RS Components, with help from suppliers Maxim Integrated, TE Connectivity and STM Microelectronics, is helping designers, engineers, makers, and students in North America ring in the new year with some new gear. From now until January 31, 2020, all new and existing DesignSpark members who register here, will be entered into a random drawing to win an engineering […]
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LiDAR and Time of Flight, Part 1: Introduction
LIDAR systems and ToF techniques are critical to providing self-driving cars with a detailed picture of the surrounding and is used in many research applications as well. Many of the major automobile vendors, along with well-known non-auto companies such as Google, are devoting major resources to developing autonomous vehicles (often called “self-driving cars”). These vehicles […]
Early Access Program for FPGAs enables design of power-efficient applications
The trend towards compute-intensive gateways and edge devices is driving the integration of traditional deterministic control applications with additional embedded processing capabilities needed for smart and secure connected systems. In response, Microchip Technology Inc. is opening the Early Access Program (EAP) for the PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA) system-on-chip (SoC). The platform offers the world’s […]
FPGAs provide low power, small form factor for embedded vision and AI apps
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the first FPGA developed on its new Lattice Nexus FPGA platform, CrossLink-NX. This new FPGA provides the low power, small form factor, reliability, and performance that developers need to create innovative embedded vision and AI solutions for communications, compute, industrial, automotive, and consumer systems. FPGAs are a compelling hardware platform for […]
Design tool offers easy-to-follow user experience
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the availability of the latest version of its popular software design tool for FPGAs, Lattice Radiant 2.0. In addition to adding support for higher density devices like the new CrossLink-NX FPGA family, the updated design tool also offers new features that make it faster and easier than ever to develop Lattice […]
Low-power FPGA platform targets high-growth applications
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced its new low power FFPGA platform, Lattice Nexus. The platform is architected to deliver power-efficient performance that will benefit developers of a wide range of applications, including AI for IoT, video, hardware security, embedded vision, 5G infrastructure, and industrial/automotive automation. Lattice Nexus is built with innovations at every level of design, […]
First 8.3-MP image sensors feature LED flicker mitigation, 140 dB dynamic range
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the first two members of its new automotive image sensor platform—the 8MP, front-view OX08A and OX08B. The high-resolution OX08A features the automotive industry’s best HDR, while the pinout-compatible OX08B adds a new benchmark in LED flicker mitigation (LFM) performance, enabled by the sensor’s on-chip HALE (HDR and LFM engine) combination algorithm. The […]
OpenVPX chassis manager plugs into standard 3U VPX backplane slot
Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, now offers a chassis management module for OpenVPX that is compliant to the VITA 46.11 specification for system management. The SHM200 chassis manager for OpenVPX comes in 0.8” or 1.0” pitch sizes. The unit can plug into a standard 3U VPX backplane slot, with versions […]
SOM platform based on NXP i.MX 8M Nano optimized for IoT apps
Digi International announced the expansion of its successful ConnectCore family of products with the introduction of the Digi ConnectCore 8M Nano System on Module (SOM). Digi International was selected by NXP as an Early Access Partner for NXP’s latest i.MX 8M Nano applications processor featuring scalable, power-efficient Arm Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M7 cores with advanced connectivity […]
Prototyping board features 51.2 DMIPS MCU, flash, RAM, and low current drain
Renesas Electronics Corporation launched the RL78/G14 Fast Prototyping Board – a low-cost, function-rich board to enable rapid product development for IoT endpoint equipment. Quicker development prototyping and lower costs give users the agility to respond to rapid changes in technology and market needs, and reduces the time to market window for new products. Renesas also […]