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Smart luminaires can be remote controlled

Fri, Apr 23, 2021

Smart luminaires for indoor and outdoor installations have been introduced by Ledvance. The Smart+ range can be controlled via remote, app or voice. The range includes panel and flood luminaires, a neon flex strip and camera functions.

The wall and ceiling assortment includes round luminaires in a decorative design as well as sleek and timeless panel luminaires. For outdoor installations, Ledvance offers products for mood, decorative lighting and security purposes. The Neon Flex TGBW LED strips are designed for indoors and outdoors and offer a smooth and seamless illumination with RGB and tuneable white option. All new smart luminaires are easily and quickly installed and are available now, says Ledvance.

The Smart+ Wi-Fi Planon are smart panel luminaires that will slot seamlessly into any indoor installation. The Smart+ Planon comes in three different form factors including square versions measuring 300, 400 or 600mm (20W/ 28W/ 40W) in length, frameless rectangular option in six sizes (20W/ 28W/ 35W/ 40W) or as frameless round luminaires with two diameters (20W/ 28W). All Smart+ WIFI Planon models feature tuneable white and some also RGB functions, and can be connected via Wi-Fi. Using the Ledvance Wi-Fi app or a speaker device, users can control the luminaire and timer or select dynamic lighting options by switching from warm to cool light with tuneable white.

The slim, lightweight, robust and durable Smart+ Wi-Fi flood luminaires are for garden illuminations. The luminaire’s tempered glass cover with semi-frosted finish allows for a very homogenous illumination and the smart and intelligent control options enable both general lighting as well as mood lighting. The luminaires can be controlled by app or a voice controlled speaker device within the local Wi-Fi, to change colours, dim the light or to switch it on/off. The IP65 certified luminaries are available in four versions (10W/ 20W/ 30W/ 50W).

There is also the Smart+ Wi-Fi Flood camera which combines a sensor luminaire with rotatable luminaire head and camera security function. Its 180 degree sensor detection range, five to 10m sensor range and high brightness of 1800lm ensure a high level of safety for security. The camera offers app controlled 1920 x 1080 HD live view functionality as well as 40 degrees vertical and 355 degrees horizontal rotation angles. It also features a built-in microphone and siren speaker with alarm function, and an IP44 rating. The luminaire can be controlled via Ledvance Wi-Fi app or speaker device.

The Smart+ Wi-Fi Neon Flex strip offers a diffuse light appearance with invisible single LED dots for colourful light accents in indoor and outdoor environments. They feature two different white light colours as well as RGB and (tuneable) white in one strip. The app- or speaker-controlled smart LED strips are available as three and five metre versions. The flexible, bendable LED strips are easily installed to provide indirect and direct lighting for gardens, balconies, walls, stairs, cupboards and shelves and many other outdoor and indoor areas.

http://www.ledvance.co.uk.

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Synopsys bundles design engines for hyper-convergent ICs

Fri, Apr 23, 2021

For memory, artificial intelligence (AI), automotive and 5G applications, the PrimeSim design environment provides comprehensive analysis, improved productivity, says Synopsys.

At the SNUG World international user conference, Synopsys unveiled the PrimeSim Continuum. This is a unified workflow for circuit simulation technologies to accelerate the creation and signoff of hyper-convergent designs. PrimeSim Continuum is built on next-generation Spice and FastSpice architectures and is the industry’s only proven GPU acceleration technology, claims Synopsys. It provides design teams 10X runtime improvements with golden signoff accuracy, says the company. PrimeSim Continuum combines PrimeSim Spice, PrimeSim Pro, PrimeSim HSpice and PrimeSim XA. PrimeWave delivers a seamless simulation experience around all PrimeSim engines with comprehensive analysis, improved productivity and ease of use.

“PrimeSim Continuum represents a revolutionary breakthrough in circuit simulation innovation with heterogeneous compute acceleration on GPU/CPU, setting a new bar for EDA solutions,” said Sassine Ghazi, chief operating officer (COO) at Synopsys. The PrimeSim Continuum technologies complement the company’s Custom Design Platform and Verification Continuum, continued Ghazi.

Today’s hyper-convergent SoCs consist of larger and faster embedded memories, analogue front-end devices and complex I/O circuits that communicate at 100Gb+ data rates with the DRAM stack connected on the same piece of silicon in a system-in-package (SiP) design. Verifying complex designs at advanced technology process nodes present increased parasitics, process variability and reduced margins, reports Synopsys. This results in more simulations with longer runtimes at higher accuracy impacting the overall time-to-results, quality-of-results and cost-of-results. PrimeSim Continuum addresses the systemic complexity of such hyper-convergent designs with a unified workflow of sign-off quality simulation engines tuned for analogue, mixed-signal, RF, custom digital memory designs, says Synopsys. PrimeSim Continuum uses next-generation Spice and FastSpice architectures and heterogenous computing to optimise the use of CPU and GPU resources and improve time-to-results and cost of results.

The PrimeSim Pro simulator represents a next-generation FastSpice architecture for fast and high-capacity analysis of modern DRAM and Fflash memory designs.

The PrimeSim Spice simulator’s next-generation architecture with GPU technology delivers significant performance improvements needed to perform comprehensive analysis for analogue and RF design while meeting signoff accuracy requirements.

The PrimeSim Continuum integrates PrimeSim Spice and PrimeSim Pro with the PrimeSim HSpice simulator for foundation IP and signal integrity and the PrimeSim XA simulator, for SRAM and mixed-signal verification. PrimeWave delivers a seamless experience by providing a consistent and flexible environment across all PrimeSim Continuum engines optimising design set-up, analysis and post-processing, says Synopsys.

PrimeSim Continuum is available now.

https://www.synopsys.com

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Mouser offers MultiTech sensors, authentication and comms worldwide

Thu, Apr 22, 2021

Following a global distribution agreement with IoT devices and services provider, MultiTech, Mouser now offers its sensor, authentication, and communications products worldwide.

The MultiTech SocketModem cell is a ready-to-integrate communications device that offers 4G-LTE, as well as 2G or 3G, GSM data performance. The cells allow developers to add wireless communication to products with a minimum of development time and expense, says Mouser. The SocketModem Cell cellular modems are based on industry-standard open interfaces and use MultiTech’s Universal Socket design, a flexible, comm-port architecture that allows engineers to use a single system design and populate it with their choice of connectivity module.

Also available is the MultiConnect microcell. This is a compact and simple communications platform that provides cellular capabilities for fixed and mobile applications such as vending, smart parking, and smart inventory tracking equipment. This standalone USB-to-cellular device supports 4G-LTE Cat 4 and Cat 1 technology and is intended to provide basic cellular communication and security such as SSL/TLS 1.2 or higher.

The Conduit programmable gateway is a configurable, manageable, and scalable gateway for IIoT applications. The conduit features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and GNSS. Two accessory card slots enable users to plug in MultiTech mCard accessory cards supporting the preferred wired or wireless interface – including LoRaWAn – to connect to assets locally to the gateway.

The MultiTech xDot is a secure, CE / FCC / RCM / GITEKI-certified, Arm Mbed programmable, low power RF module that provides long range, low bit rate M2M data connectivity to sensors, industrial equipment and remote appliances. The xDot is LoRaWAN 1.0.2-compliant, providing bi-directional data communication up to 10 miles (15km) line-of-sight and one to three miles (2.0km) in buildings, using sub-GHz ISM bands in North America, Europe, Australia (AU915), Asia Pacific (AS923), India (IN865) and Korea (KR920).

“We are pleased to announce our partnership with MultiTech, which furthers our commitment to providing the latest products and technologies to our customers worldwide,” said Jeff Newell, senior vice president of products at Mouser Electronics.

Dawn Rogers, distribution sales manager at MultiTech, added: “Mouser’s specialisation in rapid introduction of new products to engineers makes them a great partner for MultiTech as we expand our footprint.”

http://www.mouser.com

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Xilinx introduces Kria adaptive SOMs to add AI at the edge

Wed, Apr 21, 2021

Adaptive system on modules (SOMs) from Xilinx are production-ready, small form factor embedded boards that enable rapid deployment in edge-based applications.The Kria adaptive SOMs can be coupled with a software stack and pre-built applications. According to Xilinx, the SOMs are a new method of bringing adaptive computing to AI and software developers.

The initial product to be made available is the Kria 26 SOM. It specifically targets vision AI applications in smart cities and smart factories.

By allowing developers to start at a more evolved point in the design cycle compared to chip-down design, Kria SOMs can reduce time-to-deployment by up to nine months, says Xilinx.

The Kria K26 SOM is built on top of the Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC architecture, which features a quad-core Arm Cortex A53 processor, more than 250 thousand logic cells, and a H.264/265 video codec. It has 4Gbyte of DDR4 memory and 245 I/Os, which allow it to adapt to “virtually any sensor or interface”. There is also 1.4TOPs of AI compute performance, sufficient to create vision AI applications with more than three times higher performance at lower latency and power compared to GPU-based SOMs. Target applications are smart vision systems, for example in security, traffic and city cameras, retail analytics, machine vision, and vision guided robotics.

Hardware is coupled with software for production-ready vision accelerated applications which eliminate all the FPGA hardware design work. Software developers can integrate custom AI models and application code. There is also the option to modify the vision pipeline using design environments, such as TensorFlow, Pytorch or Café frameworks, as well as C, C++, OpenCL, and Python programming languages. These are enabled by the Vitis unified software development platform and libraries, adds Xilinx.

The company has also opened an embedded app store for edge applications. There are apps for Kria SOMs from Xilinx and its ecosystem partners. Xilinx apps range from smart camera tracking and face detection to natural language processing with smart vision. They are open source and provided free of charge.

For further customisation and optimisation, embedded developers can draw on support for standard Yocto-based PetaLinux. There is also the first collaboration between Xilinx and Canonical to provide Ubuntu Linux support (the Linux distribution used by AI developers). Customers can develop in either environment and take either approach to production. Both environments will come pre-built with a software infrastructure and helpful utilities.

Finally, the Kria KV260 Vision AI starter kit is purpose-built to support accelerated vision applications available in the Xilinx App Store. The company claims developers can be “up and running in less than an hour with no knowledge of FPGAs or FPGA tools”. When a customer is ready to move to deployment, they can seamlessly transition to the Kria K26 production SOM, including commercial and industrial variants.

Xilinx has published an SOM roadmap with a range of products, from cost-optimised SOMs for size and cost-constrained applications to higher performance modules that will offer developers more real-time compute capability per Watt.

Kria K26 SOMs and the KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit are available now to order from Xilinx and its network of worldwide distributors. The KV260 Vision Starter Kit is available immediately, with the commercial-grade Kria K26 SOM shipping in May 2021 and the industrial-grade K26 SOM shipping this summer. Ubuntu Linux on Kria K26 SOMs is expected to be available in July 2021.

http://www.xilinx.com/kria

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Smart luminaires can be remote controlled

Synopsys bundles design engines for hyper-convergent ICs

Mouser offers MultiTech sensors, authentication and comms worldwide

Xilinx introduces Kria adaptive SOMs to add AI at the edge

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