IoT

Arrow Electronics, Panasonic Industry and STMicroelectronics have collaborated to provide low power, wireless, multi-sensors, edge intelligence modules for smart factory and smart home applications.

Arrow contributes engineering and global distribution capabilities for Panasonic Industry’s IoT modules which are based on the ST Microelectronics BlueTile (STEVAL-BCN002V1B) multi-sensor development kit. The kit is designed to enable customers to test ideas and bring IoT products to market faster.

The IoT Solution Module features ST’s latest BlueNRG Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 SoC, paired with inertial, environmental and audio sensors. The on-board sensors enable the cost-effective delivery of a range of IoT applications for smart factory and smart home applications.

The module reduces bill of materials cost by combining an accelerometer and gyroscope with time of flight, pressure and humidity sensors with Bluetooth communications. The low power design enables OEM customers to “dramatically slash time-to-market and reduce design expense and complexity using certified modules,” said Arrow.

“The modern embedded design requires sensors and wireless connectivity. This is accelerating based on the breadth of wireless standards being integrated into products. However, using sensors and designing the supporting circuitry for the task would take a lot of time and resources to develop,” explained Matthias Hutter, vice president of product management and supplier marketing at Arrow Electronics in EMEA.

“Additional certification time is needed . . . . Using pre-qualified wireless sensor modules in the system design [saves] development time and budget which speeds up time to market for our customers. By working with ST and Panasonic we are bringing the fundamental sensor and wireless building blocks in a great package for accelerated design,” he concluded.

Distributor Arrow Electronics liaises with 175,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers.

Panasonic Industry Europe is part of the global Panasonic Group and provides automotive and industrial products and services in Europe.

The company’s portfolio covers key electronic components, devices and modules up to complete solutions and production equipment for manufacturing lines across a broad range of industries. Panasonic Industry Europe is part of the global company.

STMicroelectronics is a semiconductor company, specialising in intelligent and energy-efficient products and solutions, enabling smarter driving and smarter factories, cities and homes, along with the next generation of mobile and IoT devices.

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Claimed to be the industry’s first secure Ethernet smart network interface controller (NIC), the Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC is designed to meet the growth in enterprise and cloud scale-out workloads.

The 25/50Gbits per second Ethernet smart NIC is the 11th generation product in the ConnectX family. It is designed for data centres, where 25Gbits per second connections are becoming standard for handling demanding workflows, such as enterprise applications, artificial intelligence (AI) and real-time analytics.

The ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC SmartNIC extends accelerated computing by leveraging software-defined, hardware-accelerated engines to offload more security and network processing from CPUs, explained Nvidia.

Accelerated security features such as IPsec in-line cryptography and hardware root of trust, and a 10-fold performance improvement for connection tracking, enable zero trust security throughout the data centre.

According to the company, best-in-class remote direct memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE), provides GPUDirect RDMA acceleration for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage, to accelerate computing and high-speed video transfer applications and to offload networking. The zero touch RoCE (ZTR) affords scalable, easy-to-deploy, best-in-class RoCE without switch configuration, added Nvidia.

The Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx provides two ports of 25Gbits per second, or a single port of 50Gbits per second and Ethernet connectivity with PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 x8 host connectivity.

Accelerated switching and packet processing (ASAP2), with built-in SR-IOV and VirtIO hardware offloads for virtualisation and containerization, to accelerate software-defined networking and connection tracking for next-generation firewall services

ConnectX-6 Lx is sampling now, with general availability expected in Q3 2020.

Mellanox SmartNICs and software are used in cloud, hyperscale and enterprise data centers, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and financial services systems around the world.

Nvidia is credited with inventing the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. The GPU is credited with sparking the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionised parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.

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