Tag: Embedded

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Ground Electronics' SiFive HiFive Unleashed Case

CRU: RISC-V Hits Consumer Products, GSM Freed, Festival of Maintenance, and More

Huami, a subsidiary of Chinese electronics specialist Xiaomi, has announced a new family of smartwatches and fitness wearables, and in doing so is set to become the first company to bring a product based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to the consumer market. Announced by Huami at… Read More

OpenMV Launches MicroPython-Powered Cam H7 Crowdfunding Campaign

OpenMV, an open-source machine vision start-up founded by Kwabena W. Agyeman and Ibrahim Abdalkader, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest creation: an open camera module based on the popular MicroPython environment. “The OpenMV project is about creating low-cost, extensible, Python powered, machine vision modules and aims at becoming… Read More

Intel Promotes Open-Source Firmware Efforts Ahead of OFSC 2018

Computing giant Intel has announced its continued support in favour of open firmwares, having recently announced the release of Intel Slim Bootloader for Internet of Things (IoT) devices ahead of the first Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) this week. “The adoption of open source has had a significant impact on… Read More

CRU: Vintage FOSSi, ORConf 2018, Tink Cryptography, and More

Chips4Makers has officially launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce the Retro-uC, an open-silicon microcontroller capable of acting as a Zilog Z80, MOS Technologies 6502, or Motorola M68K microprocessor. “I am delighted to announce that the Retro-uC crowdsupply campaign has now been launched. It has taken a little longer to straighten… Read More

Pwn2Own Tokyo Adds IoT Devices to Target List

The Pwn2Own security contest, in which researchers compete to exploit vulnerabilities in popular consumer products in exchange for cash prizes and ownership of the items in question, is to extend to cover Internet of Things (IoT) products for the first time amid growing concerns over the lack of security-focused thinking… Read More

Bootlin Issues Last Funded Allwinner Open-Source Driver Update

Open-source developer Bootlin has announced the end of its funded programme to develop and upstream open-source mainline drivers for the video processing unit (VPU) hardware in Allwinner’s system-on-chip products, but has pledged to continue best-effort development despite having exhausted the crowdfunded budget. Bootlin announced its campaign to fund development of… Read More

Embedded.com’s Ville Baillie on Updating Embedded Linux

Embedded Design’s Ville Baillie is running a series on over-the-air updates for embedded Linux installations, a key feature of being able to keep Internet of Things (IoT) deployments functional and secure, with this week’s instalment looking at the currently-available off-the-shelf solutions. “Once an Embedded Linux product leaves the lab and… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Edge AI, microPlatforms, MQTT Woes, and More

AB Open is proud to confirm its sponsorship of ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference, to be held this year at the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. Officially announced by the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation today, AB Open’s sponsorship follows our commitment in the… Read More

Karoly Pados Launches The Last USB-UART Dongle You’ll Need

Budapest-based Karoly Pados has launched an isolated USB to UART-TTL adapter, the μArt, which claims it “tolerates common user mistakes without being damaged or causing damage to other hardware” and has already raised more than its required funding on Crowd Supply. “It is no secret that there are many UART… Read More

Foundries.io Launches Commercial Linux, Zephyr ‘microPlatforms’

Foundries.io, a start-up emerging from a two-year stealth period, has announced the release of what it claims to be “the world’s first commercially available, continuously updated Linux and Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS) microPlatform distributions for the embedded, IoT, edge and automotive markets.” “Over the past two years we have… Read More

SiFive HiFive1 Board, Courtesy of SiFive

CRU: RISC-V SSDs, Open Satellite Radio, LoRaWAN 1.0.3, and More

This fortnight has been a strong one for the open RISC-V instruction set architecture, starting with the news that IIT Madras has partnered with Intel and HCL Technologies to create an I/O-packed microcontroller test chip in 22nm FinFET that takes aim at ARM Cortex A35/A55 and has successfully booted Linux… Read More

Silicon Dreams: RISC-V from Emulation to FPGA to ASIC

When working with brand-new silicon designs, particularly free and open source silicon, there’s a bit of a bootstrapping issue: you want to write software for the new silicon, but there’s no silicon yet available; nobody wants to go to the expense of making the silicon, meanwhile, when there’s no software… Read More