The PICO-IMX8M series SoMs integrate NXP's i.MX8M series SoCs, with 2x or 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores, plus a Cortex-M4 core. Other features include up to 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC, and I/O including USB, SDIO, audio, 4K video, camera, RGMII...

Silicon vendors are all launching new mobile processors with “advanced AI capabilities”, and Samsung has just announced another one of those processors with Exynos 9611 that upgrades on...

The BeagleBoard.org Foundation introduced BeagleBone-AI SBC at Embedded World 2019 last February. The board is specifically designed for artificial intelligence workloads at the edge thanks to Texas...

Copperhill Technologies has recently announced the release of its PiCAN3 CAN-Bus Board for the Raspberry Pi 4. The PiCAN3 adds Controller Area Network capabilities plus a real-time clock to the new...

A Twist on Modern Instruments Normally, you’d think that taking the strings out of a harp would be a downgrade. But in this article, Cornell student Alex Hatzis presents a system that does just that—replacing the harp strings with red...

Xilinx Spartan FPGAs have been around for a while, and a few years ago we covered Spartan-6 FPGA boards such as Spartixed and miniSpartan6+.  Seeed Studio has now launched another Xilinx Spartan...

Is it so much to ask that technologies work as advertised and - oh, by the way - not kill us?

We take a closer look at growing concerns over the steady decline of technology reliability and safety. The list of examples keeps growing, ranging from aircraft navigation software to consumer products bursting into flames and injuring their owners.

Technology disasters have helped refocus attention on safety and engineering excellence at NASA.

Compared to the recent catastrophic crashes of Boeing 737 Max airliners, the consumer hoverboards that "literally" caught fire in 2015 seem like small potatoes. But the exploding hoverboards might be an easier place to start studying safety-critical design issues.

The trend has been to electrify more functions on airplanes, but increasing electrification also means increased complexity. The two qualities can be balanced, however - we are seeing increased reliability.

Every day people are getting more concerned about the security of their homes, families, offices, properties, and other related belongings getting more people investing in products and services that...

Teensy 4.0 is the latest member of the 1.4 by 0.7 inch Teensy MCU module family. It's based on a 600MHz Cortex-M7 and features 1MB RAM, 2MB flash, plus an extensive set of both digital and ADC I/O, and it...

Unless a new processor is out, we don’t cover most TV boxes as they mostly provide the same features with little differentiation between products. But the manufacturer of A95X Max Plus TV box...

Back in 2017, Boardcon introduced EM3399 single board computer powered by a Rockchip RK3399 processor through the company’s PICO3399 SO-DIMM system-on-module. They’ve now designed another...

Introduction UBook Pro The latest 2-in-1 tablet/laptop from CHUWI, is the UBook Pro, that the Chinese manufacturer hopes will rival the Microsoft Surface Pro 6. CHUWI Background The company has been...

Click here for the Circuit Cellar article code archive   p.6: A Hardware Random Number Generator: MCU-Based Solution, By Devlin Gualtieri A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, RAND Corporation, The Free Press (1955), available at https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html George W....

Ceva rolled out the second-generation AI processor architecture scalable from 2 to 100 TOPS and CDNN-Invite API, an interface that allows mapping the customer's AI accelerator into the same computational graph alongside Ceva's own AI engine.

We’ve already covered several laptop docks for smartphones such as  NexDock 2. AFAICR, all those modes would come with a full laptop body with non-touch display and keyboard. “Losing the...

Last year the WiFi alliance introduces a new naming scheme for WiFi using numbers instead of IEEE standards so that WiFI 4 is 802.11n, WiFi 5 is 802.11ac, and WiFi 6 is the latest 802.11ax standard...

What are the system designs that require a leap in SoC complexity? It's not only big datacenter artificial intelligence (AI) chips, but also autonomous vehicles such as cars, trucks and drones; they are self-landing, reusable rockets; they are medical devices...

PicoVoice uses CPUs' existing instruction sets to mimic matrix multiplication efficiently for AI

BalenaOS 64-Bit OS Balena just announced the release of a 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4, that latest release of the iconic SBC. BalenaOS is designed to run 32-bit and 64-bit Docker containers...

By Eric Brown UpSwift is offering a free lifetime subscription to makers and developers who want to manage up to three Linux-based devices with the UpSwift cloud-based IoT management and micro-updating platform.Israeli startup UpSwift announced its cloud-based UpSwift IoT management...