Andreas Knoll

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“JUMPtec is now our brand for Computer-on-Modules”

2 weeks ago | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

Kontron is reviving the embedded computing brand JUMPtec. It will represent Computer-on-Modules (CoMs) with connectors to carrier boards, both as standard products and as highly customized ones. Peter Müller, Managing Director of JUMPtec GmbH, explains the background. Markt&Technik: What strategy is behind Kontron's decision to revive the JUMPtec brand and even establish JUMPtec GmbH at the former JUMPtec site in Deggendorf? There must have been a clear rationale at Kontron ...
Development of AI-based embedded software

2 months ago | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

Embedded AI makes it easier for engineers to cope with the increasing complexity of technical systems. But how can AI-supported embedded software be developed, verified and debugged? Frank Graeber, Manager Application Engineering at MathWorks, provides the answers. What role does AI play today in embedded software, e.g. for controls and predictive maintenance applications?
Developing Software Early - in the Cloud

2 months ago | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

How does development in the cloud work with the automotive reference platform from Arm and TRACE32 from Lauterbach? The Lauterbach booth at embedded world will provide the necessary information. In order to be able to start software development as early as possible before real chips are available (in sufficient numbers), development is increasingly being started on virtual targets in the cloud.
Tasking acquires LDRA

2 months ago | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

Development tools for safety & security 13. Februar 2025, 15:10 Uhr | Andreas Knoll Tasking, a Munich-based manufacturer of tools for the development of embedded software, has acquired LDRA, a provider of tools for code analysis, testing and verification. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Tasking's range of development tools in the area of safety and security.
Sick Takes Over Tech Startup Accerion

Jan 27, 2025 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

Sick, a provider of sensor-based automation solutions based in Waldkirch near Freiburg, has acquired the Dutch technology company Accerion. Accerion specializes in AI-based image processing for the positioning of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR). AMR are primarily used in logistics and manufacturing. They enable higher efficiency through automation in warehousing, intralogistics, manufacturing, and many other industrial sectors.
NXP Semiconductors Acquires TTTech Auto

Jan 15, 2025 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

NXP Semiconductors has announced that it will acquire TTTech Auto, a Vienna-based provider of safety-critical system and middleware solutions for software-defined vehicles (SDVs). The acquisition is expected to be an all-cash transaction in the amount of 625 million US dollars. Subject to regulatory approvals, TTTech Auto will join NXP's automotive team with its management team, intellectual property, assets and approximately 1100 engineers.
Kontron revives the JUMPtec brand

Jan 15, 2025 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

Computer-on-Modules 15. Januar 2025, 14:36 Uhr | Andreas Knoll JUMPtec is back: Kontron has now revived the embedded computing brand. Computer-on-Modules (CoMs) based on the COM Express, COM-HPC, SMARC and Qseven standards are offered under the JUMPtec brand - as standard products and customized products for specific applications. In 2002, the former stock corporations Kontron and JUMPtec merged; the JUMPtec brand was then gradually abandoned.
Inovance presents industrial robots in Europe

Nov 23, 2024 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

The industrial automation company Inovance Technology, based in Shenzhen, China, has presented its new product series of articulated arm and SCARA industrial robots to the European market at the SPS trade fair. Inovance also presented an environmentally friendly motor and drive: the MV33 AC motor and the MD630 universal frequency inverter, which meets the relatively strict European environmental requirements. The “IntelliPulse” design philosophy for the entire product range was also presented.
IO-Link opens up new fields of application with new technologies

Nov 18, 2024 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

The IO-Link community is focusing on consistent further development of the technology spectrum for the bidirectional IO-Link sensor/actuator point-to-point connection. New features include a “low-power long-range” wireless technology based on IO-Link and Mioty as well as an IoT connection via MQTT. IO-Link continues to grow. This is reflected on the one hand in the large number of 51.6 million installed nodes at the turn of 2023/2024, and on the other hand in the variety of different devices.
OPC UA FX controllers now in the OPC UA certification program

Nov 15, 2024 | elektroniknet.de | Andreas Knoll

The industry consortium OPC Foundation has added the OPC UA Field eXchange (OPC UA FX) standard for data exchange via OPC UA down to the field level to its OPC UA certification program. With this the OPC UA Certification Program provides a formal testing and certification process for controllers that implement the OPC UA FX specification series (OPC 10000-80, OPC 10000-81, OPC 10000-82, OPC 10000-83 and OPC 10000-84) for controller-to-controller communication.