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Jan 15, 2025 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: How mini-lasers can project images into the eye. How laser projection can be used in augmented and virtual reality. Most augmented- and virtual-reality (AR/VR) systems present an image on a plane in front of the eye. TDK was showing off an alternate approach that projects images directly into the eye instead of having a person view the reflection of an image (Fig. 1). For AR, the advantage is that the display doesn't have to compete with the rest of the optics.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
Can you first start by giving us a brief overview of who Nano Dimension is, and what it is you do? Sure. We are a provider of additively manufactured electronics technology.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: How MIPS supports functional safety with RISC-V. What functionality is provided by MIPS RISC-V P8700 core? Why designers are looking to vendors like MIPS for solutions rather than the core IP. The rise of RISC-V has been rapid, but adoption within safety- and security-critical spaces requires implementations that can meet requirements like ISO 26262 and ASIL B/D.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: What developers find important when choosing an OS. Why OS safety and security is important to developers. BlackBerry QNX recently commissioned a survey targeted at developers and their consideration of operating system (OS) features such as safety and security. I talked with Winston Leung, Senior Manager at BlackBerry QNX, about the results. As one might expect these days, security sits atop the list of considerations of why one might switch OSes (Fig. 1).
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: Features of the R-Car X5H automotive system-on-chip family. How Renesas is taking advantage of chiplets. The R-Car X5H family is a fifth-generation automotive system-on-chip (SoC) developed by Renesas that supports ASIL B/D capabilities as well as a neural processing unit (NPU). Built on the latest 3-nm chip technology, enhanced versions of the SoC come courtesy of chiplet technology.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mwrf.com | David Maliniak |William Wong |Alix Paultre |James Morra
The electronica 2024 trade show, held in Munich, Germany, was once again one of the largest gatherings of electronic technology and product vendors in the world. With the show now in the rearview mirror, our editors who covered it, including Editor-at-Large, Alix Paultre, offer up some of the product highlights. New TechnologyThis section highlights some of the new announcements that stand out.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
By William G. Wong This rugged systems design event starts on December 2, 2024. At that time, we will provide a number of articles here, including an eBook version of these articles. We also have a webinar taking place on Tuesday of that week. Click on the link below to sign up. It will be available on-demand after that.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: What kinds of interfaces are used when prototyping peripheral modules? What are some of the prototyping peripheral form factors? Prototyping has never been easier with a range of standard modules like Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies' (SGeT) form factors such as SMARC, Qseven, OSM, and Embedded NUC. These plug into carrier boards that may contain peripherals or have connections for some of the peripheral standards noted here.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
What you'll learn: The difference between active electrical cables and active optical cables. How Point2 Technology's P1B121 retimer differs from DSP-based retimers. The cloud seems to demand as much bandwidth as possible to feed CPUs, GPUs, and artificial-intelligence (AI) accelerators (Fig. 1). 400G connections are the norm these days, and 800 G is where data-center management wants to be, but active optical cables (AOCs) can be pricey for connections within the rack or adjacent racks.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
electronicdesign.com | William Wong
Bluespec's soft-core processors can be used in FPGAs and ASICs, offering design flexibility that proprietary soft-core processors do not offer. Our processors are configurable as well, providing further flexibility to tailor the processing implementation to the application requirements. What applications do you see having the most adoption of soft-core processors? Bluespec's soft-core processors are general-purpose processors that can be used in most applications.
