Single Board Computers

Big Tree Tech, a respected Chinese make of 3d printer parts, has adopted Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 microcontroller to miniaturise a 3D printer controller board. Called ‘SKR Pico V1.0’, the controller has a second link with Raspberry Pi, as it directly mates with a Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi Zero 2, used to run Klipper, a up-and-coming software package that ...

U-blox has announced two LTE Cat 1 module series offering multi-regional data coverage. “The modules offer device makers facing imminent 2G and 3G network sunsets a migration path to 4G technology for data streaming applications,” according to the Swiss company. “Additionally they offer MQTT Anywhere and MQTT Flex connectivity via u-blox’s Thingstream platform out of the box, enabling seamless roaming.” ...

MKR IoT Carrier is an IoT interface and peripheral board for Arduino’s MKR WiFi 1010 single-board computer. Also know as the Oplà interface, it includes: sensors for temperature, humidity, barometric, acceleration, rotation (it has a six axis IMU) and colour, plus a small colour LCD, touch pads, a gesture sensor and two relays to switch external circuits. Flip side of the carrier ...

iWave Systems has launched a solderable i.MX 8M Plus OSM (Open standard module) In OSM, SGeT defines a module to be soldered on the carrier board as an LGA package, rather than using edge or board to board connectors. Called iW-RainboW-G40M, this module is Size-L (45 x 45mm), with provision for 662 contacts. It is “28% smaller than the µQseven [40 ...

Kontron has announced boards and modules built around Intel’s 12th generation ‘Alder Lake-S’ Core processors. The company will “update the current mini-ITX, µATX and ATX motherboards with this new processor series, and has also selected it as the 1st platform to adopt the new PICMG COM-HPC/Client form factor as it serves best technology trends set by COM-HPC client specification”, it ...

Congatec has added Alder Lake processors, Intel’s 12th generation of Core CPUs, to its COM-HPC and COM Express computer-on-module ranges. They come in COM-HPC Size A and C, and COM Express Type 6 forms. Kontron also announced Alder Lake boards today The processors offer of up to 14 cores/20 threads in BGA packaging or 16 cores/24 threads in LGA desktop ...

An edge inference accelerator developed by Flexlogix has a 4k MAC dynamic tensor processor array and is optimised for Mpixel image processing models in medical, surveillance and IoT applications. The InferX X1 edge inference accelerator is designed for processing real-time Mpixel vision workloads which requires high bandwidth support for deep learning models which operate with small batch sizes in real ...

SolidRun has announced system-on-modules built around Texas Instrument’s AM64x processor family with precise real-time processing and application processing for industrial IoT and industrial machinery applications. For application processing and running operating systems there is a dual core Arm Cortex-A53, then up to four Cortex-R5F cores for real-time computing, servo control and functional safety. On top of this sits a Cortex-M4 microcontroller ...

Camera modules based on onsemi’s sensor technology have been created by Arrow Electronics for fast prototyping and developing vision systems. There are three versions, all designed for vision capabilities in embedded applications. OEMs can used them to integrate camera functionality into products they are developing, advises the distributor. It partnered with Shiratech Solutions to create the camera mezzanine cards which ...

Analog Devices has introduced a evaluation kit for people-counting using one of its DSPs. In a case and designed to be attached to a ceiling looking straight down, the kit includes a camera and everything needed to get the counted data to the cloud. Its main ingredients are a particular DSP from its Blackfin range, the ADSPBF707BBCZ4-EGE, and a people counting ...