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Embedded World: Area time-of-flight sensor scans the world in 3D

Onsemi ToF area depth sensor

Onsemi has released 1.2Mpixel time-of-flight (iToF) matrix sensors for 3D imaging fast-moving objects. “By using proprietary global shutter pixel architecture and on-board storage, the Hyperlux ID family can capture an entire scene and simultaneously process depth measurement in real-time,” according to the company. “This approach enables depth sensing up to 30 meters. Additionally, the sensor family is capable of producing ...

Photonics West: Vision Components MIPI camera drivers for Raspberry Pi

Vision Components camera Raspberry Pi 5

At SPIE Photonics West in a fortnight, Vision Components will demonstrate Raspberry Pi 5 software drivers for its VC MIPI Cameras, which also cover the Raspberry Pi Hailo TPU HAT. “Embedded vision applications with and without AI can be implemented, using all VC MIPI Cameras and the Raspberry Pi processor board,” according to the German company. The drivers will be ...

Seeing stars – and nebulae – in vivid colour

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Vision technology developed by Unistellar for its smart telescope, brings clarity to space watching. Vivid Vision signal processing technology improves two signal processing to enhance the detection of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. At IFA Berlin, the company announced that the smart telescope decoded the colours of around 300,000 stars in the Hercules cluster and revealed the chemical composition of ...

80Top/s AI vision and real-time control MCU for industrial robots and machinery

Renesas RZV2H block

Renesas is aiming at industrial robots with a microcontroller that combines AI vision and real-time control processing. Called RZ/V2H, the ICs include the company’s DRP-AI3 ‘dynamically reconfigurable processor’ AI accelerator – recently revealed at ISSCC in San Francisco – in 10Top/s/W form. “Pruning technology employed in the DRP-AI3 accelerator improves AI computing efficiency, boosting inference performance to 80Top/s,” according to ...

Embedded World: AI vision processing for 12 cameras

TI AM6xA AI vision processors

In a second announcement in one day at Embedded World In Nuremberg, TI revealed Arm Cortex-A72-based microcontrollers for AI and vision processing with up to 12 cameras, for building, industrial and retail automation. AM62A3 and AM62A7 (and their ..-Q1 automotive cousins) support one to two cameras (up to 5Mpixel, streaming up to 4K30frame/s) at less than 2W for doorbell cameras ...

Start up shares its vision for AI

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An M.2 AI edge accelerator module and a PCIe AI edge accelerator card have been announced by Axelera AI, a start up based in the Netherlands. The M.2 AI Edge accelerator module (pictured) contains a single Metis AI processing unit (AIPU) chip while the PCIe AI Edge accelerator card contains four AIPUs. The company says the Metis AI hardware and ...