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Radar test system simulates driving scenarios for ADS and autonomous cars

Fri, Sep 15, 2023

At next week’s European Microwave Week (EuMW 2023), Rohde & Schwarz will introduce a radar test system which simulates driving scenarios for testing radar-based advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and radar sensors used in automated driving cars over the air.

New options for the company’s R&S AREG800A automotive radar echo generator and the R&S QAT100 antenna array generate “extremely short distances” for the artificial objects, and therefore enables realistic autonomous braking tests with the smallest distance possible, claimed Rohde & Schwarz.

The radar test system can be used for radar object simulation, from single sensor tests to 360 degree environments, covering 76 to 81GHz for automotive radar sensors. Its scalability and adaptability allow a range of ADAS traffic scenarios to be electronically generated along the whole testing lifecycle.

It also enables tests currently performed in real-world test drives to be relocated to the lab, enabling errors to be detected at an early stage and delivering significant cost savings.

The R&S AREG800A automotive radar echo generator operates as a backend and the R&S QAT100 antenna array acts as a frontend in the systems which can be used in benchtop development, hardware-in-the-loop and vehicle-in-the-loop. For production, the R&S AREG800A automotive radar echo generator operates as a backend and the R&S AREG8-24/81S/D antenna is a frontend.

The AREG800A is claimed to provide a higher instantaneous bandwidth to improve the distance resolution. With the mmW remote frontends R&S AREG8-81S/D, the instantaneous bandwidth will be extended from 4.0 to 5GHz, offering a future proof solution so that the users can measure their automotive radars using a higher bandwidth.

A new feature for near object range allows minimum distance of one or more artificial objects to be reduced down to the airgap value of the radar under test.

For the R&S QAT100 a new option is R&S QAT-B1 Enhanced Flatness. It contains a detailed characterisation of each antenna of the QAT frontends. With this option, the accuracy of the amplitude flatness of all antennas is improved when operated with R&S AREG800A.

http://www.rohde-schwarz.com

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STM32H5 discovery kit builds a case for secure, smart, connected devices

Fri, Sep 15, 2023

Support for Secure Manager, a turnkey SoC which integrates core security services certified and maintained by ST is included in the STM32H5 discovery kit by STMicroelectronics.
The development board is for creating diverse applications with the company’s STM32H5 microcontrollers. The STM32H5 devices are intended for high performance processing and advanced security in a wide range of applications, including smart sensors, smart appliances, industrial controllers, networking equipment, personal electronics and medical devices.   The STM32H573I-DK discovery kit enables developers to explore all the integrated features of the STM32H5, such as analogue peripherals, timers, the ST ART (Adaptive Real-Time) accelerator, media interfaces and mathematical accelerators. This makes it easy to evaluate new designs for industrial programmable logic controllers (PLC), motor drives, and smart controllers for appliances, for example, air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines. Other potential applications include alarm controllers, communication hubs and smart lighting controls.
The STM32H573I-DK Discovery kit is a development board that includes an STM32H5 microcontroller, colour touch display, digital microphone, and interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi. The board also features an audio codec, flash memory, and headers for connecting expansion shields and daughterboards.
To simplify the development process, the STM32CubeH5 microcontroller software package consolidates all the necessary components required to develop an application on the STM32H5, including examples and application code. The package is fully integrated into the STM32Cube ecosystem, which contains additional software to assist with application development. ST also offers the STM32CubeMX tool for configuring and initialising the microcontroller.
The STM32H5 microcontroller features the Arm Cortex-M33 embedded microcontroller core running at 250MHz and is the first microcontroller to support ST’s Secure Manager SoC security solutions. The microcontrollers combine Arm TrustZone security with ST’s STM32Trust framework to provide trusted storage, cryptography, attestation and updates. They embed side-channel protected hardware cryptographic accelerators and target recognised security certifications, PSA Certified Level 3 and GlobalPlatform SESIP3.
ST has created the STM32H573I-DK Discovery kit with examples showing how to use the security services and integrated all the necessary software tools and support in the STM32Cube development ecosystem.
The Discovery kit as well as the H5 Nucleo Board Nucleo-H563ZI are available now available from ST’s eStore and authorised distributors.

https://www.st.com

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Arduino board meets EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements

Thu, Sep 14, 2023

The Arduino Portena X8 is claimed to be the first system on module (SoM) to meet all the requirements of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act, on receipt.

It uses Foundries.io’s security technology to meet provisions such as provides capabilities making the Arduino Portenta X8 the industry’s first system-on-module (SoM) to meet all the requirements of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on shipment to a customer.

The CRA mandates a minimum set of security features for all IoT devices marketed in Europe from 2025. The legislation requires device OEMs to build in functionality to secure each device, its software and its connections. The OEM must also be able to rapidly identify and fix any exposures to a known vulnerability in any production device in the field, for the full lifespan of those devices.

Foundries.io provides cloud-native development and deployment DevOps solutions for secure IoT and edge devices and has provided hardware and software security and operational features required for compliance with the CRA for the lifetime of each device for the Portenta X8 SoM.

Developers who use the Portenta X8 SoM can manage device authentication, secure storage, provisioning, a software bill of materials (SBoM) and over-the-air (OTA) updating, in a single, cloud-based user environment. The system is secure against all known forms of cyber-attack and malware, said foundries.iom and enables rapid, device-specific responses to emerging common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) notices.

Arduino said it has met the requirements of the CRA by building the Linux microPlatform (LmP) and FoundriesFactory DevOps product from Foundries.io into the Portenta X8 SoM. To maintain Linux distribution Arduino develops and provides updates to the Linux microPlatform operating system using the secure The Update Framework (TUF) -compliant OTA updating utility in the FoundriesFactory product.

The Portenta X8 offers secure boot, a trusted execution environment, remote attestation, key installation, cloud authentication, TUF-compliant secure OTA updating and an SBoM that is automatically generated after every software update.

The X8 Board Manager tool provides a visual interface that ensures a user experience familiar to users of the Arduino EE development environment.

Fabio Violante, CEO of Arduino, said: “When deploying Linux-based edge devices, security cannot be an afterthought. That’s why we designed the Arduino Portenta X8 giving the highest priority to security features, end to end. This spans from hardware and firmware to the Linux distribution and device management with FoundriesFactory technology. This allowed us to be naturally CRA-compliant from the very beginning.”

John Weil, chief marketing officer of Foundries.io, said: ‘Normally, SoM manufacturers supply their boards with a sample Linux distribution that is not maintained after shipment to the customer, and with none of the security infrastructure such as an SBoM tool and OTA update utility required to maintain device security for life.

“The Portenta X8 has become the first SoM to provide a straightforward path to full compliance with the EU’s CRA, right out-of-the-box”.

https://foundries.io/.

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IoT design kit from Würth Elektronik is Microsoft Azure-certified

Wed, Sep 13, 2023

The Calypso IoT design kit is an evaluation kit with pre-installed firmware by Würth Elektronik which enables the creation and evaluation of secure end-to-end IoT solutions using Microsoft’s Azure IoT Central.
The design kit is a robust hardware platform for rapid prototyping comprising the Würth Elektronik FeatherWing sensor, its Calypso Wi-Fi FeatherWing, Adafruit’s FeatherWing OLED and Feather M0, which works with the ATSAMD21G18 ARM Cortex M0+ processor, in addition to the pre-installed firmware from Würth Elektronik.
The FeatherWing development board combines sensors, power modules and wireless connectivity in one kit. Hardware and software have been pre-tested and verified for integration into Microsoft’s Azure IoT central.
The Calypso IoT design kit makes it easy to develop the decentralised recording of sensor data, which are processed using the pre-installed UX und API interface Azure IoT Central. The FeatherWing sensor monitors MEMS absolute-pressure, three-axis acceleration, temperature, and relative-humidity sensors, all from Würth Elektronik. The Calypso IoT design kit can be used, for instance, to develop monitoring and control applications for areas such as industrial automation, the healthcare sector, smart home, smart cities, smart grids and smart farming.
“We have joined the Azure Certified Device Program to ensure that customers can swiftly implement IoT solutions using hardware and software tools that have been pre-tested and verified for integration into Azure IoT,” explained Adithya Madanahalli, IoT engineer at Würth Elektronik eiSos in the business unit for Wireless Connectivity & Sensors.
The Calypso IoT design kit is available now and can be combined with other FeatherWings in Würth Elektronik’s and Adafruit’s product portfolios.
Würth Elektronik eiSos Group is a manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components for the electronics industry. Würth Elektronik eiSos is one of the largest European manufacturers of passive components and is active in 50 countries. Production sites in Europe, Asia and North America supply a growing number of customers worldwide.
The product range includes EMC components, inductors, transformers, RF components, varistors, capacitors, resistors, quartz crystals, oscillators, power modules, Wireless Power Transfer, LEDs, sensors, radio modules, connectors, power supply elements, switches, push-buttons, connection technology, fuse holders and solutions for wireless data transmission.

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Radar test system simulates driving scenarios for ADS and autonomous cars

STM32H5 discovery kit builds a case for secure, smart, connected devices

Arduino board meets EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements

IoT design kit from Würth Elektronik is Microsoft Azure-certified

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