Arduino announced a single-pair Ethernet adapter board for its Uno R4 single-board microcontroller at Electronica this morning. Microchip participated in the development – its LAN8651B1T-E/LMX single pair Ethernet MAC-PHY – an automotive-qualified part – is used, it said. Single-pair Ethernet is a communication standard that combines data and power on one unshielded twisted pair, for industrial installations over exiting and ...
Single Board Computers
The latest Electronics Weekly product news on single board computers for industrial applications.
Industrial computer has NXP i.MX 8M Plus processor
SolidRun has unveiled a computer built around an i.MX 8M Plus processor from NXP which has quad 1.8GHz Cortex-A53 cores. ‘IIoT-200-8M Gateway’ is intended for industrial IoT and human-machine interface applications, and consists of a system-on-module with the processor, plugged into a carrier and interface board, all in an aluminium enclosure. Supported interfaces include multiple 3x USB 3.0 type-A, 2x ...
Raspberry Pi doubles AI performance to 26Top/s
Raspberry Pi has doubled bolt-on AI accelerator performance with the introduction of its AI HAT+. Based on Hailo’s Hailo-8 processor, it is rated at 26Top/s, compared to 13Top/s for the Hailo-8L based ‘AI Kit’ accelerator it announced recently. “Designed to conform to our HAT+ specification, the AI HAT+ automatically switches to PCIe Gen 3.0 mode to maximise the compute power ...
RP2350 with 2.4GHz radio, Bluetooth and 16Mbyte flash
Sheffield-based Pimoroni has introduced a wireless development board with Raspberry Pi’s RP2350 microcontroller. 2.4GHz comms is through a Raspberry Pi RM2 module – a module that Raspberry Pi has yet to reveal. Update (Oct 24): Pimoroni now sells the RM2 alone on a breakout board (link below). Also on-board is 16Mbyte of QSPI flash, 8Mbyte of ram, USB-C and a ...
Sponsored Content: Raspberry Pi computers now officially available in the TME catalogue
Raspberry Pi is a manufacturer which, thanks to its series of single-board computers, has gained worldwide recognition and contributed to the development of the market for electronic modules for the education and hobbyist sector. In addition to that, its products are also used in industrial equipment and other applications. Raspberry Pi computers need no introduction. Moreover, nowadays, the British supplier is ...
39Top/s of AI on COM Express Type 6 Compact
Congatec has introduced COM Express Type 6 Compact computer-on-modules with AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 processors, offering up to 39Top/s for AI processing. The processors have up to eight Zen 4 cores, 16Top/s XDNA NPUs and AI-capable Radeon RDNA 3 graphics with up to 12 compute units, and are available with design powers from 15 to 54W (see table below). Conga-TCR8 ...
Supermicro updates X14 server family with Xeon 6900
Supermicro has added variants to X14 servers it announced in June. “The new systems feature significant upgrades across the board, supporting a never-before-seen 256 P-cores [performance cores] in a single node, memory support up for MRDIMMs at 8,800Mtransfer/s and compatibility with next-generation SXM, OAM, and PCIe GPUs,” according to the company. “These new X14 systems include 10U and multi-node form-factors ...
Tough compact military computer with a lot of IO
United Electronic Industries has launched a four-slot military-grade IO system for aerospace and defence. DNR-MIL-4 measures ~240 x 180 x 109mm and is designed to comply with MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-1275/708 and MIL-STD-461F. Operation is over -40 to +85°C. There are three versions, with: a 8347 PowerPC, an Arm-based SoloX, or a quad-core Zynq UltraScale+ main processor IC. “For use in PowerDNA/slaved ...
Alder Lake-N N97 or N100 on 86 x 90mm industrial SBC
Aaeon has announced 85.6 x 90mm industrial single-board computers with Intel Processor N-series (Alder Lake-N) CPUs. Called ‘UP Squared 7100’, there is a choice of Processor N97 or N100. Atom x7000E or Core i3 N-series can also be fitted to special order, and the board will also be compatible with Atom x7000RE (Amston Lake) CPUs starting from Q1 2025, said Aaeon. ...
Lower cost Raspberry Pi 5
A 2Gbyte Raspberry Pi 5 has been launched, priced at $50 compared with $60 for the 4Gbyte version. As well as reduced memory size, cost-saving comes from changing the main processor IC. 4 and 8Gbyte models have the 16nm Broadcom BCM2712C1, which has quad 2.4GHz Arm Cortex-A76 cores. “Alongside the features required to power a Raspberry Pi, it also contains ...