Virscient is presented here as a specialist wireless engineering consultancy that takes connected products from concept to full-stack implementation, covering embedded software, PCB design, RF and antenna tuning, security, certification and mobile apps for IoT and automotive devices. The interview with Head of Sales Rick Walker walks through concrete projects that show how the team in Hamilton, New Zealand supports customers in Europe, the US and beyond with low-power wireless, cellular IoT, Bluetooth and cloud-based telemetry across multiple verticals and form factors, building on partnerships with major semiconductor vendors and a mature wireless engineering portfolio. https://www.virscient.com/

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One focus in the video is an indoor air-quality and classroom environment monitor initially developed for New Zealand’s education sector. Virscient designed the complete system, combining a Nordic-based cellular module, Bluetooth connectivity, and a low-power e-ink display with multi-year battery life while continuously sampling temperature, humidity, CO₂ and acoustic noise levels. Data is streamed securely to a cloud backend and exposed through dashboards and a Bluetooth companion app, enabling facility managers and school leaders to assess comfort, ventilation and acoustic conditions, and to correlate those parameters with attendance, well-being and academic learning.

From there the discussion shifts to vehicular telemetry and active suspension control. For Fox’s off-road and e-bike suspension business, Virscient built the electronics and software that tap the vehicle ECU over CAN bus, stream shock and motion data in real time, and expose configuration profiles such as on-road, trail or desert with comfort, balanced and sport modes. That same data is mirrored to the cloud and to a Bluetooth mobile app, enabling parameter logging, remote diagnostics and potentially over-the-air tuning of damping strategies for pickup trucks and other off-road platforms, linking embedded firmware, RF links and backend analytics into a single data path for control and telemetry.

Another demo centres on marine lighting for luxury yachts, where bulkheads and hull construction make traditional cabling impractical. Virscient implemented a proprietary Bluetooth mesh-style network with secure commissioning, group addressing and scene control so that entire lighting zones can be reconfigured from a tablet app with one tap. By simplifying the mesh topology relative to the standard Bluetooth Mesh specification and optimising for low latency and robust RF behaviour in reflective marine environments, they achieve responsive, fine-grained control of colour, brightness and dynamic patterns across the vessel’s interior and exterior lighting.

The final part of the conversation touches on how broadly this model applies: Virscient’s 40–50 engineers work on everything from geospatial positioning equipment to dairy-farm telemetry that tracks milk production and feed intake per cow, as well as wireless audio, ultra-low-latency links and multi-radio coexistence for complex IoT products. Their licensable software platforms for embedded connectivity and wireless audio, combined with partnerships around Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo ICs and Bluetooth Audio SoCs, allow OEMs to add Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, cellular IoT, GNSS, LoRa or 802.15.4 to constrained devices without building RF, protocol stacks and certification expertise in-house, shortening time to market for connected hardware across industrial, consumer and automotive deployment.

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Astra AI is building a dedicated one-on-one tutoring platform around large language models for school and university learners, turning an AI chatbot into a structured study companion across math, physics, chemistry and other subjects. Students interact through a conversational interface but always within the context of homework help, step-by-step explanations and targeted exam preparation, accessible on web, iOS and Android devices for everyday study.

At the core of Astra AI are two pillars: subject tutors and Exam Prep. Learners can talk to an AI tutor for math, physics, chemistry and more, or generate a custom exam preparation plan by selecting a subject, setting the exam date and mastery goal, and uploading their own materials such as class notes, past tests or slides. The system uses this corpus plus the student’s declared school level to tailor the difficulty, sequence of problems and explanations to their curriculum and context.

In this interview, filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, the team walks through the interface: a chat-centric workspace with a math keyboard, calculator, drawing area and camera input so you can snap a photo of a problem. Students can switch between Solver Mode, which focuses on efficient step-by-step solutions, and Socratic Mode, which behaves more like a human tutor, asking guiding questions and probing understanding rather than just emitting final answers in a vacuum.

Astra AI follows a freemium model: new users can register and use the tutor with a daily question limit and then upgrade to a subscription (around €24 per month or €120 per year) for unrestricted usage. According to the team, the platform has attracted more than 600,000 learners, starting from Slovenia and now growing quickly in German-speaking markets, with specialized offerings such as Astra IB Math for International Baccalaureate exam preparation across standard and higher level tracks.

Compared with general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT, Astra AI positions itself as an education-first layer on top of modern language models, optimizing for pedagogy rather than open-ended conversation. The discussion touches on challenges such as keeping students motivated, using light gamification, and designing UX that encourages regular returns to the app, whether on a phone, laptop or even e-paper style tablets like Daylight Computer, pointing toward a future where having a personal AI tutor is as normal as using a calculator in study.

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PLLUM is presented here as a national family of Polish large language models designed specifically for public administration and Polish-speaking users, rather than as a general-purpose global chatbot. The models focus on correct Polish grammar, inflection and official terminology, minimizing negative transfer from English while staying compatible with modern transformer-based LLM architectures. They are released with open model weights so organizations can deploy them on-premise, adapt them to sector-specific use cases and integrate them into existing e-government workflows; more background on the project is available at https://pllum.org.pl/

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Technically, PLLUM is a suite of transformer and mixture-of-experts models in the roughly 8–70B parameter range, including Mistral/Mixtral-derived variants such as PLLuM-12B and PLLuM-8x7B as well as Llama-based models and fully Polish-pretrained networks. Training relies on a large corpus dominated by Polish texts, enriched with selected Slavic/Baltic languages and some English, then refined through continuous pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning and preference optimization. The team evaluates linguistic and cultural competence with dedicated Polish benchmarks and focuses on high-quality “organic” data rather than unchecked web scrapes to maintain reliability in administration-heavy domains in Poland.

In the interview, Philip explains how PLLUM underpins Poland’s strategy for AI sovereignty: ministries can run the models on local infrastructure, keep personal and sensitive data within the country and avoid sending internal documents to foreign cloud APIs. The same models will power assistants in governmental systems such as the widely used mObywatel mobile app, enabling citizens to ask administrative questions in natural Polish and get answers grounded in official regulations. Recorded at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, the conversation frames PLLUM as a blueprint for language-and-country-specific LLM deployment rather than a clone of generic global chatbots, emphasizing governance, licensing and data control in this discussion.

PLLUM’s development mixes open European base models with entirely home-grown training runs: the team uses Mistral, Mixtral and Llama-style foundations for some variants, while also training models from random initialization on carefully curated Polish and Polish–English corpora. On top of that, they experiment with synthetic data generation, using other open models (including Chinese systems like DeepSeek or Qwen) on their own infrastructure to expand datasets while preserving control over quality and legal provenance. The resulting chat models are published with both permissive and non-commercial licenses, and the weights are available on Hugging Face so enterprises, municipalities and research labs can build their own domain-specific assistants within this ecosystem.

Philip also highlights the scale of the consortium behind PLLUM: more than a hundred people across six scientific institutions, spanning model engineering, linguistics and large annotation teams focused on clean administrative data. The project already counts around a million public prompts from early users, with upcoming deployments expected to reach millions of citizens as chatbots are rolled into local offices and nationwide services. Future work extends beyond text: speech recognition and text-to-speech are in testing, and there is clear interest in Polish-speaking voice interfaces and, eventually, avatar-style agents, turning PLLUM into a full-stack foundation for sovereign AI services across the Polish digital landscape.

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u-blox is a positioning and wireless communications specialist that builds GNSS and short-range connectivity modules so OEMs can integrate location and connectivity without becoming RF experts. Their portfolio spans automotive, industrial and consumer IoT, with modules that encapsulate RF design, firmware, certifications and security, letting engineering teams focus on system architecture, edge AI and application software instead of radio hardware details. https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/pointperfectflex

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At the booth, the focus is on high-precision GNSS: single-band, dual-band and all-band receivers that see every relevant constellation in the sky to deliver robust, low-latency positioning for autonomous vehicles, UAVs, robotic lawn mowers and fleet tracking. Recent triple-band receivers on the X20 platform support L1/L2/L5 with RTK and PPP-RTK, enabling centimeter-level accuracy with fast convergence for dynamic platforms like robots and drones([u-blox][1]). Combined with the PointPerfect family of correction services, u-blox can take GNSS performance from meter-level to a few centimeters at continental or global scale for demanding guidance and control accuracy

On the short-range side, u-blox showcases NORA and MAYA module families that bring Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi 6 and 802.15.4 (Thread/Zigbee/Matter) into compact, production-ready packages([u-blox][3]). A Bluetooth LE channel-sounding demo with electronic dice demonstrates fine-grained ranging and indoor positioning using NORA-B2, while MAYA-W2 and MAYA-W4 tri-radio Wi-Fi 6 modules target IoT gateways, industrial controllers and embedded Linux boards such as NXP i.MX93 reference designs, where developers can prototype both application processor firmware and wireless connectivity on a single platform. This creates a coherent environment for building dense, connected sensing and control networks.

A key message in this interview is the platform concept: within a family name like NORA or MAYA, pin-compatible variants allow designers to swap between BLE-only, Wi-Fi + BLE or tri-radio modules without respinning the PCB when requirements evolve. That reduces EOL risk and BOM churn over a product’s lifetime, while manufacturing out of Europe with full production test on every module positions u-blox as a value-focused, “Western supply chain” option compared with ultra-low-cost chip vendors. Customers pay for predictable RF behavior, long-term availability and direct engineering support instead of redesign cycles and field failures, which is critical in safety-relevant or certified systems where change control is strict.

Filmed at Embedded World North America in Anaheim, this walkthrough connects those building blocks into a broader story: GNSS receivers, PPP-RTK and RTK correction services like PointPerfect Flex and PointPerfect Global, short-range modules and cloud delivery (Thingstream) combine into an end-to-end stack for “locate and communicate” use cases([u-blox][4]). Whether it’s a robotic lawn mower staying inside a virtual boundary instead of buried wire, a delivery robot navigating dense urban canyons, or an industrial asset being tracked at centimeter-level outdoors and via Bluetooth ranging indoors, the idea is to give developers modular hardware, consistent form factors and a services layer that together accelerate reliable, high-precision connected hardware.

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Altium uses its Altium Designer, Altium 365 cloud platform and new SaaS lineup to cover the full PCB development lifecycle, from requirements capture and schematic design through layout, simulation, BOM management and release to manufacturing in one unified ECAD environment on Altium Develop https://www.altium.com/develop

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In this interview from Embedded World North America 2025 in Anaheim, the team explains how Altium Develop targets smaller organizations that want shared workspaces, browser-based reviews and structured design workflows without heavy governance overhead, while Altium Agile Enterprise extends the same toolchain with stronger compliance, access control and process orchestration for regulated hardware delivery.

The demo walks through a 3D PCB view where electrical engineers, mechanical designers, procurement and requirements owners all see the same live project context, including component usage, lifecycle status and supply-chain risk, while ECAD data is connected to PLM, MRP and ERP systems so that design outputs, manufacturing documentation and change histories stay part of a single digital thread across the product lifecycle.

They also discuss simulation as an integral part of this stack: SPICE-based circuit analysis, layout-aware checks for EMI and power integrity, bus-functional models for microcontrollers and integrations with tools from partners like Ansys and Keysight so that signal, thermal and power behavior can be explored before committing to prototypes, reducing re-spins and tightening design-for-manufacturing performance.

Finally, as Altium is now part of the Renesas group, the conversation touches on how reference designs, firmware and embedded compute platforms from the semiconductor side align with cloud-native ECAD, requirements management and manufacturing release, giving embedded teams a clearer path from initial product concept through to compliant, traceable hardware ready for volume production roadmap.

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Toradex showcases how its new single board computer built around the Synaptics Astra SL1680 SoC turns the familiar Raspberry Pi form factor into a production-ready industrial platform, shipping out of the box with the Torizon embedded Linux stack and cloud-managed over-the-air updates. The SL1680 SBC reuses existing cases, HATs and cabling, but adds an 8-TOPS edge AI NPU, hardened Linux distribution and secure lifecycle tooling aimed at long-lived IoT deployments ([toradex.com][1]) https://www.toradex.com/single-board-computers/sl1680

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From there the conversation dives into the developer experience around Torizon: container-based application deployment, OS customization, and tight integration with a Visual Studio Code extension that can talk directly to the boards. At Embedded World North America 2025 in Anaheim, Toradex emphasizes that the same platform used for rapid prototyping scales to fleet management in Torizon Cloud, with features such as automated CVE scanning, SBOM generation and VEX reports to support EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance

Vertical demos make this concrete. A marine HMI for high-end yachts runs a Qt-based UI on Verdin i.MX 8M Plus hardware, while a medical-style interface uses the LVGL lightweight graphics library on the Verdin AM62P module. Nearby, a Verdin i.MX95 evaluation kit shows the same Toradex carrier design running both QNX and Linux, underlining how the hardware and Torizon ecosystem can support mixed-criticality systems where real-time tasks coexist with rich graphics and connected services.

The hardware table walks through the broader portfolio: multiple Verdin System-on-Modules, the high-core-count Achila AM69 board for compute-dense edge AI, and production-ready carrier boards like the Malo platform plus partner-built industrial PCs. A multi-camera inference demo routes several USB cameras into the Achila AM69, performing on-device object and face detection at the edge, while customer enclosures from companies like Splunk illustrate how these SoMs and carrier boards end up as sealed industrial gateways with CAN, antenna connectors and robust I/O in the field.

Security and lifecycle management are the cross-cutting themes. Toradex highlights Torizon’s Vulnerability Manager and CRA content: continuous CVE monitoring, triage of exploitable issues, SBOM-driven traceability and managed update pipelines designed so OEMs can meet the CRA’s December 2027 enforcement horizon without building their own infrastructure from scratch The T-Bot self-balancing robot running split workloads across Cortex-A Linux and Cortex-M real-time cores is a playful reminder that, underneath the regulatory and security story, these platforms are still about enabling inventive embedded products that stay secure, maintainable and updatable over many years.

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G Camp Taiwan is a government-backed global accelerator for Taiwanese startups, initiated by the Small and Medium Enterprise and Startup Administration (MOEA) and executed by the Institute for Information Industry (III). The program combines intensive training, international market immersion and investor matchmaking to help founders refine their business models, sharpen their pitch, and design realistic go-to-market and fundraising roadmaps for Europe, North America and beyond. Its “Growing, Global, Go” framework is designed to turn deep-tech and impact-driven startups into globally scalable companies that can compete on the world stage. https://www.facebook.com/gcamptaiwan/

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In this conversation filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, Walis Lin explains how each yearly cohort starts with an open call, followed by a multi-stage selection and a 2–3 day bootcamp with Silicon Valley and global mentors. Startups work on investor storytelling, unit economics, cross-border legal and regulatory topics, and channel strategy, then enter a final pitch competition. The winners earn places at large international conferences such as Web Summit, where they get access to thousands of potential partners, customers and investors in a single dense environment.

The 2025 group spans multiple domains: biotech startups working on hemostatic powder for trauma care and AI-assisted drug discovery, precision oncology companies like BloodScan Biotech focusing on circulating tumor cell (CTC) enrichment and liquid biopsy, as well as design and branding platforms using AI to accelerate digital content workflows. On the hardware side, teams such as Megasense build radar- and LiDAR-based railway intrusion detection, combining 4D sensing, embedded systems and edge AI to prevent track obstructions and collisions, while materials ventures explore novel metallurgical processes that can feed into semiconductor and advanced manufacturing supply chains to improve safety.

Other teams tackle systemic sustainability and infrastructure problems. PackAge+ drives circular packaging for e-commerce and logistics, building reusable packaging-as-a-service models that reduce single-use plastics, support ESG targets and lower lifecycle CO2 emissions through reverse logistics and data-driven reuse tracking. Cybersecurity company Rapid International focuses on digital forensics and threat monitoring platforms for enterprises, while a mattress-recycling startup turns end-of-life mattresses into new packaging materials, illustrating how the program intentionally mixes medtech, climate tech, industrial IoT and cybertech in one cohort to encourage cross-sector learning.

G Camp also acts as a long-term internationalization pipeline for Taiwan’s startup ecosystem. Since 2018 it has supported dozens of teams that went on to exhibit at Web Summit, SXSW, Slush and other global stages, with some even establishing new subsidiaries in Europe after contacts made at Lisbon. By combining Taiwan’s strengths in hardware, semiconductors and manufacturing with software, AI and circular-economy business models, the program helps founders validate products, localize for new markets and plug into international capital and corporate innovation networks, strengthening Taiwan’s position in the global startup ecosystem.

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Zephyr RTOS sits between bare-metal firmware and full Linux, giving developers a compact real-time operating system for connected microcontrollers when Linux would be too big. Kate Stewart describes how the Linux Foundation project has grown since 2016 into millions of deployed devices, from Chromebook embedded controllers and Intel platform firmware to deeply embedded IoT nodes, under an Apache 2.0, “for developers, by developers” model. https://zephyrproject.org/

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She explains how the Zephyr kernel and its ecosystem—drivers, sensor and networking stacks, board support and test infrastructure—are increasingly reused beyond the core RTOS. The West meta-tool manages multi-repository projects, builds, flashing and debugging, while also generating software bills of materials (SBOMs) to help manufacturers align with requirements such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and long-term maintenance expectations.

Recorded at Embedded World North America 2025 in Anaheim, the discussion then turns to edge AI on highly resource-constrained devices. Frameworks such as Edge Impulse and TensorFlow Lite Micro run on Zephyr to power gesture-recognition “magic wands”, satellite telemetry filters that only wake high-power FPGAs when needed, and simple on-device classifiers that pre-process sensor data before heavier cloud or gateway models.

Kate argues that observability for AI systems at the edge will require an “AI BOM” alongside the SBOM, capturing models and training data so failures can be debugged as rigorously as code. She also outlines Zephyr’s neutral governance and membership model, where project members fund shared CI, hardware farms and show presence, while any company or individual can still upstream code under the same technical steering processes.

The roadmap she sketches includes functional safety certification (IEC 61508 for industrial applications, ISO 26262 for automotive and interest in avionics-style DO-178 use), longer five-year LTS branches and tighter security workflows around coordinated disclosure, Bluetooth hardening and CVE-tracked fixes. The conversation closes with global community growth, from Zephyr tracks at Open Source Summit events to real products in agriculture, wind energy and even Antarctic wildlife tags, showing how a tiny RTOS can quietly span industries, regions and use cases.

Zephyr at Embedded World North America 2025: Tiny RTOS for Millions of MCUs, CRA and AI BOMs
Zephyr at Embedded World North America 2025: Neutral RTOS Governance, Edge AI at the Edge

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Peridio’s Avocado OS is an embedded Linux distribution built on the Yocto Project, designed specifically for teams shipping physical AI products and connected devices. Instead of treating the OS as a generic base image, Avocado OS treats it as part of the product, focusing on deterministic builds, reproducible runtimes, secure boot, disk encryption, and OTA-friendly layouts so fleets stay consistent from prototype to volume deployment. The goal is to give embedded teams a developer-friendly environment that still behaves like a production-grade Linux stack for edge AI hardware. https://www.peridio.com/avocado-os/

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In this interview, the team explains how Avocado OS sits between Ubuntu/Debian and vanilla Yocto: you keep the binary-package ergonomics during development while still generating immutable images for production. That means you prototype and debug in a familiar Linux environment, then freeze the exact stack into a deterministic runtime without a six-month porting exercise. Because the same tooling supports hardware-in-the-loop testing, retargeting to new boards, and manufacturing modes, it is aimed at shortening the path from R&D lab to automated factory manufacturing.

The demo on the show floor represents a small industrial line: dual robotic arms pick and place candy onto a conveyor according to a user’s preference profile. An LLM and computer-vision pipeline infer pick paths offline at the edge, combining perception and simple task planning. Under the hood, Avocado OS is running across several nodes: a Seed Studio reTerminal DM, an NVIDIA Jetson AGX handling heavy vision workloads, and an Advantech smart camera with a Jetson Orin NX module. Together they illustrate how the same embedded Linux distribution can span HMI, real-time control, and high-throughput inference in a single line.

The interface itself is implemented as a WebKit-based HMI, serving a JavaScript application locally on the device. That approach lets teams reuse standard web development skills for industrial touchscreens and kiosks instead of committing to a proprietary HMI stack. Beyond Jetson, Avocado OS targets platforms like NXP i.MX and Raspberry Pi, and can coexist with microcontroller-based subsystems for ultra-low-power tasks, making Linux the control plane for heterogeneous edge AI hardware stack.

On the business side, Avocado OS is fully open source, with Peridio offering commercial LTS, OTA update orchestration, fleet observability and device management for long-lived products. That combination of immutable, security-hardened images (secure boot, dm-verity, LUKS), controlled rollouts, and remote diagnostics is aimed at operators who need to manage thousands of industrial robots, smart cameras, or HMIs over many years. As more edge AI workloads move to Linux, Peridio positions Avocado OS and its management layer as a way to keep development agile while keeping deployed fleets predictable at the edge.

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Arduino’s new UNO Q brings a dual-brain architecture to makers and embedded developers: a quad-core Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 application processor running Debian Linux alongside a low-power STM32U585 microcontroller for deterministic, real-time control. This pairing lets you mix Linux apps, Python, containers and local AI with classical Arduino sketches, GPIO and ISR-driven tasks on one board, keeping hard-real-time loops isolated from heavier user-space workloads. Entry pricing starts at $44 for the 2 GB model, with a 4 GB variant planned. https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q

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In the demo, Arduino shows typical heterogeneous workflows: MCU-side RTOS handling fast actuation and sensor IO, while the QRB2210 hosts web services, on-device inference and media pipelines. The QRB2210 integrates an Adreno-class GPU and dual ISPs, enabling camera-centric use cases and GPU-assisted inference (no discrete NPU), making it suitable for edge vision, gesture recognition and local model evaluation without mandating a cloud round-trip.

A major software piece is Arduino App Lab, pre-installed on UNO Q. It introduces “Bricks”—modular components for data storage, messaging, audio/image classification and cloud connectors—so you can compose pipelines that tie sketches, Python and Linux services together, or push datasets to Arduino Cloud. The same environment exposes a CLI for packaging and launching apps, and integrates with Arduino Project Hub to share reproducible builds with the community.

Hardware continuity matters here: UNO Q retains the classic UNO form factor and shield pinout for broad first- and third-party compatibility, while adding high-speed headers for displays, cameras and additional sensors. Schematics and gerbers are published under open licensing, preserving Arduino’s open-source model and easing a path from shield-based prototyping to carrier- or chip-down designs around QRB2210 when projects mature.

Context for the moment: this platform follows Arduino’s announcement that it is joining the Qualcomm family, with both companies stating Arduino will keep brand identity and multi-vendor support as they target education, industrial IoT and edge-AI developers. In practical terms, that means broader access to Qualcomm silicon, toolchains and camera/graphics stacks for Arduino’s reported 33 million-strong user base. Filmed at Embedded World North America, this conversation frames UNO Q as a bridge between classroom-friendly sketches and production-grade Linux robotics, vision and IoT systems.

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Trenz Electronic explains how a German design house can take an FPGA concept from schematic to series production under one roof. They design and assemble the modules, run bring-up and validation, and ship board support packages with reference designs so teams can plug in a SoM, boot a project, and iterate without re-spinning base silicon. U.S. customers work via Concurrent EDA as value-add distributor and systems partner, especially for turnkey deployments that combine Trenz hardware with domain-specific IP. https://www.trenz-electronic.de/

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The discussion centers on adaptive compute for edge workloads, using AMD Versal devices to run image classification, translation, and text output pipelines on the AI Tiles while offloading control to programmable logic and embedded compute. Engineers pick FPGAs for deterministic latency, massive parallelism, and the ability to retarget dataflow without the thermal and memory overheads of general-purpose CPUs. In practice, customers prototype quickly on carrier boards, then scale with footprint-compatible SoMs across a few dozen product families to match cost, I/O, and power envelopes to deployment needs that evolve over time like machine vision

Demand for Versal has outpaced any prior Trenz family launch, and interest is compounding with Versal Gen 2 roadmaps that promise an order-of-magnitude more compute per watt for embedded AI. Trenz’s approach is to start early with pre-production silicon, validate designs before mass availability, and ship modules that boot cleanly on day one. Concrete examples visible in their catalog include a Versal AI Edge SoM around the VE2302 and a TE0950 evaluation board class, pairing fast DDR, OSPI/eMMC boot, and multi-lane GTY connectivity to stand up real applications like perception and text generation at the edge without cloud round-trips like latency

A recurring theme is lifecycle management. Trenz supports platforms for as long as silicon is available—often 20–25 years in industrial lines—and prepares form-fit-function successors when parts approach end-of-life. During supply shocks, they guide customers to nearest-equivalent AMD families (e.g., migrating designs validated on older Spartan or 7-series parts onto Zynq/Artix or Versal footprints) and provide design files or last-time-buy strategies as needed. That obsolescence playbook keeps fielded systems stable while preserving pinout and timing margins across revisions like continuity

Finally, the team highlights why “everything in one building” matters: same-day feedback loops between layout, FPGA, and test reduce bring-up risk and compress time-to-market. Customers can A/B different FPGA families on the same baseboard, quantify throughput vs. power on real workloads, and lock the bill of materials with confidence. While many end uses are under NDA, examples span medical instrumentation, industrial control, test and measurement, defense, and even space-rated subsystems—evidence that configurable compute still earns its place when determinism and longevity matter more than generic throughput like resilience

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Advantech outlines a coherent edge-AI roadmap spanning NVIDIA Jetson Thor, Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9, AMD Ryzen Embedded, Intel Core Ultra and NXP i.MX families, with systems and dev kits positioned for on-prem inference, robotics control and machine vision. Their AIR-075 and EPC-class edge computers target high-throughput LLM and multimodal inference at the edge, while new carrier boards accept Thor-series modules and expose high-bandwidth camera and field I/O for deterministic pipelines. The emphasis is on keeping data local for latency, privacy and cost control, with SKUs tuned for FP4/FP8 AI math, CUDA/TensorRT acceleration, and mixed-precision workloads across GPU, NPU and CPU paths. https://www.advantech.com/

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From robotics to medical imaging and industrial inspection, Advantech highlights a broad set of use cases that benefit from tight sensor-to-compute integration and time-sensitive control loops. The robotics inference and development kit bundles GMSL/MIPI camera inputs, synchronized machine-vision capture and a modular carrier so teams can prototype AMRs, autonomous shuttles or surgical assistance systems with a clear path from POC to deployment. Developers can start with pre-integrated drivers and SDKs, then scale to custom carrier boards or ruggedized enclosures without rewriting the software stack for production readiness

A second track focuses on ARM-based edge AI using Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ9 platform inside compact AIR-055 class boxes. This brings on-device AI up to triple-digit TOPS with Hexagon NPU operators, high-efficiency Kryo CPU cores and CSI-2/GMSL camera ingress for vision AI in tight power envelopes. Paired with the Edge Impulse toolchain, the kits accelerate dataset iteration, operator selection and deployment of quantized models for tasks like anomaly detection, OCR, pallet counting, or worker-safety analytics in facilities with constrained connectivity and strict data-retention policies

Advantech also shows x86 and heterogeneous options when discrete GPUs aren’t practical. Ryzen Embedded 8000 demonstrates CPU, integrated GPU and NPU concurrency for multimedia pipelines and classic CV, while 12th-to-14th-gen Intel systems add MXM form-factor GPUs when PCIe slots are limited. For customers standardizing on SOMs, Advantech’s ecosystem covers solder-down OSM modules and “goldfinger” boards, easing thermal design and lifecycle management across performance tiers and chassis constraints in field deployments

Filmed at Embedded World North America, the discussion underscores how partners like NVIDIA and Qualcomm inform Advantech’s reference designs, software enablement and early access programs. The through-line is platform breadth plus vertical focus: camera-rich dev kits for autonomy, air-gapped inference boxes for regulated environments, and configurable I/O for brownfield industrial lines, all aiming to shorten the distance from lab demo to robust, maintainable edge systems in production

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Elektrobit explains how OEMs and Tier-1s can “shift left” by bringing AUTOSAR development to virtual targets before silicon samples exist. Their team ports an AUTOSAR Classic stack (AutoCore) onto a Level-4 virtual prototype using Synopsys VDK, enabling compile-run-test on an accurate, chip-level model that mirrors IP used for tape-out. The goal is earlier integration, faster feedback loops, and full regression testing without waiting for bring-up hardware. https://www.elektrobit.com/products/automotive-software/eb-corbos/linux-for-safety/

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They also address a long-running question in automotive: how to run Linux in mixed-criticality systems while meeting ISO 26262 ASIL requirements. Elektrobit’s approach layers a hypervisor beneath a safety monitor so safety-critical partitions remain protected from best-effort Linux workloads, making it practical to use Linux for instrument clusters, ADAS support functions, and other time-sensitive domains where determinism and fault containment matter more than raw throughput.

In the demo, “Linux for Safety” is provisioned directly in the cloud on AWS EC2, so teams can spin up a reference image and start development immediately. This cloud-first path complements on-target validation later, but accelerates early milestones: driver and BSP bring-up against the virtual SoC, continuous integration of AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive components, and automated conformance and stress testing with reproducible artifacts for audits and safety cases.

Beyond the core OS and middleware, Elektrobit highlights “virtual IVI,” extending the same method to in-vehicle infotainment and dashboard stacks. The promise is end-to-end software delivery—HMI, graphics, media, connectivity, diagnostics—validated against a virtual ECU with hypervisor-enforced isolation, so UI performance tuning, real-time scheduling, and watchdog strategies can be exercised before hardware is allocated for benches.

This interview was filmed at Embedded World North America. If you’re evaluating a path to combine AUTOSAR Classic (e.g., EB tresos AutoCore) with Linux in a mixed-criticality architecture, the takeaways are clear: use a Level-4 virtual platform early, keep safety partitions supervised by a dedicated monitor under a hypervisor, run your CI in the cloud for scalability, and land on hardware once the software baseline is already stable for integration tests and HIL rigs.

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Trenz Electronic explains how a German design house can take an FPGA concept from schematic to series production under one roof. They design and assemble the modules, run bring-up and validation, and ship board support packages with reference designs so teams can plug in a SoM, boot a project, and iterate without re-spinning base silicon. U.S. customers work via Concurrent EDA as value-add distributor and systems partner, especially for turnkey deployments that combine Trenz hardware with domain-specific IP. https://www.trenz-electronic.de/

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The discussion centers on adaptive compute for edge workloads, using AMD Versal devices to run image classification, translation, and text output pipelines on the AI Tiles while offloading control to programmable logic and embedded compute. Engineers pick FPGAs for deterministic latency, massive parallelism, and the ability to retarget dataflow without the thermal and memory overheads of general-purpose CPUs. In practice, customers prototype quickly on carrier boards, then scale with footprint-compatible SoMs across a few dozen product families to match cost, I/O, and power envelopes to deployment needs that evolve over time like machine vision

Demand for Versal has outpaced any prior Trenz family launch, and interest is compounding with Versal Gen 2 roadmaps that promise an order-of-magnitude more compute per watt for embedded AI. Trenz’s approach is to start early with pre-production silicon, validate designs before mass availability, and ship modules that boot cleanly on day one. Concrete examples visible in their catalog include a Versal AI Edge SoM around the VE2302 and a TE0950 evaluation board class, pairing fast DDR, OSPI/eMMC boot, and multi-lane GTY connectivity to stand up real applications like perception and text generation at the edge without cloud round-trips like latency

A recurring theme is lifecycle management. Trenz supports platforms for as long as silicon is available—often 20–25 years in industrial lines—and prepares form-fit-function successors when parts approach end-of-life. During supply shocks, they guide customers to nearest-equivalent AMD families (e.g., migrating designs validated on older Spartan or 7-series parts onto Zynq/Artix or Versal footprints) and provide design files or last-time-buy strategies as needed. That obsolescence playbook keeps fielded systems stable while preserving pinout and timing margins across revisions like continuity

Finally, the team highlights why “everything in one building” matters: same-day feedback loops between layout, FPGA, and test reduce bring-up risk and compress time-to-market. Customers can A/B different FPGA families on the same baseboard, quantify throughput vs. power on real workloads, and lock the bill of materials with confidence. While many end uses are under NDA, examples span medical instrumentation, industrial control, test and measurement, defense, and even space-rated subsystems—evidence that configurable compute still earns its place when determinism and longevity matter more than generic throughput like resilience

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GIGAIPC, the industrial arm under GIGABYTE, maps out a clear edge-AI stack from ultra-compact mini PCs to ruggedized industrial systems. The BRIX GB-BRU7-255H anchors the small-form-factor tier with Intel Core Ultra 7 255H, an Intel AI Boost NPU rated up to 13 TOPS, and I/O that spans 2.5 GbE, Wi-Fi 7, and multi-display via HDMI/DP for CAD/creative workloads and on-prem inference at low power envelopes. In parallel, GIGAIPC’s ATX-Q670A/B motherboards bring DDR4/DDR5, multiple PCIe lanes for accelerators, and extensive serial/GPIO for brownfield integration in industrial PCs. https://www.gigaipc.com/en/

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For scaled deployments, the QBiX family covers DIN-rail systems for cabinet installs and the QBiX “Jumbo” chassis that accepts discrete GPUs, targeting machine-vision pipelines, factory automation, and multi-stream RTSP analytics. DIN-rail SKUs based on Intel Atom x7433RE and Celeron J6412 prioritize deterministic I/O and fanless thermals, while Jumbo systems pair 12th–14th Gen Intel Core on Q670E with full-length PCIe slots for add-in GPUs or frame-grabbers to run edge inference and high-throughput fieldbus gateways with reliability.

On the embedded boards side, GIGAIPC’s ATX and uATX lines expose plentiful COM ports (RS-232/422/485), SATA, M.2, and dual 2.5 GbE for surveillance NVRs and industrial HMIs, while newer 3.5-inch and Mini-ITX boards with Core Ultra CPUs shift AI workloads from the cloud to the line side. The practical theme is consistent: pair Intel’s integrated NPU for low-latency, low-watt operators with GPU/CPU headroom when parallelism or higher-precision tensors are required in a single, serviceable box.

Road-mapped for 2026, the team hints at next-gen “Ultra” platforms aligned with Intel’s forthcoming client CPU cadence, keeping an eye on higher on-die NPU TOPS and faster media blocks for real-time multimodal inference. That trajectory positions BRIX for desk-side dev and pilot rollouts, QBiX DIN-rail for OT cabinets, and QBiX Jumbo as the field-deployable workstation that swallows full-size accelerators without abandoning industrial I/O or lifecycle support.

This interview was filmed at Embedded World North America, where demand centered on edge-resilient AI—CCTV analytics, machine vision, and creative workstation-class tasks consolidated into compact x86 boxes that speak both IT and OT. The portfolio breadth suggests a build-once, deploy-many approach that shortens time-to-pilot while preserving the option to scale compute with discrete GPUs when the workload grows in scope.

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IBM’s team walks through a hands-on demo that tracks a tabletop game using computer vision to extract trajectories, events and player behavior, then feeds those signals into APIs and language models for analysis. The point is not the game itself but the data pipeline: detection, feature engineering, inference, and presentation layered on top of IBM’s watsonx platform. https://www.ibm.com/watsonx/

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Filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, the booth leans into the “AI Sports Club” theme. Multi-camera image recognition and pose estimation stream into real-time dashboards, while watsonx.ai, watsonx.data and watsonx.governance address model selection, vector retrieval, secure data access and lifecycle risk controls. The flow resembles production MLOps: data collection, RAG over structured and unstructured logs, model orchestration, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop review to keep output grounded

One concrete case is Sevilla FC’s Scout Advisor, built on watsonx and using large language models to query player performance corpora in natural language. It fuses match reports, tracking statistics and contractual constraints, letting scouts ask questions like “left-back options with high progressive carries and aerial win rate under X salary cap,” then returns candidates with traceable justifications. The club has discussed using Meta’s Llama 3.1 with watsonx for the NLP layer and governance

Another reference is Scuderia Ferrari’s reworked fan app, where telemetry and historic race data power a Race Centre with AI-generated recaps, driver insights and interactive features. The demo surfaces acceleration profiles, top speed and G-force metrics, translating raw signals into narratives for millions of users. It’s an illustration of model-assisted summarization and data visualization over event streams from motorsport systems rather than a pure gaming gimmick

IBM also points to Wimbledon, where watsonx agents support real-time features like chat-style match context and automated insights that complement editorial teams. Around the booth, the conversation shifts to post-event lead handling and regional partner follow-ups, sketching how these AI building blocks—computer vision, RAG, orchestration, evaluation and governance—travel from a playful demo to regulated, production workloads in sports tech and beyond

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Make is an iPaaS for building end-to-end automations as visual “scenarios,” chaining modules from apps and APIs with triggers, routers, iterators, error handlers, and data mappers. Think webhook or scheduled triggers ingesting JSON, then branching flows that call OAuth2-authenticated APIs, transform payloads, and write to storage or messaging. It’s suited to multi-step, cross-app orchestration—beyond simple “if-this-then-that”—and can be extended with generic HTTP modules or custom app actions when an API isn’t pre-listed. https://www.make.com/

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In this conversation, Steven frames Make as the “plumbing” that connects a company’s tech stack, replacing repetitive manual work like HR onboarding/offboarding, payroll reporting, and cross-system record creation with deterministic workflows. For media teams, the same pattern can ingest uploaded assets, enrich metadata, generate summaries, and publish to channels once guardrails pass—useful for stitching an ad bumper to a master video, then pushing to YouTube with programmatic titles and descriptions driven by transcripts and LLM prompts.

The platform has leaned into agentic automation: Make AI Agents run non-deterministic steps that can decide how to proceed based on context, while remaining manageable and reusable inside the same visual canvas. Recent releases add “Module Tools,” letting agents dynamically call any Make module as a tool, so you can mix classic deterministic pipelines with AI-driven branching in one place.

Practically, big binary files matter. Make enforces per-plan file size caps when moving or transforming assets via modules (5 MB on Free up to 1 GB on Enterprise). That means large 4K video uploads may need chunked transfers, pre-processing (e.g., proxy generation), or hosting the raw file on cloud storage and passing signed URLs through Make for downstream processing.

This interview was filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, where booth discussions centered on AI agents, real-time data handling, rate-limit hygiene, and queueing. For production use, teams typically combine instant webhooks with sequential processing when order matters, or parallel executions when throughput is key, plus retries and alerting for resilience—so humans focus on work that actually moves the needle while the platform handles the glue.

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Ynvisible presents fully printed electrochromic “e-paper” built for ultra-low-power status and data indicators. Unlike pixel-addressed TFT or E Ink matrices, these are custom segmented displays where each segment is simply on or off, enabling thin, flexible, PET-based modules at aggressive unit economics and minimal energy draw. The stack is manufactured by multilayer printing, and the electrochromic ink shifts from light blue to Prussian blue under charge, delivering reflective readability without a backlight. https://ynvisible.com/

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Because segments are defined at design time, customers can specify icons, alphanumeric fields, and simple matrices that match an application’s UX and mechanical constraints. The goal is reliable, glanceable information with very low BOM and power budgets, avoiding the driver complexity and cost typically tied to active-matrix implementations. Typical contrast translates to roughly 4:1–5:1 in reflective terms, which is suitable for badges, tags, indicators and signage where ambient light is available and readability must be steady over long lifecycles.

A notable capability is NFC activation: the segments are low enough power to be driven from harvested energy for quick state changes, which opens interesting paths for batteryless or coin-cell use cases. Ynvisible also showed a reference combining organic photovoltaic (OPV) harvesting with a supercapacitor buffer alongside environmental sensing, demonstrating autonomous update cycles for IoT endpoints that need periodic state changes without frequent battery swaps or wired power.

For teams wanting to prototype quickly, a development kit integrates the segment driver electronics and a plug-in display interface, so engineers can iterate on segment layouts, update sequences and host communication without building custom drivers first. Production is roll-to-roll, with “mother rolls” slit and delivered in reel format to match scalable assembly and label-like integration flows, aligning with cost targets measured per square centimeter rather than per panel unit.

This interview was filmed at Embedded World North America, where Ynvisible emphasized that they are already in volume with selected customers and can scale further through contract manufacturing partners while retaining in-house capability. The stated pricing window is on the order of a few cents per square centimeter at high volumes, aligning with use cases such as smart locks and access control, cold-chain and logistics indicators, and passenger information modules where ultra-low-power reflective states and custom segmentation are more important than full-motion graphics.

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Mikroe’s product marketing manager for Click boards explains how their modular add-on ecosystem lets teams move from idea to working prototype without spinning a custom PCB. Click boards slot into a standardized mikroBUS socket, exposing common MCU/MPU interfaces so you can evaluate sensors, radios, power, HMI and more in minutes, then reuse the exact same modules in early MVPs or test fixtures. With nearly two thousand peripheral options and unified software packages, the goal is fast bring-up, deterministic pin mapping, and a clean path from evaluation to productization. https://www.mikroe.com/

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Technically, mikroBUS defines a compact pinout for SPI, I2C, UART, PWM, ADC, reset and interrupt lines, typically at 3.3 V logic, which makes Click boards broadly MCU-agnostic. It’s ideal for mid-bandwidth peripherals—think IMUs, ToF/LiDAR, GNSS, LTE/NB-IoT, LoRa, environmental sensors—while truly high-speed video or MIPI-class links are broken out via separate high-speed mezzanine connectors (e.g., Hirose) on carrier designs. In practice you’re running I2C to ~1 MHz and SPI to a few MHz, enough for most control/telemetry workloads without high-speed signal-integrity headaches.

A new reference platform showcased here targets UAVs as a concrete systems example. The “brain” is swappable—customers can pick a microcontroller today and migrate to an MPU or even an FPGA later—while Click slots cover IMU/gyro, barometer/altimeter, GNSS, wireless telemetry, external storage (SD), and the ESC/BLDC motor control path. Mikroe plans to ship the kit with complete source code so teams can fork firmware, tune flight profiles, and replace modules without redoing the baseboard, accelerating iteration on navigation, sensing and control loops.

Beyond prototyping, Mikroe supports customization and scale: board tweaks, full bespoke designs, contract manufacturing, regulatory certification, and application software up to cloud integration. That’s why the same Click modules show up in industrial PoC rigs and early products—like custom asset and livestock trackers selecting between NB-IoT or LoRa—where integrators need to validate radios and sensors quickly and then freeze the BOM for pilot runs.

This interview was filmed at Embedded World North America 2025 It also touches on the broader adoption of the mikroBUS standard across silicon vendors and dev boards, which is why Click-based proofs often port cleanly between Microchip, ST, NXP, Renesas and others. For engineers, the value is a standardized connector, a vast catalog of interoperable peripherals, and an upgrade path from bench evaluation to production hardware without starting from zero.

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Infobip explains how its CPaaS platform brings true omnichannel customer engagement together—combining WhatsApp Business API, RCS Business Messaging, Apple Messages for Business, SMS, voice, email, and web chat with a first-party contact center and automation. The focus is practical: unify marketing, customer service, and notifications behind one API and console, then let policy-driven orchestration decide which channel, payload, and timing best fits each customer journey. https://www.infobip.com/

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Their “agentic AI” layer sits on top of conversational channels to automate intent detection, dialogue management, and workflow execution, with human handoff when needed. Think routing, failover, retries, guardrails, and context handover across chat, voice, and web chat—plus webhooks and CRM/CDP integrations to keep profiles, preferences, and consent in sync. The goal is not just chatbots, but end-to-end conversation design tied to SLAs and measurable KPIs like first contact resolution and time to first response.

For startups, Infobip highlights its Startup Tribe program with up to $60,000 in product credits to explore messaging, authentication, and contact center use cases at meaningful scale. Beyond credits, the program is pitched as a way to accelerate go-to-market via partner ecosystems and field support across 65+ offices worldwide. That lowers the barrier to test campaigns on WhatsApp, pilot RCS, or stand up a small service desk without heavy upfront spend.

RCS comes up often: operator-verified senders reduce phishing risk, while rich cards, carousels, suggested replies and actions enable guided flows that feel closer to an app than a plain SMS. The same orchestration engine can blend RCS with WhatsApp and web chat, so a marketing broadcast can switch to a service conversation and escalate to a human agent inside the Infobip contact center when necessary, preserving context across channels.

Filmed at Web Summit Lisbon 2025, this conversation touches on scale, with Infobip processing massive global message volumes, and on partnerships that matter in practice—Google for RCS, Meta for WhatsApp Business Platform, and connectors for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Responsys, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. The throughline is consistent: design conversations once, run them everywhere, and let automation keep customers on a smooth path to resolution.

Infobip : RCS, WhatsApp, agentic AI, contact center automation
Infobip Messaging Platform deep dive: RCS verified senders, WhatsApp API, agentic AI orchestration

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