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STM32U5 Cortex-M33 MCU gets more performance, 2D graphics accelerator, and advanced security

From www.cnx-software.com 14 hours ago in News

The first STM32 MCU based on Arm Cortex-M33 core was the ultra-low-power STM32L5 microcontroller, and the company is now following with the STM32U5 series also designed for smart applications including wearables, personal medical devices, home automation, and industrial sensors. The...

Embedded Artists launches 1GHz NXP i.MX RT1176 Crossover MCU module and devkit

From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News

Microcontrollers used to be those cute little chips clocked at 8 MHz, but it’s now common to have MCUs clocked at one or two hundred Megahertz, and with Cortex-M7 cores, several hundred Megahertz is now possible, and NXP even pushed...

Framework Laptop is an upgradable, repairable & modular laptop based on Intel 11th gen SoC

From www.cnx-software.com 1 day ago in News

Most laptops are not made to be serviced by the end-users or expanded. In the part of the world where I live, I still have a “warranty void” sticker if I open my laptop to add an M.2 SSD. There...

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 industrial carrier board supports M.2 NVMe SSD, 4G LTE modem

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

Since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 launch last fall, we’ve seen several interesting carrier boards for the system-on-module including Wiretrustee to build a NAS with up to four SATA drives, the compact, Arduino-sized Piunora board that also include an...

Sony announces Altair ALT1255 5G-ready NB-IoT chipset with 2G fallback

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

Sony Semiconductor Israel, previously known as Altair Semiconductor, has announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT (NB2) chipset. The 5G-ready chip comes with an integrated SIM, a user MCU, and a GSM/GPRS fallback modem. Sony Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT chipset...

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon XR1 based AR smart glasses reference design

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon XR2 5G VR Reference Design last year based on their latest Snapdragon XR2 virtual/extended reality processor. But the company never designed a reference design for the earlier Snapdragon XR1 that was found in Google Glass Enterprise...

Arduino MKR IoT Carrier embeds display, sensors, and I/Os for IoT projects

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

Arduino Oplà IoT Kit was launched last fall as the first open programmable IoT platform from the company. The kit included everything you need to create your own IoT devices with MKR IoT carrier with a 1.3-inch OLED color display, ...

StereoPi v2 stereoscopic camera is powered by Raspberry Pi CM4 (Crowdfunding)

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

StereoPi stereoscopic camera based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 was introduced in late 2019 on Crowd Supply.  The camera can record 3D video, create 3D depth maps with OpenCV, and benefits from the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem. The developers...

Crowbits magnetic blocks for STEM Education work with Arduino, Micro:bit, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi (Crowdfunding)

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

Elecrow develops and manufactures electronics products for the maker market, and in recent years entered the STEM education market with products such as CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi 4 education laptop that I reviewed last year. The laptop integrates plenty of electronics...

Kiwikit Raspberry Pi Pico baseboard takes off-the-shelf modules

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

While it’s possible to use Raspberry Pi Pico with a breadboard or Veroboard, we’ve seen the benefits of inserting the board into a baseboard such as Maker Pi Pico providing LEDs, a MicroSD card, audio output, and the ability to...

ZiHintPause is the first RISC-V extension ratified under the Fast Track Architecture Extension Process

From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News

RISC-V open architecture allows designers to implement their own instructions, and some of those may become an official RISC-V extension. But the process to approve a new extension may have been suboptimal, so RISC-V International has just unveiled the Fast...

Advantech Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboard offers triple display support, dual LAN, eight USB and six COM ports

From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News

We’ve seen a fair amount of Intel Elkhart Lake platforms including modules, 3.5-inch SBCs, Pico-ITX boards, and embedded mini PCs, but so far, I had not noticed any Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboard. Advantech AIMB-218 motherboard offers a choice of low-power...

Encoding and decoding AVIF pictures with open-source software & libraries

From www.cnx-software.com 4 days ago in News

One of the new features of Android 12 is support for the AVIF file format that provides much smaller files at the same level of quality. Jake Archibald has done a great job comparing AVIF format to JPEG, WebP, and...

Fuzix Unix-like operating system ported to Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP8266

From www.cnx-software.com 5 days ago in News

The Raspberry Pi Pico is not compatible with Linux, but now supports another Unix-like operating system known as Fuzix. Alan Cox’s Fuzix is a Unix-like operating system for older devices with less performance capacity. David Given’s two recent posts have...

STM32MP1 Linux SoM fits into Pico-ITX carrier board

From www.cnx-software.com 5 days ago in News

DH electronics DHCOM STM32MP1 is an STMicro STM32MP1 Cortex-A7/M4  system-on-module (SoM) following the company’s SO-DIMM-based DHCOM standard, and capable of running Linux with Etnaviv GPU drivers. The SoM is compatible with two DHCOM carrier boards from the company, namely DH...

Cherry Pi PC SBC is an Orange Pi PC clone selling for $16.5 and up

From www.cnx-software.com 6 days ago in News

Orange Pi PC is an Allwinner H3 SBC that was launched in 2015 for as little as $15 plus shipping (now $17.42 with 1 GB RAM), and made by a company called Shenzhen Xunlong Software. The next year, the company...

Maker Pi Pico STEM board mini review with CircuitPython

From www.cnx-software.com 6 days ago in News

In my early list of third-party Raspberry Pi RP2040 boards, I shortly mentioned Cytron Maker Pi Pico baseboard for Raspberry Pi Pico that exposes all pins via female headers, includes LEDs for all GPIOs pin, six Grove connectors, three user...

ESP32-PICO-V3-ZERO-DevKit targets Amazon Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) development

From www.cnx-software.com 7 days ago in News

Last summer, Espressif and Amazon jointly announced the ESP32-PICO-V3-ZERO Alexa Connect Kit module providing out-of-box connectivity to ACK (Alexa Connect Kit) cloud services, support for features such as Alexa control, “Frustration-Free Setup” and Amazon Dash replenishment for connected devices. At...

Kodi 19 “Matrix” released with AV1, HDR, tvOS support

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Kodi is an open-source media center that was initially designed for the XBOX game console, but was quickly ported to other platforms such as Windows and Linux, and eventually to low-cost Android TV boxes and single board computers such as...

PoE powered AI Edge computer combines NXP i.MX 8M SoC with Google Edge TPU

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

AAEON has introduced several BOXER AI edge computers over the years either powered by an NVIDIA Jetson module, a HiSilicon HI3559A Arm SoC, or an Intel processor combined with Movidius Myriad AI accelerator. The latest model, BOXER-8521AI, combines an NXP...

LiPo battery powered Olimex boards use ESP32-S2’s USB OTG interface

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Last year, Olimex introduced ESP32-S2-DevKit-LiPo and ESP32-S2-WROVER-Devkit-LiPo boards optimized for battery-powered applications with as little as 30uA deep sleep power consumption. ESP32-S2 processor comes with a USB OTG interface, but at the time, Espressif Systems ESF-IDF SDK did not support...

Android 12 developer preview released – What’s New?

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Google releases a new version of Android every year, and the company is now usually releasing a developer preview in February to allow feedback and testing from app developers. So here we are with the Android 12 developer preview having...

ESP32 TouchDown comes with 3.5-inch display for custom control interfaces

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Dustin Watts developed FreeTouchDeck software to interface with Windows, macOS, Linux computers and boards over Bluetooth LE using an ESP32 board connected to a touchscreen display. So far, he used off-the-shelf parts, but he has now decided to create his...

Open-source H.265/HEVC Hantro G2 decoder driver added to NXP i.MX 8M in Linux

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Getting open-source multimedia drivers on Arm Linux is one of the most difficult tasks, that’s why there’s no much talk about open-source GPU drivers for 2D & 3D graphics acceleration, but work on video hardware decoding and encoding is also...

$10 LoRa-E5 STM32WL module offers LoRaWAN networking in a 12x12mm package

From www.cnx-software.com 1 week ago in News

Over the years, we’ve seen many LoRa modules combining STM32 microcontroller with Semtech SX12xx wireless transceivers, so that’s probably why STMicro decided to create the first LoRa SoC with STM32WL that was launched last year. I’ve just been informed a...

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