Software

Software tools in the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm version 8.50.6 have been updated by IAR Systems to include coverage for the low power Renesas RE microcontroller family. The microcontroller family is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ core. It targets low power consumption IoT devices, such as wearables and also sensing applications for homes, buildings, factories and agriculture where recharging or ...

Zortrax has introduced cloud-based printing management for its range of professional grade 3D printers. Called ‘inCloud’, the system “enables remote management of Zortrax 3D printers from anywhere in the world”, according to the company. “This solution will manage the 3D printing manufacturing processes for both single-device users and businesses running large 3D printing farms.” The software started life in-house, controlling ...

Google is adding a Digital Ink Recognition API for both Android and iOS to allow developers to create apps where stylus and touch act as primary inputs. In June, in the realm of machine learning, the company announced updates to its ML Kit’s APIs, which are built for tackling common challenges in the Vision and Natural Language domains. Now its ...

Arduino has announced the official release of Arduino IoT Cloud, an “Internet of Things Application Platform” enabling you to easily develop and manage IoT apps. The system first emerged back in February. Previously, Arduino boards would require programming via a sketch, but the Arduino IoT Cloud now provides an alternative route. It will, says Arduino, quickly and automatically generate a sketch ...

Google has announced version 1.20 of Flutter, its system for creating – in native ARM code – embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase. As well as promised performance improvements, the release includes some UI enhancements. For example, support for autofill, a new way to layer widgets to support pan and zoom, new mouse cursor ...

SiFive, provider of Risc-V processor core intellectual property, has released a suite of upgrades to its products, increasing performance, and reducing power consumption and die area. The release has been dubbed ’20G1′, as the company has switched from ‘year-month’ naming to ‘year-release’ naming: 20G1 being the first ‘general’ release of 2020 “and encapsulates nine months of hard work and progress ...

STMicroelectronics is aiming at those developing IoT nodes with a hardware kit that includes FreeRTOS and is ready to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Called B-L4S5I-IOT01A STM32 Discovery kit, it is built around an STM32L4+ microcontroller and has sensors, a secure element (STSAFE-A110), NFC, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2. It needs the free-to-download X-Cube-AWS v2.0 STM32Cube Expansion Pack, which is a ...

Lynx Software Technologies is aiming at high-reliability multi-core edge computing with three custom software bundles for industrial, avionic and UAV/satellite applications. Each includes its Mosa.ic framework for integrating multiple operating systems in safety-related or secure systems, and each is built around the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor. They “leverage the safety and reliability of Mosa.ic to enable mission critical edge computing”, according to Lynx ...

Google has released a Beta version of Android 11 for developers, the next major iteration of its operating system. There have been a number of developer previews before, but the new beta release is also accompanied with final SDK and NDK APIs for developers to try out with apps. The final, full release is scheduled for “Q3”. As well as improved ...

Microchip aims to help developers use its PolarFire FPGAs for creating overlay-based neural network applications for edge use, without learning an FPGA tool flow, with a product called VectorBlox Accelerator software development kit (SDK). “FPGAs are ideal for edge AI applications, such as inferencing in power-constrained compute environments, because they can perform more Gop/s with greater power efficiency than a CPU ...