At embedded world 2024, automotive suppliers announced several significant advances to support the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and AI to enhance safety, performance and efficiency. The SDV and AI automotive market is expected to reach $700 billion by 2034, which is about 20% of the global car market, according to a new IDTechEx report. This translates into a 34% compound annual growth rate over the forecast period of 2023 to 2034. The market research firm attributes the significant growth to improvements in hardware capabilities, in-car connectivity and a shift in customer ..read more

Arrow Electronics, Inc. recently announced an intelligent vision ecosystem that uses the onsemi Imager Access System (IAS) module standard to develop intelligent vision solutions for applications such as robotics, machine vision and commercial cameras. The IAS module standard addresses the need to reduce design complexities when developing products that use image sensors. One of those challenges is the lack of standardization of the hardware interfaces for the different technology blocks. IAS module AP-VISION-AR0830-83 (Source: Arrow Electronics, Inc.) Arrow’s new IAS camera module (AP-VISI ..read more

Renesas Electronics Corp. has expanded its timing solution portfolio with the addition of the  FemtoClock 3 family, including ultra-low-jitter clock generators and jitter attenuators. The family includes an ultra-low 25 fs-rms jitter clock solution for wireline infrastructure, data center and industrial applications, exceeding 112 Gbits/s and 224 Gbits/s SerDes reference clock requirements. The new FemtoClock 3 family includes device variants with jitter attenuation, synchronization and clock generation capabilities with 8 and 12 outputs. These multiple operating modes in a sin ..read more

TDK Corp. has introduced two new types of the EPCOS InsuGate series (B78541A) transformers, part of the UI7 platform. These compact SMT transformers with a high working voltage target gate-driver applications for IGBTs and MOSFETs in e-mobility (qualification according to AEC-Q200 and the AQG vibration profile) and industrial electronics. Thanks to their low coupling capacitance of only 4 pF, the SMT transformers are also suited for use with silicon-carbide or gallium-nitride semiconductors, TDK said. (Source: TDK Corp.) These transformers feature a MnZn ferrite core and are designed f ..read more

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has introduced two new series of blue and true green surface-mount LEDs in the ultra-compact miniLED package. The Vishay Semiconductors high-brightness VLMB2332T1U2-08 and VLMTG2332ABCA-08 miniLEDs use the latest ultra-bright InGaN chip technology to achieve typical luminous intensity of 440 mcd and 2300 mcd, respectively. This is up to four times higher than previous generations in PLCC-2 packages. (Source: Vishay Intertechnology) The miniLEDs, measuring 2.2 × 1.3 × 1.4 mm, are suited for small-scale, high-power products that need to operate in harsh envir ..read more

Renesas Electronics Corp. has added new features and expanded coverage for its Quick-Connect Studio, a cloud-based embedded system design platform, first introduced in 2023. The platform allows users to graphically co-optimize hardware and software, validate prototypes and accelerate product development.  Users can build a full solution in the cloud and deploy to hardware in less than 10 minutes. (Source: Renesas Electronics Corp.) Quick-Connect Studio enables users to drag and drop device and design blocks in the cloud to build their applications. Users can generate, compile and build ..read more

Silicon Labs has launched its first family of wireless SoCs that meet ultra-low-power requirements for battery-free, energy-harvesting applications. The new xG22E family of wireless SoCs are comprised of the BG22E, MG22E and FG22E series for building Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), 802.15.4-based or sub-GHz wireless devices for battery-optimized and battery-free devices that can harvest energy from external sources in their environments like indoor or outdoor ambient light, ambient radio waves, and kinetic motion. Ambient IoT is a growing trend in the IoT sp ..read more

Ambiq has unveiled the first member of its Apollo5 family of SoCs, the Apollo510. Addressing the need for greater power efficiency and fast performance to deploy today’s speech, vision, health and industrial AI models on battery-powered devices, the company claims that the MCU delivers 30× better power efficiency and 10× faster performance. (Source: Ambiq) The 30× energy improvement can support most of today’s endpoint AI calculations, including low-power sensor monitoring, always-on voice commands and telco-quality audio enhancement. IoT devices performing AI/ML inferencing, such as next-g ..read more

SiTime Corp. has unveiled its Chorus family of clock generators with integrated MEMS resonators for precision timing in AI data center applications. Called a MEMS-based clock-system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC) family, the Chorus clock chips offer 10× higher performance in half the size, compared with standalone oscillators and clocks. The family is comprised of the SiT91211 (150 fs) and SiT91213 (70 fs) devices. Data centers use multiple precision timing devices for every instance of an application. These can range from one to three timing devices for every network interface card (NIC), up to eight to ..read more

AMD has introduced the second generation of its Versal adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio with the launch of the new Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs. These portfolios deliver solutions from edge sensors to centralized compute, offering increasing amounts of AI and adaptive compute to allow customers to select the right performance, power and area footprints for their applications. (Source: AMD) The first devices in the Versal Series Gen 2 portfolio build on the first generation with new AI engines, delivering up to 3× higher TOPs-per-watt th ..read more