Oxbotica claims self-driving car software analyses 150 vehicles-per-second

Self-driving vehicles on London’s complex and congested streets are required to make 150 independent vehicle detections every second and detect traffic lights in 1/2,000th of a second – faster than the human eye, according to Oxbotica, autonomous vehicle software provider. The Oxford-based company is using its software system in cities, mines, airports, quarries and ports. ...

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BeagleBone gets artificially intelligent

Artificial intelligence in BeagleBone AI comes from two Texas Instruments C66x DSPs and four ’embedded vision engine’ (EVE) cores (dubbed the ‘Vision AccelerationPac’ by TI) with TI Deep Learning (TIDL) support – an TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Up to thirty-two 16 x 16bit fixed-point multiplies are available per cycle All of this hardware ...

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Munich team’s winning Hyperloop vehicle

Technical University of Munich used eight electric motors with a combined power of 320kW to win SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in Los Angeles. Taking place on an aluminium rail within SpaceX’ mile-long evacuated tube, the 76kg carbon fibre chassis vehicle accelerated at almost 2g and reached 463km/h – before coming to a controlled halt, as the ...

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Diodes flash LED driver for dual- and quad-channel applications

Diodes Incorporated has announced the AL3644, a dual-channel flash LED driver designed to support camera flash and torch functionality. Its features include independently controlled output currents configured through an I2C-compatible interface and the ability to combine two devices (with different device identification addresses) to drive four LEDs up to 6A for quad-channel applications. The AL3644 ...

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Osram plans 25,600 pixel headlamp LEDs for automotive

Osram is to create an LED automotive headlamp light source with 26,500 pixels over a 40mm2 die on a 40μm pitch, introducing it to the market in 2023 if all goes to plan. Branded Eviyos 2.0, the device – essentially an addressable power LED – is aimed at active headlights that can create arbitrary beams ...

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Taiwan loses its Trump

The question being asked about Foxconn founder Terry Gou pulling out of Taiwan’s presidential election is: Was China behind it? Gou was defeated in the primary to be the candidate of the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party. He then said he might run as an independent. On Wednesday, he said he wouldn’t. The speculation in Taiwan ...

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Accelerator card claims it will provide 12x more compute per dollar

Intensivate, the datacentre acceleration specialist,  says that, early in Q1 2020, it will have first silicon  of a chip-scale coherent fabric for a PCIe card which will provide 12x more compute per dollar on platforms such as Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, NoSQL databases and other custom applications running on clusters. First shipments of the accelerator card ...

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Intel shipping Stratix 10

Intel is shipping  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs which are designed to support Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16, and a controller for Intel Optane memory to provide acceleration.  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs with the new interfaces include the option to support select Intel Optane DC persistent memory DIMMs. They  increase bandwidth and ...

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micro:bit becomes super:bit in Norway.

Farnell, which manufactures and distributes the BBC micro:bit, is rolling out a programme called  ‘super:bit’ in Norway. The project is a collaboration between the national science centres in Norway. The rollout provides a classroom kit of technology to each of the 2,400 secondary schools in Norway, over two years, starting in September 2019. Since its launch in 2016 Farnell has ...

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