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Aaeon joins with Lips to accelerate Nvidia’s Isaac AI

Fri, Dec 04, 2020

Industrial vision and robotic applications are the target applications for an Nvidia Isaac certified combination of Aaeon’s Boxer-8240AI (powered by Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier), with Lips’ Lipsedge AE400 industrial 3D camera.

Nvidia Isaac software development kit (SDK) is believed to be the industry’s first robotic AI development platform to include simulation, navigation and manipulation. These features help Isaac SDK users to quickly program, train, fine tune, revise and deploy industrial AI. With Nvidia Isaac certification, the Boxer-8240AI with LIPSedge AE400 camera can help power and accelerate the development of smart factory applications, for example autonomous guided vehicles (AGV) and vision guided robots.

The Boxer-8240AI embedded AI edge box PC’s Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier features the 512-core Volta graphics processor unit (GPU) with 64 Tensor cores, capable of AI processing speeds up to 32Terra operations per second. The Boxer-8240AI is rugged and fanless design to operate in almost any industrial environment, with an I/O load including four Gigabit LAN ports, which are particularly useful for industrial robotics and autonomous vehicles and robots, notes Aaeon.

The LIPSedge AE400 Industrial 3D camera features a rugged enclosure and IP67 classification, making it equally suitable for stringent industrial environments. It supports Gigabit Ethernet with PoE, allowing for faster data transfer and flexibility in deployment. The camera has been used extensively in industrial applications including 3D vision guided robots and AGV/AMR deployment. Lips also provides developers a suite of software tools to help build inferences and applications and reduce deployment time.

Lips provides AI-enabled 3D sensing. It designs, builds, and customises 3D depth cameras, middleware, and provide turnkey solutions. It delivers customised machine vision and AI for multiple industries.

Aaeon was established in 1992 and designs and manufactures industrial IoT and AI edge solutions.

Aaeon provides industrial motherboards and systems, rugged tablets, embedded AI Edge systems, uCPE network appliances, and LoRaWAN/WWAN products. It also works closely with cities and governments to develop and deploy smart city ecosystems and with premier chip designers to deliver stable, reliable platforms, and is recognized as an Nvidia Preferred Partner.

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Palm-sized industrial motherboard adds intelligence to machine vision

Thu, Dec 03, 2020

The AIMB-U233 is a palm-sized motherboard by Advantech that is targeted at smart applications. It is the first Core i platform in Advantech’s UTX family.

The small form factor design is powered by powerful 8th generation Intel Core processors (i3-8145UE / i5-8365UE / i7-8665UE). The AIMB-U233 motherboard combines high computing performance with diverse I/O ports and M.2 expansion slots for digital applications that require a small footprint, such as integrating into kiosks as well as medical and factory automation applications.

Smart factory applications require enhanced computing power integrated peripheral devices to enable machine vision and deep learning yet have limited installation spaces. The Advantech AIMB-U233 motherboard is compact (112 x 137mm) and offers four COM, four USB, two HDMI, two GbE LAN, 16-bit general purpose input/output (GPIO) and three M.2 expansion slots. The Intel Core i7-8665UE processor is particularly suitable for complex computing tasks, says Advantech.

The M.2 expansion slots allow increased functionality and flexible configuration options. The AIMB-U233 is equipped with M.2 M-key, M.2 E-key, and M.2 B-key compatibility to support diverse applications and boost computing performance. Combining the M.2 M-key interface with four-lane NVMe PCIe can increase storage read/write speeds up to 400 per cent compared to a traditional SATA 3.0 SSD. The system can automatically switch into SATA mode when a cost-effective SATA SSD is installed.

To meet the increasing demands of wireless connectivity, the M.2 E-key and M.2 B-key connectors can be used to integrate Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and 4G LTE modules and support a wide range of wireless applications. Both expansion slots can also be used for storage via a two-lane PCIE SSD (M.2 E-key) and/or SATA SSD (M.2 B-key). For machine vision applications in automated factories, the M.2 E-key connector supports the use of Advantech Movidius modules for artificial intelligence (AI) computing.

For security and to protect against cybersecurity attacks, the AIMB-U233 motherboard is equipped with TPM 2.0 to enable data security with hardware-based encryption and authentication. The provision of RAID support enables data mirroring to mitigate the impact of hardware failures.

Software options include the over the air (OTA) BIOS, offering seamless updates and a backup recovery mechanism to reduce the need for servicing by equipment technicians.

The board supports a number of Linux distributions and offers a Linux image based on Ubuntu 20.04, a part of the Windows 10 IoT.

To resolve minor computing glitches, the embedded USB controls can be used to discontinue power supply from the device. The COM ports can be configured to RS-232/422/485 mode via the BIOS, which is KVM-accessible through Intel vProtm.

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Smart facial recognition is now available at Rutronik UK

Fri, Nov 27, 2020

Distributor Rutronik UK is now stocking the Smart Panel PC MM8 from Holitech. It has intelligent face recognition and sensor-controlled temperature recording. The Smart Panel PC integrates into existing systems for secure access management.

The touch display, 2Mpixel camera, loudspeaker and temperature sensor are integrated in the housing. Data synchronisation is carried out via specially developed software on an external server connected to the MM8 via a network. The values are processed and, depending on the organiser’s specifications, appropriate commands are returned to the device. For the output of commands to external devices both an RS-232 and Wiegand interface are available.

Recognition time is less than 0.5 seconds, via the binocular infra red camera. The panel PC compares biometric data based on a stored profile and detects changes in a person. Photo or video material is distinguished from real people to deny unauthorised visitors access. There is an intelligent voice output and the display can also act as an information board, advises Rutronik.

The MM8 can be used as an internal access management system, using an optional smart card reader with a response time of 0.2 seconds, ISO14443A and cloud connection to track visitor presence in real time.

There is also a standalone version that is not connected to an external server. In this model, the internal memory scores with 8Gbyte, which has space for the data of over 100,000 people. The USB interface allows easy data extraction for internal analysis.

The fast, intuitive interaction capabilities of the MM8 make it suitable for public transport, airports, hospitals and care facilities, as well as for company access management and access for events.

Rutronik UK has a team of highly qualified UK employees with a broad experience of the electronics industry. Its parent company, Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente, is the third largest distributor in Europe and number 11 worldwide.

The broadline distributor supplies semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as boards, storage, displays and wireless products. The company‘s primary target markets are the automotive, medical, industrial, home appliance, energy and lighting industries.

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MCUs are validated for security, says NXP

Tue, Nov 24, 2020

Microcontrollers (MCUs) from NXP Semiconductors have received Level 2 certifications by both the PSA Certified scheme co-developed by Arm and the GlobalPlatform Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) using the secure protection profile for embedded processors. The LPC55S16 MCU is intended for IoT and Industrial edge applications, device security and data protection.

The LPC55S16 MCU is part of the NXP EdgeVerse computing and security portfolio and a member of the general purpose LPC5500 MCU series based on the Arm Cortex-M33 core. The MCU series is based on 40nm NVM process technology, and offers advanced security and mixed-signal capabilities.

The LPC55S16 MCU achieved PSA Certified Level 2, based on an assurance framework to showcase robustness of the security. The certification enables device manufacturers to reduce additional security testing and improve time to market. The laboratory evaluation against the PSA Root of Trust (PSA-RoT) security claims to demonstrate that the device can protect against scalable software attacks.

To achieve GlobalPlatform SESIP 2, the LPC55S16 MCU underwent source code analysis and penetration testing and was validated by an independent certification body. SESIP certification helps assure product security claims are tested and verified, and provides evidence of the LPC55S16 MCU’s resistance to basic attack potential. SESIP allows for customers to re-use the LPC55S16 MCU validation results in the certification process for their end applications.

The LPC55S16 MCU integrated security features include Arm TrustZone technology, which enables system-wide software protection with the ability to securely isolate peripherals to reduce the risk of attack on critical components. There is also an AES-256 accelerator which provides confidentiality and a secure hash algorithm (SHA2) accelerator provides integrity of secure communications and secure boot. A Prince module offers real-time encryption and decryption of the on-chip flash to provide both secure storage of data and asset protection of software IP.

The Casper Crypto co-processor enables hardware acceleration of various asymmetric cryptographic algorithms to establish secure connections, while a physical unclonable function (PUF) uses dedicated on-chip SRAM to construct unique device root keys (64 to 4096 bits) for secure storage. Other protection features are a 128-bit unique device serial number for identification (UUID) and a true random number generator (TRNG). A code watchdog enables integrity checking of execution flow of the firmware and a debug authentication protocol is provided for secure debugging.

The LPC55S16 MCU is part of the Certified EdgeLock Assurance program. Both the SESIP and PSA Certified testing and certifications were conducted by the independent security evaluation laboratory, Brightsight.

The i.MX LPC55S16 MCU family is available now.

http://www.nxp.com

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Aaeon joins with Lips to accelerate Nvidia’s Isaac AI

Palm-sized industrial motherboard adds intelligence to machine vision

Smart facial recognition is now available at Rutronik UK

MCUs are validated for security, says NXP

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