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Qualcomm Booth Tour talks Automotive at #ces2024 Digital Chassis, Motorcycles, Software Defined EV

Charbax — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:58:00 +0000

Mark Granger, representing Qualcomm at CES 2024, introduces the Snapdragon digital chassis concept vehicle, a groundbreaking platform designed for in-vehicle infotainment. Watch all my videos from CES 2024 here. Granger suggests selling the vehicle on the market or as a development kit for interested companies. Despite its drivability, the main focus is on in-cabin experiences, showcasing a beautiful UI developed with Unreal Engine. The vehicle demonstrates generative AI capabilities, such as using AI trained on user manuals to answer questions like changing a tire. Granger emphasizes the convenience of AI understanding user queries and providing relevant information. He also showcases a digital twin feature with smooth graphics, illustrating various views and personas, including a fleet driver and a vacationer mode. Snapdragon platforms deliver leading edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity across smartphones, PCs, software-defined vehicles with the Snapdragon Digital Chassis, and more. The car boasts 23 speakers for zonal audio, allowing personalized audio experiences in different areas of the vehicle. Granger mentions the collaboration with JP Morgan and Salesforce for wallet solutions and connected services, emphasizing the upgradeability of hardware performance over time. The Qualcomm Automotive module is highlighted, showcasing its seamless integration with cloud-based testing and real-time performance. Moving on, Granger discusses Qualcomm’s advancements in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), including partnerships with OEMs and tier-one systems. The presentation touches on the Snapdragon Automotive module’s compatibility with future generations and its role in speeding up time-to-market for customers. The Flex solution, a single unit handling both infotainment and ADAS, is showcased as a key to scalability for various vehicle types. Granger addresses Qualcomm’s journey in automotive technology, starting with telematics over 20 years ago and evolving into virtualized cockpits in 2014. He emphasizes the company’s commitment to safety and security in ADAS, utilizing the latest Snapdragon processors. The discussion shifts to level 2 and level 3 autonomy as the current focus, with the capability to support higher levels when the market demands it. The booth tour concludes with a demonstration of Qualcomm’s Flex solution, highlighting its ability to efficiently run multiple tasks concurrently. Granger also mentions the potential use of Snapdragon technology in tracking fleets of scooters or two-wheelers. He expresses gratitude to the audience and encourages those interested in development to visit the new Qualcomm Automotive website. Description by Chatgpt.

CES 2021: Tata Baby Alarm System by Filo srl of Italy

Charbax — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 06:48:05 +0000

via https://youtu.be/f9aFxlOOFG4

Keynote: Battery as a Service, NIO, Battery Swap/Upgradability for cheaper EVs, Ganesh V. Iyer, CIO

Charbax — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:48:12 +0000

via https://youtu.be/v6bvT6jPIxE

TI Jacinto 7 new Advanced driver assistance systems processor DRA8 gateway TDA4 SoC ADAS platform

Charbax — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:48:06 +0000

via https://youtu.be/Zr9hGfvbY8o

Automotive Grade Linux at Embedded World 2020, Open Source Software Infotainment, Instrument Cluster

Charbax — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:05:15 +0000

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is an open source project at the Linux Foundation bringing together 150+ members including 11 automakers to develop a shared software platform for all automotive applications including infotainment, instrument cluster, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and autonomous driving.

With Linux at its core, AGL is developing an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard to enable rapid development of new features and technologies. Although initially focused on In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI), AGL is the only organization planning to address all software in the vehicle, including instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. The AGL platform is available to all, and anyone can participate in its development. Learn more: https://www.automotivelinux.org/
Automotive Grade Linux is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org

Filmed at Embedded World 2020, watch all my Embedded World 2020 videos in this playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xXqJFxvYvjgUpdNMBkGzEWU6YVxR8Ga

Holst Centre R&D institute printed and flexible electronics for automotive

Charbax — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:24:08 +0000

Holst Centre is a R&D institute from the Netherlands focusing on printed and flexible electronics For this years IDTechEx we decided to focus on our activities for automotive. Next to integrating electronics in polycarbonate substrates (in mold structural electronics), we are also integrating electronics into glass First the circuits are printed on PET or PVB, then components are placed such as LED’s or chips before laminating the printed electronics into glass The challenge is processing on substrates with very low glass-transition temperature and lamination of relatively thick components without any distortions. The demonstrator we show here uses a transparent capacitive touch button to switch on the LED’s. This enables functional glass which can be used as user interface in public transport, in architectural applications and road user communication for cars Starting with printing electronics in 2D, we now also print in 3D. The machine we have partially developed in-house uses the principle of stereolithography, where a curable photopolymer is hardened layer-by-layer by applying UV light. Using modular illumination, the system can rapidly print large designs. Within the system we are able to place components such as near field chips and dispense lines. This enables small series production: from digital design and raw materials to a 3D electronics structure. The main benefits are being able to optimize the volume dimensions and the fact that the result is rugged. We work with this technology for applications in chip packaging, automotive and defense but we are also looking for other applications Large arrays of elastomer based pressure sensors on flexible substrates such as TPU enables unobtrusive monitoring of posture when laminated into chairs, beds, wheelchairs etc. These pressure sensors consist of a piezo resistive material with a suspended conductive membrane. When pressure is applied, a resistance is measured. The printing technology enables low cost sensing capability over a large area. The example demonstrated is a large pressure sensitive mat, but we also offer fully printed piezo-electric sensors to measure motion and temperature sensors. By integrating many different sensing modalities and measuring at many locations, a lot of data is available to optimize the signal for a specific application, such as a driver drowsiness monitor. Next to these examples Holst Centre works on flexible displays, smart clothing and many other exciting applications of printed electronics. We are happy to see at this IDTechEx event that Faurecia announces volume production of so called plastronics. For the success of the printed electronics industry it is important that all parties in the value chain collaborate to bring even more products to market using printed electronics technology. As Holst we are always looking for new partners to take on this challenge together.

Filmed at IDTechEx USA 2019

$259 iubest Scooter Luggage, 95Wh (airport compliant), fits overhead luggage compartment

Charbax — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:42:00 +0000

iubest Scooter Luggage ($259 at https://amzn.to/2PYMkHh) for Adult Carry on Suitcase Foldable Trolley Case Bags for Travel, Business and School Men 50 liter, 18 inches Time Saving and Convenient: iUbest scooter luggage suitcase can hold riders up to 331 lbs and suitable for adult, teens and children. Our scooter suitcase can save you time to school or travel in the most ease way. Roomy: Capacity 50L & 5 compartments. A great carry on to organize your travel entertainment. Enough space for you to take the stuff you need for your travel, business or school. Durable: Made of high-quality aluminum-magnesium alloy. The frame of this scooter luggage is strong and stable. Will bear all the slight rubs or damage in an accident.
★Multi-Function: Designed for travel, school, business and all the situations that use suitcase or bag. Makes traveling with iubest scooter luggage so much more enjoyable!
★Easy Folding: Just push one button to control the scooter fold up and down. Combined suitcase with a scooter. Our scooter luggage is a real head turner for your travel and school.

Having manufactured bags and suitcases for many years, our company has great feedback from our customers for our quality and great experience in the case of design.
We have designed such scooter luggage to make your journey and school full of fun this time.

Products details:
The frame: this is made of high-quality aluminum-magnesium alloy which will ensure that our case lasts long and durable.
Wheels: using the PU perfusion wheel will resist slight abrasion
Bag: it is made of polyester and will reach the ABS flame retardant degree
Brake pads: is stainless steel.
Our scooter luggage can hold up to 150KG/331 LB.
Bearing material: Carbon steel ABEC-5.

Specification:
Weight: 13.2 lb.
Product size: 25*11.8*14.4 inches
Handrail height: 10.4 inches
The base size: 18.5*3.9 inches

JDI 17.3″ 8K with Laser backlight, variable LTPS, Curved Automotive, Medical, Industrial, Consumer

Charbax — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 23:18:27 +0000

At SID Display Week 2019, JDI (Japan Display Inc), a Display technology joint venture by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, shows their displays for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer devices like the smartphone market. JDI makes automotive displays, including curved displays, ranging from 1.2″ (336 x (RGB) x 168) to 12.3″ (1920 x (RGB) x 720) using LTPS Technology. JDI makes medical displays ranging from 17″ (1280 x (RGB) x 768 ) to 21.3″ (2560 x (3-subpixel) x 2048). JDI displays are also in industrial products such as rugged handhelds. JDI makes displays for smartphone, wearables and tablet. JDI features applied products and prototypes of ultra-high resolution LCDs for VR (virtual reality), reflective LCDs utilizing JDI’s core LTPS (low-temperature polysilicon) technology, transparent LCDs, industrial displays, organic EL displays, fingerprint sensors, and the award-winning LCDs for automobiles featuring two concave-curved TFT LCDs: a 15.0-inch 1920×1020 display with in-cell touch technology, and a 12.3-inch 1920×720 display. Both of the displays were released into mass production in 2018 for a top-tier automotive OEM for their dashboard application for which they won the display of the year award.

BOE 12.3″ Rollable Phone, 7.7″ Foldable Phone, 65″ BD LCD, Printed OLED, 8K VR, Automotive, mini-LED

Charbax — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:12:47 +0000

At SID Display Week 2019, BOE shows their latest 12.3″ Rollable Phone, 7.7″ Foldable Phone, many other flexible displays, UHD displays, micro-displays, other world-leading technologies and innovative applications such as their Smart driving experience brought by flexible display for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) comprising a smart driver cabin and a spliced display screen of three units in three rows with only 0.99 mm bezels allowing visitors to experience a brand-new in-car display solution of the future. In addition to flexible display applications, BOE also displays the world-leading UHD display solution called the BD CELL UHD display which features an ultra-high static contrast ratio of up to 1,000,000:1, a bit depth of 12 bit, and a black field brightness of less than 0.003 nits, BOE also presents a host of 8K products, including 75″ 8K 120Hz display, a 3.5″ 8K VR display, and 0.39″ 8K spliced VR display. Under the “8425 Strategy” (promote 8K, popularize 4K, replace 2K and make good use of 5G), BOE is now speeding up the application of 8K in many fields. Other leading-edge technologies and solutions that BOE shows at this show include the first ever HDR notebook featuring mini-LED, the 15.6″ oxide display with an ultra-high refresh rate of 240Hz, the 55″ inkjet-printed 4K OLED display, the 0.39″ micro-OLED AR display that enjoys the world’s largest pixel density of 5,644 PPI.

In the smart Automotive cabin, the information required for smart travel becomes part of the actual scene with the help of AR technology, the head-up display (HUD) can project useful information such as speed per hour and navigation onto the front windshield for the driver’s reference. In addition, BOE replaces the conventional in-car LCD with flexible display. The 12.3″ three-unit flexible display is backed by the OLED pixel compensation circuit technology developed by BOE, which can effectively improve the brightness uniformity of mid-sized OLED displays and provide better audiovisual experience for car users, BOE applies flexible AMOLED displays to transparent A-pillars, rearview mirrors to solve the problem of driver’s blind spots in automotive design. The flexible display can perfectly match the shape of the A-pillar and show data with delay shorter than one millisecond. With the help of camera, the images blocked by the A-pillar can be shown on the flexible display, thus eliminating blind spots in the field of view. By applying flexible display, the rearview mirror can also be customized according to the interior shape of the car. BOE’s smart cabin is equipped with a 6.39″ flexible display as a built-in rearview mirror, which makes it safer to drive the car even on rainy and snowy days, BOE also exhibited some innovative applications of in-car display, such as center console solution that supports gesture-based interaction and V-shaped mini-LED for cars. BOE’s high-end in-car display panels have been supplied to automakers in the United States, Germany, the UK, Japan and South Korea.

Cluster Imaging Automotive Depth Camera Mapping Technology

Charbax — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:04:47 +0000

Cluster Imaging makes all images better with superior depth map processing. Depth maps are a next-generation foundation technology enabling accurate image element isolation and visual space identification. Depth information will enable new frontiers in automotive and industrial markets.

Autonomous driving systems have to date relied on LIDAR- and RADARbased depth sensing. These technologies suffer from limited resolution, no integrated colour sensing, high costs, bulky specially-sourced hardware, and poor performance in rain.

Cluster Imaging’s depth camera modules produce full-colour video plus an embedded high-resolution depth map suitable for accurate image recognition. The modules are manufactured using standard, low-cost image sensors. They can be used standalone or as a complement to LIDAR/RADAR.

Learn more about Cluster Imaging: http://clusterimage.com/

Silent Sensors talk stretchable sensors and their future

Charbax — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:53:06 +0000

Marcus Taylor, CEO, Silent Sensors and Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx discuss sensor technology and its future applications, in particular, sensors for tyres, self-powered sensors, pressure sensors, capacitors, piezoelectric energy harvesting and the batteries used in these sensors.

Silent Sensors is an innovative IoT (Internet of Things) company with a focus on tyres and tyre management. We have a number of exciting opportunities covering holistic tyre lifecycle management, in particular, the development of RFID tagging, sensors and energy harvesting, all of which significantly reduce the total cost of operations of a fleet of vehicles, whether they be construction equipment, trucks, buses or cars.

Filmed at IDTechEx Show! USA
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KernKonzept Open-Source Automobile Safety

Charbax — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:17:37 +0000

KernKonzept talks Open-Source Automobile Safety: EB Corbo and the L4Re microhypervisor:
– Renesas R-Car3 H3 Platform
– Virtualized Cluster and IVI
– Based on AGL
– Graphic Virtualization with Imagination’s PowerVR Graphics

Hybrid Power System and Smart Pumps for Distributed Hydraulic Network Pumps

Charbax — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:55:02 +0000

Terzo Power Systems (http://terzopower.com) is dedicated to the development, commercialization, and manufacture of high performance, compact, and ultra-efficient hydraulic systems and off-road, heavy-duty hybrid system technology.

Interviewed at the IDTechEx Show! USA http://IDTechex.com/USA

Zero Emission Motorcycles, No clutch, No gears, No maintenance

Charbax — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:28:09 +0000

Zero Motorcycles (http://zeromotorcycles.com) are a world leader in electric motorcycles. No clutch. No gears. No maintenance. Their Z-Force motor features a single moving part, no messy fluids, no clutch, no transmission, no maintenance. You can watch more of the Zero Motorcycles for example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0cdLiM0mc

Interviewed at the IDTechEx Show! USA http://IDTechEx.com/USA

Smart Tires by Silent Sensors, Energy Harvesting, RFID for rubbers elastomers, polymers

Charbax — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:10:20 +0000

Marcus Taylor, CEO of Silent Sensors (http://silentsensors.com) demonstrates their Energy Harvesting and RFID products for use in rubbers elastomers and polymers, with a special focus on tires. Tires, first and foremost, are safety products. About 20% of all accidents on the road are caused by underinflated tires. Underinflated tires also translate into increased fuel consumption and increased tire wear. All the components they use have to be automotive grade.

At the IDTechEx Show! Europe, Silent Sensors introduced a new supercapacitor that is very flexible and able to withstand high temperatures, which is necessary for tire manufacture and production.

Filmed at IDTechEx Show! Europe: http://IDTechEx.com/Europe

Learn more about the IDTechEx Show! USA: http://IDTechEx.com/USA

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$1299 Nvidia Jetson Xavier dev kit, 8-core ARMv8, 512-core Volta GPU for AI Robotics

Charbax — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:28:44 +0000

Nvidia launes Jetson Xavier with 20x the performance of Jetson TX2 and 10x the energy efficiency with 512-core Volta GPU with Tensor Cores in an embedded module with more than 9 billion transistors it runs at under 30W, with multiple operating modes at 10W, 15W, and 30W. The Jetson Xavier ARM SoC has 6 kinds of high-performance processors on its SoC, a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, dual NVDLA deep learning accelerators, an image processor, a vision processor and a video processor. Jetson Xavier has a peak performance of up to 30 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of mixed-precision FP32/FP16/INT8 performance. It can encode dual 4K60 H265 and decode dual 4K60 H265 at up to 12bit. Comes with 16GB LPDDR4x RAM with 137GB/s memory bandwidth, 32GB eMMC storage. It also has a dual NVDLA DL/ML Accelerator Engines which are open source available at http://nvdla.org and a 7-way VLIW Vision Accelerator. Nvidia Jetson Xavier runs using the Nvidia Isaac platform, a toolbox for the simulation, training, verification and deployment of Jetson Xavier. This robotics software consists of: Isaac SDK, APIs and tools to develop robotics algorithm software and runtime framework with fully accelerated libraries, Isaac IMX (Intelligent Machine Acceleration) applications, a collection of NVIDIA-developed robotics algorithm software, Isaac Sim, a highly realistic virtual simulation environment for developers to train autonomous machines and perform hardware-in-the-loop testing with Jetson Xavier. The Nvidia Jetson Xavier developer kit, which includes the Isaac robotics software, will be priced at $1,299, with early access starting in August from distributors worldwide.

Samsung Displays Booth Tour at SID Display Week 2018

Charbax — Thu, 31 May 2018 14:54:43 +0000

Samsung Displays showcases their 5.09″ and 5.77″ light field displays for advanced AR applications, the first of it’s kind to combine AR, 3D and light fields into one portable display. Sound integrated in display through a future AMOLED phone, aqua force sensor, their highest resolution VR display does 4K in a 2.43″ 1200ppi display, with 250nits. They have an unbreakable display, a rollable display, a curved conformed display. Transparent HUD displays to eventually integrate into the windows and windshield of a car. Samsung’s 4K 31.5″ QD Glass and their 8K 65″ QD Glass displays are also showcased to highlight their cutting edge Quantum Dot based LCD technology.

Toradex at the Qt booth at Embedded World 2018

Charbax — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:34:54 +0000

Toradex and The Qt Company highlight their long-standing partnership. Risto Avila from The Qt Company provides an overview of interesting demos using Toradex such as the fast boot demo which boots in 1.2 seconds based on the Apalis iMX6Q SoM and Qt 5.7 with support for 3D GPU with OpenGL ES 3.0; the fact that the Toradex SoM won Qt’s battle of the boards; Qt’s readymade images for Toradex, and much more. Toradex Partner Atechnology emphasizes Toradex’s focus on its partner network.

Toradex also showcased its demo showcasing its new Apalis iMX8 SoM running Qt 3D Studio – the SoM based on NXP’s i.MX 8QuadMax processor. The Apalis iMX8QM offers one click OS installation via the Toradex Easy Installer and offers dual Arm Cortex-A72, quad Arm Cortex-A53, and dual Arm Cortex-M4. The Apalis iMX8QM also contains on-board dual-band 802.11ac 2×2 MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and is Bluetooth 5 ready. This SoM offers advanced hardware security and safety features, and is ideal for signal processing, computer vision and HMI applications. You can sign up for early access for the Apalis iMX8QM here.

Arm RTX5 RTOS for safety-critical systems development on ARM Cortex-M

Charbax — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:31:09 +0000

Reinhard Keil, Senior Director Embedded Tools, Arm talks about the Arm Keil MDK which is a complete development environment and supports over 5000 microcontrollers. At Embedded World, Arm introduced the TrustZone-M firmware project for security and a runtime software system for safety applications that accelerates software development for Cortex-M press release The certification enables the use of the runtime system in projects that run on Arm Cortex-M0, Cortex-M0+, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M7, and target certification according to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 up to ASIL D and SIL 3, respectively. Certification for Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 is planned for 2019.

PTScientists 2019 Mission to the Moon LTE and 2 rovers

Charbax — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:42:47 +0000

Berlin-based new-space company PTScientists is taking you on a Mission to the Moon Working with key technology partners Audi and Vodafone, they aim to drive a pair of Audi lunar quattro rovers on the surface of the Moon, and re-visit the last place that humans set foot on the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission 45 years ago. After doing a 384,000 km trip from Earth to the Moon, their ALINA spacecraft will attempt to land safely on the lunar surface to deliver their two Audi Lunar quattro rovers and a range of scientific payloads. Once safely on the Moon, their pair of Audi Lunar quattro rovers will use their four-wheel drive capability to explore the harsh lunar environment to attempt to Drive 500m on the Moon also to test a new lunar communications architecture, with a Vodafone-provided LTE base-station allowing the rovers to transfer data to ALINA. They will attempt to send HD images to the Earth 48 years after the final human footprints were left on the Moon, they will return to the Apollo 17 landing site to capture the first high-resolution images of the original Lunar Roving Vehicle (while taking great care not to disturb the site).

ELIX Wireless EV charging using their Magneto Dynamic Coupling (MDC) technology

Charbax — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:05:36 +0000

ELIX Wireless has developed Magneto Dynamic Coupling (MDC) technology and has been deploying wireless chargers for automobiles. They are in trials with EV companies in China and USA. Their solution uses low frequency, so no heat, no EMI, safe to use, has the ability to work in the rain, can push aside debris. They have built and deployed 7.7KW chargers, these are undergoing trials, the company is also making 3.3KW and 22KW chargers which will be beta tested in 2018.

Terrafugia Flying Car Interview

Charbax — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:01:58 +0000

Terrafugia’s The Transition is the world’s first practical flying car. It offers the convenience of driving and the speed of flight, and will incorporate autonomous technologies that will make the Transition safer than any other small aircraft in the sky. Terrafugia has already developed and flown two full-scale prototypes, and has received all of the special legal approvals necessary to bring the Transition to market in the USA. And for the the Future, Terrafugia’s plans to later release the TF-X, a mass-market flying car with the potential to revolutionize the way people get around. An all-electric vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities and computer-controlled flight, the TF-X is the flying car of the future. This video was filmed at the IDTechEx Show! You can also watch Terrafugia’s presentation video here.

Terrafugia Flying Car Keynote at the IDTechEx Show!

Charbax — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:00:37 +0000

Terrafugia CTO and Co-Founder Carl Dietrich presents Terrafugia’s flying car in this presentation, including some of their innovations including sensing, IoT and autonomous systems. Terrafugia’s mission is to create practical flying cars that enable a new dimension of personal freedom. With operational flying/driving prototypes and being acquired by Volvo Owner Geely. You can also watch the Interview video by Dr. Peter Harrop with Terrafugia here.

Me2EV L-Loop Lithium to Lead EV battery Range Extender

Charbax — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:14:01 +0000

As a solution for range anxiety for electric vehicles, http://me2ev.com presents their ME2 L-Loop Lithium to Lead battery range extender, for plug-in vehicles in places that might lack charging stations, the ME2 L-Loop is a retrofitted mobile charging station right in the trunk of the electric vehicle, Me2EV claims it’s a cheap way to possibly double the range of your electric vehicle.

Distributors, potential partners or media can contact Me2EV here:
http://me2ev.com
[email protected]
+1 319.936.2504

Filmed in 4K60 at IDTechEx Show! USA 2017 using Panasonic GH5 ($1999 at Amazon.com) on firmware 2.1 (aperture priority, AF continuous tracking) with Leica 12mm f1.4 ($1297 at Amazon.com) with Saramonic Uwmic9 dual wireless lav microphone system ($399 at Amazon.com), get $25 off renting cameras and lenses with my referral link at https://share.lensrentals.com/x/wWbHqV

Thundersoft CTO Pengcheng Zou talks Open Source Automotive and more

Charbax — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:50:05 +0000

Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd. is a smart device operating system and platform technology provider since 2008, providing smart device operating system solutions, speeding-up time to market for smart phone, IoT, automotive, robots, drones, cars, smart logistics, with years of R&D investment in mobile OS technology such as Android, Linux, Windows and HTML5, from the hard drive, operating system kernel, and middleware to upper application, and has accumulated extensive experience along with a large number of IP including protocol stack, deep learning, computer graphics techniques, operating system optimization, security solutions, etc.

Self-driving Bus Autonomous Smartshuttle.ch by Postbus Switzerland

juliusaugustus — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 05:01:21 +0000

http://smartshuttle.ch provides public transportation in areas where it not widely available or difficult to provide. The shuttles are autonomous and provide a small amount of seats. The service is currently operating as a test service in Switzerland and some units have already been deployed. The shuttle can turn around automatically and can run on narrow streets and narrow turns. PostBus and the Mobility Lab Sion-Valais (City of Sion, Canton Valais, HeS-So, EPFL, Swiss Post) intend to use the SmartShuttle project to learn how to deploy autonomous shuttles in the public sphere.

Test ride on the SmartShuttle driverless bus

juliusaugustus — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 05:00:06 +0000

The Postbus smartshuttle is a 100% electric powered and self driving mini bus. The bus can hold up to 11 people. The shuttle is currently in operation in Switzerland. The vehicle will stop itself to prevent it from running over people. It is developped in a cooperation between the French company Navya, Bestmile and the Swiss Carpostal system.

Tesla Model X review by IDTechEx Chairman Dr Peter Harrop

Charbax — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:53:36 +0000

IDTechEx Chairman Dr Peter Harrop, reviews the Tesla Model X, discusses Elon Musk’s future projects and where the electric vehicles industry is headed.

Tesla claims the Model X is the safest, fastest and most capable sport utility vehicle in history. It has all-wheel drive and a 100 kWh battery providing 351 miles of range, Model X has ample seating for seven adults and all of their gear. It’s ludicrously fast, accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour in as quick as 2.9 seconds.

Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator (ARM Accelerator)

Charbax — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:22:10 +0000

ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator (“ARM Accelerator”) is an international global startup accelerator recruitment network in Mainland China, UK, U.S, Israel, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and Taiwan area, helping startups accelerate development in areas such as VR/AR, Robotics/AI, Smart Car, Smart Healthcare, Smart Home, Smart City. ARM Accelerator is an innovation and acceleration platform featured among ARM’s ecosystem. ARM Accelerator focuses on smart hardware and IoT ecosystem. The core advantage of ARM Accelerator is to create an one-stop platform for China and overseas startups and integrates the world-leading IC design companies and scarce, high-value labs to provide the customers all kinds of incubation and acceleration services, such as professional technology consulting, design service, and global promotion and investment matchmaking.

Open Source Vehicle (OSVehicle) on ARM with Renault Twizy

Charbax — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:12:23 +0000

OSVehicle presents a Modular Open Source Electric Car Platform to Save millions in car platform R&D. Design, prototype and building next electric vehicles using a modular open source electric car platform. Here OSVehicle is demonstrated on the Renault Twizy which I first video-blogged 5 years ago here.

Nvidia DRIVE PX Pegasus board for self-driving cars has 2 Octa-core ARM SoCs with 512-core CUDA GPU and 2 discreet GPUs for a total of 320 Billion calculations per second

Charbax — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:17:18 +0000

Nvidia DRIVE PX Pegasus board is launched for self-driving cars which includes two ARM SoCs each feature Octa-core Nvidia Xavier Custom ARM processors with Volta 512-core CUDA GPU which supports up to 8K video encode and decode, 7Billion transistors each ARM SoC built on TSMC 16nm FinFET+ with also two next-generation discrete GPUs separately on the board with hardware created for accelerating deep learning and computer vision algorithms, the 4 chips on the board can compute 320 Billion calculations per second with an overall 1TB per second memory bandwidth.

David Rusling, Linaro CTO talks Trebble, Servers, HPC, Tiny Linux IoTL, Automotive, Machine Learning

Charbax — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:46:18 +0000

David Rusling says this has been the best Linaro Connect for him thus far in the 7 years since Linaro was started. He talks about how Google recognizes the part Linaro can play to help with Project Trebble, to help keep longer term support for each LTS kernel release also as part of the Linaro Mobile Group. The Linaro Enterprise Day showed how far Linaro has gotten to with all the work coming together towards ARM Servers taking market share in the server market. Kanta Vekaria works towards Linaro’s involvment with High Performance Computing (HPC) as she talked about in her keynote Nicolas Pitre is working on making the Internet of Tiny Linux (IoTL) to make Linux suitable for IoT you can see his talk here persuading the kernel developers that making changes that benefit the embedded market. Linaro is very active with Zephyr which is kind of the Linux Kernel of the embedded world, working on it in in the Linaro IoT & Embedded Group (LITE). Talking about the establishment of the Open Source Foundries spin-off of Linaro where they can pursue business opportunities to work more closely together with customers who need help implementing open source on ARM solutions such as the IoT solutions shown in this video also introducing the Associate Membership Level for smaller members such as small to medium companies and Universities to be able to join Linaro in the coming months trying to involve everyone in the open source ecosystem. Linaro also is looking into getting involved with open source for the Automotive market possibly related to the software needed for self-driving cars and more. Linaro getting involved with open source for artificial intelligence, machine learning. You can see my previous videos with David Rusling over the past 5 years here.

AGC Asahi Glass, foldable Glass, AR virtual concierge, talking Glass and AR mirror

Charbax — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:17:56 +0000

Asahi Glass, more commonly known as AGC, one of the core Mitsubishi companies, is the largest glass company in the world, headquartered in Tokyo Japan, here showing their future glass performance at SID Display Week 2017 promoted under the key words “Glass-as-a-platform” showing their advanced glass solutions that they think will help shape the future for the displays industry. AGC Asahi Glass shows the talking window for a future self-driving car with artificial intelligence, coordinating the total experience during travel, they show flexible cover glass, foldable Smartphones, Rollable PC, Seamless design PC, Cover glass for fingerprint authentication, together with the Shoichi Hasegawa Lab, AGC Asahi Glass presents the Optical performance of their Glascene in which high transparency and a good screen gainstand side by side will suitably provide a projected image based on augmented reality. Where the AGC Virtual concierge is effectively put into practice as a projected image on Glascene. Shoko Asahina, an animated character personifying AGC, is the virtual concierge aiming to have a social presence, waves her hand to attract your attention naturally. Together with Yasuaki Kakehi, AGC Asahi Glass presents also the Mirrorge which is a revolutionary display system on mirror for augmented reality. A highresolution display image and a good reflectivity just like an ordinary mirror stand sideby side in Mirrorge system. Mirroge proposes a creative space design and a brand new application in an architectural interior, enabling a new interactive AR (Augmented Reality) installation using high definition images displayed on the surface of the mirror.

3M at SID Display Week 2017, AR/VR, Automotive, Brightness, Safety

Charbax — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 05:50:02 +0000

3M is a leader in making displays brighter and more energy efficient, thinner and more durable here at the Society of Information Display’s Display Week tradeshow showing their AR/VR ‘Screen Door Effect’ filter, to provide the AR/VR user with an immersive experience without the cost of creating a visual artifact where you can see individual pixels, like looking through a screen door. 3M has developed a new film that is designed to vastly improve this issue. The Screen Door Effect is muted while the overall viewing experience is improved. 3M’s Automotive Displays to prevent driver distraction and improve safety in automobiles, with solutions including a new louver-less film that shows content exclusively to the driver or just to the passenger. Also featured is a new solution for a head-up display that can be seen even in bright sunshine and with polarized sunglasses.

LCD Headlights by Stuttgart University (Best of I-Zone at SID Display Week 2017 Winner)

juliusaugustus — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:51:29 +0000

Winner of the Prize for Best exhibitor at the I-Zone startups and New Tech Demos area at the SID Display Week 2017, Hella together with students from the Institute for Large Area Microelectronics at the University of Stuttgart demonstrate their project to Develop an Active Matrix LCD for Use in High Resolution Adaptive Headlights also presented in detail in this paper.

Conventional adaptive driving beam headlamps are limited in achieving still higher quantities of switchable pixels by the number of LEDs and movable elements needed. In this paper, it is shown that by integrating an active matrix liquid crystal display module, it is possible to realize fully adaptive high-resolution headlights without mechanical elements and a finite number of LED with 30 k switchable pixels.

As adaptive driving beam headlamps (ADBs) are now established and already available in mass-production vehicles, the market is requesting headlight systems with increasing resolution.

State of the art are LED matrix modules such as the HD84 from Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. that realize low beam, ADB, and additional functionalities by using 84 switchable LEDs. But the number of pixels that can be realized using this approach is limited by the number of LEDs that can be integrated in the tight installation space of a headlamp.

Higher resolution is needed to be able to implement new lighting functions to further improve traffic safety when driving at night or dusk. To realize a significant increase in traffic safety, the ADB must be able to simultaneously fade out several drivers of traffic oncoming of the vehicle to avoid glaring and to highlight important areas like road markings and traffic signs. To accomplish this, the headlamp must be able to divide the illuminated area in front of the vehicle into a grid of small areas with individually controlled light intensity. The higher the resolution of the grid, the better are the realizable lighting functions.

Filmed at the I-Zone startups and New Tech Demos area at the SID Display Week.

Keynote: Sanjay Dhawan, President of Harman’s Connected Services Division

Charbax — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 02:28:55 +0000

President of Harman’s Connected Services, Stamford, CT, USA, this is the Keynote by Mr. Sanjay Dhawan entitled “Humanizing the Autonomous Car Experience” at SID Display Week 2017. Sanjay Dhawan is President of HARMAN’s Connected Services Division. A technology veteran and serial entrepreneur, Sanjay is responsible for the day-to-day operations and financial performance of HARMAN Connected Services. Previously, Dhawan was President & CEO of Symphony Teleca, a private company that was acquired by HARMAN. Dhawan joined Symphony Teleca from Aricent, a KKR owned privately held company with global operations in more than 25 countries with over 10,000 employees, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. At Aricent, he was responsible for company strategy, sales, marketing and the management and oversight of several high-growth business units and various functional units. Prior to Aricent, Dhawan was the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Inkra Networks, a company credited with defining the virtual networking market segment. Dhawan also held chief strategy, development, sales and management roles at Netopia, StarNet and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Dhawan has authored several networking-related publications and books and has chaired IEEE 802 and ANSI X3T9 standards sub-groups. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brunel University, England, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications from REC Kurukshetra, India.

LG Display shows 8K 31.5″, Wallpaper OLED, pOLED, Transparent OLED, 4K bezel-less and more

Charbax — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:48:45 +0000

LG shows their ultra-thin 77” OLED wallpaper display, the thinnest in the world, displays with speakers built-in, and other leading display technology such as the LG Mobile and VR displays such as a bezel-less 5.5″ 4K smartphone display, Plastic Flexible or Conformed OLED displays for upcoming Flexible Smartphones, 31.5″ 4K HDR narrow bezel PC Monitor, 10bit Curved 37.5″ WQHD+ display, 14″ 4K for the laptop market, 31.5″ 8K Display, in-touch systems on 14″, 15″, 23.8″ laptop displays for the 2-in-1 market. LG also shows some automotive displays such as a conformed 12.3″ plastic OLED display, 12.3″ 60% Transparent OLED for the automobile HUD market, LCD and OLED display as a hybrid 12.3 MLD where LCD can be the background and the OLED can show the needle. A 6.13″ mirror display. They also show a 55″ FHD 40% Transparent OLED Display. Filmed at SID Display Week.

Libralato rotary engine for hybrid vehicles

Charbax — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 23:50:33 +0000

Libralato hybrid engine is a new kind of rotary engine with a new thermodynamic cycle. The engine was first concept tested in 2011, followed by more rigorous proof of concept testing and analysis in 2014, which indicated that its revolutionary 9-phase cycle is effective and is capable of exceptionally high efficiency and low emissions. Libralato claims that their engine might be the most efficient compact engine in the world; at least as efficient as a diesel engine (c.40%) using gasoline but half the size and weight. Filmed at the IDTechEx.com Show!

Jenax J.Flex, Flexible Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery

Charbax — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:17:28 +0000

Jenax J.Flex is an innovative flexbile battery freeing design limitations without sacrificing power enabling new form factors for flexible smartphones, flexible wearables and other ideas for flexible future devices based on Li-Ion Gel polymer electrolyte enabling rapid movement of lithium ion with no overheating, high energy density, low internal resistance and that can be stable even with bending fatigue. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

Electric Taxi with Battery Swap, 550kg, Adaptive City Mobility Prototype

Charbax — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:01:57 +0000

Adaptive City Mobility is the development of a complete, emission-free mobility concept for cities. Ten cooperating technology ventures are constructing a small electric light-weight vehicle of the vehicle category L7E and developing it for series production. Combined with an innovative software, hardware and battery exchange system it depicts an extensive solution for the urban mobility of the future, E Ink displays are used on the back for advertisement.

Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

BOE Flexible OLED, 27″ 8K, Bezel-less, foldable phone, AMQLED, 4K and more

Charbax — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 12:34:31 +0000

BOE from Beijing China shows their flexible OLED, plastic displays, which will be used for the foldable and flexible bezel-less smart phones of the future. BOE also shows their 5″ AMQLED Active Quantum-dot Light Emitting Diode display. 3.5″ 4320×4800 ultra high pixel density VR/AR display. BOE iGallery 37″ 8K LCD with 325dpi 100% high color gamut. MLOC and metal-mesh active pen touch technology also with force touch. 5.7″ 4K lower power display. Eye-care display with less blue light. 5.5″ QHD 3D with eye tracking. 13.3″ FHD privacy display. 18.4″ 4K display with 110% Adobe color gamut. 9.6″ HD automotive dual view. 15.6″ Curved plastic display for automotive. 27″ 8K display. Filmed at the SID Display Week.

Solar-powered car (4-seater) by Solar Team Eindhoven

Charbax — Sun, 21 May 2017 17:24:46 +0000

Solar Team Eindhoven creates an energy efficient 4-seater family car to make solar cars sexy and user friendly. The World Solar Challenge encourages teams to push the limits of technology, where the Solar Team Eindhoven won the Cruiser Class at Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia where the car covered 3,000 kilometers all the way from Darwin to Adelaide carrying two occupants at an average speed of 76 km/h. It is the ultimate challenge for solar-powered vehicles. Solar Team Eindhoven contributes to a clean world. Their passion is to develop a solar car that is ready for the market of tomorrow. Imagine a world where cars no longer need fossil fuels, where cars are energy positive. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

365km/h electric car, Rimac Concept One with Toradex Apalis Systems inside

Charbax — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:30:35 +0000

Toradex shows off Rimac Concept One at the Qt booth at Embedded World 2017. RIMAC Automobili Concept One is an ultra-fast electric super car with a top-speed of 365km/h, a 0-60mph acceleration of only 2,5 seconds, 1224HP, 1600Nm Torque. RIMAC chose Qt and Toradex as they provided a true ‘out-of-box’ experience to create one of the most advanced In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems and instrument clusters on the market, from scratch. The car uses several Apalis System on Modules throughout the car. This video also talks about Toradex’s Heterogeneous Multicore Low Power and Fast Boot.

Project developers and industry insiders can contact Toradex here:
[email protected]
http://toradex.com

SCEWO stairclimbing wheelchair from ETH Zurich using Toradex at Embedded World 2017

Charbax — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:02:31 +0000

SCEWO is a stairclimbing wheelchair equipped with a Toradex Apalis iMX6 SoM – born from a master’s degree thesis from Zurich University (ETH), which demonstrates what can be done using Toradex Computer on Modules (CoMs)/System on Modules(SoMs) in safety-critical applications. Other engaging demos included TAQ, the balancing robot, featuring Toradex’s Colibri iMX7 SoM with NXP i.MX 7 processor, a rover using the Apalis TK1 SoM with the NVIDIA TK1 to recognize street signs, and many more at Toradex’s booth at Embedded World 2017. Toradex also mentioned its launch of two new SoMs based on NXP i.MX 8QuadMax and NXP i.MX 6ULL: Apalis iMX8 and Colibri iMX6ULL respectively. The Colibri iMX6ULL offers a low-cost and power efficient platform, along with integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, targeting the emerging IoT and connected market; and the Apalis iMX8 offers high-performance and powerful graphics for Computer Vision applications.

Project developers and industry insiders can contact Toradex here:
[email protected]
https://www.toradex.com

NXP i.MX8, ARM Cortex-A72, ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-M4

Charbax — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:17:22 +0000

NXP i.MX 8 series of applications processors is a feature and performance scalable multicore platform that includes single-, dual- and quad-core families based on the ARM Cortex-A72, ARM Cortex-A53, ARM Cortex-A35 and ARM Cortex-M4 based solutions with advanced graphics, imaging, machine vision, audio, voice, video and safety critical applications also including its Vivante GC7000LiteXS/VX GPU. NXP i.MX8 supports Android, Linux, FreeRTOS, QNX, Green Hills, Dornerworks XEN and more with 10-year long term support for the chip provided by NXP.

Nvidia Tegra X2 in Jetson TX2 Developer Kit, dual Denver2 + quad ARM Cortex-A57, Pascal GPU

Charbax — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:10:21 +0000

Nvidia Tegra X2 features two Nvidia custom Denver 2 cores, four ARM Cortex-A57 cores with Nvidia’s Pascal GPU (made of 256 CUDA cores) made on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET+. Nvidia Tegra X2 (codenamed “Parker”) delivers up to 1.5 teraflops of performance, about 50% more performance than Nvidia Tegra X1. Enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI), for building advanced robots, drones, smart cameras, portable medical devices, enabling the processing of complex deep neural networks on the edge of the IoT world. While X1 could do 4K at 30fps encode, 4K 10bit 60p decode, X2 can encode 4K H265 at 60p and decode 4K 12bit 60p. Memory bandwidth has more than doubled from 25.6GB/s to 58.3GB/s, you can buy the Nvidia Jetson TX2 Developer Kit for $599 at https://store.nvidia.com/store?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&SiteID=nvidia&id=QuickBuyCartPage

Synergy Aircraft suggests Economical regional transportation

Charbax — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:07:17 +0000

Synergy is an airplane designed to safely fly one to six people directly from town to town, in less time and at less cost than airliners or automobiles. Its innovative technologies provide the key to economical regional transportation in the speed range between supercars and commercial jets. Filmed at the IDTechEx tradeshow.

Agricultural Robot ROEBL by Cooper Gray Robotics

Charbax — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:45:53 +0000

Cooper Gray Robotics LLC is an Oakland based design/build and engineering company that is a leader in developing electric drive systems and automating the heavy equipment industry through its Smart Control and remote control architecture for machines in construction, mining, agriculture and forestry. Filmed at the IDTechEx tradeshow.

Toradex NXP i.MX7 and NVIDIA TK1 Demos at ARM TechCon 2016

Charbax — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:24:55 +0000

Toradex is showcasing the popular TAQ balancing robot featuring a Colibri iMX7 SoM based on NXP’s new heterogeneous multicore i.MX7 processor with Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A7 and additional ARM Cortex-M4 core for low-power, real-time or connected-standby IoT. Amid Toradex’s broad product portfolio is the new high performance Apalis TK1 SoM based on NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 featuring a Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with 192 CUDA cores for high-end computer vision and 4k video applications for example. Other demos include an impressive Qt Linux fast boot demo featuring an automotive cluster on Apalis i.MX6.

Project developers can contact Toradex here:
[email protected]
http://www.toradex.com

JumpsPower AMG5T torch jump starts car

stromium — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:01:59 +0000

JumpsPower displays here their AMG5T torch that can jump start a car with upto 3.5L displacement, can also be used as a powerbank, and comes with a 1000-lumen Cree T6 LED flashlight with two different modes. Sold in Norway, Australia and HK, it costs US$129-159 depending on the model. The other model is the AMG6S that resembles a power bank. The company is also promoting their proprietary spark-proof clamp to be used with their starter products.

NXP shows Connectivity, Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Technology

juliusaugustus — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:21:57 +0000

NXP connectivity technology is incorporated in a variety of devices such as embedded, automotive, and mobile devices. NXP technology is used in a NFC ring which can be used to activate an electric motorcycle or other vehicles. Most cars in the world use NXP technology for connectivy and other automotive functions. NXP also offers wireless charging technology called Qi. NXP amplifiers can be turn a phone speaker into a microphone to improve audio quality and noise cancellation of smartphones. NXP is the market leader in NFC technology.

Airwheel Dual Wheel Self-balance Scooter 16″ Tire 4″ LCD display App control

juliusaugustus — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 06:26:43 +0000

Airwheel shows their self-balance scooters series from single wheel to two wheels. Airwheel A3 comes with unique seated design and two wide 16’’inch wheels, features a 4’’inch LED display for showing battery life, speed and miles achieved, powered with 1000W motor and 520WH battery up to 40 miles stance. You can use customized app to control Airwheel A3 like GPS position, speed control, safety lock by app control via smart phone. Build-in dual Bluetooth speaker allows you enjoy the music while driving.

MOIA New Ride Sharing Company by Volkswagen

juliusaugustus — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 03:55:41 +0000

MOIA is Volkswagen’s attempt at influencing the ride sharing future, an attempt by Volkswagen Group at competing with Uber. MOIA aims to improve transportation in urban areas and will be city specific. MOIA is one piece of Volkswagen’s to increase diversification by 2025. MOIA plans to partner and invest in startups to implement new ideas in Ride Sharing. As Volkswagen plans to more and more electric cars and self driving cars, here is going to be one of their initiatives to influence how the future of cars are going to be implemented in society.

You can watch MOIA’s unveiling at Techcrunch disrupt here:

NXP S32V vision processor for self-driving cars

stromium — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:13:19 +0000

An application engineer from NXP demonstrates here their S32V234 automotive-grade image recognition processor that is meant to be used in autonomous self-driving vehicle applications. The board uses 4 Cortex-A53 cores , and an “Apex” signal processor that allows the image to be split into parts and processed on with algorithms in addition to an ISP for filtering. The demonstration is a camera feed processed to show object tracking, with relative motion speed and direction indicated. The board is also meant to recognize traffic signals , and supports 4 cameras with specific framerates for 360° vision processing.

Automated Robotic EV Charger by PowerHydrant

Charbax — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:43:07 +0000

Interview with PowerHydrant. PowerHydrant is an early stage startup focused on applying the “smart phone dividend” to deliver 3D sensor based conductive autonomous fast-charging for Autonomous Vehicles and eMobility. Based in Boston’s Innovation District, PowerHydrant is a member of the MIT Startup Exchange and part of Autodesk’s inaugural Startups-in-Residence (STIR) group. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show! USA 2016 in Santa Clara California.

Shockwave Motors Defiant Electric 3 seater Roadster

Charbax — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Interview with Shockwave Motors. They are making electric cars ‘cool’ by providing a high performance, all-electric roadster that is pollution free, economical, and fun to drive. The roadster has up to a 100 mile range and can be recharged from a standard 120-volt outlet in about 8 hours; providing a daily range of up to 200 miles. The roadster recharges in less than 3 hours when plugged into a Level ll Charger. For more information see http://www.shockwavemotors.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com

TwinTorq Electric-Hydraulic Engine extends range by 45% for EV Buses

Charbax — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 02:36:40 +0000

KersTech develops and manufactures their TwinTorq motor providing they claim a major leap in energy efficiency over conventional electric motors, significantly increasing driving range and runtime. The TwinTorq motor combines an electric motor with a hydraulic motor in a single compact unit, with the hydraulic motor providing high efficiency starting torque at slower speeds and the electric motor high efficiency running torque at higher speeds. Both the electric and hydraulic systems regenerate energy during deceleration to replenish the battery and hydraulic accumulator in their respective speed ranges. The hydraulic motor can be disengaged during electric mode. Controller software manages the electric and hydraulic systems to optimize energy usage. The net effect is that the hydraulic power at low speed/high torque reduces battery demand to preserve electric energy and increase battery range by up to 45%, or enables the use of smaller batteries. And because they use hydraulics for launch acceleration and energy regeneration, minimizing high battery charges and discharges, they are kinder to batteries so they last longer. The TwinTorq motor uses simple physics and proven, reliable technologies in a novel fashion. Because hydraulic motors are 3 times more efficient than electric motors for acceleration and brake energy regeneration at lower speeds, during deceleration they recover energy hydraulically, as pressure in an accumulator. Then they release the pressure to accelerate the vehicle without using the electric motor and battery. There’s the big energy saving, because high-torque acceleration chews up battery energy. By replacing low efficiency electric energy with high efficiency hydraulic energy during launch and low speed acceleration the TwinTorq motor preserves battery energy to increase driving range and runtime by up to 45%. TwinTorq’s unique design integrates shared electric and hydraulic components, reducing component and production costs. The motor’s coaxial and coplanar architecture in combination with their patented 90° gear drive enables axial compactness or “flatness”, allowing low-in- the-chassis mounting to improve space utilization and lower center of gravity. TwinTorq is an ideal solution for commercial electric vehicles with frequent-start- stop drive cycles where range and battery life directly impacts productivity and operating cost. Their first application is electric forklifts, because 65% of new forklifts are already electric, and then we’ll address city and shuttle buses; garbage, freight and parcel trucks; and other heavy electric vehicles. This video was filmed at the IDTechEx USA 2016 in Santa Clara, California.

Keynote: Nuon Solar Team Solar Car: Together We Power The Future

Charbax — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:32:04 +0000

The Nuon Solar Team has been building and racing solar cars since 2001. They have participated in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge eight times and placed first six times. The race is 3000+ kilometres through the desert of Australia from Darwin to Adelaide or in South Africa from Pretoria to Cape Town, were this team of students from the Technical University Delft have done their utmost best to win the race. The Keynote speaker here is Winnifred Noorlander, she has been studying Civil Engineering at the Technical University since 2013. Since the beginning of this year she has been responsible for the Public Relations of the Nuon Solar Team. She takes care of organizing events for the team and also helps with manufacturing the solar car whenever possible. With a passion for high-end technologies and sustainability she will do everything she can to keep the world title solar racing in Holland.

Nuon Solar Team at IDTechEx USA 2016

Charbax — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:10:35 +0000

The Nuon Solar Team has been world champion 8 times over the last 16 years of the world solar car championship, on October 1, 2016 they won the Solar Challenge in South Africa from Pretoria to Cape Town beating solar-powered vehicles designed by groups from all over the world. They drove 4,717 kilometres in the Nuna8, now holding the world record for the longest distance ever driven during a solar race.

Nuon Solar Team Interviewed by Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx

Charbax — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:51:44 +0000

Interview of Winnifred Noorlander from the Nuon Solar Team by Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx. Nuon Solar Team currently employs nine students from Delft University of Technology. Much of its innovation is constrained by the rules of the solar race such as being limited to 3sq. meters of GaAs or 6 sq. meters of single crystal silicon PV. Nonethelesss, innovative suspension has been developed of unusually small size to fit the aerodynamic shell. In past years they have tried concentrators and GaAs. Regenerative braking is the only viable regenerative harvesting within the rules. They have remarkably efficient traction motors at 96%. Power electronics is secret but they are aware of the potential of the new SiC and GaN power components not least in lightweighting and improving efficiency. They are interested in the Sabic lighter-weight polycarbonate cowl glazing. They do not yet have structural electronics beyond the PV forming the outer surface. The vehicles are entirely carbon fiber except the aluminium suspension. The racer is currently a mere 150 kg.

iNet Smart Sonic Toothbrush, Smart Food Scale, Smartwatch, VR and POS with Datamini

Charbax — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:13:27 +0000

iNet is one of the leading design houses in Shenzhen, here presenting their latest IoT Smart Devices, their smart connected toothbrush, their smart food scale, smart kitchen scale, for potentially healthier more accurate better tasting cooking, smart doorbell with camera video call, the smart weight scale. iNet also shows their all-in-one VR using the octa-core Allwinner H8vr. iNet also shows their special VR which is powered through the gamepad remote controller. They also show the smart car mirror, also showing bluetooth temperature and pressure monitors for car tires, smartwatches with transparent display. An NXP54101 powered classical smartwatch with bus payment, NFC/smartcard, wireless charge. MIPS ingenic Android Smartwatch. And also a POS system with fingerprint, smart card reader, nfc, and more developed with Datamini on MediaTek and Intel x86.

Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2016 shows Games, Industrial Robots, Medical Devices and Security

Charbax — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:47:29 +0000

Ricardo Anguiano of Mentor Graphics describes a memory wall game demo built with the Nucleus RTOS and thirty six NXP FRDM-K64F boards and touchscreens, plus a Boundary Devices BD-SL-i.MX6 game controller which also runs the Nucleus RTOS. Phong Chau of Cepheid discusses their new GeneXpert Omni, a point of care molecular diagnostic system built with Mentor Embedded Linux. Also covered in the video is a Mentor Graphics industrial automation robot demo which runs both the safety-critical functionality and the HMI control running on the same SoC using hardware enforced separation with implications for safety certification feasibility and safety certification cost control. The video ends with a brief computer security discussion, how security doesn’t lend itself to soundbites, and how the industry still makes the same security mistakes we were making since the 60s and how security applies to the Internet of Things and to the Automotive market.

Renesas at ARM Techcon 2016

Charbax — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:25:46 +0000

Renesas Electronics Corporation is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. It has manufacturing, design and sales operations in around 20 countries. It is the world’s largest auto semiconductor maker, one of the world’s largest makers of semiconductor systems for mobile phones, the world’s largest maker of microcontrollers, and the second largest maker of application processors. It also makes LCD drivers, RF ICs, mixed-signal integrated circuits and system on a chip semiconductors.

Charlie Miller Keynote, Automotive Security: A Hacker’s Eye View

Charbax — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:36:35 +0000

Charlie Miller is a Senior Security Engineer at Uber Advanced Technologies Center, here is his keynote at ARM Techcon 2016. For better and worse, automotive security is headline news and garnering tremendous widespread attention from media, consumers, manufactures, and hackers alike. The security of today’s vehicles involves many moving parts, but while manufactures take a majority of the blame, multiple parties contribute to the security debt in today’s vehicle ecosystem. This keynote takes a deep dive into automotive security, current attacks and vulnerabilities, and also looks toward the future and onset of autonomous vehicles. Hear candid calls to action and highly distinctive insight into vehicle security from this famed hacker’s perspective.

Carlux Engine Jumpstart and Pokemon Go Ball

juliusaugustus — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:26:13 +0000

Carlux produces engine jumpstarting equipment available in multiple sizes and capable of jumpstarting vehicles as large as cargo trucks. The low capacity white jumpstarter features a USB port sells for 21 USD for 300 pieces. The higher capacity yellow jumpstarter has a capacity of 24v and sells for 68 USD. Carlux also sells a Pokemon go ball 12 USD.

The $80 Electric Car, Scooter board turned into a car by Hong Technology

Charbax — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:41:49 +0000

Add this $15 seat adapter to a $65 self-balancing scooter, and you’ve got a $80 electric car with about 20km range per charge and a quite high top speed. They say that it won’t explode under you, and if you are a good driver you shouldn’t end up under a car while using it. Beware though, it seems easy to accelerate to top-speed using this setup.

Distributors can contact Hong Technology here (please let them know you watched the video):
Lily, Sales Manager
[email protected]
+8618926042006 (also wechat, whatsapp 18926042006)
+86(0755)61587869
skype: hxjs03

CarDroid auto data logging and diagnostics module

stromium — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:15:01 +0000

CarDroid is a solution used to gather data in real time from a running car, and log this data onto the microSD card that can be mounted inside. Featuring 4GB of internal memory, microSIM card slot, GPS for positioning, two WiFi modules in case there is no WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth and a standard OBD-II port for connecting to the car’s diagnostic features, the CarDroid costs US$150 and is meant to track car location, detect theft and break-ins, in addition to displaying real time data such as speed. It uses an ARM Cortex-M3 CPU.

Saintway M7A, 7’’ Car Mobile Data Terminal on RK3188 with Android4.4 or Linux

Gennie — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:06:27 +0000

Saintway M7A is all-in-1 mobile data terminal for vehicles powered by Rockchip 3188 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9. It comes with 7’’ TFT LCD screen at 1024*600 reolustion and capactive multi-touch panel, with 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 3G WCDMA, Bluetooth 4.0, it also have a pigtail cable with multiple USB ,serial devices and other applications extersion like RJ45(POE), RS232, USB/OTG, LAN etc. M7A runs Android4.4 or Linux OS, compatible with -20~60degree operation temperature, used for indutrial and commercial system like taxi dispatch system, intelligent industrial control, retail interactive terminal.

You can contact Saintway here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Kevin Wu, Sales Manager
[email protected]

MOVEO foldable electric scooter, Amber One electric super car range-extended (from Hungary)

Charbax — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:45:10 +0000

MOVEO is a light-weight, foldable electric scooter designed and made in Hungary. Its main features include:
– Foldability – easy to fold, carry and store
– Light weight: 45 kg – without battery: 38 kg
– 45 km/h max. speed, 50 km range
– Organic design, low consumption: 0,3 EUR/100 km
Amber One: light-weight range-extended electric super sports car
– 1150 kg total weight
– 308 HP
– 4 x 75 kW hub-motors, 4 x 1000 Nm
– 205 km/h max speed
– 0-100 km/h: 3,2 sec
– range: 100 km electric, 600 km extended

Filmed at the IDTechEx Electric Vehicles Europe 2016 Show

Aero-service EV4, 4-wheel electric bike from Poland

Charbax — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:13:02 +0000

EV4 is designed by Aero-service in Poland, using low weight components highly durable aeronautical aluminum alloy, constructed like an airplane. The main frame of the vehicle is riveted just like in the case of airplanes to make it more durable and lightweight. The independent suspension uses an adaptive suspension system to adjust to the shape of the terrain at any given moment. Regardless of the surface type, terrain, angle of inclination of roads and travel, the EV4’s wheels uniformly and evenly touch the ground. Thanks to the electric drive as well as gear belts the noise emission is close to zero, which has a positive effect on the driving comfort. The vehicle’s low weight and the use of modern and efficient lithium ion batteries achieve a 100km driving range. Shocks are absorbed by two bicycle shock absorbers with adjustable hardness and damping. Hydraulic disc brakes on 4 wheels allow for very short braking distances, making the EV4 very safe. The EV4’s four wheels result in stability superior to that of single-track vehicles.

Aero-service’s official video:

Technical specifications:
Drive: DC motors 800W/1000W
Driver: DC 1600 W/2100W
Gear: toothed belt
Li-ion battery: 36V 52AH/48V40AH
Brakes: hydraulic discs on 4 wheels
Width: 60cm
Length: 150cm
Height: 110cm
Mechanical tilting system
Cushioning system – 2 bicycle shock absorbers
Weight: 41 kg without battery
53 kg with battery
Range: 90-130km
Speed: max: 40 km / h
Riveted aluminum frame
Welded aluminum wishbones
Height-adjustable seat

Saintway Car Mirror DVR on Rockchip SoFIA 3GR, Voice Control, GPS, FM etc

Gennie — Fri, 13 May 2016 02:16:54 +0000

Saintway shows the cloud rear view mirror with DVR system, powered by Quad-core Rockchip/Intel SoFIA 3GR, runs Android 5.1, with WiFi, Bluetooth and SIM card slot, support intergraded 3G, GPS, FM features, With build-in dual-camera, support dual-channel video recording. It also supports voice control, customer can use many features hands free like make phone call, navigate, listen to music etc.

Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars

Charbax — Thu, 12 May 2016 23:24:19 +0000

Andy Fuchs of Toyota Motor Europe discusses hydrogen and electric vehicles and infrastructure at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin. Toyota, is one of the world’s top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. In addition to automotive products, its subsidiaries manufacture rubber and cork materials, steel, synthetic resins, automatic looms, and cotton and woolen goods. Others deal in real estate, prefabricated housing units, and the import and export of raw materials.

IDTechEx Interview: Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars

Charbax — Thu, 12 May 2016 23:19:07 +0000

Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx interviews Andy Fuchs of Toyota Motor Europe (https://www.toyota-europe.com/) at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin about future electronic vehicles and infrastructure. Toyota discusses the range of options for passenger vehicles, electric buses and hybrid and electric manufacturing equipment. Toyota, is one of the world's top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. In addition to automotive products, its subsidiaries manufacture rubber and cork materials, steel, synthetic resins, automatic looms, and cotton and woolen goods. Others deal in real estate, prefabricated housing units, and the import and export of raw materials.

Mozi X3, 5V/2.4A Car Charger with FM Transmiter, Car Charger with Air Purifier

Gennie — Sun, 08 May 2016 01:22:48 +0000

Mozi X3 is a Car charger with FM transmitter inside, it use cable to connect with your smart phone that means more stable and better signal than bluetooth. It come with 5V/2.4A power supply, you can still charge your phone while you listen to FM or other apps from smart phone. Mozi Q3 is a car charger with air purifier, with a small fan inside, that will makes your car air be fresh and cool. Mozi also shows their USB charger with private tooling and MP3 player.

Distributors can contact Mozi here:
Donald Wang, Sales Director
[email protected] (please let them know you watched this video)
Mobile/Wechat: +86-13632968417
Skype: donaldwang1
http://www.mozicn.com

OVEVO Q8 Bluetooth Headset 2.1A Car Charger, OVEVO LED Bluetooth Speakers

Gennie — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:47:11 +0000

reddot design award winner 2016, OVEVO Q8 is a smart Car charger with a single bluetooth earphone & microphone inside. It features 1 or 2 USB power charge ports at 5V/2.1A, charging any USB device in the car. The bluetooth 4.0 earphone built-in 75mAh battery works for 1.5 hours and recharges each time it’s put back in the charger using a unique magnet connection in the car. You can easily answer a phone calls just taking out the earphone to your ear from the car charger, or just press the button of the top of earphone to hang up a phone call.

OVEVO also shows many LED Bluetooth speakers at their China Sourcing Fair booth, supports millions of colors for the LED light through smart phone via the OVEVO app. OVEVO Z3 comes with a nice red bottle design in silver aluminum casing, it with dual-5watt speaker inside and over 10 hours battery life. OVEVO Z4 is portable bluetooth speaker with family design of Z3 but also features a leather case, also with dual-5watt speaker inside and over 10 hours battery life.

OVEVO Q8 selling at $29 on aliexpress now:http://www.aliexpress.com/OVEVO Q8

Distributors can contact OVEVO here:
Jade, Sales Manager (let them know you watched this video)
Mobile: +86 152 7817 8279
[email protected]
http://www.ovevo.cn/
Or you can buy OVEVO from here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ovevo&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aovevo

BeBop Sensors: Printed Electronic Sensors for Music, Medical and Automotive

Charbax — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:57:03 +0000

Interview with BeBop Sensors at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event. BeBop uses smart fabrics to create sensor solutions for OEMs. Where things or people interact, BeBop Sensors comprehend force, location, size, weight, shape, motion and presence across any size, resolution and geometry. BeBop uses a proprietary Monolithic Fabric Sensor Technology that integrates all of the sensors, traces and electronics into a single piece of fabric. BeBop technology senses and displays 3D maps of pressure, bend, location, rotation, angle, and torsion. For more information see http://www.bebopsensors.com/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

AIAIA Car Door LED Light with Customized LOGO

Gennie — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:15:32 +0000

AIAIA Car Door LED Light is a DIY light with customized LOGO for cars while you open the door the lights going down on the floor.

Bluetooth dice by u-blox

stromium — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 04:50:22 +0000

U-Blox is a Swiss based semiconductor company supplying positioning and wireless semiconductors and modules for automotive, industrial and consumer markets. It provides Narrow band IoT connection to connect the device directly with cloud using ARM mbed. In this Video, the U-Blox dice sense their number when you roll them and sends it to a nearby gateway using Bluetooth, that gateway sends the data to cloud for making it ready to display in browser.

DuPont printed electronics for displays, photovoltaics, automotive and more

Charbax — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:49:57 +0000

Interview with DuPont at the IDTechEx Show! DuPont Microcircuit Materials manufactures specialized inks for a variety of printed electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, telecommunication and consumer products markets. DuPont Microcircuit Materials’ stretchable/formable ink developments are also designed for use in wearable and in-mold electronics applications.

For more information see http://www.mcm.dupont.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com.

JumpsPower AMG6S can start a car in Portable 6000mAh Power Bank size

Gennie — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:11:04 +0000

JumpsPower AMG6S is a 6000mAh pocket power bank with Jumpstarter function, shipping the the spark-proof clamp, it can Jump Start the dead battery of car, motorcycle, boat in seconds up to 10 times after full charging. With 5V/2A USB port, it also can used as a power bank to quickly charge the smart phone and tablet. With build-in LED flash light, it can used as a torch for emergency.

Sharp Free Form Displays, circular Smartphone, fancy car dashboards and no-bezel digital signage

Charbax — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 02:45:01 +0000

Sharp LCD IGZO cut into all kinds of shapes, and every pixel seems to work. They suggest an an all-round shaped Smartphone will be possible next year, in-car dashboards also with circular and curved designs, space for buttons, all using Sharp’s IGZO technology, could also be round displays for Nest type of smart thermometers, on Hi-Fi systems, all runs Android, customized for all these special LCD shapes!

Canatu and Display Solutions: 3D Shaped Touch Display for Automotive Industry

Charbax — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:01:45 +0000

Canatu is a manufacturer of transparent conductive films for touch applications. Canatu’s CNB films are based on a new type of carbon nanomaterial (Carbon NanoBud®), and a new Roll-to-Roll manufacturing process (Direct Dry Printing®), which combines the synthesis of the Carbon NanoBuds directly from carbon gases and direct deposition to the substrate in one single process. Canatu has customers in the consumer electronics and automotive industry. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com

Allwinner V3, 1080p@60p video encoder for Car-DVR, Sports and IP cameras

Charbax — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:02:35 +0000

Allwinner V3 is based on a single-core ARM Cortex-A7 with Allwinner’s video encode acceleration engines to encode 2x1080p@30fps, 1080@60fps or 720p@120fps in the SoC. For the in-car DVR configuration it is featuring Car Advanced driver assistance systems while recording of two 1080p video streams at 30 frames per second at the same time with a camera pointing to the front and another camera on a long cable pointing back behind the car. The Allwinner V3 also is for sports action cameras to record 1080p at 60 frames per second or 720p at 120 frames per second. Allwinner also uses their V3 SoC for IP security cameras, to stream the IP camera feeds remotely over the Internet.

Allwinner T2 for Car navigation and infotainment

Charbax — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:53:14 +0000

Allwinner has been optimizing some solutions for In-Car infotainment following on the work being done by Allwinner with companies like Jeavox who are using Allwinner in the car.

Electric Vehicles and Supercapacitors – interview with Franco Gonzalez, IDTechEx

Charbax — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:57:35 +0000

IDTechEx analyst Franco Gonzalez discusses some of the trends with Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage. For more see http://www.IDTechEx.com

Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015

$10 Cypress PSoC ARM Cortex-M3 Programmable System-on-Chip

Charbax — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:40:59 +0000

Cypress makes programmable system-on-chip solutions used in a wide range of applications, from consumer and automotive to industrial and military products. They are launching the $10 CY8KIT-059 development board to program their ARM Cortex-M3 PSoC 5LP at http://www.cypress.com/?rid=108038 The Cypress PSoC platform includes several families of devices that feature an ARM Cortex processor surrounded by a host of programmable analog and digital resources that can easily be customized with a simple drag-and-drop design tool called PSoC Creator. Cypress’s newest PSoC innovation includes the PSoC 4 M-Series, which, with its 32-bit ARM Cortex M0- core, 128KB of flash, programmable analog and digital components, dual CAN interfaces and 55 GPIOs, make it an ideal replacement for standard 8-bit and 16-bit applications. Another recent Cypress innovation is the Cypress PSoC 4 BLE, which adds Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity to any device, and is ideal for a variety of wireless applications from fitness and health-monitoring wearables to sensor-based systems in homes.

Atmel | SMART SAM S70 and E70 ARM Cortex-M7 (World’s fastest ARM Cortex-M)

Charbax — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:23:45 +0000

The Atmel | SMART SAM S70 and E70 microcontrollers are based on the high-performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M7 RISC processors with double precision floating point unit. They operate at a maximum speed of 300MHz and feature up to 2048KB of Flash, dual 16KB of cache memory and up to 384KB of SRAM. They can achieve 1500 CoreMarks or up to 645 DMIPS. On the memory side, they have a flexible SRAM which can be configured as Tightly Coupled Memory (TCM) up to 256KB. Allowing execution of deterministic code or fast processing data. Code executed from TCM is executed at full speed so at 300MHz. The SRAM is multi-port which is reducing the latency over the bus matrix. When they have a lot of burst the latency can be reduced by 16 thanks to the 4 ports. To accelerate the execution of the code from on-chip Flash or nonvolatile memory connected to QuadSPI or over the External Bus Interface, they have integrated a huge L1 cache of 16kByte for the instruction and 16kByte for the data. Both with ECC. The 384KByte of SRAM can be extended through the SDRAM interface. Looking at the features now, they have plenty of serial communications such as SPI, SDIO or USART. Atmel has one High-speed USB Host and Device, with integrated PHY which obviously save some cost and PCB space. There is one CMOS Camera interface for image acquisition. All the series offer two Advanced Analog Frontend (AFE) with Dual Sample and hold capability and Up to 16-bit resolution with hardware oversampling. They also have programmable Gain for small signal input. All series offer real-time event management through direct connection between PWM, Timer and ADC for motor control application. Both series are based on the same feature set, the only difference is coming from the Ethernet, CAN support (SAME70 integrates Ethernet and CAN). Atmel offers all series in BGA and QFP from 64 to 144 pins. Small 64-pin pincount option offers an entry level form factor high performance MCU. All series support the extended Industrial temperature range from -40 to 105°C.

Atmel Automotive Avant Car demo, Rob Valiton

Charbax — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:06:44 +0000

Atmel’s Automotive Group showcases their cutting edge automotive infotainment user interface demo using Atmel QTouch and Atmel MaxTouch metal mesh curved display technologies, with up to a hundred million lines of code, at least 30 MCU-controlled devices, and some with as many as 100, the vehicle is the ideal application to bring smart, connected devices in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). Automotive technology is quickly becoming an integral part of the digital lifestyle as consumers want to bring their mobile devices seamlessly into their vehicles. The next-generation AvantCar 2.0 showcases connectivity to the vehicle through an advanced HMI console connected to a concept car highlighting car access, car networking, MCUs, audio-over-Ethernet, MHL support and security technologies. The 2.5D (two-and-a-half dimensional) car showcases several of Atmel’s automotive technologies in a car access simulation for the Passive EntryGo, LIN communication in a car network and Car Area Network (CAN) communications—all systems that use Atmel MCUs, LIN transceivers and SBCs. Additionally, AvantCar 2.0 demonstrates audio streaming over Ethernet-AVB.

superMHL 8K 120fps, USB Type-C, 40W, more bandwidth

Charbax — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:09:25 +0000

The MHL Consortium has outdone itself with their latest technology mega specification, now perhaps setting the spec at a very future proof level (shall we say at least until 2020?), supporting up to 8K at 120fps, with up to 40W for power charge, delivering higher resolution, faster frame rates, support for the upcoming USB Type-C (dual side reversible) connector for up to 8K 60fps output from a phone (wow wow!). For the first time, MHL also introduces a new superMHL connector for 8K TVs (as in the first 8K TV from Samsung shown at CES). The SuperMHL spec is for mobile devices, set-top boxes (STBs), Blu-ray players, Audio/video recorders, HDMI sticks and other source devices to TVs and monitors, as SuperMHL should be included in most future FHD/4K/8K TVs, PC Monitors, MHL has shipped in over 750 Million devices thus far. The new SuperMHL spec is also offering wider color gamut, deeper colors (to reduce color banding), high dynamic range (HDR) supported through signaling and through higher bandwidth.

Easydy 8″ E81 $110, 10″ 3g E103 $150, 7″ 3g E79-L, E15 7″ $29/$30, Smartwatches and Car DVRS

juliusaugustus — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:37:44 +0000

Easydy is a Shenzhen based manufacturer of consumer electronics. Easydy makes the E81 which a 8 inch (1280×800) tablet with a MTK 8382 processor, 1gb of ram, 8gb of storage (plus microsd), and Android 4.4 for $110 for 100 pieces. Easydy also makes the E103 a 10″ tablet with unique design featuring a position for typing on and and kickstand. The E103 features an unspecified MTK processor and 3g dual sim for $150 in bulk. The 79-l features a 7″ (800×480) screen, micro sd, dual sim card slots, a dual core MTK6572 processor, and 512mb of ram for an unspecified price. Easydy also has the E15 which features an Allwinner A33, 8gb storage (plus microsd), 7″ (800×480) screen, 1350mah or 3000mah battery, and 512 mb of ram for $29 for 1,000 pieces or $30 for a version with an upgraded battery. Easydy also makes a line up of allwinner Car DVRS running on Android. Alongside that Easydy’s line up of tablet Easydy also makes a line up of smartwatches and has already sold 50,000 pieces.
Company Website: http://www.easydy.com/

The Amazing World of Electric Vehicles – How the future is very different from the past

Charbax — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:18:57 +0000

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx, discusses the progress of electric vehicles, from cars to boats to aircraft, highlighting how vehicles of the future will rely on new materials, components and structures. Hear IDTechEx insights on the electric vehicle market in this video. Learn more at http://www.IDTechEx.com

Cybercom automotive multimedia innovative concepts

Kevin Sadria — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:03:34 +0000

Cybercom is a consulting company that makes products for their customers on all sorts of software development. Cybercom Poland is based in Warsaw, Poland. They have made a bluetooth car key which is in the market already. Cybercom works on Connectivity Management, Digital Solutions, Secure Connectivity and Mobile Software Development. Cybercom is trying to revolutionize the multimedia in the automotive industry by showing some of their innovative concepts.

Honda Uni-Cub Monowheel latest generation

Charbax — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:01:08 +0000

You just sit and lean in the direction that you would like to go. The newest version is more stable, supports heavier people, smaller and taller people. Honda is now selling their Uni-Cub to businesses in Japan that use it for futuristic guided tours, the commercial release of this monowheel mono transporter is for later.

Jeavox Allwinner Powered Smart Car, Smart Mirror and Smart GPS systems

Charbax — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:40:31 +0000

Jeavox integrates Allwinner A10 and Allwinner A20 with Windows CE and Android to create the Chinese Smart Car, with In-Car GPS navigation, using Augmented Reality overlayed in the Car DVR camera system. This video features Jeavox’s R&D design house offices as well as their testing laboratory. Jeavox designs and works on hardware, software, optimizing the design for the Allwinner powered Smart Cars in Shenzhen and then their manufacturing happens in Jeavox’s assembly factory in the Jiangxi province of China.

You can contact Jeavox here:
[email protected]
Mobile: +86 13510210404
Phone: +86 755-29563636
QQ: 22467576
http://jeavox.com.cn

Movon Smart Car-DVR towards Self-Driving Car functionality, and Invehicle Infotainment

juliusaugustus — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:12:09 +0000

Movon makes a PCB module based computer which is primarily designed for in vehicle purposes. The module computer runs an embedded Linux operating system. The processor technology is a Arm Cortex A5 from atmel. Movon’s technology is being used by car companies such as TATA. Movon also does testing for other companies such as Samsung. Movon will in the future be developing a driverless car system.

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

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$60 4.7″ MT6582 and $15 Bluetooth Headphones from Daza

Kevin Sadria — Thu, 01 May 2014 21:47:15 +0000

Daza shows their products at their booth. They make a wide range of products like headphones, smartphones, car DVRs and in-car navigation systems. A pair of bluetooth headphones with more than 10 hours of battery life costs $15. Smartphone with 4.7″ screen and MT6582 CPU costs around $60-$70.

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MHL for Automotive, integrating Smartphones into Cars

Charbax — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:53:41 +0000

More than 400 Million MHL enabled Smartphones can now connect to cars, integrating the content and smart connectivity functions of the MHL-enabled smartphones into the in-car infotainment screens. 50 after-market in-car infotainment systems shipping from Pioneer, JVC, Kenwood, Sony have already integrated MHL support in their latest after-market car radios, mirroring all applications, video, music and information on the car display while charging the phone.

You can read more about it at http://meetmhl.com/FeaturedAutomotive.aspx

Nvidia Tegra K1 Visual Computing Module for Self-Driving Cars

Charbax — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:00:48 +0000

Nvidia shows their new Tegra K1 based in-car infotainment system, using their advanced GPU to increase the photo realism of the car’s Digital Dashboard. When the car dashboard looks like and reacts like a real material, it becomes more glance able, less distracting in the car. The Tegra K1 will then also enable self-driving car technology, potentially processing all that is needed to be processed to power a self-driving car. Tegra K1 will drive camera-based, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as pedestrian detection, blind-spot monitoring, lane-departure warning and street sign recognition and can also monitor driver alertness via a dashboard-mounted camera.

AllGo Embedded Systems, Automotive Infotainment with 4-second Android boot

Charbax — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:00:26 +0000

AllGo Systems shows Automotive IVI system solution with 4 seconds boot up time on Freescale i.MX6 and Texas Instruments OMAP5 for Android in Automotive (long term support) configurations. AllGo’s technologies have been deployed in numerous fields of Automotive, Consumer and Security segments. Here are some of the things AllGo Systems provides:
– The complete software reference solution for digital audio players used by 8 leading car manufacturers in USA and Germany
– World’s fastest and best quality MP3 encoder for ARM platforms
– Video and Networked Audio IP which they have licensed to companies around the world
– BOM optimised turn-key solution for streaming video player
– World’s first fully programmable 1080p H.264 decoder
– Solutions used in over 50 products deployed in more than 6 million cars, portable players and home entertainment systems world-wide

Toyota Ha:mo electric vehicle prototype presentation (dubbed in English)

Charbax — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:00:28 +0000

Toyota shows their latest compact electric car, and smart home appliances at CEATEC 2013 in Tokyo.