Embedded news

• The banality of bringup evil February 19, 2019
  In the late stages of bringing up an embedded system, your job should be a simple walk through a checklist, with maybe a simple oversight here and there to correct. Why are you taking so long to sign this off? We’ve all been there.
• Interrupts in the Nucleus SE RTOS February 19, 2019
  Interrupts are not controlled by an RTOS such as Nucleus SE. Their execution time is simply “stolen” from the mainline application, so all interrupt service routines should be simple, short and fast.
• AI chip evolution will soon take new direction says AI pioneer February 19, 2019
  More powerful and varied accelerators will be needed to handle algorithms researchers are creating for unsupervised neural networks, said Yann LeCun.
• Understanding the real limits of current AI technology February 18, 2019
  Noriko Arai, who launched the Can a Robot Get into a Top University? project in 2011, compares her robot that arrives at statistically correct answers without understanding a thing, with Japanese kids with limited reading skills.
• Inertial sensor features machine-learning core boosts accuracy of activity tracking with machine learning February 15, 2019
  The integrated machine learning core boosts intelligence and lowers battery runtime for motion-based applications in smartphones and wearables.
• UWB chipset to support mobile security standard February 15, 2019
  Decawave has released its roadmap for an ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset family that is targeted at providing mobile transaction security in smartphones, wearables, and other connected devices.
• Software suite simplifies motor control designs February 15, 2019
  The X-CUBE-MCSDK motor-control software development kit contains firmware libraries and the STM32 Motor Control Workbench graphical configurator, which allows direct access to firmware examples and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and Low Layer (LL) APIs.
• RISC-V initiative leverages standard platform for custom designs February 14, 2019
  The RISC-V instruction set architecture is an open framework that allows design of a customized processor that can leverage tools and software libraries created for the standard versions.
• RISC-V proponents tackle software ecosystem February 14, 2019
  The open-source architecture faces a long road through software standards from its beachhead as an SoC controller to use as a host processor.
• Arduino offers IoT cloud platform February 14, 2019
  The public beta release of the Arduino IoT Cloud features automatic dashboard generation as well as webhooks and Transport Layer Security (TLS) support.