At Microelectronics UK (24-25 September), Kanishka Narayan, Minister of State for semiconductors, emerging technology, AI and online safety announced investment designed to support the UK semiconductor industry. The exhibition and conference for the microlectronics supply chain was held in London’s Excel Centre. In his keynote, the minister highlighted that the government is investing £10m in a new initiative with Innovate ...
An MCU and two fusion processors make up the second generation of microcontrollers developed by Alif Semiconductor. The Ensemble E4, E6 and E8 use a common fabric. The Ensemble E4 (MCU) uses the Arm dual Cortex-55 core and the Ensemble E6 and E8 fusion processors are based on the Arm Cortex-32 core and dual Cortex-32 cores respectively. Alif said it ...
Japanese automotive component supplier Denso, has signed a development license agreement with Californian startup, Quadric for a neural processing unit (NPU). The agreement means Denso will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera general purpose NPU (GPNPU). Both companies will co-develop IP for an in-vehicle semiconductor for use in intelligent vehicle systems (ADAS and AD/self-driving) and inter-vehicle and cloud ...
The VisionSOM-RT1170 (SLS14) system on module (SoM) by SoMLabs is based on the i.MX-RT117x processor which incorporates Cortex-M7 and Cortex-M4 cores to deliver up to 1GHz for the M7 and 400MHz for the M4 core. The SoM is available in the UK from franchised distributor Inelco Hunter. It also has 2MB on-chip RAM, up to 1Gb (128MB) of SDRAM and ...
The latest figures from European Components Distribution (DMASS) show a decline in Q1 of 23.3% with semiconductor revenue dropping by 26.5%. DMASS Europe’s chairman, Hermann Reiter, was keen to stress there is no cause for alarm, saying that this market consolidation was long overdue. “Everyone should have prepared to weather a few quarters of weak bookings and billings,” he said, ...
Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning (ML) applications. Machine learning is implemented at the edge of the network, explained Mouser’s Mark Patrick in order to make decisions very quickly at the [network] edge. [Edge Impulse’s] products ...
Systems integrator, Direct Insight, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has partnered with German SoM and SBC provider, MicroSys Electronics. The partnership covers the UK and Ireland. The minority of embedded designs are in-house, said Direct Insight’s CEO, David Pashley (pictured), often prohibited by NRE costs. The company’s strategy is to advise development teams to upgrade hardware (SoCs, FPGAs) and software, by ...
NXP Semiconductors has announced an extension to its 28nm RF cmos radar one-chip SoC family at CES in Las Vegas. The SAF86xx is the successor to the SAF8500 which is targeted at smart radar sensors. It supports a range of sensor outputs, including object, point cloud-, or range-FFT-level data for smart sensors in today’s architectures and streaming sensors in future ...
Designed for work in circuits with varied voltage levels. Until recently, a very common problem faced by electronic circuit designers was the difference in supply voltage standards between microcontrollers (e.g. 3.3 V) and peripheral ICs (e.g. 5 V). In order for them to operate together, the use of additional voltage translators was required, which made the device more complicated and ...
Ceva has filled-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and classic AI to be developed and run on the NeuPro-M NPU.” ...
