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Working with a Raspberry Pi is all fun and games, until electrostatic discharge or a high voltage blows up the GPIO port. Fortunately, Elektor offers a simple, affordable solution — the Raspberry Pi Buffer Board, which you can purchase on GroupGets for only $22 (~ €19.32) if you join the group buy by Saturday, February 9, 2019.

Microchip Technology Inc. in partnership with The Things Industries, today announced the industry’s first end-to-end security solution that adds secure, trusted and managed authentication to LoRaWAN devices at a global scale. The solution brings hardware-based security to the LoRa ecosystem, combining the MCU- and radio-agnostic ATECC608A-MAHTN-T CryptoAuthentication device with The Things Industries’ managed join servers and Microchip’s secure provisioning service.

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The integrity of embedded systems can be ensured through the use of cryptographic methods in a clearly defined process and a secure hardware device for key management and state storage. With CodeMeter, Wibu-Systems offers a smart card-based protection system, which is available for industrial interfaces. CodeMeter supports common operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux as well as Windows Embedded, Real Time Linux, VxWorks and PLCs like CODESYS and more. It contains a secure implementation of symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods (AES, RSA, ECC) as well as hash functions (SHA-256), functions for signature validation (ECDSA) and a random number generator. CodeMeter includes all the available tools needed to implement all the steps described above for integrity protection, software protection and the prevention of code tampering.

As we move further into the era of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), greater emphasis is certain to be placed on automation. With machine vision technology becoming ever more sophisticated, there is huge potential to improve manufacturers’ quality levels while also accelerating throughput rates. The scope of this technology is broadening all the time too. New applications are destined to play a bigger part in our everyday lives, taking care of object detection/recognition in our cars’ ADAS systems, enabling facial-based security mechanisms to be integrated into portable electronics, and countless other key tasks.

Electronic product manufacturing is a cyclic process, and many startups are sadly unaware of the dangers of jumping in overenthusiastically as well as at the wrong place. This article, a written rendering of a dynamic presentation by Niclas Fritz delivered at the electronica Fast Forward 2018 event, provides solid advice to prevent mistakes right at the beginning.

The IoT has the potential to create huge value from the real-time data collected from sensors and embedded systems in any network. But with the increased value comes risk. The ability to connect with practically any device over a network connection makes it possible for malicious users who spend every day probing for vulnerabilities and weaknesses to find many more targets. When they find a way in, they can bring entire networks down, steal data and blackmail the owners. A report by Kaspersky Labs based on a survey of hacking activity around the world estimated attacks had been staged on more than 40 percent of all industrial control system computers in the first half of 2018 alone.

An increasing number of embedded vision applications have appeared on the market in recent years. These are systems based on an embedded computing board and a camera module. Such a system can manage vision tasks more affordably and efficiently. The interface, which is the connection between the camera module and host, plays a key role in the setup of such an embedded vision system. The plug-and-play USB 3.0 interface can be used here, for example. LVDS interfaces (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) are also worth considering, especially for FPGA-based systems. But in very many cases, the MIPI CSI-2 interface is the appropriate choice. This White Paper provides an overview of the significance and features of this important interface for the embedded vision field.

The cost cutting impact of having a single development platform covering a wide range of hardware is significant. With embedded devices running Linux, tools, functional libraries, people skill- set, etc. is shared across systems. Now you can build embedded Linux devices much in the same way as CDP Studio is used for higher level control systems, removing a significant chunk of low level configuration.