Tag: SOC

Meet Qomu – A complete SoC that easily fits inside a USB port
Tomu family of USB devices has recently introduced a small form factor board that is not only a single MCU or an FPGA, but a complete System-on-chip that fits easily inside a USB port. The tiny compact board called Qomu, is a capable USB device that integrates an EOS S3 low-power MCU...
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Espressif Leaks RISC-V Powered ESP8266 Pin-Compatible ESP32-C3
The ESP32-C3 is a WiFi SoC that contains a RISC-V core in place of the Tensilica core in the ESP32 we are all familiar with. It uses the ESP8266 pin-out. As with other ESP32 family members, this one delivers b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth LE 5, where it differs is the RISC-V 32 Single-core...
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Meet PreCusor – The Mobile Dual-FPGA Development Kit
There has recently been a desire and surge in the development of standalone portable hardware development kits with qwerty keyboards and displays all fitted into a smartphone/blackberry-like (with trackpads) form factors, either for the sake of portability, or security and ease of use....
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$6 WT32-ETH01 is a Tiny ESP32 board with Ethernet
We have seen how good the ESP32 series of microcontrollers is, as they are probably the second favorite (only dethroned by the mighty Arduino boards) among makers, with their connectivity being their strongest suit, making it easy to develop IoT applications with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth...
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Precursor, Open Hardware RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Mobile Development Kit
Precursor is a compact device with a physical keyboard, a built-in display, and an internal battery. It is an open hardware development platform for secure, mobile computation and communication, this device offers a system that users can have nearly complete control over, also with an...
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Next-Gen Computing Solutions Powered by AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 Series Processors
IBASE Technology Inc., a world leader in the manufacture of industrial motherboards and embedded systems, has launched its next-generation computing solutions powered by “Zen 2”-based AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 Series processors with outstanding power efficiency targeting...
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The world’s smallest Bluetooth SoC released
InPlay Technologies, headquartered in Shanghai, China, today launched the world's smallest software-free programming Bluetooth beacon SoC, IN100, based on its NanoBeaconTM technology. The product is a software-free programming SoC, which will greatly reduce the technical threshold. Any...
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TI’s CC3230x SimpleLink MCUs Offer BLE and Wi-Fi Radio Coexistence
One interesting feature the Raspberry Pi has gotten us used to is having Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on the same board, and it has proven extremely useful for IoT projects that require such connectivity. But sometimes, those power hungry boards can become a burden when you need to make a device...
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