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COM Express Type 10 mini module supports up to four cores

Mon, Nov 01, 2021

Based on the Intel Atom x6000E series processor (Elkhart Lake), the PCOM-BA02VGL is a COM Express Type 10 mini module by Portwell. It features an operating temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees C.

The PCOM-BA02GL measures 84 x 55mm and is based on the 10nm Intel Atom x6000E series / Pentium / Celeron processors (formerly Elkhart Lake). It supports up to four cores with 4.5 to 12W TDP (thermal dynamic performance) and integrates the Intel Gen 11 UHD graphics engine with triple displays support in 4K resolution.

The PCOM-BA02GL COM Express module includes optional I/O flexibility, for example Gen 3 PCI-Express and is designed to enable applications using Type 10 COM Express products to rapidly upgrade systems without changing carrier boards or an entire computer system. It also minimises changes in software, says Portwell.

The PCOM-BA02GL COM Express module supports up to 8Gbyte LPDDR4 3200M transfers per second SDRAM soldered onboard memory with integrated in-band ECC which allows more affordable standard memory to be used instead of more expensive ECC memory (ECC or non-ECC can be configured by BIOS), explains Portwell. The module can support up to 3.0GHz in turbo mode, increasing cost-performance effectiveness, adds the company. There are also two USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbits per second), 2.5GbE LAN with the support of Intel TSN (time sensitive networking) and time co-ordinated computing (TCC) for real-time computing and control with low-latency capability. There are also four PCI Express x1 Gen 3 (8.0Gtransfers per second) expansion interfaces. According to Sid Huang, Portwell’s product manager, this is the first time PCIe Gen 3 is available in the lower power processors, ensuring the modules can fulfil most applications that need great expandability and higher throughput such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NVMe modules. The PCOM-BA02GL COM Express module also supports dual 4K high resolution display including DP/HDMI and LVDS/ eDP that delivers up to two times faster graphics performance compared to the previous generation.

The low power Intel Atom processor x6000E family is housed on the PCOM-BA02GL module board. In this design, Huang explains, the company has maximises COM technology to produce a unit that not outputs under 4.5 to around 12W for fanless applications, but which also supports a wide industrial temperature range and wide voltage input (4.75 to 20V DC). The module conserves energy resources, minimises carbon impact and keeps energy budgets under control, he added.

The compact and rugged PCOM-BA02GL is suitable for mission critical applications in harsh environments, and applications such as industrial automation, factory automation, process control, embedded system for IIoT, edge computing, manufacturing, intelligent gateway, transportation.

http://www.portwell.eu

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Green Hills Software adds RISC-V architecture support to Integrity

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

Safety and security-critical Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) for RISC-V means that electronics manufacturers can build and deploy safety and security-critical RISC-V systems based on the Integrity software foundation already used in cars, aircraft, trains, secure phones, and surgical devices. Integrity is now integrated with RISC-V processor hardware reference boards from Microchip and SiFive and processor IP (intellectual property) from SiFive. According to Green Hills, this support will enable device manufacturers to reduce the time, cost and complexity of developing and deploying critical software for automotive, military, IoT and industrial solutions based on RISC-V processor architecture.

Integrity is based on a separation kernel architecture that provides resource guarantees, hard real-time determinism and was designed from the beginning to achieve maximum security and safety.

According to Green Hills, the Multi debugger has advanced C/C++ compilers and analysis tools to find even the most difficult bugs on complex RISC-V SoCs comprised of multiple heterogeneous cores where the RISC-V core is either the main general purpose CPU or a secondary special-purpose acceleration core alongside a CPU, such as an Arm core.

Integrity can also help designers develop production-ready systems on leading RISC-V reference boards to meet production requirements for performance, memory efficiency and functional safety (FuSa) through Integrity and Multi. Both have functional safety certifications for automotive (ISO 26262), industrial systems (IEC 61508) and railway (EN 50128).

“The integration of safety and security-critical RTOS, Integrity, into SiFive HiFive products is an exciting step forward for the RISC-V and SiFive ecosystem,” said Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO, SiFive, and co-inventor of RISC-V.

“Having Green Hills Software bring its full safety and security portfolio to customer applications using PolarFire SoC is a significant milestone for the Mi-V RISC-V ecosystem and to the larger RISC-V ecosystem,” said Tim Morin, technical fellow and marketing at Microchip Technology. “The addition of safe and secure software tools will greatly enable the ability of our joint clients to innovate with a free and open ISA,” he added.

The new Integrity support adds to the range of Green Hills products that are optimised for RISC-V and already in use by customers, including Integrity RTOS for multi-core embedded systems, u-velOSity RTOS, Multi IDE, a C and C++ development environment for multi-core debugging, Green Hills Probe v4, for multi-core hardware, low-level debugging, and trace-powered analysis tools.

The Integrity RTOS, Multi IDE and the Green Hills probe are available now to early-access customers for the Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit and the SiFive HiFive Unmatched board.

https://www.ghs.com.

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Impulse Embedded supplies Vecow’s EAC-2000 AI series

Tue, Oct 05, 2021

Impulse Embedded is now supplying the EAC-2000 series from Vecow. These compact, high-performance Edge intelligence systems use the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX SOM chip.

The series offers power efficiency in a rugged enclosure with wide temperature and DC power input ranges suitable for AI Vision projects, as well as industrial applications including traffic vision, intelligent surveillance, auto optical inspection, Smart Factory, AMR or AGV.

The NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX System on Module (SOM) is a 15W processing unit that is built around a 384 Core NVIDIA Volta GPU, with 48 Tensor cores and a Hexa-core NVIDIA Carmel ARM V8.2 64-bit CPU with 6MB of L2 cache.

Capable of offering 21 TOPs of GPU accelerated performance, the Xavier NX can decode up to four 4K30 HEVC video streams while running modern neural networks in parallel. The EAC-2000 series is ready to be deployed out of the box as the Jetson Xavier NX also ships complete with 8GB of LPDDR4x of system memory and 16GB of eMMC storage.

NVIDIA’s Jetpack software suite means the EAC-2100 can be deployed with any application that was developed on a Jetson development kit.

The EAC-2000 is targeted at Edge AI demands and is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX. Packed with I/O, the EAC-2000 comes with one HDMI display port, two Gigabit PoE+ ports with 25W per port, dual Gigabit Ethernet, four USB3.1 and two serial ports.

For wireless connectivity, there is an M.2 E-key for wi-fi and Bluetooth, and an M.2 3042/3052 B-key slot that can support up to 5G cellular comms along with SIM card support and six antenna breakouts. For storage, in addition to the onboard 16GB eMMC included, there is an M.2 2280 M-key, plus an external SD card slot offering a variety of options.

The EAC-2100 expands on the feature set provided by the EAC-2000 and focuses more on in-vehicle usage, with the addition of CANbus support, four Fakra-Z connections for GMSL automotive cameras, and two Gigabit PoE+ ports.

Both models come in a compact wall-mountable metal chassis with EN 50155 and EN 50121-3-2 certification for EMC, a wide -20 degrees C to +70 degrees C operating temperature and 9V to 50V DC power input to meet the demands of a range of industrial automation and Edge applications, as well as support for the rail and in-vehicle market.

For more information go to http://www.impulse-embedded.co.uk

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SOAFEE brings cloud-native design to vehicles, says Arm and partners

Thu, Sep 16, 2021

To address the software-defined needs of cars today quickly and seamlessly, a standardised framework will enhance proven cloud-native technologies that work at scale with the real time and safety features required in automotive applications. The same framework can also benefit other real -time and safety critical applications, such as robotics and industrial automation.

Vehicle manufacturers, system integrators, semiconductor manufacturers, software developers and cloud technology companies have worked together to define SOAFEE (Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge), for the software-defined vehicle. The SOAFEE reference implementation will be free open source software aimed at allowing broad prototyping, workload exploration and early development.

Building on Project Cassini and SystemReady from Arm, which enable a standards-based cloud-native experience at the edge, SOAFEE enables cloud concepts like container orchestration with automotive functional safety and in real time. Arm said it is working with commercial solutions providers to maximise compatibility and provide a faster route to functionally safe designs.

The immediate availability of SOAFEE will empower cloud-based developers to apply their expertise and contribute to vehicle electronics and software-architecture requirements, and driving the industry to a software-centric future.

“At AWS, we’re committed to innovation with key industry players like Arm to help solve complex challenges for delivering software-defined vehicles with a service-oriented architecture,” said Bill Foy, director, worldwide automotive business development at AWS. “In collaboration with Arm, and AWS’s Arm-based AWS Graviton2 instances, we . . . make it possible to run applications on the same architecture in the cloud and at the automotive edge to simplify developer workflow.”

AdLink’s new SystemReady-compatible development platform is powered by Arm Neoverse-based Ampere Altra cores and will allow workload exploration and development on Arm-based silicon using the SOAFEE reference software stack for applications such as cockpit, ADAS, powertrain and autonomous driving. The development platform comprises a developer workstation and a rugged in-vehicle product. It is available for pre-order, with general availability expected in Q4 2021.

Also announced today are the AVA developer platform – a 32-core scalable compute system built for lab-based development. It is capable of running autonomous workloads and allows developers to leverage accelerator hardware to complement CPUs.

For in-vehicle prototyping and testing, the AVA-AP1 has 80 cores for increased CPU performance, extra I/O capabilities and a safety processor to enable in-vehicle execution using real sensors.

In addition to support from AWS, ADLink, Ampere and CARIAD, the initiatives have received broad support from leaders across the supply chain including Apex.AI, Continental, Green Hills Software, Linaro, Marvell, MIH Consortium, Red Hat, SUSE, Woven Planet and Zing Robotics.

http://www.arm.com

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COM Express Type 10 mini module supports up to four cores

Green Hills Software adds RISC-V architecture support to Integrity

Impulse Embedded supplies Vecow’s EAC-2000 AI series

SOAFEE brings cloud-native design to vehicles, says Arm and partners

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