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| | SMARC SOMs Selected for Walmart's Robotic Retrieval System
Axiomtek has announced its ongoing collaboration with Alert Innovation. Alert has been tapped by Walmart to use its robotics technology to automate their grocery operations. The company has developed the Alphabot system, an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) that is also an Automated Each-Picking System (AEPS). Axiomtek's embedded computers and SMARC System on Modules (SOMs) are used in the system.
For a period of almost two years prior to the announcement of the Alphabot pilot test in a Walmart Supercenter, the Axiomtek team worked alongside Alert Innovation's engineering team, helping to identify and customize products for Alert's use, participating in schematic reviews and supporting driver development to ensure seamless integration. Since then, Axiomtek has continued to invest in and support the Alert Innovation Alphabot system's mission.
Embedded Tech India Expo 2019
Embedded Tech India expo 2019 is running January 29-31 in New Delhi, India. It will showcase leading-edge products and solutions for embedded systems that enable Smart things, Smart industry, Smart home and Smart cities. The show will host various demonstrations that use microcontrollers, sensors, RF, power, motor-control, secure MCUs and other solutions.
Linux-Driven SMARC Module Supports Up to Five Time-Sensitive GbE Ports Kontron invented the ULP-COM standard that formed the basis of the SMARC form factor, and it has delivered numerous SMARC modules over the years, including Arm products such as the Nvidia Tegra K1 based SMC-NTKE1. Now it has unveiled the first module we've seen in any form factor with NXP's dual-core, Cortex-A72 powered QorIQ Layerscape LS1028 SoC. The 82 mm x 50 mm SMARC-sAL28 module runs a Yocto Project based Linux stack (with U-Boot) on the LS1028. The module exploits the SoC's Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) support with up 2x or 5x TSN-capable Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The SMARC-sAL28 module is compliant with the IEEE 802.1 TSN standard, which offers guaranteed latency and Quality of Service (QoS) with time synchronization to enable "a timely and highly available delivery of data packets," says Kontron. TSN Ethernet can replace more expensive, proprietary fieldbus technology while also offering the advantage of being able to "simultaneously communicate seamlessly to the IT level."
Implementing an IoT Edge Device While Minimizing NRE One designer in a garage, a small startup and even small groups within large companies are designing IoT edge devices. These designers need to keep non-recurring expense (NRE) down by using affordable design tools that are easy to use to quickly produce results and by minimizing IP and fabrication costs. This white paper discusses an approach to minimize NRE for IoT edge device implementation. |
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Tiny, Single-GbE Arm Networking SBC Runs Linux Gateworks has spun a 100 mm x 35 mm, single-GbE "Newport GW6100" networking SBC, which follows a recent dual-GbE "GW6200" model. Both run Linux on a dual-core Cavium Octeon TX SoC and offer mini-PCIe expansion and -40°C to 85°C support.  In Nov. 2017, when Gateworks unveiled its Newport family of Linux-driven, Octeon TX based SBCs with the 105 mm x 100 mm, dual GbE port Newport GW6300, it promised several more models in 2018. The 140 mm x 100 mm, 5-GbE port Newport GW6400 was announced in May along with a GW6404 sibling that swaps two of the GbE ports to SFP ports. Now, the company has launched the single-GbE port GW6100 model, which had been scheduled for a 2018 Q2 arrival. There was no announcement of the GW6100, which was discovered by CNXSoft, nor of the dual-port, 100 mm x 75 mm GW6200.
Like the other Newport SBCs, the new entries run OpenWrt or Ubuntu on Cavium's networking focused Octeon TX SoC, which has Cortex-A53 like "Thunder" cores. The embedded-oriented Octeon TX competes directly with NXP's QorIQ line. Optimized to run multiple concurrent data and control planes simultaneously, the headless SoC integrates security architecture from Cavium's Nitrox V security processors.
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