As a new technology concept, smart hardware marks the beginning of a new era in electronics manufacturing. There are many areas of smart hardware involved, 3D printers, smart watches, routers, smart TVs, smart glasses, smart virtual devices, etc., can be included in its scope. With the continuous Internet of Things boom in recent years, every segment of smart hardware has attracted many startups and giants, and major chip makers are gearing up for smart homes, wearable devices, smart healthcare and smart cars. The field has launched a unique design.
In order to promote further exchanges in the industry, the e-family website has planned the “2014 China Maker and Intelligent Hardware Forumâ€, invites elites from well-known chip vendors, investment institutions, hardware system integrators and other industries to design and develop intelligent hardware products and market development trend. Provide insights to provide engineers and technicians with the best design solutions.
Mo Yanfen, executive editor of e-Friends.com, said in a speech at this forum that 2014 has become the first year of intelligent hardware development. Intelligent hardware segmentation applications are everywhere, bringing great promise to chip vendors, device manufacturers, service providers and consumers, while also bringing intelligence such as connectivity, ease of use, power management and miniaturization to engineers. Technical challenges in hardware design. To accelerate and simplify product development, developers can focus more on developing differentiated products, and designers and ODMs can turn product concepts into prototypes as quickly as possible as the market changes, as the smart industry. The basic chip makers are naturally gearing up and launching different reference designs for smart devices such as smart homes, wearable devices, smart healthcare and smart cars.
Mo Yanfen, executive editor of E-Commerce Network, delivered a speech at the "2014 Smart Hardware Forum".
A variety of control solutions for the development of intelligent hardware
There are many control schemes for intelligent hardware selection, and the ARM-based control scheme is the most typical one. The advantages of ARM are mainly reflected in the strong transaction management function. The low power consumption and low cost characteristics are in line with the design requirements of current intelligent hardware. Looking at the entire intelligent hardware market, ARM not only dominates the mobile device field. At the same time, it also took the lead in the wearable market.
Mr. Wang Junchao, mobile market manager from ARM, pointed out that there are many sub-divisions in the current market. In general, it can be divided into low-end, mid-range and high-end areas. ARM's Cotex-M series is mainly used in low-to-medium applications. End field.
STMicroelectronics has been working with ARM for a long time. STMicroelectronics' STM32 series is an ARM CortexM-based MCU that includes a range of 32-bit products with high integration and ease of development.
Cao Jindong from STMicroelectronics gave us an introduction to the STM32 F0 series for the Internet of Things in STM32 and the open development platform for the F0 series - Nucleo.
STM32 F0 series MCU
Based on the combination of real-time performance, low-power features, high-end architecture, peripheral equipment and STM32 ecosystem, the ARM Cortex-M0-based STM32 F0 series has been well received in the fiercely competitive MCU market and has become the STM32 series. a handle.
The Nucleo development board integrates the ST-Link debugger/programmer and can be used with various development environments such as IAR EWARM, Keil MDK, mbed, GCC-based IDEs (Atollic TrueStudio), making it easy to develop new prototypes for STM32 MCUs.
Freescale, which has close cooperation with ARM, has also made great achievements in the MCU market. Its KineTIs series of MCUs based on the ARM Cortex-M0 and M4 cores offer outstanding low-power performance and scalability for intelligence. The development of hardware provides a wide range of MCU solutions.
Li Xiuli from Freescale, detailing the features of the KineTIs series of MCUs and related development kits
KineTIs is divided into eight series, which are widely used in automotive electronics, motor control, and wireless connectivity.
To help engineers better understand and use the KineTIs series of MCUs, Freescale has developed an open source hardware platform based on the ARM core - Netduino (using Visual Studio as the IDE and programming language using C#).
The Netduino development board has an XBee module interface that allows users to directly use the popular XBee wireless module.
The Netduino application uses the .NETMicro Framework. This programming framework is easy to learn to use. For beginners, writing C# code is as simple as writing a javascript code or creating a web page. .NET MicroFramework provides powerful in-circuit debugging capabilities, so you won't have to debug debugging information through the serial port or use other methods that you can't see. In the .NET Micro Framework, you can step through the same steps as debugging a web page, and you can see the results of the variables generated by your code at any time. This is a very exciting feature that speeds up people. Develop hardware speeds to make programs more stable and reliable.
FPGA can be said to be another processor architecture that is completely different from ARM. Because it uses parallel technology, it has better real-time processing capability than ARM. In recent years, although FPGAs have overlapped with ARM in some areas, the competition between the two is still fierce in terms of current market conditions.
FPGAs are well-suited for applications in communications, military, industrial, and other fields. They are fully capable of intelligent hardware applications with simpler functional requirements, but are subject to further testing in terms of power consumption. While many FPGA vendors are rushing to seize the smart hardware market, Lattice has not blindly joined the process upgrade, but is dedicated to serving consumer mobile electronic device manufacturers. Power consumption, small size, and customized FPGA solutions can meet the needs of customers and bring differentiated and micro-innovation to mobile phones in the Red Sea market. In the future, it is expected to play more value in the smart hardware wave.
Lattice's manager Huang Xiaopeng emphasized that Lattice's FPGA chip has three low (low power consumption, small size, low price) features, which can help customers achieve fast time-to-market without any NRE fees.
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