Jul 1 2026
Google's Coral NPU is an open source, RISC‑V-based platform designed for ultra-low-power, always-on edge AI applications. Driven by ML-first architecture, the Coral NPU offers efficient, native ML acceleration for wearables, IoT devices, mobile phones and more. Read more
Jun 23 2026
Antmicro's Renode simulation framework supports a broad range of architectures and platforms, including the popular NXP i.MX RT500 and i.MX RT700 MCUs. While the i.MX RT series targets applications requiring real-time processing with low power consumption, the high-performance NXP i.MX family supports applications with advanced video and audio processing running on Linux. A notable member of this family is the heterogeneous i.MX 8M Plus SoC featuring four Arm Cortex-A53 cores and one M7 core, with a Machine Learning accelerator, 2D and 3D graphics, video support, audio processing, and more. It also offers many connectivity options, including Ethernet, USB, CAN, and PCIe. Read more
Jun 1 2026
The Arm Cortex-M family of processors offers advanced processing with low power consumption for embedded systems. The M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE, also called Helium) introduced for the Armv8.1-M architecture provides significant improvements to operations such as matrix multiplications or quaternion multiplication, which are the backbone of all Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. For these reasons, Helium-enabled platforms are ideal for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and ML applications that require high performance while maintaining low power usage. The popular Cortex-M55 was the first core to support the Helium extensions, followed by Cortex-M85 and Cortex-M52. Read more
May 5 2026
In the last few years, Antmicro has been collaborating with the Google ChromeOS team on simulation-based testing of the ChromiumOS FPMCU (Fingerprint Firmware) module, first by introducing an EC testing suite along with improved support for STM32-based platforms, followed by adding support for the Nuvoton NPCX9 platform in our Renode simulation framework. Read more
Apr 3 2026
Antmicro's Renode simulation framework offers various options for network connectivity, including wired and wireless ones, as well as network traffic inspection via Wireshark integration. So far, Renode has been relying on the TAP interface for connecting to the host network, however, while well supported in Linux, it can't be easily enabled on newer macOS machines. Read more