The Internet of things (IoT), which includes the billions of devices now connected to the internet, has developed substantially over the past few years. IoT has become integral to several technologies and businesses. In fact, the number of active IoT devices has increased from 11.28 billion to 13.14 billion between 2021 and 2022. And the…
AIROC Wi-Fi/Bluetooth solutions now available with NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform
Artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge will impact a number of industry verticals including robotics, smart cities, healthcare, industrial, retail, energy, agriculture, etc. AI for these applications involves a mix of processing in the cloud and at the edge. To this end, Infineon Technologies announced that it’s bringing its AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity solutions…
Microchip adds an HLS design workflow to its PolarFire FPGA portfolio
The need to combine performance with low-power consumption in edge-compute applications has driven demand for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to be used as power-efficient accelerators while providing flexibility and speeding time to market. However, a large majority of edge compute, computer vision and industrial control algorithms are developed natively in C++ by developers with little…
NI unveils product advancements in software-connected systems
NI has announced its latest product advancements designed to fuel innovation across the production process — from testing and validation to R&D and design. NI first unveiled these product advancements at NI Connect, a virtual experience dedicated to exploring how test and data analytics will shape the world’s newest innovations and provide engineers the information…
Maxim and Xailient provide world’s fastest and lowest-power IoT face detection
Maxim Integrated Products and Xailient Inc., a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for the edge, have joined forces. The companies have announced that Maxim’s MAX78000 ultra-low power neural-network microcontroller is used to detect and localize faces in video and images with Xailient’s proprietary Detectum neural network. Xailient’s neural network draws 250x lower power (at…
Renesas and Syntiant develop voice-controlled multimodal AI solution
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Syntiant Corp., a deep learning chip technology company, announced the joint development of a voice-controlled multimodal AI solution that enables low-power contactless operation for image processing in vision AI-based IoT and edge systems. These can include self-checkout machines, security cameras, video conference systems, and smart…
Maxim’s camera cube design enables low-latency AI vision and hearing applications
Maxim Integrated Products has unveiled the MAXREFDES178# camera cube reference design, which demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) applications — previously limited to machines with large power and cost budgets — can be embedded in space-constrained, battery-powered edge devices. The new MAXREFDES178# enables ultra-low-power internet-of-things (IoT) devices to implement hearing and vision and showcases the MAX78000…
STMicroelectronics machine-learning core sensors used on Qeexo AutoML platform
Qeexo, developer of the Qeexo AutoML automated machine-learning (ML) platform that accelerates the development of tinyML models for the Edge, and STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced the availability of ST’s machine-learning core (MLC) sensors on Qeexo AutoML. “Adapting Qeexo AutoML for ST’s machine-learning core sensors makes it…