Tag: Embedded

Get the latest news on developments in the wider community and topics including wireless, embedded and open source silicon.

OnChip Unveils Itsy-Chipsy Ultra-Low-Cost IC Fabrication Platform

Colombia-based OnChip has unveiled an open-source platform which aims to do for custom semiconductor creation what services like OSH Park have done for circuit boards: Itsy-Chipsy. “Chip prototyping used to be prohibitive for small start-ups and academy until services like MOSIS brought down prices to few thousands dollars per mm²… Read More

OSHCamp 2018 Schedule Finalised and Registration Opened Up

The Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG) has announced the schedule for OSHCamp 2018, to take place in Lincoln’s The Blue Room on the 30th of June and 1st July. Announced via a call for participation back in January, the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) 2018 is to take… Read More

CRU: Neural Networks, Open Baseband, RISC-V, and More

It’s been a strong fortnight for machine intelligence fans, starting with Arm’s Robert Elliot and Mark O’Conner publishing a white paper on the company’s Arm NN machine learning platform and its optimisations for use on low-power embedded devices. “We expect machine learning to become a natural part of programming environments,… Read More

Rambus Announces RISC-V CryptoManager Security Core

Rambus has become the latest company to adopt the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), using its openness as the basis for a new embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) security core dubbed the CryptoManager Root of Trust. “The fundamental pillars of architectural design freedom, secure processing siloed away from… Read More

Qualcomm Launches Vision Intelligence Platform, 10nm SoCs

Qualcomm has announced the launch of a new family of Internet of Things (IoT) focused system-on-chips (SoC) with embedded image signal processing and artificial intelligence capabilities, the first in a new range of parts for what it calls the Qualcomm Vision Intelligence Platform. “Our goal is to make IoT devices… Read More

Arm NN White Paper Points to Embedded AI Future

Arm’s Robert Elliot and Mark O’Conner have published a white paper on the company’s Arm NN machine learning platform and its optimisations for use on low-power embedded devices. “We expect machine learning to become a natural part of programming environments, with tiny embedded neural networks being part of program execution,”… Read More

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CRU: Open Cellular, RISC-V Progress, Mbed LoRaWAN, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a look back at how the world of open source cellular networking has changed over the last six years, including the growth of the Osmocom project. “As exquisitely arcane as it may seem to the uninitiated, cellular infrastructure is very much within the… Read More

Arm Adds LoRaWAN Stack to Mbed OS 5.8

Arm’s Jan Jongboom has announced the addition of a LoRaWAN stack to Mbed OS, as one of the new features added to the latest Mbed OS 5.8 release. “Arm is heavily invested in advancing the LoRaWAN standard. We’re an an active member of the LoRa alliance, and we were… Read More

Arm, Nvidia Partner for IoT Deep-Learning

Low-power processor specialist Arm and high-performance processor specialist Nvidia have announced a partnership to bring deep-learning technology to Internet of Things (IoT) devices through dedicated hardware acceleration. As part of Arm’s Project Trillium initiative on machine learning, the company has joined forces with Nvidia to integrate its Deep… Read More

CRU: Circumference, the Pi 3 B+, El Correo Libre, SDR, and More

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More

Linux Foundation Launches IoT-Focused ACRN Hypervisor

The Linux Foundation has announced the ACRN (pronounced “Acorn”) Project, an effort to develop a reference hypervisor for the Internet of Things (IoT) in the face of existing solutions being too bulky and unwieldy for embedded use. “With project ACRN, embedded developers have a new, immediately available hypervisor option,” claims… Read More

A Look at the New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has today launched the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, a revision to its popular single-board computer (SBC) which brings with it a faster and cooler-running processor, gigabit Ethernet and 5GHz Wi-Fi connectivity, and support for Power over Ethernet (PoE). Launched six years after the first Raspberry… Read More