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DIN-rail embedded system caters for sustainable energy data collection

Wed, Apr 26, 2023

Designed with scalability in mind, Axiomtek included storage, wireless module expansions and I/O interfaces in its ICO330 embedded system. The DIN-rail, fanless computer is powered by the Intel Atom x6212RE or x6414RE processor.

The ICO330 has an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +70 degrees C and 9.0V to 36V DC wide power input or a choice of typical 12V / 24V. It is robust and acts as a cost-effective industrial IoT gateway for data collection and communication in the fields of sustainable energy, oil & gas, factory automation, intelligent agricultures and smart buildings.

“With the increasing adoption of connected IoT devices, OT [operating technology] environments are becoming more interconnected and integrated with IT [information technology] systems,” said Mark Lu, product manager of the Product PM division at Axiomtek. The ICO330 provides built-in isolated system design and modular mechanism design, addressing “80 per cent of the environmental requirements in the OT field, reducing the integration time for customers,” he added. It also minimises the cost and system size resulting in significant savings for customers,” he said. With regards to security, the ICO330 supports TPM 2.0 to comply with industry standards.

The IP40-rated ICO330 comes with one DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM with up to 32Gbyte of memory. One mSATA, one internal 2.5 inch SATA drive and onboard 8G eMMC are available to extend storage capacity. In addition, the IIoT gateway comes with an M.2 slot (USB 3.0/PCIe) for 5G connectivity and NVMe storage, a full-size Rev. 1.2 PCI Express Mini Card slot (USB/PCIe) for Wi-Fi/LTE module, and a half-size Rev. 1.2 PCI Express Mini Card slot (mSATA/USB) for wireless module and mSATA SSD.

The cost-conscious embedded system features rich I/O interfaces, including one HDMI, two USB 3.1, and five antenna openings. It also supports three 2.5GbE LAN ports for more Ethernet topology deployment. The modular I/O design affords users flexibility and full/slim configuration options. The ICO330 provides one isolated direct I/O and six isolated COM ports (RS-232/422/485) in the full type or customers can choose the slim model with two isolated COM ports.

The industrial-grade DIN-rail embedded platform is compatible with Windows 10 IoT and Linux to provide an open standard operating system for software program development.

Axiomtek’s industrial-grade DIN-rail embedded system ICO330 will be available in May 2023.

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Open source robot OS is available on iWave’s SBCs

Tue, Apr 25, 2023

Single board computers (SBCs) from iWave are equipped with the open source robot meta operating system ROS 2 on Ubuntu 20.04. The SBCs are powered by i.MX 8QM, i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 8M Mini applications processors.

The OS performs functions such as hardware abstraction, low level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message passing between processes, and package management. ROS also includes tools and libraries for acquiring, constructing, writing, and running code across multiple computers.

Since it was introduced, Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS. ROS 2 on Ubuntu 20.04 is now available on the iWave’s portfolio of SBCs which support all necessary interface connectors like Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectors, with PCIe ports to provide flexibility and adaptability for a variety of applications. They also have on-board HDMI 2.0, MIPI CSI and MIPI DSI connectors, LVDS ports and audio jack making them suitable for specific video or single processing applications.

Key features of ROS 2

ROS 2 builds on the success of ROS 1 as a standard software platform, used in a wide range of robotics applications around the world today, taking developers from research and prototyping to deployment and production, said iWave.

ROS provides functionality for hardware abstraction, device drivers, communication between processes over multiple machines, tools for testing and visualisation. It is a runtime and communication protocol that allows developers to design complex software without knowing how specific hardware works.

ROS 2 is ready for use across a range of robotics applications, from indoor to outdoor, home to automotive, underwater to space, and consumer to industrial.

The ROS 2 platform runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS, allowing developers to seamlessly deploy on-robot autonomy, back-end management, and user interfaces. The tiered support model enables the introduction and promotion of ports to new platforms, such as real time and embedded operating systems.

The open source OS includes the robotics tools, libraries, and capabilities needed to create applications, with the ability to customise as needed.

Building on a decade of experience establishing ROS 1 for robotics research and development, ROS 2 was designed from the ground up to be industry-grade and used in production, said iWave.

The ROS base code and knowledge can be applied to any robotics platform (e.g. drones, arms, mobile bases) for computation, running SLAM algorithms or implementing remote control. ROS supports digital twinning for robotic simulation and there are also tools like Gazebo which allow developers to create simulations with robots they don’t own.

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Ryzen Embedded 5000 processors secures ‘always on’ NAS systems

Mon, Apr 24, 2023

Developed for use in ‘always on’ networking firewalls, network attached storage systems and other security applications, AMD’s Ryzen Embedded 5000 series processors is the latest member of the Zen 3-based AMD embedded processor portfolio, joining the Ryzen Embedded V3000 and EPYC Embedded 7000 series families.

The processors are equipped with six, eight, 12 or 16 cores and 24 lanes of PCIe Gen4 connectivity.

The Ryzen Embedded 5000 series processors offer scalability up to 16 cores and 32 threads and up to 64Mbyte of shared L3 CPU cache.

The processors are designed for enterprise reliability to support the consistent uptime requirements needed by security and networking customers, explained AMD. Features include an ECC-supported memory subsystem. The thermal design power (TDP) profile ranges from 65W to 105W, enabling the Ryzen Embedded 5000 processors to reduce the overall system cooling footprint for space-constrained and cost-sensitive applications.

According to Rajneesh Gaur, corporate vice president and general manager, embedded solutions group, AMD: “This expansion of our embedded product portfolio offers a mid-range solution that fills the gap between our low-power BGA Ryzen Embedded and . . . EPYC embedded family for customers requiring both high performance and scalability of up to 16 cores.”

The series consists of the 5950E with 16 cores, the 5900E (12 cores), 5800W (eight cores) and 5600E (six cores) all with 24 PCIe Gen 43 lanes and 3.05 to 3.4GHz CPU base frequency, depending on the model.

The Ryzen Embedded 5000 processors are built on 7nm technology and are currently in production, with planned five-year manufacturing availability.
For more than 50 years, AMD has innovated in high performance computing, graphics and visualisation technologies, says the company.

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Dedicated software library accompanies MEMS inertial sensing module

Mon, Apr 24, 2023

The ASM330LHB is an automotive-qualified MEMS inertial-sensing module by STMicroelectronics. It provides measurements for a variety of vehicle functions and is provided with dedicated software which addresses functional-safety applications up to ASIL B1.

The module contains a three-axis digital accelerometer and three-axis digital gyroscope and provides a six-channel synchronised output. The inertial measurements can improve the precise positioning of the car in context, said ST. It can support ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) or vehicle to everything (V2X) communication, help stabilise key sensing systems like radar, lidar and visual cameras, and assist semi-automated driving applications up to L2+. It can also be used to enable a variety of functionalities in the car body, added ST.

Used with the companion software, the ASM330LHB supports automotive systems that require safety integrity up to level B. Using two ASM330LHB sensor modules for fail-safe redundancy delivers resilient contextual data for driver-assistance applications, such as lane centring, emergency braking, cruise assistance and semi-automated driving. The ASIL B -compatible software library has been developed in accordance with the automotive functional-safety standard ISO 26262 and certified independently by TÜV SÜD. The library implements dedicated safety mechanisms, including data integrity and accuracy to ensure compliance with ASIL B automotive systems.

The ASM330LHB has embedded intelligence to add new services about the car status when the driver is away. The integrated machine learning core draws just a few microA of current, said ST and a machine learning algorithm can detect events such as theft attempts, jacking-up or towing, or impacts from other vehicles.

By monitoring threshold combinations, the integrated finite state machine can detect when the vehicle is in motion or stationary, and for sensing vibrations or instability.

The accelerometer and gyroscope inside the module maintain high stability over time and temperature and have very low noise, achieving an overall bias instability of three degrees per hour. The ASM330LHB operates over the extended temperature range of -40 to +105 degrees C and has multiple operating modes that let designers optimise the data-update rate and power consumption.

The ASM330LHB is AEC-Q100 qualified and in production now in a 2.5 x 3.0mm 14-lead VFLGA package.

http://www.st.com

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DIN-rail embedded system caters for sustainable energy data collection

Open source robot OS is available on iWave’s SBCs

Ryzen Embedded 5000 processors secures ‘always on’ NAS systems

Dedicated software library accompanies MEMS inertial sensing module

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