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Infineon combines Airoc Wi-Fi / Bluetooth in Nvidia Jetson for edge AI

Mon, May 30, 2022

Airoc Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity provides Wi-Fi 6 / 6E and low power wi-Fi 5 connectivity to Nvidia’s Jetson system on modules (SoMs) for developers to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) -enabled edge devices.

AI at the edge devices require reliable and instant Wi-Fi cloud connectivity for lifecycle management functions like deploying AI models through over the air (OTA) updates.

“In congested network environments, AI devices often encounter disconnections or low-data throughput, leading to poor user experience, explained Infineon. The Airoc Wi-Fi family delivers low latency, robust connectivity and high data throughput streaming, said Sivaram Trikutam, vice president, Wi-Fi product line at Infineon.

The Wi-Fi will be used for AI applications which require real time blending effects from live action to computer-generated images or videos, such as gaming and AR / VR (augmented reality / virtual reality) in industry applications. In these applications, high-throughput and low-latency wireless transmissions are critical and require simultaneous processing and streaming of data. Infineon said its Wi-Fi 6E solution, operating in the 6.0 to 7.0GHz band, minimises latency and prevents interruptions due to congested wireless networks. This is combined with the fast processing power of the Nvidia Jetson platform for AI-enabled devices in, for example, robotics, smart cities, healthcare, industrial, retail, energy and agriculture where processing in the cloud is blended with edge processing.

The Airoc CYW4373, CYW5459x and CYW5557x are available to design now. The Nvidia Jetson compute platform is claimed to be the leading AI at the edge compute platform with over one million developers. With pre-trained AI models, developer software development kits and support for cloud-native technologies across the full Jetson line up, intelligent machine manufacturers and AI developers can build and deploy software defined features on embedded and edge devices.

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Authenticator protects against counterfeiting with ECDSA and 1-Wire interface

Fri, May 27, 2022

To detect and protect products from counterfeiting or misuse, Analog Devices has introduced the DS28E30, a 1-Wire ECDSA secure authenticator.

The authenticator combines a fixed-function cryptographic toolbox based on the industry standard FIPS 186 elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) with secure storage of keys and application data and the single-contact 1-Wire interface for minimal interconnect requirement. Authentication is based on challenge/response sequences. Analog Devices said that the authenticator is easy to integrate into new or existing designs.

The DS28E30 provides secure features to enable the use of limited life tools, sensors, and other peripherals. Features include a monotonic, non-resettable, decrement-only counter and 1kbit of general-purpose EEPROM. It can optionally be ECDSA protected to store application data including end-product life cycle information.

The DE28E30 has a wide operating range of 1.62 to 5.25V and a temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees C.

The authenticator is supplied in a four-ball WLP with a 0.5mm pitch and measuring 1.2mm x 1.4mm. It is in full production and available now.

Analog Devices offers a suite of analogue and mixed signal, power management, radio frequency (RF), and digital and sensor technologies with more than 75,000 products in the industrial, communications, automotive, and consumer markets. ADI is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA.

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Impulse Embedded adds Nuvo-9000 embedded computer to its line card

Fri, May 27, 2022

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

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IoT tag has advanced M-FSK modulation for smart applications

Fri, May 27, 2022

Socionext, ZiFiSense and Techsor has developed the SC1330A LSI for IoT tag. The low cost LPWAN 2.0 LSI is claimed to be the industry’s first Advanced M-FSK LSI designed exclusively for upstream transmission. It supports sub-GHz ISM bands such as 418 to 510MHz and 815 to 930MHz. It features low power consumption, long distance transmission and high-speed mobile communications, for smart IoT applications such as environmental monitoring, logistics tracking, asset management, and automated meter reading.

Unlike devices such as those based on NB-IoT (Narrow Band-IoT) and LoRa, the Advanced M-FSK in the SC1330A supports uni-directional upstream transmission, because environmental monitoring, logistics tracking, asset management and automated meter reading often do not require downstream communications. Solely upstream transmission reduces costs and power consumption, explained Socionext. The SC1330A also has a carrier sense function that detects the presence of radio waves in specific frequency bands to prevent interference with other communication devices.

The IoT tag integrates a 32-bit RISC-V core, GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART and external interrupt interfaces and signal processing units in a single device. It is mounted in a 4.0 x 4.0mm QFN 24 package using high frequency signal processing and packaging technologies to reduce bill of materials costs, total IoT footprint and power consumption.

The SC1330A can be used in a range of cost-sensitive applications including consumer goods, asset management, and logistics tracking.

Compared with other LPWA systems, the energy efficient SC1330A consumes approximately 20mA when transmitting at 10mW (10dBm), said Socionext. It achieves a communication speed of one kbits per second at a distance of around three to 5.0km. The tag can also incorporate paper and coin batteries for extended life. For low-frequency communications applications, such as readings from smart meters and large-scale devices asset management, the SC1330A features up to 10 years of life expectancy.

Mass production will begin in calendar Q4 of 2022. The SC1330A can support a variety of protocols, it will be able to expand LPWAN world.

Socionext supplies SoCs for automotive, data center, networking and smart devices market sectors. Socionext is headquartered in Yokohama, and has offices in Japan, Asia, United States and Europe.

ZiFiSense was founded in 2013 in Cambridge, UK. It provides low power IoT and wireless technologies and advocates the LPWA ZETA standard and use ZETA technology in smart buildings, logistics and factories.

Techsor is a start-up company established in October 2016 and the sole distributor in Japan for ZETA technologies and products. It is also a founding member of the ZETA Alliance. In collaboration with alliance companies, Techsor is promoting digital transformation such as smart building, smart agriculture, smart logistics, and smart health care using IoT technologies.

https://www.socionext.com/en/

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Infineon combines Airoc Wi-Fi / Bluetooth in Nvidia Jetson for edge AI

Authenticator protects against counterfeiting with ECDSA and 1-Wire interface

Impulse Embedded adds Nuvo-9000 embedded computer to its line card

IoT tag has advanced M-FSK modulation for smart applications

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