Design

Septentrio has announced that it is starting high-volume production of mosaic-X5,the next-generation multi-constellation and multi-band receiver module, which brings ultra-precise positioning for high-volume applications.

The newly announced Smart Gateway Platform (SGP) from STMicroelectronics provides a valuable development tool for prototyping automotive Smart-Gateway and Domain-Controller applications.

Renesas Electronics has announced three easy to use Power Management IC (PMIC) reference designs for powering the multiple supply rails of Xilinx Artix-7 FPGAs, Spartan-7 FPGAs, and Zynq-7000 SoCs, with and without DDR memory.

The German company PEAK-System Technik has expanded its product range by the freely programmable PCAN-Router Pro FD. The router connects the data traffic of up to six modern CAN FD or classic CAN buses. The routing from CAN to CAN FD or vice versa allows the integration of new CAN FD applications into existing CAN 2.0 buses.

congatec has announced that SGET has approved the new SMARC 2.1 specification for embedded vision. With Christian Eder as editor, congatec was reportedly instrumental in shaping the specification. 

IAR Systems has launched a new version of its functional safety edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas’ RX Family of  safety-critical application microcontrollers (MCUs). This new version adds extended capabilities including IDE features for improved user experience, stack protection and support for the latest C18 and C++17 language standards.

Manufacturers can now realise the design and productivity benefits of On-Machine I/O modules on smart machines used in harsh applications. 

Fifteen years ago Wind River became a commercial Linux provider for the embedded industry. At the time it was driven by one of our largest Telecom customers making a transition from proprietary RTOS to open source and Linux. Guest blog written by Glenn Seiler

Biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints) has announced the expansion of its Biometric Software Platform (FPC-BEP) for access control solutions. Fingerprints has tailored its successful payments software platform to support access control device makers, card manufacturers and system integrators in adding biometric authentication to their logical and physical access implementations.

Qorvo’s QPF7219 integrated front end module (iFEM) is now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics.