Design

With the Smart Manager 4.0, STV Electronic introduces a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ based DIN rail PC for control cabinets that makes it easy for users to implement complex control engineering and building automation tasks with open source based hardware and software.

Lynx Software Technologies has announced updated APIs for the LynxOS-178 operating system that meet FACE (Future Airborne Capability Environment) 3.0 specifications, with full conformance certification to the FACE 3.0 technical standard expected by late summer 2020.

In support of engineers who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Radica Software has announced that it is offering a 30% discount for its Electra Cloud electrical CAD software. The discount is offered from March 23rd to April 22nd, 2020 and it is applicable for purchase of Electra Cloud Standard or Professional licenses only, on its first annual billing cycle.

It has been announced that SEGGER’S products are fully compatible with SiFive’s RISC-V processor cores, and now its J-Link probes deliver support for the new SiFive Insight debug/trace platform. This includes SiFive’s latest Nexus-based trace implementation, which enables ongoing monitoring and recording of processor instruction execution.

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.