Woddon Toys makes the iConFly remote control;ed quadcopters which are controlled over wifi with Android or iOS devices. The quadcopters can be controlled with onscreen controls or motion sensing. Some models have built in cameras for things like live video recording. The larger white model sells for 399 USD, the smaller white model sells for 149 USD and the small yellow model sells 39 USD. Woddon also sells the HiRobot remote controlled vehicle for 149 USD.
Ulefone Power with 6000mAh
Posted by – October 30, 2016
The Ulefone 3035 features a 6000mh battery with a 64 bit octa core processor, lte and full hd display. Ulefone also makes a rugged phone called the armor with an IP68 specification for water resistance and resistance other forms of damage.
http://ulefone.com/
Renesas at ARM Techcon 2016
Posted by – October 30, 2016
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.
Spirent Communications IoT Enablement with full product life cycle
Posted by – October 30, 2016
Spirent Communications offers end to end IoT Enablement solution which facilitates full product life cycle, from development to certification testing to global deployment, service assurance. Monitoring and analytics. In the Spirent IoT demonstration at ARM TechCon, Spirent presents two key elements of their offering. First, the IoT Device Framework, which is a software SDK for developers supporting multiple IoT protocols under the same set of common APIs, so developers don’t need to worry about details of the particular protocols. The IoT Device Framework can be used for building both sensors and gateways and offers extended capabilities for security, event aggregation, analytics and more; it also integrates seamlessly with ARM Mbed OS. Second part of the demonstration is showing so called eSIM capabilities. eSIM was recently approved by GSMA as a solution for global deployment of IoT products, allowing subscription and device management across multiple global service providers without the need to change the actual SIM every time the service provider is changed. To demonstrate Spirent IoT Device Framework capabilities, Spirent implements a globally connected parking lot, utilizing IoT device framework on the parking sensors and the gateway, with Gateway connected to the LTE network with eSIM and switched at run time between multiple service providers. The demo utilizes LwM2M, MQTT and Dweet protocols.
$49 NXP Hexiwear, IoT and Wearables development platform
Posted by – October 30, 2016
Hexiwear platform enables IoT edge node and wearable development. Completely open-source and developed by MikroElektronika in partnership with NXP. The Hexiwear hardware includes the low power, high performance Kinetis K6x Microcontroller based on ARM Cortex-M4 core, the Kinetis KW40Z multimode radio SoC, supporting BLE in Hexiwear. The Hardware features included 6 on-board sensors such as Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Accelerometer and Magnetometer, Gyroscope, Temperature, Humidity, light and Pressure sensors. Hexiwear also includes Color OLED Display, Rechargeable battery and External flash memory. Hexiwear is supported with its own application for Android and iOS, so users can connect the device to the cloud straight out of the box, without any additional software development required. Hexiwear uses FreeRTOS, the Kinetis software development kit (SDK) and the Kinetis Design Studio IDE. It’s available for $49 at http://www.hexiwear.com/shop/
ARM Cortex-M33, ARM Cortex-M23, ARMv8-M, TrustZone, IoT Technology Suite
Posted by – October 29, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Renesas, ARM TechCon, ARM, Silicon Labs
ARM launches their first ARM Cortex-M processors based on ARMv8-M architecture with ARM TrustZone technology,
IoT subsystem with ARM CoreLink system IP for fastest, lowest-risk path to silicon, Secure SoC designs fortified by TrustZone CryptoCell technology, Complete wireless solution with ARM Cordio radio IP for 802.15.4 and Bluetooth 5, Cloud-based service for secure management of IoT devices via ARM mbed Cloud, Optimized implementation on ARM Artisan IoT POP IP for the TSMC 40ULP process.
ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 are the first embedded processors based on the ARMv8-M architecture, bringing the proven secure foundation of ARM TrustZone to the most constrained IoT nodes. The majority of the top ten global MCU suppliers have already licensed one or both processors. Lead partners include Analog Devices, Microchip, Nuvoton, NXP, Renesas, Silicon Labs and STMicroelectronics.
The highly versatile Cortex-M33 features configuration options including a coprocessor interface, DSP and floating point computation, with increased performance and efficiency relative to Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4. The Cortex-M23 takes security to the most constrained devices, building on the standard set by Cortex-M0+ as an ultra-low power microprocessor in a tiny footprint
The new Cortex-M processors are backwards compatible with ARMv6-M and ARMv7-M architectures for direct and fast porting, accelerating product development. TrustZone CryptoCell-312 fortifies the SoC with a rich set of security features protecting the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of code and data.
Read the full press release here: https://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-accelerates-secure-iot-from-chip-to-cloud.php
Acer Chromebook R13 on MediaTek MT8173C dual ARM Cortex-A72 and dual ARM Cortex-A53
Posted by – October 29, 2016
The first ARM Cortex-A72 powered Chromebook, the first MediaTek Chromebook, powered by the Quad-core big.LITTLE MediaTek MT8173C Dual ARM Cortex-A72 and Dual ARM Cortex-A53 with PowerVR GX6250 GPU. This Acer Chromebook R13 is priced currently at $399, available now in the USA, soon should also be available in Europe. It looks great with a full sized HDMI, USB3 port, one USB Type-C port and a headset port. I am tempted to buy one, but I think I’ll wait and see which Chromebooks will be released in the days/weeks to come, especially the rumored Rockchip RK3399 Powered Samsung Chromebook Pro.
Charlie Miller Keynote, Automotive Security: A Hacker’s Eye View
Posted by – October 28, 2016
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.
ARM mbed Cloud and Security at ARM TechCon 2016
Posted by – October 28, 2016
ARM mbed announces the ARM mbed Cloud, a new standards- and cloud-based SaaS solution for secure IoT device management. It simplifies connecting, securing, provisioning and updating of devices across complex networks with optimizations built-in for energy-efficiency. Its an ‘any device, any cloud’ service for OEMs to scale IoT quickly. Bee Hayes-Thakore talks at ARM TechCon 2016 about mbed Cloud, mbed OS5.2, new developer tools, mbed Partnership, mbed Enabled and the new mbed Connect Shenzhen summit coming up on December 5th 2016.
ARM mbed cloud with IBM Watson Internet of Things
Posted by – October 28, 2016
Doug Anson, ARM IoT Solutions Architect talks about how ARM has worked with IBM to integrate ARM mbed with IBM Watson IoT platform on Bluemix Cloud Platform. The demo uses ARM Cordio Bluetooth sending a Google Physical Web URL to the Chrome Browser in the smartphone, creating an ability for the Chrome browser to interact with Bluetooth, enabling payment for parking meters by Bluetooth from the parking meter. Hooking up with the backend through IBM Watson, integrating with IBM’s payment service and blockchain service.
malideveloper.arm.com Vulkan, GPU Compute
Posted by – October 28, 2016
ARM shows Vulkan API support on the Exynos 8890 Quad-core Samsung M1 (custom big core by Samsung), Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Also showing computer vision deep neural network database by Luxosft that allows detection of objects offline that uses GPU Compute for optimal performance
Augmented Pixels, enabling fully autonomous Drones, Robots, Augmented VR
Posted by – October 27, 2016
Vitaliy Goncharuk is the Founder of Augmented Pixels, explains how his company’s technology can enable computer vision for fully autonomous drones, robots on ARM Processors, providing the SLAM SDK to enable real-time obstacle avoidance, object/person follow tracking and more on basic ARM Processors, even on ARM Cortex-M based processors, enabling DJI Phantom 4 like features on sub-$100 ARM Powered Drones, maybe.
Apical Computer Vision at ARM, HDR10 on cheap displays and more
Posted by – October 27, 2016
Judd Heape is Senior Director, Marketing in IVG (Imaging & Vision Group) at ARM talks about Apical that was acquired by ARM in May 2016, enabling Computer Vision in a new area on the SoC, already shipped with over 500 million ARM Processors, here demonstrating HDR-10 video through Assertive Display. HDR10 HEVC video stream decoded by Mali-V550 video processor to AFBC-compressed 10-bit YUV, Displayed at Full HD through Mali-DP650 display processor. With Assertie Display technology for excellent image clarity under all viewing conditions, such as under bright sunlight.
Simon Segars Keynote, ARM CEO: Partnership for Enhancing the Human Experience
Posted by – October 27, 2016
Machines with human-like abilities, sensors capable of smelling disease and systems that can help manage cities are all part of a rapidly-innovating Internet of Things. As the technology sector creates more intuitive and capable hardware and software, a paradigm shift looms for our world and ARM’s industry.
ARM CEO Simon Segars discusses how this new system of interconnected technologies is creating new value for society and business, and how the ARM ecosystem can keep driving the pace of entrepreneurial creativity to enhance the human experience.
Jem Davies Keynote, ARM Vice President of Technology
Posted by – October 27, 2016
Davies describes the opportunities that lie ahead for ARM in areas like virtual and augmented reality, facial recognition for all of ARM’s ecosystem in this space (Silicon Partners, OEMs, developers and service providers) and he describes ARM’s new products in this space.
Security for ARM IoT devices, Milosch Meriac (ARM) and Dr. Rolf Lindemann (Nok Nok Labs)
Posted by – October 26, 2016
Interview with Milosch Meriac, ARM IoT Security Engineer and Dr. Rolf Lindemann, Nok Nok Labs Senior Director for Products, about how ARM and its partners such as Nok Nok Labs are providing secuity solutions for the Internet of Things market, after the DDOS attack running on IP Cameras and their DVRs of last week that shut down a large part of the US internet. They suggest to implement Password-less Authentication, secure and automatic firmware updates, virtualization and more.
Greg Yeric Interview, ARM Research Group, talks 5nm and 3nm future
Posted by – October 26, 2016
Greg Yeric is Director of Future Silicon Technology for ARM Research, analyzing the future technology trends, predicting effects on future ARM products, coordinating internal and external research, including Design-Technology Co-Optimization with industrial and academic partners, as well as technology incubation and enablement. You can watch his keynote at ARM Techcon 2016 here.
Latest Allwinner products, Laptops, 2-in-1, VR, Tablets, IoT, Robots, Drones, Car DVRs
Posted by – October 26, 2016
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Cameras, Gaming, VR, Robots, Internet of Things, Speakers, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Tour of the Allwinner showroom at China Sourcing Fair 2016, with Damien from the Allwinner Business Development group (industry insiders can contact him at Damien@allwinnertech.com), showing the latest products powered by Allwinner on the market, such as the Phoenix OS based Laptop, Double OS (dual UI of Android) for 2-in-1 market developed in partnership with the Phoenix OS team, the latest Android Marshmallow tablets, including the Aikun Morphus X300 powered by Allwinner. Here also are presented the latest Allwinner powered all-in-one VR devices starting with Allwinner A33 and support for A83T and A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Allwinner also shows some Smart Home IoT type products powered by Allwinner such as smart vacuum cleaner, smart home robot and smart wifi speaker (Amazon Alexa or Google Home possibly possible), talking about next year’s successor of the Allwinner A33 for the tablet market, which they might do on a lower nanometer to lower power consumption and optimize the low-cost Tablet market further. Allwinner shows some of their Phablets released in partnership with qualcomm, where Allwinner is helping to get shipped Qualcomm based LTE tablets on Snapdragon 200 and 400 series working with the design houses and factories in Shenzhen to get them done more. Allwinner has a big position in the auto market with after market smart Android powered smart mirrors, smart car dashboard and Smart car-dvr products which are quite popular in China, adding object recognition, car parking support, lane departure and car distance alerts and more. Allwinner is also in Drones with their camera chip, in E Ink Android based e-readers, smart speakers (with multi-room sync), and web-TV Karaoke tablets popular in the Chinese market.
Masayoshi Son Keynote and Q&A at ARM Techcon 2016
Posted by – October 26, 2016
Masayoshi Son is the CEO and Chairman of the Board, SoftBank Group Corp., his first public appearance with ARM since this historic acquisition.
For the full version of this keynote video including the 9-minute introduction by ARM CEO Simon Segars see:
Keynote: Mike Muller, ARM CTO, at ARM Techcon 2016
Posted by – October 26, 2016
Over the last few years, the ARM ecosystem has been pioneering its way into the healthcare market. This is an extremely diverse segment, overlapping with Internet of Things, sensors, analog and communications, with the ever-present need for trust and security very much at the fore.
From a uniquely personal perspective, Mike Muller shares some of the critical technology he sees as being key to unlocking the opportunity in this space. He shares some of his frustrations and make predictions as to what we can look forward to in this space.
