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Mouser adds Texas Instruments sensor evaluation module

Fri, Aug 12, 2022

Described as easy to use, the IWR6843LEVM is a 60GHz mmWave sensor evaluation platform for the IWR6843 with an FR4-based antenna. Available from distributor, Mouser Electronics, the IWR6843LEVM may be used to evaluate both the IWR6843 and IWR6443 sensors.

This evaluation module enables access to point cloud data and power over USB interfaces. The IWR6843LEVM supports direct connectivity to the MMWAVEICBOOST and DCA1000EVM development kits. IWR6843LEVM contains everything required to develop software for on-chip C67x digital signal processor (DSP) cores, hardware accelerators (HWAs), and low-power Arm Cortex-R4F controllers, confirmed Mouser.

Texas Instruments’ IWR6832LEVM is supported by mmWave tools and software, namely mmWave studio (MMWAVE-STUDIO) and the mmWave software development kit (MMWAVE-SDK). Additional boards may be used to enable additional functionality. For example, DCA1000EVM allows access to the sensor’s raw data via a low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS) interface. The MMWAVEICBOOST development kit allows software development and trace capabilities via Code Composer Studio (CCSTUDIO). IWR6843LEVM paired with MMWAVEICBOOST can interface with the MCU LaunchPad development kit ecosystem.

The sensor evaluation module has four receive (4RX) three transmit (3TX) antenna with 120 degrees azimuth field of view (FoV) and 80 degree elevation FoV.

Discrete DC/DC power management includes onboard capability for power-consumption monitoring.

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NeuralVDB reduces memory footprint and adds AI

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Building on the development of OpenVDB, the open source C++ library for volumetric data, Nvidia has announced NeuralVDB, which brings the power of AI to OpenVDB.

It reduces memory footprint by up to 100 times which allows professionals working in scientific computing and visualisation, medical imaging, rocket science and visual effects to interact with extremely large and complex datasets in real time.

In the last decade, explained Ken Museth, senior director of simulation technology at Nvidia, OpenVDB has moved out of the visual effects industry and into industrial design and scientific use cases where sparse volumetric data is prevalent.

NeuralVDB joins Nvidia’s NanoVDB which was introduced last year, adding GPU support to OpenVDB. This accelerated performance and opened the door to real-time simulation and rendering, said Museth.

NeuralVDB builds on this GPU acceleration by adding machine learning to introduce compact neural representations that “dramatically reduce” its memory footprint. As a result, 3D data can be represented at even higher resolution and at a much larger scale than OpenVDB. Users can therefore handle massive volumetric datasets on devices like individual workstations and even laptops, said Nvidia.

NeuralVDB compresses a volume’s memory footprint up to 100x compared to NanoVDB which allows users to transmit and share large, complex volumetric datasets more efficiently.

To accelerate training up to a factor of two, NeuralVDB allows the weights of a frame to be used for the subsequent one. NeuralVDB also enables users to achieve temporal coherency, or smooth encoding, by using the network results from the previous frame.

This combination reduces memory requirements, accelerates training and enables temporal coherency offering new possibilities for scientific and industrial use cases, including massive, complex volume datasets for AI-enabled medical imaging and large scale digital twin simulations.

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Farnell ships DFRobot’s LattePanda 3 Delta SBC

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Claimed to be the world’s smallest x86 single board computer (SBC), the LattePanda 3 Delta is available from Farnell.

The SBC is the latest addition to the LattePanda family. The pocket-sized hackable computer, measuring 125 x 78 x 16mm. It supports Linux, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Compared to other SBCs at the same price, the LattePanda 3 Delta offers the highest performance, said Farnell. It features Intel’s 11th generation mobile four-core processor, the N5105. With up to 8Gbyte RAM and 64Gbyte storage, LattePanda 3 Delta is the most cost-effective product yet from DFRobot. It is suitable for artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT applications, smart city, edge computing, smart home, face detection and recognition, artificial intelligence server, intelligent monitoring, voice recognition and cloud machine learning.

It offers developers new levels of creativity, said Romain Soreau, head of single board computing at Farnell. “Designed as the world’s most compact SBC, LattePanda 3 Delta is an exceptional board for space constrained applications which require high performance such as AI localisation, robotics, smart factory, home automation, gaming and handheld devices,” he said.

The LattePanda 3 Delta board supports 4K IPS touch displays. It has a high resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, two USB Type C and one mini-HDMI port.

The CPU is up to two times faster than the previous version and the GPU is up to three tunes faster to support 4K HDR video and processor intensive games.

It also supports Wi-Fi 6 and with a transfer speed up to 2.4Gbits per second is 2.7 times faster than Wi-Fi 5. The SBC is also equipped with a USB 3.2 gen2 port that has an high bandwidth, delivering up to 10Gbits per second of throughput which is twice as fast as USB3.2 gen1 (USB3.0). Bluetooth 5.2 is included as standard.

Other features are support for Gigabit Ethernet, 42 expandable interfaces and 2933MHz high-frequency LPDDR4 RAM up to 8Gbyte. Storage has been doubled, up to 64Gbyte and the board also has a watchdog time and automatic power on and a cooling fan.

The LattePanda 3 Delta is available with a Windows 10 license.

Developers can achieve a significant performance boost by upgrading from the Celeron N4100 of the LattePanda Delta to the Intel 11th-generation Celeron N5105 processor with up to 2.9GHz burst frequency, advised Farnell. The processor maintains almost the same pinout and layout as the previous version to allow for effortless system migration or upgrading by replacement.

DFRobot creates hardware and software products that become the building blocks in electronic projects, fostering a strong community of learners around it. DFRobot has expanded from open source hardware to STEM education, manufacturing and other industries. The company’s production lines range from gadgets for Arduino, LattePanda, Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, to comprehensive learning kits for K12 students such as Boson kit, micro:Maqueen series and Mind Plus.

Distributor Farnell can provide customers with fast access to easy-to-use products for project design. Customers can also benefit from 24/5 technical support alongside free access to valuable online resources on the Farnell website, and element14 community.

DFRobot’s LattePanda 3 Delta is now in stock and available for fast delivery from Farnell in Europe, element14 in APAC and Newark in North America.

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Advantech bases industrial motherboards on 12th Gen Intel Core

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Industrial ATX motherboards, industrial ATX / MicroATX server boards and PICMG 1.3 single board computers (SBCs) from Advantech, together with modular IPC, Compact IPC and edge accelerator servers will be upgraded to 12th Generation Intel Core i9 / i7 / i5 / i3 processors with up to 16 cores and 24 threads.

The result is a “significant” boost in computing performance by up to 89 per cent, reported Advantech.

These systems can be upgrades for smart factory and machine automation, machine vision, transportation, and edge AI applications.

12th Generation Intel Core processors are the first Intel Core processors to feature performance hybrid architecture, integrating up to eight performance-cores (P-cores) and up to eight Efficient-cores (E-cores) for background task management and multi-tasking. According to Advantech, this will boost performance up to 1.36x times faster in single- thread performance and up to 1.35x times faster in multi-thread performance compared to 10th Gen Intel Core processors. The 12th Gen Intel Core processors are also the first Intel Core processor series that introduces support for up to DDR5-4800 memory modules (or DDR4-3200), to enhance bandwidth by 50 per cent. The upgrade to PCIe 5.0/4.0 increases expansion options and allows the embedded boards to support high numbers of simultaneous applications.

The AIMB-788 and AIMB-708 ATX motherboards are equipped with seven PCIe/PCI expansion slots (including one PCIe x16 Gen 4, and up to three PCIe x4 Gen 3), M.2 (NVMe), and DDR4-3200 memory. Target applications are industrial automation and video surveillance.

Other boards are the ASMB-588 and ASMB-788 MicroATX / ATX server boards, as well as PCE-5033 and PCE-5133, PICMG 1.3 full-size SBC. ASMB- 588/788 supports DDR5 ECC/ non-ECC memory and PCIe 5.0 connectivity. It can connect to frame grabber cards, motion control cards and accelerators.

The MIC-770 V3, IPC-320 and PCE-2033/2133 and ASMB-610V3 will also be upgraded to 12th Generation Intel Core processors. The MIC-770 V3 is an embedded box IPC. The fanless design is suitable for heavy industrial hazardous environments.

The IPC-320 will feature the 12th Gen Intel Core I CPUs. These systems are designed for central control rooms in substations and industrial automation. They have low noise acoustics (40dB). The PCE-2033 / 2133 motherboards are bundled with compact IPC-200 chassis series (IPC-220 / 240 / 242) designed for machine vision and motion control in equipment manufacturing and the semiconductor industry.

The ASMB-610V3 is a proprietary server board bundled with a short-depth edge accelerator server chassis HPC-6120. It has four PCIe expansion slots in a 1U 18 inch short-depth chassis and is suitable for machine automation, machine vision, factory automation, AI, smart cities and medical technology.

These upgraded products support multiple operating systems and Advantech’s WISE-DeviceOn, and WISE-Cloud software platforms. The AIMB-788 is available for order now with other introductions scheduled for late 2022.

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Mouser adds Texas Instruments sensor evaluation module

NeuralVDB reduces memory footprint and adds AI

Farnell ships DFRobot’s LattePanda 3 Delta SBC

Advantech bases industrial motherboards on 12th Gen Intel Core

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