CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi.

But you can't get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China.

This little guy doesn't have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It's a special version of the 'Compute Module' line of boards. Little Raspberry Pi 'System on Modules' (SoMs), they're called.

Compute Modules are entire Linux computers about the size of a regular...

Diptyx E-Reader – An open-source, ESP32-powered, dual-screen e-book reader (Crowdfunding)

There are plenty of e-book readers on the market, but the Diptyx E-Reader feels more like a proper book since it features two e-paper displays that can be folded or opened thanks to a custom-made plastic enclosure. While it’s powered by an ESP32-S3 wireless module with a PCB antenna, both WiFi and Bluetooth are disabled in the firmware, and instead, users can load EPUB files through the reader’s USB Type-C port. The combination of an automatic standby mode (using deep sleep) and e-ink displays enables the dual-screen device to run for weeks on a single charge. Two buttons are used...

Renesas RA6W1/RA6W2 Cortex-M33 wireless MCUs offer dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE, Matter, 15-year availability

Renesas has added the RA6W1 (Wi-Fi 6) and the RA6W2 (Wi-Fi 6 + BLE) MCUs to its high-performance RA6 family, adding dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE, as well as Matter connectivity to the series. Both models feature a 160 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core, dual-band Wi-Fi 6 with WPA3 security, on-chip PA/LNA/RF switch, and a full TCP/IP stack for fast connectivity. They integrate up to 704 KB SRAM, 256 KB ROM, and support eMMC/SD, O-QSPI, and QSPI for external flash and/or PSRAM. The series also includes generic peripherals like SPI, I²C, I²S/PDM, SDIO, 12-bit ADCs, PWM timers, and up to...

Иногда компьютеры ошибаются. Воспроизводим тот самый баг на $475 000 000

Приветствую всех!

Знаю: тема багов, которые изменили мир, избита уже настолько, что на ней не осталось живого места. Но сейчас мы не будем просто говорить о самых выдающихся таких случаях. Сейчас мы затронем лишь один из них: ту самую ошибку в процессоре Pentium. И не просто поговорим обо всём этом, а ещё и продемонстрируем её на реальной машине.

Итак, сегодня мы разберёмся, что же это был за баг в данном теперь уже ретро-процессоре. Узнаем, как он проявлялся, как его воспроизвести и, конечно же, увидим вживую, как всё это работало.

nRF9151 SMA DK development kit offers cellular IoT, DECT NR+, and 5G NTN satellite connectivity

Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9151 SMA DK development kit is designed for building IoT applications using  LTE-M/NB-IoT cellular IoT, DECT NR+, or 5G NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) satellite connectivity. The development kit offers three ways to connect a SIM card, namely a NanoSIM card slot, an MFF2 SIM footprint for eSIM or software iSIM, and a 10-pin SIM connector. It also includes two SMA connectors for GPS and LTE antennas or lab equipment, multiple current measurement connectors, and Arduino UNO headers for expansion, notably the nRF7002 EK for adding Wi-Fi 6 locationing capabilities. nRF9151-SMA-DK specifications: Wireless System-in-Package – Nordic Semi nRF9151 CPU –...

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces.

Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running something like Jellyfin for video library management and streaming?

That's what I set out to do, and the first step, besides getting the drivers and CUDA going (see blog post linked above), was...

UP Squared Pro TWL AI Dev Kit Review – Intel N150 + Hailo-8L accelerator tested on Ubuntu 24.04

I’ve been asked to review three Intel-based UP AI development kits running Ubuntu 24.04 Pro. Last time, I tested the UP TWL SBC with Nx Meta and UP AI Toolkit, and most AI workloads would pass, but since these were running on the Intel N150 CPU or GPU, the performance was not optimal for most. I’ll now switch to the UP Squared Pro TWL “mid-range” AI devkit review with another Intel Processor N150 SBC fitted with a 13 TOPS Hailo-8L M.2 AI accelerator. Both the UP TWL and UP Squared Pro TWL come with a 64GB eMMC flash, and I...

Мой самый упрямый экран. Figma была свидетелем

Неделю назад я написал нашему программисту: «Знаешь, наверное, к концу следующей недели я сделаю дизайн всего приложения». Да, отличное начало для истории о том, как один экран может выбесить.

Делюсь ссылкой на свой проект в Figma

Up to 16-core AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Zen 5 processors support up 28 PCIe Gen5 lanes, offer 10-year availability

After the release of the high-performance EPYC Embedded 9005, AMD has now introduced the EPYC Embedded 2005 Series, a mid-range processor family also based on the “Zen 5” architecture and designed for space-constrained networking, storage, and industrial edge applications. The new SoCs feature up to 16 cores (32 threads) with 64 MB L3 cache, support dual-channel DDR5-5600 memory with ECC, and offer 28 lanes of PCIe Gen5 connectivity. It also supports advanced RAS capabilities, BMC, PCIe Hot Plug, multi-SPI ROM, and AMD Infinity Guard security. The processors come in a compact 40 x 40mm BGA package, which, according to AMD,...

iWave Systems iG-RainboW-G69M TI AM62L OSM Size-S system-on-module powers Raspberry Pi-sized SBC

Yesterday, I wrote about the Beacon AM62L SoM, one of the first system-on-module based on Texas Instruments AM62L dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC for low-power IoT and HMI applications. It turns out there’s another AM62L module compliant with the OSM Size-S standard, along with a Raspberry Pi-sized carrier board. iWave Systems iG-RainboW-G69M is a 30x30mm CPU module with 1GB or 2GB LPDDR4, 8GB eMMC flash by default, and 332 LGA contacts exposing interfaces such as RGB LCD and MIPI CSI display interfaces, dual gigabit Ethernet, I2S audio, USB 2.0 interfaces, and a range of low-speed I/Os. iWave Systems iG-RainboW-G69M specifications: SoC –...