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Description Move broken CSC target to EOS. Jira reference number AR-1272 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Unboxing SunFounder TS7-Pro touchscreen display SunFounder TS7-Pro is a 7-inch touchscreen display designed for Raspberry Pi 4 board and the company sent us one review sample for evaluation. SunFounder has a wide range of Raspberry Pi and Arduino accessories designed for makers, and the TS7-Pro 7 is their latest offering that’s optimized to work with Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 3. Adding a touchscreen display to a Raspberry Pi may be a bit messy with the display or other accessories such as cameras and/or 2.5-inch drive spread on the table, but the TS7-Pro display simplifies all that with a neater assembly. Let’s start the review with an unboxing The package is compact and the display is well-protected with polyethylene foam to reduce the risk of damage during transport. Accessories such as cables, screws and nuts, adapters, an acrylic enclosure, and a screwdriver are also included in the package. Here’s [...] The post Review of SunFounder TS7-Pro 7-inch touchscreen display for Raspberry Pi 4 appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

If you are looking for an ultrawide display to show information on your PC or Raspberry Pi, there’s a 7.9-inch IPS display with 1280×400 resolution that may meet your requirements. The display is powered through a USB port and outputs video through an HDMI 1.4 input port, so it should work with any hardware equipped with HDMI input and a USB port. LR79 display specifications: Display – 7.9-inch TFT-LCD IPS display with 1280×400 resolution @ 60Hz, no touch function 178° field of view 5:16 aspect ratio Response Time: 40ms(Typ.)(Tr+Tf) Contrast Ratio: 900:1 Brightness: 500cd/㎡ Color Gamut: 70% NTSC Display Colors: 16.7M Backlight: WLED (19.2V) Connector: 30-pin ZIF Display Input – HDMI 1.4 Power Supply – 5V via micro USB port Dimensions 205.8 x 67.6 x 13.3 mm Active Area – 190.08 x 59.40 mm Weight – 108 grams The display should work with any host with HDMI output, but it’s [...] The post 7.9-inch ultrawide HDMI display works with Raspberry Pi SBC appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Wireless power, no matter how inefficient it may be, sounds good and even looks good with the “5V remote wireless power supply LED pack” we feature in this post. It also feels magical with the LEDs lighting up thanks to magnetic resonance coupling technology. The solution comes with a coil as a transmitter and each LED bead also includes a small coil as a receiver. When the two are coupled, energy can be transferred from the transmitter to the receiver through the air, paper, or plastic casing, and the LEDs will light up. The magnetic field intensity in this technology is said to be similar to that of the Earth’s magnetic field, and it will not be harmful to human health and other devices. Specifications: Transmitter Module Input Voltage – 5 V Power – 0.5W (10 LEDs) Transmitting Coil Outer Diameter – 70mm, inner diameter 65mm, thickness 0.5mm Transmitter Board [...] The post 5V wireless LED lights up thanks to magnetic resonance coupling technology appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

The last time we wrote about the ZOTAC ZBOX PICO PI336 mini PC it featured an Intel Celeron N4100 Gemini Lake processor, but the company appears to have launched an upgrade with an Intel Celeron N6211 Elkhart Lake processor instead. The new ZBOX PI336 PICO fanless mini PC also gets more storage up to 128GB eMMC flash, but the rest of the specifications remain pretty much the same with 4GB RAM, HDMI & DisplayPort video outputs, three USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFI, and Bluetooth, although some of the interfaces got a version bump for additional performance. ZOTAC PI336 specifications: SoC – Intel Celeron N6211 dual-core Elkhart Lake processor up to 1.2/3.0 GHz with 16EU Intel UHD Graphics @ up to 750 MHz; 6.5W TDP System Memory – 4GB LPDDR4x 3200MT/s Storage – 128GB eMMC flash, microSD card socket Display HDMI 2.0 up to 3840×2160 @ 60Hz DisplayPort 1.4 up to [...] The post ZOTAC ZBOX PI336 PICO mini PC gets an Elkhart Lake upgrade with Intel Celeron N6211 appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

LilyGO T-Display-S3 is an ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth LE IoT development board with a 1.9-inch color LCD and support for LiPo batteries that follows the company’s T-QT ESP32-S3 board with a tiny 0.85-inch display introduced earlier this month. The new board offers the same layout as the previous T-Display RP2040 or ES32 boards, but the 1.14-inch display has been replaced with a larger 1.9-inch display that covers most of the board, and thanks to the ESP32-S3 microcontroller, gains proper Bluetooth 5.0 support, as well as vector instructions for AI acceleration. T-Display-S3 specifications: Wireless MCU – Espressif Systems ESP32-S3R8 dual-core Tensilica LX7 @ up to 240 MHz with vector instructions for AI acceleration, 512KB RAM, 8MB PSRAM, wireless connectivity Storage – 16MB flash Connectivity via ESP32-S3 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi 4 with 40 MHz bandwidth support Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 connectivity with long-range support, up to 2Mbps data rate. [...] The post T-Display-S3 board offers ESP32-S3 WiSoC, 1.9-inch color LCD, and LiPo battery support appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Rockchip RK1808 SoC with a built-in 3.0 TOPS AI accelerator has been around since 2019, and we’ve seen it in USB compute sticks, SBCs, and even in Pine64 SoEdge-RK1808 SO-DIMM module, but somehow never in the more widely used M.2 or mPCIe form factors. Toybrick TB-RK1808M0 changes that and offers Rockchip RK1808K SoC coupled with 1GB RAM and an 8GB eMMC flash in a mini PCIe module that exposes USB 3.0, USB 2.0, UART, and GPIO signals. Toybrick TB-RK1808M0 specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK1808K CPU – Dual-core Cortex-A35 processor @ up to 1.4 GHz AI Accelerator – 3.0 TOPS NPU for INT8 inference (300 GOPS for INT16, 100 GFLOPS for FP16) VPU – 1080p60 H.264 decode, 1080p30 H.264 encode System Memory – 1GB DDR Storage – 8GB eMMC flash Host interface – Mini PCIe edge connector with USB 3.0, USB 2.0, UART, and GPIO Misc – Heatsink for cooling Supply [...] The post mini PCIe module features Rockchip RK1808K SoC with 3.0 TOPS NPU appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

congatec has just introduced the conga-HPC/uATX micro-ATX carrier board designed for COM-HPC Client modules size A, B, and C. The board is vendor independent since it is based on the COM-HPC and micro-ATX standards and designed for embedded long-term availability of at least seven years. That means the micro-ATX carrier board works congatec solutions such as the high-end conga-HPC/cALS COM-HPC Client Size C module with up to a 16-core Intel Core i9 Alder Lake-S processor or the more power-efficient conga-HPC/cALP COM-HPC Client Size A modules with Intel Celeron 7305E processor, as well as similar solutions from ADLINK Technology, Advantech, Portwell, and other vendors. conga-HPC-/uATX carrier board specifications: Compatible with COM-HPC Client Type Modules (Size A: 95 x 120mm, Size B: 120 x 120mm, and Size C: 160 x 120mm) with CPU and memory sockets Video Output 3x DP++ with 8.1 Gbps Re-driver 1x eDP (optional for LVDS) Audio HDA codec [...] The post conga-HPC/uATX is a micro-ATX board for COM-HPC Client Type modules appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

fixes Jetson-nano legacy and installation on emmc in btrfs mode View the full article

GOLE1 was quite a unique mini PC when it launched in 2016 as it included a 5-inch touchscreen display. HIGOLE is now back with the GOLE1 Pro based on a similar design, but a slightly larger 5.5-inch touchscreen display, and much better specs suitable for 2022’s software and entry-level use cases. The Atom x5-Z8300 “Cherry Trail” processor found in the original device gives way to an Intel Celeron N4200 or J4125 Gemini Lake processor, and the GOLE1 Pro mini PC, which the company sometimes also calls “HIGOLE PC 2022”, comes with up to 8GB LPDDR4X, a 128GB SSD, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFI 6 or 5, four USB 3.0 ports, and more. GOLE1 Pro specifications: SoC (one or the other) Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core processor @ 2.00 GHz / 2.70 GHz (Turbo) / 2.4 GHz (Turbo all cores) with 12EU Intel UHD Graphics 600 @ 250 MHz / 750 MHz (Turbo); 10W [...] The post GOLE1 Pro mini PC comes with 5.5-inch touch screen display, Gemini Lake processor (Crowdfunding) appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Description Leftovers from merging jetson-nano into media View the full article

Rakwireless Wisblock modular IoT prototyping system will get new modules about once every quarter and the latest Wisblock Summer 2022 event brings some RAK190xx base boards and power modules to support various power sources from solar panels to PoE, two IP65-rated “Unify” enclosures, as well as four new Wisblock sensor modules. Wisblock RAK190XX base boards and power modules The company has launched three base boards designed to take one of the five Wisblock power modules: RAK19009 – A small (47×30 mm) base board with only 2 sensor slots. RAK19010 – The “standard” base board with 4 sensor slots and 1 I/O slot RAK19011 – Version of the Dual IO base board with a power slot RAK19012 – WisBlock power module with USB, battery, and solar panel supply RAK19013 – WisBlock power module for rechargeable batteries and solar panel supply without the USB, for applications where you do not want to [...] The post Rakwireless introduces WisBlock modular power supply, IP65 enclosures, and more sensor modules appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

We’ve very recently written about Geniatech XPI-3566 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3566 CPU that somewhat follows the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B form factor. Boardcon Compact3566 offers similar features, but it appears to keep exactly the same port assignment as the Raspberry Pi SBC, so it should be compatible with more accessories. The Compact3566 SBC ships with up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 128GB eMMC flash, features Gigabit Ethernet & WiFi 5, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, HDMI 2.0 output, MIPI DSI and CSI interfaces, the 40-pin GPIO header, as well as extra built-in features such as an M.2 socket for storage, RTC with battery, and a built-in microphone. Compact3566 specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 @ up to 1.8 GHz with ARM Mali-G52 2EE GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2. OpenCL 2.0. Vulkan 1.1, 0.8 TOPS NPU System Memory – 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB LPDDR4/LPDDR4X Storage 8GB, 16GB, [...] The post Compact3566 – A Rockchip RK3566 SBC that closely follows Raspberry Pi 3 form factor appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Banana Pi BPI-W3 is yet another upcoming Rockchip RK3588 SBC but with a different set of features, notably the presence of two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a PCIe x4 slot, and a SATA port, besides to more common dual HDMI output, HDMI input, USB 2.0/3.0 ports, etc… The board layout is somewhat similar to the company’s BPI-RK3588 SBC but with a system-on-module, and instead, the Rockchip RK3588 processor is soldered directly onto the board together with 8GB LPDDR4, and 32GB eMMC flash. Banana Pi BPI-W3 specifications (preliminary): SoC- Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor with 4x Cortex-A76 cores @ up to 2.4 GHz (YMMV), 4x Cortex-A55 cores @ 1.8 GHz, an Arm Mali G610MC4 GPU, a 6 TOPS NPU, 8K 10-bit decoder, 8K encoder System Memory – 8GB LPDDR4 Storage – 32GB eMMC flash, SATA III port Video Output – 2x HDMI 2.1 ports up to 8Kp60 Input – 1x HDMI 2.0 input [...] The post Banana Pi BPI-W3 – An RK3588 SBC with dual Gigabit Ethernet, SATA, PCIe x4 slot appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

At the beginning of the year, we wrote about WCH CH32V307 RISC-V microcontroller and a development board with 8 UART ports controlled over Ethernet. I’ve now been informed of a similar, but much more compact by VCC-GND Studio named “YD-CH32V307VCT6”. Besides the 144 MHz RISC-V microcontroller, the board features a 10Mbps Ethernet port, two USB Type-C ports, SPI flash, EEPROM, a microSD card socket, and four rows of 24 pins each for a total of 96 pins exposing all pins out of the LQFP100 package. YD-CH32V307VCT6 board specifications: MCU – WCH CH32V307VCT6 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller @ 144 MHz with 256K Flash, 64K SRAM Storage – 32Mbit SPI NOR flash (W25Q32), 64kbit EEPROM (24C64), MicroSD card slot Networking – 10 Mbps Ethernet USB – 1x USB 2.0 Type-C port (High Speed: 480 Mbps), 1x USB 2.0 Type-C port (Full Speed: 12 Mbps) Expansion – 2x 48-pin headers with 2 x 12-bit [...] The post YD-CH32V307VCT6 RISC-V MCU board comes with Ethernet and plenty of I/Os appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

The can2040 project is a software CAN bus implementation for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller that leverages programmable I/Os (PIO) to achieve reading and writing CAN 2.0B data frames at rates up to 1Mbit per second. Kevin O’Connor, the developer of the project, further explains the implementation uses only one of the two RP2040 PIO hardware blocks, so it is possible for a single Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip to have two separate CAN bus interfaces. Some processing also happens on one of the Arm Cortex-M0+ cores of the microcontroller with the processing time dependent on the amount of bus traffic, and a fully saturated CAN bus at the fastest supported rate of 1Mbit/s may use up to around 30% of that core when clocked at 125MHz, so that should still leave plenty of room for other tasks that may run on the system. I could not find any information about [...] The post can2040 project adds software CAN bus to Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Intel Meteor Lake processor family is supposed to succeed the 13th generation Raptor Lake chips itself coming after the current 12th generation Alder lake processors. It is scheduled to launch next year (2023), but we already have some details about the Meteor Lake U, P, and H mobile processors from a leak. Just like most Alder Lake processors, Meteor Lake will be hybrid processors with power and energy-efficient cores, but they’ll also feature new LP E-cores which should stand for “low power efficiency” cores in order to further lower the power consumption while a laptop or mini PC in standby mode. Meteor Lake mobile processors highlights: CPU P cores + E cores + LP-E cores architecture U-series with up to 12 cores P- and H-series up to 14 cores; Up to 6+8 configuration with up to 24MB LLC/core (Note the LP-E cores don’t seem to be part of the main [...] The post Intel Meteor Lake mobile processor highlights leaked appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Mekotronics R58 is a cost-optimized Rockchip RK3588 mini PC and SBC that sells for as little as $169 with 4GB and 32GB eMMC flash. The company has now sent me a model with 8GB RAM and 64GB flash for evaluation, and in the first part of the review, I’ll do an unboxing, check out the hardware more closely, and boot it up for a quick check. Mekotronics R58 Unboxing There’s no retail package so to speak with just a white box and a sticker reading “MINI 8+64G” indicating the RAM and storage capacity for the device. The mini PC ships with a 12V/3A power adapter and cord, an IR remote control with two AAA batteries, two WiFi antennas, an HDMI cable, and a USB-A to USB-C cable probably to flash the firmware if needed. The mini PC is housed in a metal enclosure with plenty of ventilation holes at the [...] The post Mekotronics R58 review – Part 1: Rockchip RK3588 mini PC unboxing & teardown appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. View the full article

Description This change makes Bluetooth work with the Orange PI 3 LTS. It's based on these commits: https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/ef22bd4b078388eab200a68384a6dff8d959dcb0 https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/ed6d012459461014d41acd22316c1643ff94a127 https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/7d01d1d61c99b3038601f061751a46920446f189 How Has This Been Tested? I build focal current image and test on OPI 3 LTS. Before this change, there is no /sys/class/bluetooth. After this change I can scan bluetooth and pair with my mobile phone. pierre@orangepi3-lts:~$ ls /sys/class/blue* hci0 pierre@orangepi3-lts:~$ systemctl status aw859a-bluetooth ● aw859a-bluetooth.service - Bluetooth AW859A Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/aw859a-bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Mon 2022-06-13 22:20:32 UTC; 49min ago Main PID: 1286 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 1 (limit: 2217) Memory: 448.0K CGroup: /system.slice/aw859a-bluetooth.service └─1404 /usr/bin/hciattach_opi -s 1500000 /dev/ttyBT0 sprd Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: 04 0e 04 01 a2 fc 00 Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: hw_rf_cback hw_rf_cback response: [0xFCA2, 0x0000, 0x00] Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: sprd_vnd_send_hci_vsc Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: a1 fc 03 00 00 01 Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: Received event, len: 9 Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: 04 0e 06 01 a1 fc 00 00 01 Jun 13 22:20:32 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: hw_core_cback hw_core_cback response: [0xFCA1, 0x0000, 0x01] Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth post process Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: SPRD Bluetooth: Done setting line discpline Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts hciattach_opi[1286]: Device setup complete pierre@orangepi3-lts:~$ systemctl status bluetooth ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-06-13 22:20:33 UTC; 50min ago Docs: man:bluetoothd(8) Main PID: 1398 (bluetoothd) Status: "Running" Tasks: 1 (limit: 2217) Memory: 1.7M CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service └─1398 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts bluetoothd[1398]: Bluetooth daemon 5.53 Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts bluetoothd[1398]: Starting SDP server Jun 13 22:20:33 orangepi3-lts bluetoothd[1398]: Bluetooth management interface 1.21 initialized Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules Next steps: There might be further issues to resolve as noted below. I didn't experience this issue myself. https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/issues/24 View the full article

Description This commit forces cgroup v1 usage as a workaround for docker / runc BPF issues until a proper fix is submitted Context Docker 20.10+ cannot run on our Asus Tinkerboard, it throws BPF related errors (Like opencontainers/runc#2959 , especially this comment). I tried a lot of armbian flavors (focal, jammy, bullseye + current, edge and legacy kernels), and even building an image with CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y as suggested by this comment but it didn't fix the issue. The only thing that fixed docker was to add extraargs=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 to /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Until someone else does a proper fix to make cgroup v2 working, I suggest downgrading to cgroup v1 with this extraarg. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested on Asus Tinkerboard with latest 5.15 stable kernel from apt repository. [ ] :x: NOT tested with edge and legacy kernels (Sorry I had to quickly put the machine into production and didn't have time to test other kernels) Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation => Does it need a documentation change ? [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article