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Semtech and AWS Collaborate on AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN®

Wed, Dec 16, 2020

Semtech Corporation has announced that they have teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the LoRaWAN^® protocol on the Network Server with AWS IoT Core, AWS’s managed Cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with Cloud applications and other devices.

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed service that enables enterprise IoT developers to easily connect low power wireless devices over long range, wide-area network (LoRaWAN) based networks to AWS without developing or operating their own LoRaWAN server. This simplifies the development of IoT solutions that leverage the long range, low power and security of Semtech’s LoRa chipsets and the LoRaWAN protocol.

To get started with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, IoT developers can source AWS qualified gateways operating the LoRaWAN protocol from the AWS Partner Device Catalog and select an array of LoRaWAN Certified^CM devices from the LoRa Alliance website. From within the AWS Management Console, developers can rapidly register gateways with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN by providing the service, its unique identifier, and selecting LoRaWAN as the radio frequency. To register devices with LoRa chipsets, developers simply input the device credentials, identifiers and security keys provided by the device vendor on the console and follow guided and easy instructions for specifying device configuration. In addition, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN includes a variety of device management capabilities, including security and a plug-and-play for the AWS IoT Analytics.

“Based on our collaboration with Semtech, IoT developers will be able to leverage LoRaWAN to simplify the development process, as well as provide key features to their applications such as long range connectivity, the ability to build devices with low power consumption, and increased security,” said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President of IoT, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are delighted to be working with Semtech to accelerate our customers’ adoption of IoT and LoRaWAN allowing them to innovate faster and focus on the main job of creating business value.”

Developers will also be able to access Semtech’s LoRa Cloud, a simple API based service that can be easily integrated with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, providing developers with the ability to locate any LoRaWAN enabled device including devices using Semtech’s recently release low power geolocation platform LoRa Edge.

“AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN will speed IoT application development by providing a plug-and-play experience for developers,” said Mohan Maheswaran, Semtech’s President and CEO. “In addition, this collaboration with AWS enables enterprise customers using AWS to readily take advantage of the key benefits of LoRaWAN as the protocol continues to have massive adoption in the IoT industry in a variety of verticals ranging from smart home and communities to asset tracking.”

More was discussed at today’s AWS session at re:Invent.

To learn more about Semtech’s IoT solutions, visit the website.

About Semtech’s LoRa^® Platform

Semtech’s LoRa device-to-Cloud platform is a globally adopted long range, low power solution for IoT applications, enabling the rapid development and deployment of ultra-low power, cost efficient and long range IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products, and IoT services worldwide. Semtech’s LoRa devices provide the communication layer for the LoRaWAN^® protocol, which is maintained by the LoRa Alliance^®, an open IoT alliance for Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) applications that has been used to deploy IoT networks in over 100 countries. Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance. To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech’s LoRa site.

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PICMG prepares the open COM-HPC specification for ratification

Wed, Dec 16, 2020

The latest open specification for high performance compute modules will be under review by members of the PICMG, a consortium for the development of open embedded computing specifications.

COM-HPC is the soon-to-be-released PICMG standard for high-performance computer-on-modules (COMs). COM-HPC defines five module sizes to deliver edge server performance for small, rugged data centres. The new specification will complement COM Express, which is expected to play a crucial role in the COM marketplace “for many years”.

PICMG developed the COM-HPC specification to address emerging requirements in the embedded and edge computing market. These have seen trends, including the substantial data growth and processing requirements of broadband and 5G as well as edge analytic including AI and situational awareness applications come to the fore. IoT devices, sensors, and actuators produce large amounts of data that require pre-processing at the edge for improved data processing efficiency and end to end security. Autonomous vehicles, smart factories, smart retail, medical robotics are among many applications that will benefit from increased edge server and edge client class processors processor modules or COMs available in standard modules that existing standards cannot meet.

The COM-HPC specification is based on two 400-pin, BGA mount, high-performance connectors and a system management interface. It is not limited to x86 processors and can be used with RISC processors, FPGAs and general purpose GPUs.

The COM-HPC client modules have up to 48 + 1 PCI Express Gen4/5 lanes, up to four USB4 ports and up to four video interfaces and one or two 25Gbit Ethernet interfaces.

Module sizes are 95 x 120mm (Size A), 120 x 120mm (Size B) and 160 x 120mm (Size C).

The COM-HPC server modules are characterised by up to 64 + 1 PCI Express Gen4/5 lanes, one or two USB4 ports, up to four graphic interfaces or are headless. There are up to eight 25Gbit Ethernet interfaces.

Module sizes are 160 x 160mm and 200 x 160mm (Sizes D and E respectively).

Founded in 1994, PICMG is a not-for-profit 501(c) consortium of companies and organisations that collaboratively develop open standards for high performance industrial, Industrial IoT, military and aerospace, telecommunications, test and measurement, medical, and general-purpose embedded computing applications. There are over 130 member companies that specialise in a wide range of technical disciplines, including mechanical and thermal design, single board computer design, high-speed signalling design and analysis, networking expertise, backplane, and packaging design, power management, high availability software and comprehensive system management.

Key standards families developed by PICMG include COM Express, CompactPCI, CompactPCI Serial, AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, COM Express, SHB Express, MicroSAM, and HPM (Hardware Platform Management).

https://www.picmg.org

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Open and code-free software raises productivity for AI edge deployments

Tue, Dec 15, 2020

Claimed to be the industry’s first open and code-free software platform to span the complete edge AI operational workflow from idea to development, deployment and management, AI Studio is by Blaize. The company says it dramatically reduces edge AI application deployment complexity, time, and cost by breaking the barriers within existing application development and machine learning operations (MLOps) infrastructure. It eliminates the complexities of integrating disparate tools and workflows, and introduces multiple ease-of-use and intelligence features. According to Blaize, AI Studio reduces models moving to deployment to months from days.

AI studio introduces user interface, collaborative marketplaces, end-to-end application development and operational management. It can be deployed with the Blaize AI edge computing hardware for application development and MLOps.

The AI Studio code-free visual interface is intuitive, with speech commands such as “Hey Blaize” to summon a contextually intelligent assistant with an expert knowledge-driven recommendation system to guide users through the workflow.

Users can deploy models with one click to plug into any workflow across multiple open standards including ONNX, OpenVX, containers, Python, or GStreamer. According to Blaize, no other solution offers the same degree of open standard deployment support, as most are proprietary and lock in users with limited options. Support for these open standards allows AI Studio to deploy to any hardware that fully supports the standards.

Marketplaces support allows users to discover models, data and complete applications from public or private networks and to collaborate continuously to build and deploy AI applications.

AI Studio supports open public models, data marketplaces and repositories, and provides connectivity and infrastructure to host private marketplaces. Users can continually scale proven AI edge models and vertical AI solutions to effectively reuse across enterprises, choosing from hundreds of models with drag and drop ease to speed application development

The AI Studio model development workflow allows users to easily train and optimise models for specific datasets and use cases, and deploy quickly into multiple formats and packages. Its Transfer Learning feature quickly retrains imported models for the user’s data and use case. Another feature is the edge-aware optimisation tool, NetDeploy, which automatically optimises the models to the user’s specific accuracy and performance needs. Users can build and customise complete application flows other than neural networks, such as image signal processing, tracking or sensor fusion functions.

AI Studio helps users deploy, manage, monitor and continuously improve their edge AI applications. It is built on a cloud-native infrastructure based on microservices, containers and Kubernetes, for scalable and reliable production, says Blaize.

Application areas are smart retail, smart city and industry 4.0 projects. AI Studio is available now to qualified early adopter customers, with general availability in Q1 2021. The AI Studio product offering includes licenses for individual seats, enterprise, and on-premise subscriptions, with product features and services suited to the needs of each license type.

http://www.blaize.com

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800G test from Keysight Technologies validates next-gen data centres

Tue, Dec 15, 2020

Keysight Technologies has released 800G test solutions for validating electrical and optical interfaces to speed development of next-generation data centre technologies, including what is believed to be the first 100Gbits per second transmitter and receiver pre-conformance test.

Service providers and data centre operators are seeking 800G technology to meet a growing demand in network capacity at the desired cost and power consumption targets. This is primarily driven by data-hungry applications such as video conferencing, streaming and digital entertainment, which are delivered via wireless technologies such as 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi.

Electrical and optical analysis enables an 800G ecosystem, consisting of optical components, chipset, switch and semiconductor IC vendors, as well as system integrators, to speed design, development, test and validation across the entire design cycle.

Dr. Joachim Peerlings, vice president of network and data centre solutions at Keysight Technologies, said: “Access to a portfolio of 800G test solutions across physical and protocol layers, from simulation to design, validation, conformance and manufacturing, enables our customers to verify interoperability and simplify testing across the workflow using common, uniform interfaces and software automation.”

Keysight Technologies’ 800G test solutions include a 100Gbits per second electrical conformance test. It is believed to be first pre-conformance test solution for validating both transmitter and receiver electrical signalling input interfaces according to the 100Gb/s standard currently under development by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

It also includes Keysight’s Infiniium UXR-Series real-time oscilloscope or digital communication analyser (DCA), 64Gbaud high performance bit error rate tester (BERT) and pre-conformance test cases for simplified 100, 200, 400 and 800Gbits per second electrical input interface testing, resulting in accurate and repeatable test results.

There is pre-silicon design verification, combining Keysight’s IxVerify software, which generates network traffic, with the Synopsys ZeBu Server 4 emulation system to accelerate pre-silicon design verification of SoCs and 800G Ethernet designs.

This delivers consistent test methodologies, configurations and scripts to accelerate testing from pre-silicon to post-silicon device validation.

A 200Gbits per second option is designed for 800G research and pathfinding. It combines an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) and an Infiniium UXR-Series real-time oscilloscope to characterise the digital interface including error detection up to 224Gbits per second.

To extend testing into the optical domain, developers can use Keysight’s 60GHz optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter.

The physical layer test system (PLTS) establishes signal integrity measurements and performs data post processing of high speed interconnects, such as cables, backplanes, PCBs and connectors.

It supports de-embedding techniques on a common platform, enabling users to optimise performance margins in 800G channel designs.

According to Keysight, the components are designed to allow users to fully explore design margins, while addressing design and conformance validation challenges in an 800G transceiver market, which is expected to reach $2.5 billion by 2029 according analyst, CIR.

http://www.keysight.com

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Semtech and AWS Collaborate on AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN®

PICMG prepares the open COM-HPC specification for ratification

Open and code-free software raises productivity for AI edge deployments

800G test from Keysight Technologies validates next-gen data centres

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