Software

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

Protecting against IP theft, and to prevent contract manufacture hardware counterfeiting, ‘FPGA Lock’ from Nial Stewart Developments is an intellectual property block for FPGAs that communicates with Microchip’s SOT-23 ATSHA204A crypo-authentication IC. The cores uses generic Intel altsyncram and Xilinx 7 series blockram macros and occupies ~720 registers and two ram blocks. Only one pin on the FPGA is needed, ...

Hardware needn’t be hard, says Matthias Wagner. Collaboration can make the design process as smooth as software. The adage “hardware is hard” is bound to resonate with anyone who has ever designed a PCB. Compared to software, hardware design takes more time, requires more collaborators and is significantly more prone to errors. Why is it that hardware, an industry so ...

Erqos has announced a phone and cloud connected programmable logic controller backed by an AI-based semi-automatic control code generator, and a similar tool for making matching phone apps. The DIN-rain controller, dubbed EQSP32, is built around an ESP32S3 microcontroller with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and the unit offers digital and analogue inputs and ouputs as well as serial busses. “EQSP32 lets ...

SignatureIP is offering a trial of its processor agnostic network-on-chip (NoC) configuration software. Called iNoCulator, the “tool enables users to find the optimal NoC configuration, and the company believes that it is the fastest on the market”, it said. “This try-before-you-buy offer will enable engineers to see for themselves just how easy it is to design a NoC with our tool.” ...

Congatec is to ship an installed hypervisor with many of its x86 computer-on-modules as standard. The hypervisor in question is related to RTS Hypervisor from Real-Time Systems – a company owned by Congatec, and installed as part of the BIOS. “It uses the same technology as RTS Hypervisor, but it is integrated in the modules” the company told Electronics Weekly, ...

The analogue and mixed signal simulation gives power designers the ability to evaluate designs with this free-to-use tool. In addition to SPICE basics, it supports “vast amounts of digital logic without performance penalties” for fast and accurate results for reliable power-based simulation. Judges deemed the technology “excellent”. Shortlist * Advantech Europe – DeviceOn AIoT device management and edge orchestration * ...

When selecting the optimal OS for an embedded systems project it is important to compare the available options – will RTOS or Linux serve best? asks Graeme Wintle. At a top level, the choice is between a full OS, such as Linux, with general purpose features and a wide range of drivers, middleware and applications or a more targeted system ...

The  Linux Foundation is to form the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF).  Through a series of technical projects, HPSF aims to build, promote, and advance a portable software stack for high performance computing (HPC) by increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts. As use of HPC becomes ubiquitous in scientific computing and digital engineering, and AI use cases multiply, ...

NXP has invested in a high-resolution distributed aperture radar software start-up, and will use its software in ICs for vehicle radar. “Distributed aperture radar offers a path to enhance the resolution of radar systems while eliminating the need for thousands of antenna channels,” according to NXP. “It coherently fuses information from multiple radar sensors on a vehicle to create a ...