IAR announced enhancements to its premier development environment to support the first general-purpose 32-bit RISC-V MCUs with Renesas’ internally developed CPU core. This enhanced offering includes advanced debugging capabilities and sophisticated compiler optimizations fully integrated with the Renesas Smart Configurator toolkit, design examples, rich documentation, and support for the Renesas fast prototyping board (FPB).  As […] The post Advanced development tools tailored for general-purpose, 32-bit RISC-V MCUs appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation introduced the new generation FerriSSD NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 BGA SSD. This latest solution features support for i-temp and integrates advanced IntelligentSeries technology, delivering robust data integrity in extreme temperature environments that meet the rigorous demands of industrial embedded systems and automotive applications. The latest FerriSSD BGA SSD supports PCIe […] The post Compact SSDs support PCIe Gen 4×4 with enhanced data integrality and i-temp compatibility appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the development of embedded processor technology that enables higher speeds and lower power consumption in microprocessor units (MPUs) that realize advanced vision AI. The newly developed technologies are as follows: (1) A dynamically reconfigurable processor (DRP)-based AI accelerator that efficiently processes lightweight AI models and (2) Heterogeneous architecture technology that enables […] The post High-speed, low-power embedded processor technology helps advance vision AI appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

MikroElektronika has unveiled v6.0 of NECTO Studio, the company’s complete, cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for embedded applications. The latest version has six new major features including: an enhanced graphics library with a brand new UI designer; CLANG & LLVM toolchains for ARM and RISC-V microcontrollers; CAN support; integrated DMA control; and RTC and LCD available […] The post Embedded development tool sharpens UI design appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

SEGGER introduces support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in emWin, providing developers with a powerful and efficient solution for rendering scalable and rotatable graphics in embedded applications. SVG is a vector-based image format written in XML. It is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is supported by most web […] The post Scalable vector graphics added embedded graphics library appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

The FAT Image Creator creates a complete file system while keeping the images as small as possible in the process. By storing only relevant data inside the image, production programming time is reduced to a minimum. A typical image of a size of 20 MB can be programmed in a few seconds. Because the FAT […] The post Command-line tool minimizes embedded system images appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

Rust is an emerging systems programming language that’s mostly used for memory management, safety, and performance. It’s a statically typed programming language like Java, C, and C++, where variable types are known at compile time, and it’s designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency and memory management. Rust’s low-level control and memory safety make […] The post What is Rust used for in an embedded system? appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

MikroElektronika has unveiled EmbeddedWiki – touted as the world’s largest embedded projects platform that already details over 1,000,000 designs based on 1500+ Click™ boards.  The platform covers 12 topics and 92 applications. Each reference design contains a full description of the project, plus a list of parts that are required. The user then selects their […] The post Embedded project platform boasts over 1 million designs based on 1500+ click boards appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

Silicon Labs announced the expansion of their microcontroller unit (MCU) development platform with a new family of 8-bit MCUs optimized for price and performance. These new MCUs join the PG2x family of 32-bit MCUs in sharing a single development platform, Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio, which is inclusive of all tools that are required like compilers, integrated development environments, and configurations. As […] The post 8-bit MCUs leverage common development platform appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more

Synaptics Incorporated announced the availability of the DVF120 power-efficient and cost-optimized system on chip (SoC) that leverages over a decade of Synaptics’ domain experience to integrate all major features required for advanced UCC terminals. The DVF120 includes AI-based audio/voice processing, a field-hardened Linux and Android SDK, enterprise-grade security, and low-power mode. Native support of popular collaboration […] The post Cost-optimized SoC includes AI-based audio and voice processing appeared first on Electrical Engineering News and Products ..read more