processors
DATA MODUL is expanding its carrier board portfolio in the embedded sector, bringing a universally applicable carrier board onto the market in the form of the eDM-CB-SM-IPCS. The new board is compatible with Intel’s latest Atom x6000E, Celeron, and Pentium (“Elkhart Lake”) processor platforms, as well as with future x86 generations and ARM platforms. Furthermore, […]