By Nick FlahertySTMicroelectronics has developed a software package that enables Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to run on, allowing simple connected objects such as smart appliances, home-automation devices, and office products to support conversational user interfaces.As an expansion package for the software platform, X-CUBE-AVS contains ready-to-use libraries and open routines that accelerate porting the AVS SDK (Software Development Kit) to the microcontroller. With application samples also included, it abstracts developers from the complex software layers needed to host AVS on an embedded device. Being the first such package to cater specifically for microcontrollers, whereas AVS development usually targets more power-hungry and expensive microprocessors, X-CUBE-AVS makes Alexa technology accessible to a wider spectrum of developers and projects.The software handles low-layer communication and connection to AVS servers, provides application-specific services, and encapsulates the AVS protocol to ease application implementation. Connection management includes a persistent-token mechanism for directly restoring connection losses without repeated user authentication. A software test harness is provided for endurance testing, which can simulate events such as network disconnection to facilitate robustness testing and validation of the user application.X-CUBE-AVS comes with a demonstration example for the, which shows how to connect a simple smart-speaker to AVS, leveraging the board-configuration interface included in the software.

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X-CUBE-AVS can be used with other, or any STM32 device with adequate CPU performance and memory to run the AVS SDK.X-CUBE-AVS is available now to download, free of charge, from. The GS CMOS module, which is available in both colour and black and white variants, has a 1.6 MP resolution (1456 x 1088 pixels) and transmits data at over 100 frames per second.The XCU-CG160 has been designed to give a simple migration path from CCD to GS CMOS, allowing the switch without system upgrades or a changed architecture.At its heart is the 1/3-type Sony Pregius IMX273 sensor, a replacement for the well established ICX445 CCD sensor and gives significant improvements in sensitivity, dynamic range, noise reduction and frame rate capability. Convolutional Neural Networks, or CNNs, are used for image and pattern recognition in applications such as Autonomous Vehicles, Weather Forecasting and Medical Image Analysis. These models are computationally extremely intensive, particularly for complex models, where there can be many convolutional “layers” to process.While GPUs offer considerable advantages over conventional processors, they are limited by the breakdown of Moore’s Law and energy usage.Optalysys’s optical processing technology is a fundamentally different approach using energy efficient laser light rather than silicon as the processing medium.

This delivers speed improvements of several orders of magnitude over conventional computing at a fraction of the energy consumption.“This is a hugely significant leap forward for the field of AI and clearly demonstrates the global potential for our Enabling Technology.” said Dr. Nick New, founder and CEO of Optalysys. “Optalysys has for the first time ever, applied optical processing to the highly complex and computationally demanding area of CNNs with initial accuracy rates of over 70%. Both models in the CL200 series are powered by an efficient Intel Apollo Lake Celeron processor and measure a mere 83mm x 116mm x 34mm. The base model CL200, running on Linux Ubuntu 16.04, features 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of onboard storage. The CL210 steps up to 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, and can be configured with Ubuntu or Windows 10 IoT.

A built-in MicroSD card slot on both models enables additional removable storage.I/O on the CL200 includes one mini DisplayPort capable of 1080p or 4K resolution, one Gigabit LAN port, and two USB 3.0. The CL210 features two mini DisplayPorts capable of dual 1080P or single 4k resolution, dual Gigabit LAN, two USB 3.0 and also adds a 3.5 mm audio jack. Both systems have an additional USB 2.0 port and RS-232 box header on the bottom, and are configurable with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and Extrovert 4G LTE capability.One key application is signage. 'We've been working with Logic Supply for the last few years on a range of projects that require highly reliable computer hardware,' said Kevin Romano, Executive Vice President and founder of the Christie Experiential Network.

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'In our industry, reliability is paramount. Every moment of downtime potentially represents significant revenue loss. Employing Logic Supply hardware lets us focus exclusively on creating immersive and engaging OOH solutions for our clients and their content.' By Nick FlahertyDevelopment tool maker IAR Systems is to acquire Secure Thingz, a provider of advanced security solutions for embedded systems in the Internet of Things (IoT). This positions IAR as a frontrunner in offering solutions for security in embedded systems.Secure Thingz is only two years old and develops and sells products and services for implementation of embedded security in connected devices. The company has provided security solutions for the Renesas Synergy Platform, which is very attractive to IAR. Machina Research predicts there will be 27 billion IoT connections in 2025 facing security challenges such as IP theft, counterfeiting and overproduction, as well as data theft and potentially life threatening sabotage.

However only 4 percent of the total number of IoT products available are marketed as secure, says ABI Research. This means the total market for secure microcontrollers for IoT can reach 1.2 billion dollars in value in 2022, with secure IoT products representing almost 20 percent of new IoT units. 'As a first step, our customers need help mainly protecting themselves against overproduction and IP theft, and we are responding to this need with a new offering that provides possibilities to create modern workflow where security is included from start. The acquisition of Secure Thingz is a step in our increased ambition for future growth through new technology, new markets, new business models, and new relationships. It also secures our position as a frontrunner in a changing industry.' 'We are very excited to become a part of the highly competent IAR Systems team,' said Haydn Povey, founder and incoming CEO of Secure Thingz. 'We have already established a smooth cooperation with the development of Embedded Trust, and our combined resources within technology, sales and customer support will enable us to accelerate the development of the innovative security solutions that the digital products market so desperately needs.'

He replaces Krishna Anne, the outgoing CEO. 'This strategic partnership with IAR Systems will enable Secure Thingz to provide a wide-ranging solution for secure development, secure provisioning, programming, and secure lifecycle management in partnership with the silicon device vendors, market channel partners and programming partners,' said Anne. The first ACAP product family, codenamed “Everest”, will be developed in TSMC 7nm process technology and will tape out later this year.“This is a major technology disruption for the industry and our most significant engineering accomplishment since the invention of the FPGA,” says Victor Peng, president and CEO of Xilinx. “This revolutionary new architecture is part of a broader strategy that moves the company beyond FPGAs and supporting only hardware developers.

The adoption of ACAP products in the data center, as well as in our broad markets, will accelerate the pervasive use of adaptive computing, making the intelligent, connected, and adaptable world a reality sooner.”ACAP has – at its core – a new generation of FPGA fabric with distributed memory and hardware-programmable DSP blocks, a multicore SoC, and one or more software programmable, yet hardware adaptable, compute engines, all connected through a network on chip (NoC). It also has highly integrated programmable I/O functionality, ranging from integrated hardware programmable memory controllers, high speed SerDes technology and RF-ADC/DACs, to integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) depending on the device variant.Software developers will be able to target ACAP based systems using tools like C/C, OpenCL and Python.

An ACAP can also be programmable at the RTL level using FPGA tools.“This is what the future of computing looks like,” says Patrick Moorhead, Founder, Moor Insights & Strategy. “We are talking about the ability to do genomic sequencing in a matter of a couple of minutes, versus a couple of days. We are talking about data centers being able to program their servers to change workloads depending upon compute demands, like video transcoding during the day and then image recognition at night. This is significant.”Everest is expected to achieve 20x performance improvement on deep neural networks compared to today’s latest 16nm Virtex VU9P FPGA.

Everest-based 5G remote radio heads will have 4x the bandwidth versus the latest 16nm-based radios (although much of that will come from the move to 7nm). ACRN uses engineering and code contributions from Intel with two main components: the hypervisor and its device model, complete with rich I/O mediators. Intel's experience in virtualization technology was key to the initial development of this hypervisor solution, says the Foundation, but this is a move that will compete with an IoT hypervisor it already owns from Wind River through the VxWorks kernel.'

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With project ACRN, embedded developers have a new, immediately available hypervisor option,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. 'ACRN's optimization for resource-constrained devices and focus on isolating safety-critical workloads and giving them priority make the project applicable across many IoT use cases. We're pleased to welcome project ACRN and invite embedded developers to get involved in the new community.' Developers benefit from ACRN's small, real-time footprint, which is flexible enough to accommodate different uses and provides consideration for safety-critical workloads. Consolidating a diverse set of IoT workloads with mixed-criticality on to a single platform helps reduce both development and deployment costs allowing for a more streamlined system architecture. An example of this is the electronic control unit (ECU) consolidation in automotive applications. While open source hypervisor options are available today, none share ACRN's vision of an open source hypervisor solution optimized for embedded and IoT products.'

ACRN will have a Linux-based service OS and the ability to simultaneously run multiple types of guest operating systems, providing a powerful solution for workload consolidation,' said Imad Sousou, corporate vice president and general manager of the Open Source Technology Center, at Intel® Corporation. 'This new project delivers a flexible, lightweight hypervisor, designed to take real-time and safety-critical concerns into consideration and drive meaningful innovation for the IoT space.' ACRN will incorporate input from the open source, embedded, and IoT developer communities and encourages collaboration and code contributions to the project. Early ACRN project members include ADLINK, Aptiv, Intel, LGE, and Neusoft. 'The lack of open source virtualization solutions for embedded, real-time, and safety-critical systems has been greatly hindering consolidation and to some extent the most interesting forms of fog computing,' commented Angelo Corsaro, chief technology officer of ADLINK Technology Inc.

'The release of ACRN as a Linux Foundation project by Intel will be a game changer as it brings the agility and manageability of virtualized environments into embedded and real-time systems. This will be a key enabler toward making the Industrial Internet of Things happen for real.' 'This approach from Intel fits very well within our product roadmap and is a welcomed approach that will meet our customers' desire to have more open source reference solutions,' said Lee Bauer, vice president, Mobility Architecture Group of Aptiv. 'Aptiv is excited to be a part of this new project, ACRN, and with it usher in a new era of flexibility and scalability for our mobility IoT product solutions.' 'Because ACRN will allow for faster feasibility checking of ECU consolidation, it will benefit our growing vehicle components business,' said Seongpyo Hong, vice president of LG Electronics. 'As a result, we will be able to respond more quickly to OEMs' customized requirements and will continue to play a key role in contributing to the ACRN project.' 'As Intel's strategic partner, Neusoft is pleased to join Intel in project ACRN,' said Meng Lingjun, vice president of Neusoft Corporation and the general manager of Neusoft Automotive.

'ACRN has landed in China's automotive electronics industry with practical implementation. I believe ACRN can meet the development requirements of IoT technology. We're pleased to work with open source communities and introduce ACRN into the ecosystem.' “MIPS is the established leader in the world of 64-bit embedded cores and consistently delivers leading-edge solutions that drive pioneering products.

Today, our core is at the heart of some of the world’s most innovative designs that are fueling the explosive growth of AI,” said David Lau, MIPS’ Vice President of Engineering. “Our hardware Multi-Threading technologies set us apart from others, and the efficiency and extensibility of our processor architecture is well suited to deep learning and AI. While focusing on our core competencies, we are committed to propelling the development of emerging intelligent applications.”Derek Meyer, CEO of Wave Computing, commented, “The MIPS processor’s 64-bit architecture will enable us to further support the memory address range needed for next-generation AI applications, while its Multi-Threading capabilities enables faster real-time and more efficient task management of our dataflow software agents. In addition, the MIPS ecosystem and development tool environments are well suited for rapidly growing applications like AI.”The MIPS64 architecture continues to be used in a variety of applications from ADAS, and set-top boxes to networking and telecommunications infrastructure applications. It provides a solid high-performance foundation for future MIPS processor-based development by incorporating powerful features, hardware virtualization capabilities, standardizing privileged mode instructions, supporting past ISAs, and providing a seamless upgrade path from the MIPS32 architecture.“Our collaboration with MIPS has played a significant role in numerous generations of Mobileye’s EyeQ SoCs for autonomous driving systems helped us achieving consistently best in class performance efficiency. In EyeQ5, Mobileye leverages the latest high-performance, highly efficient 64bit heterogeneous compute clusters of multi-threaded multi-core MIPS CPUs,” said Elchanan Rushinek, Vice President, Engineering at Mobileye.

“The I6500-F Core from MIPS has helped us to achieve new level of performance, opening our platform and meeting our un-compromised functional safety goals.”. Lattice Radiant’s support for the iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs greatly expands the device’s application across broad market segments including mobile, consumer, industrial, and automotive. The iCE40 UltraPlus devices are the world’s smallest FPGAs with enhanced memory and DSPs to enablealways on, distributed processing.“Lattice is increasingly witnessing customers who are seeking to benefit from the ultra-low power, small form factor, and low cost features of iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs,” said Choon-Hoe Yeoh, senior director, software marketing at Lattice Semiconductor. “Lattice Radiant software provides a range of enhancements for designing with iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs in order to drive innovative designs in emerging embedded applications.”The IP ecosystem with IEEE 1735 encryption provides core design support for the iCE40 UltraPlus device family for a broad range of applications including IoT sensor bridging, 8:1 microphone aggregation, and face detection. These sit alongside the PATA (SM601) and SATA (SM619) single chip SSDs for embedded computing applications in industrial, commercial, enterprise and automotive end-markets. The SSDs are customizable via firmware, and offer enhanced reliability and robust data integrity features that are essential for the extreme operating environments of these applications.' The FerriSSD storage solutions are popular with automotive and industrial designers, allowing them to replace a hard disk drive with reliable solid-state alternatives,' said Nelson Duann, Senior Vice President of Marketing and OEM Business at Silicon Motion.

'The addition of a PCIe NVMe interface will enable significantly better performance for applications such as AI and autonomous driving.”The SM689 and SM681 include end-to-end data path protection, which applies error correction code (ECC) to the SRAM and DRAM buffers as well as to the primary NAND Flash memory array, as well as a DRAM data cache to ensure data programming and enable data redundancy without delaying host processor operations. A Hybrid Zone enables a single disk to be partitioned into single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell/three-level cell (MLC/TLC) zones, enabling faster access speeds and data retention.

Optimised for exceptional energy efficiency, the WF200 transceivers and WFM200 modules support 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi while delivering the high performance and reliable connectivity necessary as the number of connected devices increases in home and commercial networks.“We’ve delivered the first low-power Wi-Fi portfolio designed specifically for the IoT, enabling breakthroughs in secure, battery-powered connected device designs that simply weren’t possible until now,” said Daniel Cooley, Senior Vice President and General Manager of IoT products at Silicon Labs. HCC Embedded has launched a suite of embedded cryptography tools using the MIARA standard so that IoT devices can be managed securely. This provides a complete end-to-end security solution focused on system-level design and software-quality issues that are unfortunately largely unaddressed in the industry.All the software libraries for CryptoCore are managed through HCC’s Embedded Encryption Manager (EEM), which provides a high-quality standard interface to any hardware or software cryptography implementation. This greatly simplifies the design process, makes software portable, and enables use of software crypto-libraries or hardware-accelerated algorithms on chips that provide them. Available libraries support authentication, confidentiality, and integrity strategies through Base64, DSS, Elliptic Curve, Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman, MD5, RSA, SHA, DES, and Tiger. EEM provides a universal management interface for software- or hardware-based acceleration, where available, on microcontrollers including NXP Kinetis and i.MX, TI TM4C, and STM32 MCUs. The Renesas RX controllers though are notable by their absence.Discussions about security tend to focus on the algorithms rather than on real-world issues faced by embedded-networking engineers.

Because large-scale hacks of modern algorithms are almost unknown, the pressing engineering challenge is how to design a system that is secure and of quality sufficient to minimize security risks.HCC handles such issues by providing end-to-end security solutions appropriate for real-world applications and by providing evidence of the quality processes and standards used. All components are compliant with HCC’s rigorous MISRA standards and are provided with full compliance reports. All MISRA rules are applied and any exceptions are identified and explained. Advanced test suites are also available.“Software defects cause security weaknesses but well established quality processes can be used to minimize the risk to system security,” said HCC Embedded CEO Dave Hughes.

“HCC is committed to following strong quality processes and providing the evidence to system designers to help them create more secure networks.”. To upgrade the performance, OEMs and network operators only need to exchange the Server-on-Module. This is especially interesting for operators of 5G networks and edge data centres, who expect real-time performance demands to increase once 10GbE infrastructures become deployed more widely, leading to constantly lower revenues per processed data volume. Also, all IIoT, Industry 4.0 and fog server applications will require continuous performance upgrades as security, analytics and artificial intelligence demands will keep evolving for at least a decade to come.' Building a 10GbE infrastructure with IIoT, edge, fog or Industry 4.0 servers and 5G small cells for decentralized decision making in real time is only the first step,' said Martin Danzer, Director of Product Management at congatec. 'Once this infrastructure is established, the performance of these nodes will have to constantly increase as we are only at the beginning of designing such decentralized 10GbE node technologies and the demand for transcoding, security, data capture and analytics capabilities as well as artificial intelligence and real-time communication will continue to grow dramatically.'

The edge server board in the 5x5 Mini-STX form factor uses a COM Express Type 7 conga-B7AC module based on the Intel Atom C3000 processor. With processor power consumption starting at just 11W TDP, the system offers 4x real-time 10GbE network performance and up to 16 cores for handling many smaller packet sizes in parallel. Compared to other multi-core solutions, such as the Intel Xeon D processors, the costs and power consumption here are significantly lower, making it possible to roll out very high network bandwidths and storage capacities into the field.The congatec micro server carrier board can be equipped with eight different Intel Atom server processor versions - from the 16-core Intel Atom C3958 to the quad-core C3508 processor for the extended temperature range (-40°C to +85°C). All offer up to 48GB of fast 2400 DDR4 memory, which can be designed with or without Error Correction Code (ECC) depending on customer requirements. The 10GbE interfaces are standardly implemented via SFP+ cages, enabling network connection via both fiber optic and copper cables. In addition, the carrier board provides 2x 1GbE and 2x USB 3.0 interfaces for service and peripherals. One of the 1GbE ports is connected to the integrated board management controller and can therefore be used for server-typical remote management tasks.The carrier board includes a VGA output and a serial interface for local administration.

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For custom extensions, it provides three M.2 slots, two for M.2 2280 cards with key M and 4 PCIe lanes or 1x SATA, which makes them particularly suitable for storage media. The third M.2 slot accepts M.2 3042 cards with key A.

With 2x PCIe, 1x USB 3.0 and I²C, it can connect both storage media and other peripherals. The feature connectors also provide GPIOs, I²C, SM and LPC buses.If the Server-on-Modules require active cooling - for example, with a 16-core Intel Xeon D processor - optional CPU and system fans can also be supported and controlled. This means the congatec micro server carrier board in the 5x5 Mini-STX form factor offers the same server-class performance that up to now only fully-featured 19-in rackmount servers were able to provide and can be mounted anywhere and even integrated into autonomous vehicles. “Tomorrow’s edge computing environment will be distributed, autonomous and cooperative. The edge is complex, and not only has to scale out securely, but simultaneously must become friendlier for app developers. That's the problem we are solving at Zededa,” said CEO and Co-Founder Said Ouissal. “True digital transformation requires a drastic shift from today’s embedded computing mindset to a more secure-by-design, cloud-native approach.

This will unlock the power of millions of cloud app developers and allow them to digitize the physical world as billions of ‘things’ become smart and connected.”The company sees an open ecosystem and a completely new technology stack that creates the service fabric essential to achieving the hyperscale that edge computing requires. This will bring together operating systems, virtualization, networking, security, blockchain, cloud and application platforms.Zededa is currently accepting sign-ups for early access to its platform which will move into customer trials in the first half of 2018. “We are delighted to welcome Microsemi to becomepart of the Microchip team and look forward to closing the transaction andworking together to realize the benefits of a combined team pursuing a unifiedstrategy. Even as we execute a very successful Microchip 2.0 strategy that isenabling organic revenue growth in the mid to high single digits, Microchipcontinues to view accretive acquisitions as a key strategy to deliverincremental growth and stockholder value. The Microsemi acquisition is thelatest chapter of this strategy and will add further operational and customerscale to Microchip,” said Steve Sanghi, Chairman and CEO of Microchip.The deal particularly brings Microchip two new product categories - discrete devices and FPGAs.' Joining forces and combining our complementaryproduct portfolios and end market exposure will offer our customers a richerset of solution options to enable innovative and competitive products for themarkets they serve,” said Ganesh Moorthy, President and COO of Microchip.

The company's last chip deal was Atmel in 2016.