LDRA has announced that the company is bringing its popular three-day software-development public training courses to multiple US locations. The LDRA tool suite Training Course is scheduled for June 18–20 in San Jose, Calif., and June 25-27 in Huntsville, Ala. Additional locations are being added on-demand, with the next courses planned for Boston, Mass., and Dallas, […]
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New MCUs target intelligent power-control apps
As the latest smart electronic products add extra sensor-driven features and adopt higher-efficiency power technologies such as silicon carbide or gallium nitride to save energy, STMicroelectronics has announced its next generation of microcontrollers. Targeted at advanced digital power applications and consumer and industrial appliances, the new STM32G4 microcontrollers introduce two new hardware mathematical accelerators to boost […]
SoC provides high-quality VGA camera images, sensitivity to low light levels
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the OV0VA10 SoC, which integrates the industry’s most advanced VGA image sensor and signal processor in a single chip-scale package. The SoC’s OmniPixel 3-HS architecture allows entry level, thin-bezel notebook designers to incorporate the very best VGA camera performance with excellent low light image capture for applications such as videoconferencing. Additionally, […]
Gallery: An inside view of the STM32WB workshop
STMicroelectronics is putting on a series of one-day free workshops that deal with programming its new STM32WB, a dual-core multi-protocol wireless microcontroller that combines Bluetooth 5.0, OpenThread, and ZigBee 3.0 connectivity. We sat in on the well-attended session held in Cleveland, Ohio. Here’s a few of the things you’ll experience if you sign up for […]
Emulation-based power analyzer sized up billion-cycle software workloads
Synopsys announced its ZeBu Power Analyzer solution for software-driven system-on-chip (SoC) power analysis delivering results 1,000 times faster than traditional simulation-based methods. ZeBu Power Analyzer adds novel, multi-threaded power analysis engines to the industry-leading, high-performance ZeBu Server 4 emulation platform. It allows SoC design teams to systematically analyze power usage of their designs when executing […]
Fast 12-bit ADC features 8-GHz bandwidth, 10.4-GS/sec sampling rate
Texas Instruments today introduced a new ultra-high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with the industry’s widest bandwidth, fastest sampling rate and lowest power consumption. The ADC12DJ5200RF helps engineers achieve high measurement accuracy for 5G testing applications and oscilloscopes, and direct X-band sampling for emerging technologies in radar, microwave, and mmWave. “In general, what we are doing is […]
Hardware IoT platform enables building of rich IoT interfaces using a drag and drop
LabRecon empowers engineers, hobbyists and students to create rich graphical interfaces for remote IoT or local measurement and control applications. A drag-and-drop panel builder and graphical programming environment allows one to easily build an interface and create the operating logic for any project. A USB connected “Breadboard Experimentor” circuit board provides the measurement and control […]
FPGAs optimized for machine-learning, high-bandwidth networking
Achronix Semiconductor Corporation introduced an innovative, new FPGA family, to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence/ machine learning (AI/ML) and high-bandwidth data acceleration applications. The Achronix Speedster 7t family – based on a new, highly optimized architecture – goes beyond traditional FPGA solutions featuring ASIC-like performance, FPGA adaptability and enhanced functionality to streamline design. […]
High-rez 5-MP RGB-Ir image sensor targets facial recognition, selfies in laptop apps
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the OV5678 — the industry’s first 5MP RGB-Ir image sensor for 2-in-1 convertible laptops. This sensor enables a single camera with greater accuracy for infrared (IR) Windows Hello facial authentication as well as high quality color (RGB) images for selfies and videoconferencing. Combining IR and color imaging allows designers to create […]
Software development kit focuses on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping apps
CEVA, Inc. announced the availability of its CEVA-SLAM software development kit, aimed at streamlining the development of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enabled products, including mobile devices, AR/VR headsets, robots, autonomous vehicles and other camera-based devices. Available for the CEVA-XM family of intelligent vision DSPs and the NeuPro family of AI processors, CEVA-SLAM incorporates the […]