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Osmocom Conference 2018 CfP

Talk submissions are sought for annual conference of family of projects for open source mobile communications. The venerable Osmocom family of open source projects span technologies ranging from GNU Radio blocks that support a variety of hardware platforms, to TETRA and GEO Mobile Radio implementations, through to 2, 2.5… Read More

CRU: HiFive Expansion, Computer Vision, Osmocom, and More

AB Open and its hardware division Ground Electronics have launch a campaign for Circumference, a family of custom-designed desktop cluster computing units based around the popular Raspberry Pi and UDOO x86 single-board computer families. Available to pre-order now on crowdfunding site Crowd Supply, the Circumference C25 boasts support for… Read More

Intel Launches OpenVINO Computer Vision Toolkit

Intel has announced the launch of the OpenVINO toolkit, a visual inference and neural network optimisation engine designed with vision-based Internet of Things (IoT) development in mind. “The OpenVINO toolkit is designed to enable users to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision applications, unleash deep learning inference capabilities across the… Read More

Silicon Labs Puts Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth Mesh to the Test

Wireless semiconductor specialist Silicon Labs has published a summary of its recent long-term test into mesh network technology for the Internet of Things (IoT), putting Zigbee, Bluetooth Mesh, and Thread through their paces. Designed to simplify the deployment and management of sensor networks, mesh networking allows each node in the… Read More

Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure Benefits from Many Updates

New Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure (CNI) releases bring over 70 noteworthy updates to the free and open source field proven mobile stack. As noted in a post back in March the Osmocom CNI stack has come a long way since the OpenBSC “network-in-the-box” which originally grew out of a… Read More

IEEE to Host Webinar on Resilient Networks for the IIoT

IEEE Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has announced a webinar discussing the deployment of resilient network architectures for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), to take place in June. “A resilient, holistic network architecture can help create the secure, scalable and robust infrastructure needed… Read More

HiFive Unleashed Gets Packed PolarFire Powered Expansion

World’s first Linux-capable RISC-V development board benefits from expansion that adds PCIe, M.2 SSD, SATA, HDMI, a 300K element PolarFire FPGA, and more. Launched back in February at FOSDEM the HiFive Unleashed RISC-V development board boasts a 64-bit Freedom U540 SoC with features that include a 4+1 Multi-Core Coherent… Read More

OnChip Announces New 32-bit RISC-V Microcontroller

Colombia-based semiconductor specialist OnChip has announced a 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller design aimed at low-power sensor applications, developed in partnership with SiFive. Fresh from announcing the next generation of Itsy-Chipsy, the company’s low-quantity semiconductor fabrication platform which aims to allow the creation of single-unit DIP-packaged chips for around $100, OnChip… Read More

PULP Open Silicon Project Celebrates its Fifth Birthday

The Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) Project has celebrated its fifth birthday with a retrospective, discussing the progress made since its inception during a meeting at the University of Bologna in May 2013. “It has been exactly 5 years since Luca Benini started the PULP (Parallel Ultra Low Power) project in… Read More

CRU: Homebrew Silicon, OSHCamp 2018, eSIMs Delayed, and More

The cause of truly home-made semiconductors hit a major milestone late last month when engineer Sam Zeloof became, to common knowledge, the first person to successfully create an integrated circuit using a fully photolithographic process in a home lab, building a dual differential amplifier using entirely homebrew equipment. Hobbyists around… Read More

MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface Block Diagram

MIPI Releases Public I3C Host Controller Interface Specification

The MIPI Alliance has announced the release of the I3C Host Controller Interface 1.0 specification, defining a common software driver interface for I3C HCI hardware implementations – making the use of sensors as easy as possible. Part of the upcoming MIPI Touch family of specifications, the MIPI I3C Host Controller… Read More

Robert Feranec Publishes PCB Layout Advice Video Series

Fedevel Academy’s Robert Feranec is in the process of running a four-part video course on printed circuit board (PCB) design, from an interesting angle: the analysis of an existing design, with a focus on mistakes to fix and improvements which could be made. Designed for anyone involved in PCB production,… Read More