Software

DigiKey is providing a free, on-demand Zephyr RTOS online workshop and video series. Aimed at students and engineers, you learn how to write a Zephyr device driver. Zephyr is real-time operating system (RTOS) and development framework, an open source project at the Linux Foundation. DigiKey identifies a steep learning curve, but says Zephyr is a key system for engineers and ...

RT-Labs is has extended its U-Phy fieldbus and Ethernet industrial protocol library to cover Infineon’s Arm Cortex-M7 based XMC7000 industrial microcontroller family. Profinet RT, EtherCAT Master, Ethernet/IP, CANopen, CC-Link and ModBus/TCP are available, accessible through Infineon’s Modbus Toolkit – although only ‘registered XMC7000 opportunities’ can use it commercially in products, Infineon told Electronics Weekly.  Infineon is providing code examples and ...

Google is rolling out the third beta release for the forthcoming Android 16 mobile operating system. New features include broadcast audio support, text outlining and testing apps with LNP (Local Network Protection). Note this release is for developers only, available on Pixel devices – the Android 16 Developer Preview releases are early baseline builds for programmers only, not for early ...

Embedded World 2025: Synopsys says its Virtualizer Native Execution prototyping tool will accelerate software development for edge devices. It extends the Virtualizer tool suite and model libraries to Arm hardware, allowing virtual prototypes to be built, executed and tested directly on Arm-based machines. The Native Element factor in the new tool means that users can execute virtual prototypes directly on ...

Aiming at industrial networking, Renesas introduced a Profinet-certified IRT (isochronous real-time) and Profidrive software stack for some of its RZmicroprocessors today at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Initially, the stack is for the RZ/T2M servo motor control MCU and the RZ/N2L industrial internet gateway MCU. Binary versions are available for evaluation, and licenses for commercial come directly from Renesas. Read all ...

Google is releasing the second beta of Android 16, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Aimed at developers, and not consumers, it includes a number of updates. These range from camera updates, custom graphical effects with AGSL (Android Graphics Shading Language), and motion capture, to font API changes, live wallpapers, and APIs in the ADPF (Android Dynamic Performance ...

Synopsys has added the HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation system to its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio. Both the HAPs-200 and ZeBu-200 are based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC and built on the company’s emulation and prototyping, or EP-Ready, hardware for use with reconfiguration and optimisation software. ZeBu Server 5 delivers scalability beyond 60bn gates, to target large ...

Congatec is offering computer-on-modules pre-programmed with module-to-cloud communication software for remote monitoring, remote control and response automation. Branded ‘aReady.IOT’, and there is a matching central control dashboard to go with it. “The aim is to simplify the use of modern embedded applications,” said the company, “The pre-configured building blocks enable communication with machines, systems, devices and sensors via protocols such ...

Google has announced Android XR, a new version of the Android platform designed to bring Gemini AI to Android-based headsets and glasses. XR stands for extended reality and the search giant has worked with Samsung and Qualcomm to create the new Android platform. The promise, says Google, is “to extend your reality to explore, connect and create in new ways”. ...

Based on Synopsys’ Ethernet and PCIe IP, the Ultra Ethernet IP help developers of AI/HPC infrastructure chips and systems. Hyperscale data centres will need to scale to hundreds of thousands of accelerators and rely on efficient and fast connections to support large language models which process trillions of parameters in large language models for HPC and AI operations, continued Ron ...