Tag: Embedded

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CRU: ORConf 2018, Quantum Education, KiCad 5.0, and More

An initial programme for ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference to be held in Gdansk, Poland this September, has been published – and there are some big names showing off the state of the art on the schedule. While there are more speakers yet to be announced, the initial… Read More

Google Announces Edge TPU Deep-Learning Accelerator Hardware

Google has announced plans to release a hardware product, dubbed Edge TPU, to bring its TensorFlow-accelerating Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) technology to the Internet of Things. Originally announced back in May 2016 as an internal project to accelerate the company’s search, translation, and other services, the Tensor Processing Unit is… Read More

Initial ORConf 2018 Programme Published

Bootlin Announces Allwinner VPU Driver Completion

Bootlin has announced the delivery of all the main goals from its crowdfunding project to create an upstream-compatible open driver for the popular Allwinner visual processing unit (VPU) hardware found in many embedded designs. Funded via Kickstarter, the campaign by Bootlin engineer Maxime Ripard and intern Paul Kocialkowski saw… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Security, LoRaWAN Tutorial, Fog Computing, and More

It’s been a busy fortnight for the open silicon, starting with the news that the RISC-V Foundation, the driving force behind the eponymous open processor architecture, has announced the formation of a security standing committee – and is asking for cooperation from the broader industry. “As the number of connected… Read More

Renode 1.4 Brings HiFive Unleashed, Freedom E310 Support

Renode, Antmicro’s virtual development tool for multinode embedded networks, has received support for SiFive’s Freedom E310 and HiFive Unleashed development boards. “Renode was created based on many years of experience with the development of software for embedded systems – both for gateways, on-board computers as well as sensor nodes and… Read More

SparkFun Publishes Introductory LoRaWAN Tutorial

Those interested in experimenting with the LoRaWAN long-range low-power standard now have a new resource, in the form of an introductory tutorial by Nick Poole published on SparkFun. Based around SparkFun’s own SparkX Pro RF USB-connected development board, Nick’s detailed tutorial introduces the LoRa and LoRaWAN standards, The Things Network… Read More

IEEE Adopts OpenFog Architecture for 1934 Standard

Standard IEEE 1934, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ first official standard for so-called “fog computing,” has officially received a reference architecture: OpenFog. Sitting somewhere beyond cloud computing, fog computing is a horizontal architecture designed to distribute resources – from computing power to storage – anywhere between the clouds… Read More

CRU: Open Silicon, LoRa Growth, LPWA-CB, and More

RISC-V pioneers OnChip and SiFive have separately announced new microcontroller chip designs, taking aim at the low-power sensor market with their own takes on the open architecture. In a message to social networking service Twitter, OnChip revealed a RISC-V microcontroller design described as having always-on features, three power states… Read More

OnChip, SiFive Announce New RISC-V Microcontroller Cores

Researchers Unveil Performance-Boosting OLC Network Architecture

Researchers at Brunel University London have announced a novel architecture for software defined networks (SDN), dubbed Open-Level Control (OLC), which they claim will help networks deal with the growing volume of messaging from Internet of Things (IoT) devices over the coming decades. “We believe we have developed the best discovery… Read More

ON Semiconductor Launches IoT Development Kit

ON Semiconductor has announced the launch of the Internet of Things (IoT) Development Kit (IDK), a development board ecosystem designed to make prototyping and test as rapid as possible. “ON Semiconductor recognised early on that something needed to be done about the disjointed situation that exists between the hardware and… Read More