Single Board Computers

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 ...

Taiwan-based Aaeon has introduced an edge IoT gateway built around an 800MHz Arm Cortex-A8 processor. Called SRG-3352, “this innovative processor reduces the energy requirements of the system, saving electricity costs and allowing the system to be deployed with solar power or battery operated. With very little heat output, the system can operate in a wide range of temperatures from 0°C ...

Arduino and Google have agreed that the Google Science Journal will be transferring over to Arduino control from this September.   The journal was originally a Google initiative to encourage students to explore the world around them and record their observations as they conduct their own experiments. It was an open source project, and with Arduino’s existing experience with the ...

OnLogic of Vermont is aiming at industrial IoT and edge computing with a series of fan-less compact PCs. Powered by Intel’s 10th generation Comet Lake processors, the Helix HX500 Series is 210 x 51 x 154mm and flexible on power requirements – accepting between 12 and 24V at 60W max continuously, or up to 120W peak. Operation at 8V is also ...

Mouser Electronics is highlighting that it is stocking the Arduino Portenta H7, which is aimed at the professional maker and industrial markets. It was launched at CES 2020 at the start of the year. The board is powered by an STM32H747XI dual Cortex-M7+M4 32bit low power MCU (you can read the datasheet), with the radio being a Murata 1DX dual ...

Aaeon is aiming at edge AI with a box PC built around an Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX processor with a 64bit hex-core Arm processor, 384 Cuda cores, 48 Tensor Cores and two Nvdla engines capable of running multiple neural networks in parallel – delivering up to 21Top/s. All this in a rather small box – 88 x 79 x 35mm. ...

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 ...

Portwell, the Fremont, California-based industrial PC specialist, has announced its LYNX-6000 Series of palm-sized, industrial IoT gateways. The fanless and rugged embedded computer systems are based on the Intel Celeron N3350 CPU and certified for Microsoft Azure IoT. According to the company, the new LYNX-6000 Series provides a rich portfolio of ultra-small form factor IoT appliances that offer a variety ...

iWave Systems has launched an artificial intelligence processor that can support convolutional neural networks (CNNs), based around a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA. “Edge AI devices are expected to run complex neural networks and deep learning algorithms whilst maintaining latency, power efficiency and accuracy. These devices are finding their way into smart security, autonomous driving, robotics and medical imaging,” according to IWave. ...

Farnell is launching  a new variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer with 8Gbyte of on-board memory, offering double the capacity of the existing high-end model. The additional memory improves the performance of data-intensive applications, making the 8Gbyte version an attractive solution for general desktop computer users, hobbyists and makers, and professional developers alike. Offering a balance of ...