In response to the rising of artificial intelligence (AI)

In response to the rising of artificial intelligence (AI), high-definition audio and video streaming and online live broadcast, data high-speed computing and transmission applications, Intel and AMD have launched a new generation of server platform products, including Intel’s next-generation Xeon® scalable processor family - Purley CPUs which are based on the Skylake-SP architecture and planned to replace the previous both Xeon® E5 and E7 processors powered by Broadwell microarchitecture.

Purley’s new platform combines multiple platform innovations and integrates performance enhancement technologies, including Intel AVX-512, Intel MESH architecture, Optane Solid State Drive (SSD) and Omni-Path Fabric fiber optic transmission technology. Purley’s new platform also supports existing and emerging data center and network workloads, including cloud computing, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence, etc. The evolving data center and network infrastructure are designed to deliver the industry’s highest energy efficiency and system-level performance. Its average performance is 1.65 times higher than the previous generation. Performance of Xeon® expandable processor is 2.2 times more efficient than the previous generation under the ever-increasing workload of artificial intelligence.

Acrosser Technology now is providing customers the Purley’s new platform network appliances, the Acrosser first 2U IoT Rackmount Server: ANR-C627/622N1. Positioned as powerful network appliances, ANR-C627/622N1 equipped with the latest generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are perfect for IoT Gateway, Edge Computing (EC), Cloud, Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), IPS/IDS, Security Gateway (Se-GW), Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). As excellence network appliances, ANR-C627/622N1 series support dual-socket Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, 24* RDIMM/LRDIMM DDR4-2666, dual onboard SFP+ (10G fiber) and 8* Expandable Network Interface Modules (NIMs) for 1G/10G/40G (fiber/Copper/Bypass) various options. Strong networking ability can meet most of enterprise-class customers’ needs.

Acrosser had committed its valuable resources to further develop its advanced network product lines. Furthermore, Acrosser is now working directly with Intel, as part of Intel IoT Solutions Alliance, in order to be able to offer its customers first-to-market services, the latest technologies, and solutions in a timely manner. As a member of Intel IoT Solutions Alliance, Acrosser is able to directly obtain valuable resources in providing high quality and stable performance products/solutions to its customers, vis-à-vis non-IoT-Alliance-members.

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Card sized SBC

The initial goal in creating the Raspberry Pi credit card sized, Linux-based Single Board Computer (SBC) – targeted primarily at education – was to develop a response to the decline of students engaging with computer science and related engineering disciplines. Our desire was to reverse the trend of children becoming consumers rather than creators. The following case study follows the hardware development process from an early failure, initial prototypes, and through to the finished production design.
Over recent years there has been an increasing trend for children to be consumers of digital content rather than be future creators or engineers. This trend is driven by manufacturers looking to provide a seamless experience for target customers on a variety of electronic platforms, from gaming consoles to tablets and laptop computers. As a result, access to raw I/O has become restricted. Similarly, any packaged provision of a programming environment is an anathema to the products’ commercial goals. The knowledge required to create “hello world” or flash an external LED has become simply too vast and the opportunity to learn vital skills such as structuring/codifying ideas and debugging has been largely subsumed by a click-and-shoot world. Any motivation to get under the hood and see how these products work is largely dissipated by the impenetrable barriers presented by these “locked down” systems.

refer to :http://embedded-computing.com/articles/case-card-sized-sbc/

Bluetooth technologies accelerates its market

By leveraging Bluetooth, consumers can stream in-vehicle songs from their smartphones and play music on their speakers, allowing them to transform their smartphone into a in-vehicle stereo. The next wave of IVI applications will rely heavily on three wireless technologies – Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Near Field Communication– built on one combination radio chip. And as the market continues to evolve, OEMs will need in-vehicle to leverage traditional Wi-Fi rolling hot spots to offer vehicle-to-vehicle communications such as traffic management, incident avoidance, and social networking.

refer to: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/wireless-accelerate-next-wave-in-vehicle-innovation/

Checking things from a embedded perspective

These are huge numbers and embedded computer within such a large population insider risk is a real threat. A provider needs to provision its services with proper governance to prevent insider threats. Broad network access is one of the most interesting characteristics from a embedded computer perspective, as so much of the embedded computer is focused on rigid, tightly controlled networks such as service-specific portions of NIPRNet and SIPRNet rather than on open network access like the Internet at the other extreme. The key is for services to be available across the entire embedded computer  and this is largely possible today. The problem is as soon as access is broadened, it increases the attack surface, making the idea of a perimeter and a boundary much more nebulous.”

refer to : http://mil-embedded.com/articles/cloud-security-the-dod/

New Atom mainboard for customer

New Atom series solutions which include AMB-D255T1 Mini-ITX industrial mainboard and AMB-N280S1 fanless 3.5-inch single board computer. AMB-D255T1 is equipped with an Intel D2550 Atom processor. AMB-N280S1 is equipped with an Intel N2800 Atom. Both have a 5~7 year product warranty.

AMB-D255T1
http://www.acrosser.com/Products/Single-Board-Computer/Mini-ITX-&-others/AMB-D255T1 (Mini-ITX-)/Intel-Atom-D2550-AMB-D255T1-(Mini-ITX)-.html

AMB-N280S1
http://www.acrosser.com/Products/Single-Board-Computer/3．5’’-SBC/AMB-N280S1/Single-Board-Computer-AMB-N280S1.html

Clouding your mind inception

Pentek (www.pentek.com) signal processing products have found embedded computer homes in U.S. Navy Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) systems. Pentek products score high with the Navy acquisition system: reducing development time, and acquisition and maintenance costs. The open architecture standards used in these embedded computer enable easier new technology insertion so that the latest technology is available to key Navy programs.

CES – Creative Electronic Systems (www.ces.ch) develops scalable systems, using COTS principles, with modular functional units. These modules are widely used in commercial, military, and unmanned aerial vehicles for test, simulation, airborne mission, and primary flight computer systems.

refer to: http://vita-technologies.com/articles/embedded-trends-high-flying-design-wins/

Experimental static analysis for embedded system

About Embedded System:

Continuous Integration-Time (CI) static analysis

After running integration-time static analysis, software engineers should have a stronger sense of potential systemic problems in the code. The next step is to run CI static analysis to enforce the coding policy outlined in the planning phase. This prevents the types of defects discovered during integration-time analysis.

For every issue discovered in static analysis, there are at least 10 more of the exact same thing in other places in the code. Static analysis is the ideal tool for addressing all violations of the same kind at the same time. This is opposed to chasing every possible path through the code. It’s far better to find the systemic problems in order to create an environment in which bugs cannot survive.

When we talk about static analysis, in many cases we mean anti-pattern analysis. A positive pattern is something that should be in the code. For example, a policy that requires engineers to use a typedef when declaring function pointers is a positive pattern static analysis rule[1]. This is in contrast to a policy that, for example, prohibits the use of the data() member function from a string class when interfacing with the standard C library.

refer to: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/getting-leveraging-right-static-analysis/

In response to growing pressure to boost the performance

In response to growing pressure to boost the performance and trim down the size of embedded applications, standards organizations meet regularly to optimize their portfolios in light of the latest available technology. These updated standards take advantage of new silicon architecture combining multiple processors, graphics elements, and complex I/O to deliver the next generation of preengineered, off-the-shelf modules to support many of the high-performance requirements of embedded product development.

These standardized computer platforms allow designers to trade in substantial savings in Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) and scheduling for slightly higher recurring costs. Standards-based designs also shortcut the software development effort by providing access to compatible operating systems, vendor-supplied drivers, and sample firmware.

refer: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/evolving-simplify-embedded-development/

Real-time and general-purpose systems

 

Virtualization for embedded systems has many implementations in which two or more operating systems coexist to gain the benefits of each. One approach puts Microsoft Windows and a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) together.

 

Much is being said about virtualization these days in the softwareworld. Simply stated, virtualization is about getting multiple OSs to run on the same computing platform at the same time. Virtualization has been cited as a key technology for getting the most performance out of the newest multicore processors. But just as not all computing applications are the same, not all virtualization approaches are appropriate for all applications.
Embedded systems have a key requirement that doesn’t normally apply to office and server computers: the need for deterministic response to real-time events. To support the requirement for determinism, embedded applications typically use RTOSs. Embedded applications also employ general-purpose OSs to handle operator interfaces, databases, and general-purpose computing tasks.
In the past, because OSs couldn’t successfully co-reside on computing platforms, system developers employed multiple processing platforms using one or more to support real-time functions and others to handle general-purpose processing. System designers that can combine both types of processing on the same platform can save costs by eliminating redundant computing hardware. The advent of multicore processors supports this premise because it is possible to dedicate processor cores to different computing environments; however, the software issues posed by consolidating such environments require special consideration. Combining real-time and general-purpose operating environments on the same platform (Figure 1) places some stringent requirements on how virtualization is implemented.

refer: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/real-time-general-purpose-unite-via-virtualization/