Analog Devices has introduced a evaluation kit for people-counting using one of its DSPs. In a case and designed to be attached to a ceiling looking straight down, the kit includes a camera and everything needed to get the counted data to the cloud. Its main ingredients are a particular DSP from its Blackfin range, the ADSPBF707BBCZ4-EGE, and a people counting ...
Segger is offering custom versions of its Flasher Portable Plus stand-alone in-field programmer, “enabling corporations to supply their service technicians with a branded tool”, it said, Visual custom options include injection moulding the case in different coloured plastic and printign logos and slogans on the outside. The display content, for example changing the splash screen, can also be changed. “The ...
SureCore, the Sheffield low-power memory IP house, has designed a power and area efficient, high performance, multi-port, embedded memory solution for Semidynamics’ new RISC-V-based, tensor processing chip. Semidynamics is developing a high bandwidth, vector processing unit optimised for tensor processing aimed at AI applications. In order for AI to realise its full performance potential, the speed at which tensors are ...
Advantest is aiming at software-based functional testing and USB/PCIe scan testing of ICs with USB and PCIe ‘Link Scale’ digital channel cards for its V93000 Smart Scale or V93000 EXA Scale Systems. USB version “Many of today’s complex SoCs, microprocessors, graphics processors and AI accelerators incorporate high-speed digital interfaces such as USB or PCIe.,” according to the company. “The Link Scale ...
Imagination Technologies has announced its most powerful GPU yet. Aimed at mobiles as well as automotive, cloud and desktop use, it has been dubbed IMG CXT, and includes the first outing of the company’s ‘Photon’ ray tracing architecture. “By adding Photon hardware ray tracing, IMG CXT represents a jump in GPU IP, delivering incredible performance for games and other graphical ...
Infineon has announced software support the ‘Matter’ smart home protocol. “Many smart home products use Infineon’s Airoc Wi-Fi, Airoc Bluetooth, and PSoC 6 microcontroller products,” according to the company. “In this regard, support for Matter in Infineon’s ModusToolbox software and tools is an important milestone for the adoption of the emerging standard.” Matter came out of the Zigbee Alliance as it rebranded ...
To allow early software development, Arm is offering cloud-based simulation of some of its standard Cortex-M SoC configurations. At the same time, it has created a standards-based model for creating secure IoT devices built around Cortex-M processors. Cloud-based SoC emulation for Cortex-M Dubbed ‘Arm Virtual Hardware’, the cloud-based simulators are aimed at software developers, OEMs and service providers, and will ...
The Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon Europe) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday 26-27 October and SystemC Evolution Day will be Thursday 28 October. The event, sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, the EDA standard organisation, will be a 3D VR environment. Avatars will mingle in a virtual conference centre, with tantalising glimpses of Munich to be seen through ...
Siemens Digital’s latest release of its Aprisa physical design software – Aprisa 21.R1 – is now available. Improvements include: • Average full-flow runtime reduction of 30% compared to the previous release, and up to 2X faster runtimes for larger, more challenging designs. • Enhancements to all major place-and-route engines, from placement optimization to clock tree synthesis (CTS) optimization, route optimization ...
Green Hills Software has announced a version of its safety and security-enhanced Integrity real-time operating system for RISC-V. The RTOS is integrated with hardware boards from Microchip (PolarFire Icicle kit) and SiFive (HiFive Unmatched board), processor intellectual property from SiFive and can be used with Microchip’s PolarFireSoC and Mi-V ecosystem. “The integration of safety and security-critical RTOS Integrity into SiFive ...
