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All three stages of chip design will be automated and accelerated, says Moores Lab AI, which has introduced four design tools using agentic AI. Agentic AI is one of the buzzwords at this year’s DAC in San Francisco. Whereas generative AI generates content, agentic AI is an automation process. It autonomously makes and acts on decisions with little human intervention. ...

Google is releasing Android 16, the latest major update to the mobile and embedded operating system. As always, the rollout begins with Pixel devices. Completed to its expected timeline, the major release marks the availability of the source code at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). You can examine this code at cs.android.com. Edge-to-edge Highlight features include progress-centric notifications, the ...

Software company Vector has gained ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its vehicle hardware security modules firmware. ISO/SAE 21434 sets cybersecurity risk limits for road vehicles throughout their life cycle. The firmware is called Microsar HSM, and it was certified using Infineon Aurix TC3xx MCUs, which have Infineon’s proprietary TriCore cores. “The ISO/SAE 21434 certification of Microsar HSM confirms the use of ...

DigiKey is providing a free, on-demand Zephyr RTOS online workshop and video series. Aimed at students and engineers, you learn how to write a Zephyr device driver. Zephyr is real-time operating system (RTOS) and development framework, an open source project at the Linux Foundation. DigiKey identifies a steep learning curve, but says Zephyr is a key system for engineers and ...

RT-Labs is has extended its U-Phy fieldbus and Ethernet industrial protocol library to cover Infineon’s Arm Cortex-M7 based XMC7000 industrial microcontroller family. Profinet RT, EtherCAT Master, Ethernet/IP, CANopen, CC-Link and ModBus/TCP are available, accessible through Infineon’s Modbus Toolkit – although only ‘registered XMC7000 opportunities’ can use it commercially in products, Infineon told Electronics Weekly.  Infineon is providing code examples and ...

Google is rolling out the third beta release for the forthcoming Android 16 mobile operating system. New features include broadcast audio support, text outlining and testing apps with LNP (Local Network Protection). Note this release is for developers only, available on Pixel devices – the Android 16 Developer Preview releases are early baseline builds for programmers only, not for early ...

Embedded World 2025: Synopsys says its Virtualizer Native Execution prototyping tool will accelerate software development for edge devices. It extends the Virtualizer tool suite and model libraries to Arm hardware, allowing virtual prototypes to be built, executed and tested directly on Arm-based machines. The Native Element factor in the new tool means that users can execute virtual prototypes directly on ...

Aiming at industrial networking, Renesas introduced a Profinet-certified IRT (isochronous real-time) and Profidrive software stack for some of its RZmicroprocessors today at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Initially, the stack is for the RZ/T2M servo motor control MCU and the RZ/N2L industrial internet gateway MCU. Binary versions are available for evaluation, and licenses for commercial come directly from Renesas. Read all ...

Google is releasing the second beta of Android 16, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Aimed at developers, and not consumers, it includes a number of updates. These range from camera updates, custom graphical effects with AGSL (Android Graphics Shading Language), and motion capture, to font API changes, live wallpapers, and APIs in the ADPF (Android Dynamic Performance ...

Synopsys has added the HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation system to its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio. Both the HAPs-200 and ZeBu-200 are based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC and built on the company’s emulation and prototyping, or EP-Ready, hardware for use with reconfiguration and optimisation software. ZeBu Server 5 delivers scalability beyond 60bn gates, to target large ...