Embedded

Equipped as a fanless design for quiet operation and increased memory bandwidth with new DDR5 memory support, the Nuvo-9000 Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake rugged embedded computer has been added to the portfolio available from Impulse Embedded.

The Nuvo range from Neousys covers rugged and embedded applications from AI inference through to in-vehicle systems. 

The Nuvo-9000 series features the latest Intel 12th Generation core processors code-named Alder Lake. The processors feature a new hybrid core design supporting fast DDR5-4800 memory, flexible expansion options and rich I/O count, for industrial and AI computing applications at the edge. 

The Nuvo-9000 supports Intel’s flagship Core i9-12900E, a 16-core 24-thread hybrid processor that features eight big or performance cores with hyper-threading and eight low power efficient cores. By using Intel’s new Thread Director, users can assign demanding tasks to the larger performance cores while pushing background functional tasks to efficient cores, allowing the system performance to be more focused on high-intensity workloads.

The Nuvo-9000 features an extensive complement of high-speed I/O ports including up to six Gigabit Ethernet ports with PoE capability for machine vision applications, six highspeed 10Gbits per second USB3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and a superspeed++ USB3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C port with screw lock, capable of 20Gbits per second data transfer speeds to external devices. The system also offers triple independent display support via VGA, DVI-D and DisplayPort interfaces as well as four serial ports supporting RS-232 / 422 / 485 signals and one audio line-in / out interface. The Nuvo-9000 series can also be installed with the fastest NVMe solid-state drives on the market via an M.2 2280 slot that supports 4th Gen PCI Express [x4] signals. 

Neousys’ patented expansion cassette allows the addition of PCI and PCI Express cards and simplifies maintenance procedures. The Nuvo-9000 has two PCIe x16 or PCI slot options for supporting frame grabber cards, supercapacitor power backup module and DAQ cards.

The MezIO expansion system is an interchangeable mezzanine board connector which can be installed into the Nuvo 9000 to allow the system to be tailored with additional I/O boards to suit more specific application demands without the need for complex design modifications to its fanless rugged design. MezIO features a whole host of I/O expansion board options including RS-232 / 422 / 485, isolated digital I/O, ignition power control, USB3.1 Gen 1, GigE, PoE+ and storage expansion options. 

Impulse Embedded can configure the Nuvo-9000 to a customer’s exact specifications in their UK based engineering facility with a choice of processor, memory, storage, additional I/O boards and operating system.

Impulse Embedded Systems capabilities can create reliable, repeatable, and revision-controlled systems aimed at reducing customers overall project costs and development time. An in-house team of engineers and specialists, all with decades of experience, can provide fully deployable embedded computing straight out of the box. 

http://www.impulse-embedded.co.uk 

Driver support for the Nvidia Clara AGX universal computing architecture means that developers can select one of 64 digitisers, arbitrary waveform generators and digital I/O cards from Spectrum Instrumentation for use in artificial intelligence (AI) medical instruments. 

For example, the digitiser cards can be used to acquire signals in the DC to GHz frequency ranges by sampling them at rates from 5Msamples per second up to a maximum of 5Gsamples per second. 

The arbitrary waveform generator, which outputs samples at 40Msamples per second up to 1.25Gsamples per second, can be used to produce signals with almost any wave shape and frequency content, from DC to 400MHz, said Spectrum. 

Individual analogue cards offer one, two-, four- or eight-channel capability. Digital I/O cards and digital data acquisition cards allow the acquisition of digital data at rates up to 720Msamples per second and can generate digital patterns at up to 125Msamples per second. There are different interface options for TTL and LVDS available. 

Nvidia’s Clara AGX developer kit can be used to develop software-defined, AI-enabled, real time, point-of-care medical devices. It delivers real-time streaming connectivity and AI inference via the Jetson AGX Xavier, Arm-based SoC, the RTX 6000 GPU and the ConnectX SmartNIC with 100GbE connectivity. The kit also includes full-stack GPU-accelerated libraries, software development kits and reference applications. 

Adding a Spectrum card to the Clara system allows sensor signals to be acquired, generated, stored and processed, explained the company. Data can be streamed between the cards, the processor and the GPU. The GPU’s high speed parallel processing capabilities ensure that large volumes of data can be acquired and generated by the Spectrum products. Spectrum already offers SCAPP (Spectrum’s CUDA Access for Parallel Processing) for GPU-based data processing. 

The Nvidia Clara is already used in biomedical research programmes and medical devices, around imaging, genomics, patient monitoring and drug discovery. 

The M2p- and M4i-series cards all carry a five-year product warranty, with free software and firmware updates. There is customer support directly from the engineering team for the lifetime of the product. 

http://www.spectrum-instrumentation.com