Tag: Embedded

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ONiO Unveils Energy-Harvesting, Ultra-Low-Power ONiO.zero RISC-V Microcontroller

Internet of Things start-up ONiO has announced a new RISC-V microcontroller, the ONiO.zero, which it claims can be powered purely using energy harvested from the radio-frequency spectrum – no batteries required. “ONiO.zero is an ultra-low-power wireless MCU that uses energy harvesting technology,” ONiO, which focuses on the healthcare side of… Read More

Intel Unveils Third-Generation “Keem Bay” Movidius VPU for Edge AI

Intel’s Movidius family of vision processing units (VPUs) for artificial intelligence at the edge has a new member, codenamed Keem Bay, which promises a tenfold performance improvement over the previous generation. Brought into Intel’s stable with the acquisition of computer vision startup Movidius in 2016, the Movidius Vision Processing Unit… Read More

MIPI Launches Open Access to Nine Debug and Trace Specifications

The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance has announced it is providing its debug and trace specifications, nine in total, under open access terms for the first time – including its latest SneakPeek Protocol v2.0. “Opening up access to MIPI debug and trace specifications will foster a more standardised debug… Read More

GigaDevice Unveils Low-Cost GD32V RISC-V Microcontroller

GigaDevice, a company which has previously concentrated on microcontrollers built around the proprietary Arm instruction set architecture (ISA), has released a new part based on the open RISC-V ISA: GD32V. First spotted by RISC-V pioneer Sipeed late yesterday, the GigaDevice GD32V is based on the Nucleisys N20x RISC-V core,… Read More

CRU: Digital FOSSils, RISC-V Growth, Embench Benchmark, and More

AB Open’s Open Source Digital Design Insights (OSDDI) series has expanded with the launch of its first long-form article: Digital FOSSils, a look at the storied history of the free and open-source silicon movement. Today, while the term “free and open source silicon” might not be heard around every water… Read More

Linux 5.2 to get Fieldbus Subsystem for Real-Time Industrial Systems

Linux 5.2, the upcoming release of the open source kernel, is to receive an official subsystem for the Fieldbus networking protocol family – bringing built-in support for the monitoring and control of industrial equipment. Spotted by Michael Larabel on the Linux news site Phoronix, the Fieldbus subsystem has been… Read More

Seeed Studio MAIX-1 Raspberry Pi AI Hat Layout

Seeed Details RISC-V Raspberry Pi AI HAT, Development Board

Seeed Studio has announced a new Grove AI HAT for the Raspberry Pi, designed for edge computing projects, based around the Sipeed MAIX-I 64-bit RISC-V system-on-module (SOM) – and, interestingly, it will also function as a standalone development board. Unveiled on the official Seeed forum by Elaine Wu, the new… Read More

CRU: Amazon, Imagination Bet on RISC-V, Google Targets Edge Acceleration, and More

Amazon has announced that it has added support for the RISC-V open instruction set architecture (ISA) to the MIT-licensed FreeRTOS real-time operating system kernel. “RISC-V is a free and open ISA that was designed to be simple, extensible, and easy to implement. The simplicity of the RISC-V model, coupled with… Read More

Google Launches Coral Edge TPU Development Board, USB Accelerator

Google has announced it is bringing its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) technology to external developers for the first time, launching a suite of development boards and accelerators for edge-processing under the Coral brand. Google first announced the Tensor Processing Unit, an in-house custom silicon project to accelerate deep-learning compute performance… Read More

CRU: Open ISA Events, New RISC-V & LoRaWAN Parts, IoT Regulation, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a piece on building a personal computer based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), using a custom-designed housing containing a SiFive HiFive Unleashed development board and Microsemi Expansion Board. “While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising… Read More

Generic Node Offers Multi-Sensor LoRaWAN Platform at $25 Price Point

A new LoRaWAN sensor platform, dubbed Generic Node, promises to bring low-cost deployment to a wider audience with nine sensors built into a device which is claimed to be available for $25 a unit in medium volume quantities. The LoRaWAN long-range low-power wide area network protocol is at the heart… Read More

SiFive HiFive1 Board, Courtesy of SiFive

CRU: RISC-V’s Bumper Year, LoRaWAN Growth, cocotb 1.1, and More

The RISC-V Foundation has released a video highlighting some of the key features of the 2018 RISC-V Summit, held in Santa Clara late last year and attended by over 1,100 community members. To say that the free and open source silicon (FOSSi) movement in general and RISC-V in particular had… Read More