Digital design refers to creating digital circuits. Digital circuits are in basically everything today and range from something as simple as a circuit that turns an LED on when a button is pressed to the complex processor in the device you are reading this on. Traditionally, these circuits are built by making ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) out of silicon wafers. This process is incredibly ...

Purism Librem 5 Smartphone is a mobile phone that promises full control by it’s user. Privacy has always been a thing of concern for many users and with the supposed “Free Country” we live in, we never really have freedom. There are always eyes and ears monitoring us in all forms, for analytics or security as some proclaimed. Some people are already saying Privacy is dead, well San Francisco-based freedom-f ...

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer built to process information in a similar manner to the natural brain function has finally gone live. The supercomputer is made up of 1,000,000 processor cores which the developers are planning on upgrading to 1,000,000,000 cores in the near future, making the supercomputer a little closer to the number of neurons currently firing up inside our brains. The new ...

Variscite recently announced the launch of a new i.MX 8X-based System on Module. The new VAR-SOM-MX8X product family supports NXP’s i.MX 8QuadXPlus / 8DualXPlus / 8DualX processor with up to Quad 1.2GHz Cortex™-A35. The SoM provides built-in safety features, highly integrated multimedia support and efficient power/performance architecture. The VAR-SOM-MX8X is a pin2pin System on Module, compatible with the ...

Avalue recently announced a Linux-friendly 3.5″ ECM-CFS Single Board Computer with a choice of Intel’s latest 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” S-series processors. It also features triple display support, 2x GbE, 4x USB 3.1, 2x SATA, and mSATA. This SBC is considered as the world’s first 3.5-inch SBC to feature Intel’s 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” processors. Avalue’s 146 x 101mm ECM-CFS SBC is designed keeping various appli ...

Kontron a global provider of IoT/ Embedded computer Technology (ECT) introduces its Linux friendly “COMe-cVR6” Express Type 6 module, that comes with a Ryzen embedded V1000 SoC with up to 24GB DDR4, including 8GB soldered on board. The board also comes with a quad- display support and optional- 40 to 85-degree Celsius operation and security features. The COM Express compact module’s smaller form factor sign ...

Ever since its foundation in 2007, Forlinx Embedded Tech. Co., Ltd. has been a major manufacturer and distributor of ARM technology-based embedded products such as Single Board Computers (SBCs), development boards, and many more to major companies all over the world such as Samsung, TI, Freescale, etc. Some of their SBCs are TI (Texas Instruments) Sitara AM3354 based on OK335xS-II and the Forlinx i.MX6 SBC ...

SolidRun releases ClearFog GT 8K; a high-end computing, Virtual Customer Premises Equipment to deliver network services such as routing, firewall security and virtual private network connectivity to enterprises. The Clear Fog family has the Clear Fog Pro, Clear Fog Base and now the Clear Fog GT 8K which has taken a little of the other SBCs (Single Board Computers) in the family and has made certain modifica ...

The first MintBox Mini was released in 2015 in partnership between Compulab and the Linux Mint team. Since then, there has been an advancement in the software and the hardware that powered the first iteration. In March 2018, Compulab has continued with the Linux Mini Project releasing a replacement for the AMD A10 based MintBox Mini Pro mini PC called the MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2). The new MintBox Mini 2 comes ...

The battle of the world smallest computer is something the researchers at the University of Michigan don’t attempt to give up anytime soon with the introduction of the Michigan Micro Mote, a computer smaller than a grain of rice. The Michigan Micro Mote has helped researchers at the University of Michigan remain top in the competition of the creation of the world’s smallest computer. IBM took the title in M ...