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Green Hills Software, STMicroelectronics and Cetitec Collaborate on Delivering Configurable In-Vehicle Communications Platform for Automotive Zonal Controllers

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

NUREMBERG, Germany, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, together with STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Cetitec, a Porsche company and leading software specialist for the development of connectivity and networking system solutions, today announced a collaboration to deliver an integrated and configurable communications platform for use in zonal controllers for the centralized EE vehicle architecture of the SDV. This solution consists of Green Hills' µ-velOSity™ real-time operating system (RTOS), ST's Stellar Integration MCU platform, and Cetitec's advanced networking stacks, gateways and routing frameworks.

Key Points: 
  • This zonal-based centralized architecture has increased requirements for performance, safety and security of the zonal controllers and necessitates new in-vehicle networking solutions.
  • Based on this platform, Cetitec provides a demonstrator consisting of the Cetitec Gateway and the Cetitec Distributed Communications Framework (CDCF).
  • "Our collaboration with Cetitec and Green Hills on the Stellar platform brings safe and efficient solutions to our customers.
  • Green Hills, ST, and Cetitec will demonstrate the zonal controller solution platform at embedded world 2024, April 9-11, in the Green Hills booth #4-325 and in the ST booth #4A-148.

u-blox introduces new LTE-M modules with integrated GNSS to boost industrial connectivity

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

These modules, designed for industrial applications, are based on the u-blox UBX-R52 cellular chip and are tailored for integrated and concurrent positioning and wireless communication needs.

Key Points: 
  • These modules, designed for industrial applications, are based on the u-blox UBX-R52 cellular chip and are tailored for integrated and concurrent positioning and wireless communication needs.
  • The new u-blox R52 series also introduces a new combo module designed to offer simultaneous GNSS and cellular connectivity – an important attribute for applications requiring continuous or cyclic tracking.
  • The u-blox SARA-R520M10 combo module comes equipped with an integrated u-blox M10 GNSS receiver and ensures concurrent tracking with low-power consumption, better TTFF, and improved RF sensitivity.
  • Many LTE-M modules only offer an RF output power of 20-21 dBm, whereas the new R52 series offers 23 dBm, ensuring stable connectivity in challenging coverage conditions.

DigiKey Adds 175,000+ New SKUs Year-to-Date in 2023

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Thursday, June 22, 2023

"DigiKey continues to add products and the newest technologies in key verticals including automation, power, wireless and automotive in order to maintain our industry leading breadth of product offering.

Key Points: 
  • "DigiKey continues to add products and the newest technologies in key verticals including automation, power, wireless and automotive in order to maintain our industry leading breadth of product offering.
  • We are delivering the newest and most comprehensive selection of technologies to our customers – engineers, designers and builders – always striving to move their ideas forward."
  • At the same time, a built-in ESD protection element improves electrostatic breakdown resistance up to 3.5kV, leading to higher application reliability.
  • For more information about the suppliers in the DigiKey portfolio, please visit the DigiKey website .

Marvell Delivers Industry's Highest Capacity Central Automotive Ethernet Switches for In-Vehicle Networks

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

(NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced the Brightlane Q622x family of central Automotive Ethernet switches, the highest capacity switches in a new, emerging category of devices for enabling computing architectures to improve safety and deliver software-defined services for the next generation of vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced the Brightlane Q622x family of central Automotive Ethernet switches, the highest capacity switches in a new, emerging category of devices for enabling computing architectures to improve safety and deliver software-defined services for the next generation of vehicles.
  • Central Automotive Ethernet switches are high-bandwidth, high-performance devices optimized to coordinate data traffic between zonal switches, which aggregate traffic from devices located within a physical zone of a car like processors, sensors, actuators, storage systems and others.
  • Optimized for the most advanced automotive architectures, the Brightlane Q6223 switch delivers 90 Gbps of bandwidth, nearly 2x the capacity of currently available automotive switches.
  • Marvell is collaborating with over 40 OEMs, including design wins with eight of the 10 largest, on a variety of Automotive Ethernet solutions.

Samsung Electronics’ World-Class 5nm Technology Selected by Ambarella for New Automotive AI Central Domain Controller

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Samsung Electronics , a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced that Samsung’s Foundry business is providing its 5-nanometer (nm) process technology to Ambarella for its newly announced CV3-AD685 automotive AI central domain controller.

Key Points: 
  • Samsung Electronics , a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced that Samsung’s Foundry business is providing its 5-nanometer (nm) process technology to Ambarella for its newly announced CV3-AD685 automotive AI central domain controller.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230221005394/en/
    Integrated Ambarella CV3-AD685 system-on-chip built on Samsung Foundry’s 5nm technology (Graphic: Business Wire)
    The CV3-AD685 is the first production version of Ambarella’s CV3-AD family of automotive AI central domain controllers, with Tier-1 automotive suppliers announcing they will offer solutions using the CV3-AD system-on-chip (SoC) product family.
  • Samsung’s 5nm process technology is optimized for automotive-grade semiconductors, with extremely tight process controls and advanced IP for exceptional reliability and outstanding traceability.
  • Samsung Foundry’s industry-leading process technology and advanced 3D-packaging solutions are powering many of the latest mobile, HPC and automotive solutions.

Ambarella Expands CV3 Family of Automotive AI Domain Controllers With New CV3-AD685

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced at CES the introduction of the CV3-AD685, the first production version of the CV3 family of automotive AI domain controllers, targeting L2+ to L4 autonomous vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced at CES the introduction of the CV3-AD685, the first production version of the CV3 family of automotive AI domain controllers, targeting L2+ to L4 autonomous vehicles.
  • The CV3-AD685 is an “algorithm first” architecture that provides support for the entire AD software stack.
  • “Following the recent endorsements from major tier-1 suppliers, our CV3-AD domain controller family is transforming the automotive AD and ADAS market, through its unique combination of highly efficient AI processing, advanced image processing and ultra-low power consumption,” said Fermi Wang, CEO of Ambarella.
  • During CES 2023, Ambarella will demonstrate the latest generation of its R&D vehicles running on CV3 central domain controllers.

STMicroelectronics introduces Stellar P6 automotive MCU for EV platform system integration

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

The real-time, power-efficient Stellar P6 automotive microcontrollers combine advanced integration of motion-control and energy-management domains with actuation capabilities, ensuring a smooth shift from traditional ICEs/EVs to new drive-traction architectural patterns of software-defined vehicles, said Luca Rodeschini, Automotive and Discrete Vice President, Strategic Business Development and Automotive Processing and RF General Manager, STMicroelectronics.

Key Points: 
  • The real-time, power-efficient Stellar P6 automotive microcontrollers combine advanced integration of motion-control and energy-management domains with actuation capabilities, ensuring a smooth shift from traditional ICEs/EVs to new drive-traction architectural patterns of software-defined vehicles, said Luca Rodeschini, Automotive and Discrete Vice President, Strategic Business Development and Automotive Processing and RF General Manager, STMicroelectronics.
  • STs Stellar family of automotive MCUs has been designed to support carmakers and Tier1s as they transition toward software-defined vehicles.
  • Stellar G series MCUs act as a secure data HUB and real-time, safe aggregator of functions within the body domain primarily for zonal architectures.
  • The new Stellar P series of automotive MCUs offers qualifiable devices that combine advanced actuation capabilities with powerful function integration.

Cortical.io Semantic Folding Approach demonstrates a 2,800x acceleration and 4,300x increase in energy efficiency over BERT

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cortical.io today announced its breakthrough prototype for classifying high volumes of unstructured text. Classifying documents or messages constitutes one of the most fundamental Natural Language Understanding (NLU) functions for business artificial intelligence (AI). The benchmark was carried out on two similar system setups using the same, off-the-shelve, dual AMD-Epyc server hardware. The "BERT" system, a transformer-based machine learning technique for natural language processing, was augmented by a NVidia GPU. The "Semantic Folding" approach utilized a cost comparable number of Xilinx Alveo FPGA accelerator cards.

Key Points: 
  • Classifying documents or messages constitutes one of the most fundamental Natural Language Understanding (NLU) functions for business artificial intelligence (AI).
  • The "BERT" system, a transformer-based machine learning technique for natural language processing, was augmented by a NVidia GPU.
  • The "Semantic Folding" approach utilized a cost comparable number of Xilinx Alveo FPGA accelerator cards.
  • Using tooling that enabled the concurrent implementation of software, hardware and networking aspects of the Semantic Folding approach.

Renesas Unveils Automotive Gateway Solution Based on New R-Car S4 SoCs and PMICs for Next-Generation Vehicle Computers

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The solution also dramatically improves development efficiency by enabling software reusability and including the new best-in-class PMICs designed to work seamlessly with the R-Car S4.

Key Points: 
  • The solution also dramatically improves development efficiency by enabling software reusability and including the new best-in-class PMICs designed to work seamlessly with the R-Car S4.
  • As an automotive market leader, we have addressed these challenges with our new R-Car S4 solution, and global OEMs have already begun to design next-generation systems with this solution.
  • The Renesas R-Car S4 is one of the first products in Renesas 4th-generation R-Car Family.
  • Renesas will provide the evaluation boards as a Winning Combination solution featuring the R-Car S4 device, the RAA271041 and RAA271005 PMICs, and a Renesas timing IC (Autoclock RC2121x).