Elektor reported live and exhibited all week at embedded world 2023 (EW23) in Nuremberg, Germany. Our engineers and editors posted updates from the show floor, and recorded several videos with notable engineers and thought leaders from a wide range of companies and organizations, from Arm to NXP to Silicon Labs.

** Embedded World Update: March 24, 2023 **

 
  • 1:01 - Brain McCarthy of Qorvo
  • 6:25 - Johan Cockx of Embeetle IDE:
  • 11:41 - Robert Day of Arm
  • 18:48 - Sonu Singh of Logic Fruit Techonologies
  • 23:18 - Flavia Oprea of Oxid OS Automotive
  • 28:55 - Blair Newman of Neuton.ai
  • 37:10 - Daniel Cooley of Silicon Labs:
  • 45:50 - Trina Watt and Shreyas Derashi of Imagination Technologies
  • 56:20 - Brian Carlson and Clara Otero Pérez of NXP
  • 1:13:53 - Eddie Liu of ADLINK
  • 1:20:30 - Giancarlo Cutrignelli of Eurotech
  • 1:25:18 - The DynaCOR 40-36 water-cooled deep-learning edge server from Eurotech covered in EEI #15 
  • 1:25:35 - The Nexperia Energy Harvesting "Codium" solution in action, as highlighted in EEI #17
  • 1:26:04 - Vanja Samuelsson of Qoitech
  • 1:30:50 - Sascha Kammler of Cloudflight.io
  • 1:36:03 - Jenny Wang of Nuvoton
  • 1:39:50 - Brett Cline of Codasip:
  • 1:45:07 - Stuart provides a round-up of the show, how embedded world is expanding into China and the US.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

 
  • The ESP32 is well known for its ease of use when implementing wireless applications. Elektor caught up with Espressif's Amey Inamdar at embedded world to find out what's new. Among the highlights: RISC-V SoCs along with a dual-core version in the pipeline; support for Matter to make IoT devices using differing protocols easier to deploy; and the RainMaker platform for implementing the cloud backend of IoT.
     
  • Elektor's DC Dual LISN is in use at the Siglent booth 4-337. The 5-µH, 50-Ω Dual DC LISN supports voltages up to 60 V and currents up to 10 A. It measures RF interference on both channels by way of 5-μH blocking inductances. The internal 10-dB attenuation network (one in each channel) contains a third-order, high-pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 9 kHz to protect the input of instruments like a spectrum analyzer from potentially harmful DC voltages or low frequencies coming from the equipment under test.
 
  • Arduino launched yesterday the Portenta C33, a high-performance module for industrial IoT applications with Wi-Fi/BLE connectivity. The Renesas R7FA6M5BH2CBG ARM Cortex M33-based module offers a variety of benefits: support for MicroPython, hardware-level security, secure OTA firmware updates, Arduino Portenta and MKR compatibility, and more. Vist Arduino at booth 2-238. Read more about the Portenta C33. Marta Barbero, product manager at Arduino, spoke to Elektor's editor-in-chief, Jens Nickel, about the board.
     
 
  • Silicon Labs announced this week a new Bluetooth SoC and MCU for small form-factor devices: the xG27 family of Bluetooth SoCs and the BB50 microcontroller. "Designed for the smallest IoT devices, the xG27 and BB50 families range in size from 2 mm-squared, about the width of a #2 pencil lead, to 5 mm-squared, less than the width of a standard #2 pencil. These offer IoT device designers energy efficiency, high performance, trusted security, and in the case of the xG27 family, wireless connectivity," the company announced. The company is exhibiting at 4A-128 & 4A-129. 
 
The QFN packaged xG27 SoC
The xG27 SoC. Source: Silicon Labs
 
  • Wireless continues to grow at Silicon Labs, as more markets (e.g., medical) develop IoT solutions. CEO Daniel Cooley told Elektor how their tiny EFR32 G27 is being deployed in patients' mouths to analyze saliva and share data securely via Bluetooth. He also explained how Matter is making the IoT easier to use for consumers and forcing security to be tightened inside nodes instead of just relying on gateways.
 
 
  • STMicroelectronics now enables developers to design, code and debug STM32 applications in Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code). "The new support extends the selection of tools available to all STM32 developers, including hardware integrators and mass-market customers that typically choose from commercial tools or ST’s free Eclipse-based STM32CubeIDE environment. VS Code and the STM32 VS Code Extension are available free of charge," the company noted. Visit STMicro at booth 4A-148. 
 
  • congatec announced it has added Texas Instruments processors to its strategic solutions portfolio. "The first solution platform is the conga-STDA4, a SMARC Computer-on-Module featuring the industrial-grade Arm Cortex-based TDA4VM processor," the company announced. "Using a system-on-chip architecture, TI incorporates accelerated vision and AI processing, real-time control, and functional safety capabilities into their TDA4VM processor. This Dual Arm Cortex-A72-based module is designed for industrial mobile machinery requiring near-field analytics, such as automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots, construction and agricultural machinery." Visit congatec at booth 3-241. 
STDA4 Congatec
The conga-STDA4, a SMARC COM (Source: congatec)
 

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Arm: How will the software-defined vehicle (SDV) become a reality? Arm has been working on its SOAFEE platform with key players from the auto industry to determine how it will happen. At embedded world 2023, Robert Day (Director, Automotive GTM) told us about this initiative and how they are taking cloud software development concepts and applying them to the real-time, functionally safe world of automobiles.
 

Eurocircuits: Dirk Stans of Eurocircuits spoke with us about how their PCB Visualizer goes beyond just showing the board in 3D. lt can help to highlight possible design issues. And to help make sure your prototypes are ready when you need them, they can even pre-order your components. 
 
 

Visit Elektor @ embedded world 2023

Attending EW23? Visit Elektor’s booth in Hall 4A (4A.646). Come chat with our editors and engineers, and take a look at a nice variety of our products: Elektor Mag, kits newest Elektor books, but also interesting boards, kits, and books from the Elektor Store.
 
Elektor Embedded World 2023
Visit booth 4A.646

Elektor Mash-Up #2: Live From EW23

Join Jens Nickel and Stuart Cording for a livestream, where they will share their experiences and insights from the floor of embedded world 2023. They will touch on some of the most promising technologies shaping the industry's future and offer an overview of what Elektor has on display at booth 4A-646!
 
  • Date: 14th March 2023
  • Time: 17:00, Berlin Time
  • Location: Elektor Booth 4A-646, Embedded World 2023, Nuremberg|
     

The topics we will cover:
 
  • Embedded systems: Discover the latest microcontrollers, firmware, real-time operating systems, and more.
  • IoT: Explore the newest wireless communication, embedded connectivity, edge computing, and security solutions.
  • Industrial automation: Get a closer look at the most innovative sensors, robotics, AI, and machine learning technologies.

Be sure to tune in to our livestream and bring your questions!

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