Believed to be the first radiometric thermal camera module with a 95 degree field of view, the Lepton 3.1R has 160 x 120 resolution and a scene dynamic range of up to 400 degrees C. Its wider field of view and scene temperature range enables people, fire and conditioning monitoring applications, said Teledyne FLIR.
The 3.1R model maintains the familiar compact and low power form factor of earlier Lepton thermal camera modules which are used in mobile, small electronics and uncrewed systems. The Lepton thermal micro camera module has been integrated into many devices, from ruggedised smartphones to drones. Mike Walters, vice president, product management at Teledyne FLIR, said: “Lepton 3.1R can now propel advancements in cost-saving and lifesaving unattended products ranging from early fire monitoring of critical machinery, electrical switchgear, and data centres to IoT products for smart factory, occupancy monitoring, smart homes, smart appliances, and even elderly care applications,” he said.
The Lepton 3.1R is a drop-in enhancement for existing Lepton-based products. It has the same visual object and space perception interface (VoSPI), inter-integrated circuit (I2C), and electrical and mechanical form and fit. It is claimed to have the lowest-cost focal plane array (FPA) -based thermal sensor on the market.
All Lepton modules include thermal sensitivity of less than 50mK for an uncooled micro thermal camera.
It also includes many proprietary technologies, including wafer-level detector packaging, wafer-scale microoptics, a custom ASIC and a low-cost, easy-to-integrate camera package. The Lepton family also includes integrated digital thermal image processing and radiometry, the ability to provide the temperature of every pixel in the scene.
To help reduce development costs and shorten time to market, users can take advantage of an online Lepton integration toolbox with application notes and source code for testing on Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone.
The Teledyne FLIR technical services team is available to support customers licensing MyFLIR application software and image-enhancing multi-spectral dynamic imaging (MSX) and Vivid-IR, helping customers reduce technical risk and maximise performance.
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Embedded chip antennas are small and durable for the IoT
Surface mounted embedded antennas have been added to the antenna portfolio by Amphenol RF. The surface mounted chip antennas offer electrical performance up to 8.5GHz and support cellular 4G/5G-FR1 frequencies as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRa, UWB and GNSS.
The embedded RF antennas are compact and have a durable construction, making them suitable for IoT and smart devices.
By surface mounting the chip antenna directly on the PCB, with antenna ensure there is no need for external antennas. They are manufactured from ceramic or FR-4 materials and are omnidirectional. In addition, said Amphenol RF, they are easy to tune and available in tape and reel packaging.
The small size of ceramic chip antennas enables efficient integration into compact devices where space is at a premium. These antennas are well suited for smart utility meters, robotics, intelligent transport systems, set-top boxes and gateways, and mobile electronic wallets.
Amphenol RF provides local technical support and matching of antennas.
Amphenol RF manufactures coaxial connectors for use in radio frequency, microwave, and data transmission system applications. Headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Amphenol RF has sales, marketing and manufacturing locations in North America, Asia and Europe. Standard products include RF connectors, coaxial adapters and RF cable assemblies. Custom engineered products include multi-port ganged interconnect, blind mate and hybrid mixed-signal solutions.
Software Risk Manager simplifies application security testing
Software which combines policy-driven test orchestration and vulnerability management is available from Synopsys to simplify and streamline application security testing.
“Application security programs need to be effective and efficient at reducing software risk in order to deliver value,” said Jason Schmitt, general manager of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group. “Many organisations embracing digital transformation are struggling with the complexity and operational costs of managing their software risk at scale. Synopsys Software Risk Manager provides teams with a holistic view of their application security posture while accelerating time to value and reducing the overall cost of their AppSec programs.”
The application security posture management (ASPM) software enables security and development teams to simplify, align and streamline application security testing across projects, teams and application security testing (AST) tools. It aligns intelligent policy-driven orchestration and vulnerability management capabilities with the Synopsys Software Integrity Group’s SAST and SCA engines, with support for other open source and commercial AST tools. The ASPM software also delivers an enhanced ability to implement application security consistently across any organisation, said Synopsys.
ASPM analyses security signals across software development, deployment, and operations to improve visibility, better manage vulnerabilities and enforce controls. Security leaders can use ASPM to improve application security efficacy and better manage risk, said market analyst, Gartner.
The analyst company predicts that by 2026, more than 40 per cent of organisations developing proprietary applications will adopt ASPM to rapidly identify and resolve application security issues.
Software Risk Manager is built Synopsys’ Code Dx and Intelligent Orchestration products which have been redesigned and enhanced to deliver a comprehensive ASPM solution. The software allows teams to implement policy driven application security at scale. It allows users to centrally define and enforce universal security policies which specify parameters for test execution and vulnerability management. It also allows users to maximise existing security investments by unifying disparate application security testing tools. It also allows users transition and consolidate tools across teams.
Consolidating vulnerability reporting and management across projects, teams and tools allows users to obtain a complete picture of security risks that is normalised, deduplicated and prioritised across tools.
Another function of the Software Risk Manager is to integrate security workflows within existing developer toolchains and systems and enable quick onboarding for existing projects and builds.
Synopsys Software Integrity Group provides software security products and services and interoperates with third-party and open source tools. Synopsys specialises in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and a portfolio of application security testing tools and services. Customers are SoC designers creating advanced semiconductors and software developers.
Accelerators extend Hailo-8 AI portfolio for edge AI
The Hailo-8 Century and Hailo-8L AI accelerators have been added to the Hailo-8 portfolio to enable high performance AI in edge devices ranging from entry level to high-capacity deployments, said Hailo.
The Hailo-8 AI accelerator offers hundreds of successful deployments in customer programs and products. The new high-performance Hailo-8 Century PCIe card line offers up to 208T operations per second (TOPS) for most demanding applications. Hailo adds that the Hailo-8L makes advanced AI processing available for entry-level applications.
“The expansion of our Hailo-8 AI accelerator portfolio is unlocking new opportunities for our customers to harness real-time, power-efficient intelligence in a diverse range of applications and industries,” said Orr Danon, CEO of Hailo. “With the rise of generative AI driven applications, our . . . solutions bring unmatched AI performance and power efficiency, enabling state-of-the-art transformer-based models such as ViT, CLIP and SAM, at the edge,” he said.
The Hailo-8L has up to 13TOPS and is designed to support entry level products requiring limited AI capacity or lower performance. The Hailo-8 Century line comprises PCIe cards delivering 52 to 208TOPS for demanding applications such as video management systems handling a large number of video streams. The Hailo-8 Century PCIe cards deliver best-in-class power efficiency at 400FPS per Watt on the ResNet50 benchmark model. They are also cost-efficient said Hailo, representing up to 70 per cent reduction in edge AI deployment costs. The robust design supports industrial temperature ranges and ensures compatibility with virtually any environment or application, said the company.
The Hailo-8 Century products can be used where AI compute power is large camera deployments is required, such as security, retail and smart cities for video analytics.
Hailo-8 Century and Hailo-8L deliver low latency, high efficiency processing and are capable of handling complex pipelines with multiple real-time streams and concurrent processing of multiple models and AI tasks. The expanded portfolio of Hailo-8 products features seamless scalability for future upgrades. All products are compatible with the same field-proven and comprehensive Hailo-8 software suite.
The Hailo-8L can run the benchmark classification model ResNet50 at 500 FPS, and the Century high performance PCIe cards can run this model at up to 10K FPS, outperforming Nvidia’s comparable products in performance, cost efficiency and power efficiency parameters.
Hailo is an AI-focused chipmaker, developing specialised AI processors that enable data centre-class performance on edge devices. The processors are designed to fit into smart machines and devices, impacting a variety of sectors including automotive, security, industry 4.0 and retail.
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