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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 9 Comments

PocketMage – An ESP32-S3-based Personal Digital Assistant (Crowdfunding)

PocketMage is an open-source hardware, ESP32-S3 personal digital assistant (PDA) with a primary, sun-readable 3.1-inch E Ink display, a secondary 1.8-inch OLED for high-refresh rate feedback, a full tactile QWERTY keyboard, and a capacitive scroll bar. The device also features a microSD card slot for storage, a buzzer for audio/sound feedback, a USB-C port for charging the 1,200 mAh battery or connecting a USB keyboard, as well as an RTC and an FPC connector for GPIO expansion. PocketMage specifications: SoC – ESP32-S3 microcontroller with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity Memory – 2 MB QSPI PSRAM Storage 16 MB QSPI flash MicroSD card slot Displays Primary 3.1-inch E Ink/e-paper display with 320×240 resolution Secondary 1.8-inch OLED with 256×32 resolution Audio – Piezo buzzer for beeps and boops USB – USB Type-C port for charging and peripherals like a keyboard User input Built-in tactile QWERTY keyboard Capacitive scroll bar USB keyboard support […]

June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

Simplia CONNECT RW612 6-in-1 M.2 2230 module offers WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, 802.15.4, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS connectivity

Simplia CONNECT RW612 6-in-1 M.2 wireless module

Simplia CONNECT RW612 is a 6-in-1 M.2 2230 wireless module that offers dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4 LE, an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee or Thread, LTE Cat-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS connectivity. It’s the first module I’ve seen that implements so many wireless standards into a tiny M.2 2230 module. It’s made possible by combining an NXP RW612 WiFi, BLE, and 802.15.4 module with an optional Quectel BC77 LTE-M, NB-IoT, and GNSS module. Simplia CONNECT RW612 specifications: Wireless modules Murata Type 2FR (LBESOZZ2FR) SoC – NXP RW612 CPU – Arm Cortex-M33 @ 260 MHz Memory – 1.2 MB SRAM Wireless Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 1×1 SISO Bluetooth LE 5.4 802.15.4 radio for Thread and Zigbee Storage – 16MB or 32MB integrated flash memory via FlexSPI Security – NXP EdgeLock Package – 12.0 x 11.0 x 1.5 mm (BGA) Optional Quectel BG77 (BG77LA, similar to the BG770A minus 5G NTN support) LTE […]

June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 by Debashis Das - 3 Comments

DEBIX T62P-01 Raspberry Pi-like industrial SBC features TI AM62P SoC, dual GbE with TSN, multi-domain UART

DEBIX T62P-01 Texas Instruments AM62P SBC

Polyhex Technology has introduced the DEBIX T62P-01, a compact industrial SBC built around Texas Instruments Sitara AM62P quad Cortex-A53/dual Cortex-R5F SoC designed for industrial IoT (IIoT), robotics, Edge computing, and smart terminal/HMI applications. Measuring 88 × 59 mm, the board supports up to 8GB of LPDDR4 memory, optional eMMC storage up to 256GB, and a MicroSD card slot. It also features two GbE ports, including one supporting PoE via an external PD module, as well as Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity. Security features include hardware secure boot with Root-of-Trust (RoT), an Arm TrustZone-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), and a Hardware Security Module (HSM) for cryptographic operations. DEBIX T62P-01 specifications: SoC – Texas Instruments AM62P (AM62P54CVMHIAMHR) Application CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 up to 1.4 GHz Real-time cores 1x Arm Cortex-R5F up to 800MHz (integrated with MCU channel) 1x Arm Cortex-R5F up to 800MHz (for device management) GPU – Imagination […]

June 10, 2026 by Debashis Das - 1 Comment

Synaptics Astra SRW1500 Cortex-M52 Edge AI MCU features Ethos-U55 NPU, Wi-Fi 6/7, Bluetooth 6.0, 802.15.4 connectivity

Synaptics has introduced the Astra SRW1500 Series of AI-native Edge AI MCUs designed for smart IoT edge devices. The family features an Arm Cortex-M52 core, an optional Arm Ethos-U55 Neural Processing Unit (NPU), and tri-band Wi-Fi 7 or Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 6.0 LE, and 802.15.4 connectivity, in a single package. It targets low-latency on-device AI workloads such as voice-trigger detection, sound-event classification, and AI-enhanced Wi-Fi sensing. The series currently comes in four variants offering different wireless and USB options. Since sensing, AI processing, and wireless connectivity are integrated into a single chip, this approach helps reduce system costs, simplify PCB design, and lower power consumption in devices such as smart home hubs, building automation systems, and home appliances. Synaptics SRW1500 Series specifications: CPU Arm Cortex-M52 application core up to 200 MHz with Arm Helium (MVE) vector extensions for DSP and ML Arm Cortex-R4 WiFi core with 960 KB SRAM and 1408 […]

May 18, 2026May 18, 2026 by Debashis Das - 3 Comments

$13 Qualcomm QCC74xM EVK offers Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and 802.15.4 connectivity (Bouffalo Lab BL618 inside)

Back in November 2024, we wrote about Qualcomm’s QCC730M and QCC74xM modules for low-power IoT devices, but at the time, there was no evaluation board EVK for those SoCs. Fast forward to today, and the official development boards for the QCC74x series have finally been released, complete with a surprisingly affordable price tag. The Qualcomm QCC74xM EVK is a tri-radio evaluation board with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and IEEE 802.15.4 (Thread/Zigbee) with a price tag of just over $13. But what is interesting is that, while it carries the Qualcomm brand, documentation from the Zephyr Project clearly shows that the QCC74x series is actually based on and mostly equivalent to the Bouffalo Lab BL61x series, specifically the BL618. Qualcomm QCC74xM EVK specifications: Wireless Module – Qualcomm QCC74xM LGA Module (QCC743M, QCC744M, or QCC748M depending on the board variant) CPU – 32-bit RISC-V processor (RV32IMAFCP) @ up to 325 MHz with FPU […]

May 5, 2026May 12, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Renesas RZ/V2H Robotics Development Kit handles AI vision, motor control, and power management with a single board

Renesas WS125-V2HRDKREFZ is a Robotics Development Kit (RDK) powered by Renesas RZ/V2H Arm Cortex-A55/R8/M33 microprocessor and designed for high‑performance AI vision applications leveraging the MPU’s built-in 80 TOPS (sparse) AI accelerator. The kit ships with 16GB LPDDR4, 64MB QSPI flash, a 64GB microSD card, and appears to be partially inspired by the Raspberry Pi 5 with a 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header, a 16-pin PCIe Gen3 FFC connector, two MIPI CSI connectors, and a micro HDMI port. Other features include a Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB 3.2 ports, two CAN-FD interfaces, and a 12-24V DC input voltage range. Renesas WS125-V2HRDKREFZ specifications: SoC – Renesas RZ/V2H CPU/MCU cores 4x Arm Cortex-A55 cores up to 1.8 GHz 2x Cortex-R8 real-time cores up to 800 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller core up to 200 MHz for system management GPU – Arm Mali-G31 GPU NPU – DRP-AI3 dynamically reconfigurable processor delivering up to 8 TOPS (INT8) or […]

April 21, 2026April 21, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 2 Comments

Ezurio Tungsten 510/700 SMARC SoM features MediaTek Genio 510/700 AIoT SoC, dual GbE, WiFi 6

Ezurio Tungsten 700 Mediatek Genio 700 SMARC system-on-module

Ezurio Tungsten 510 and Tungsten 700 SMARC 2.1 compliant system-on-module powered by MediaTek Genio 510 hexa-core and Genio 700 octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 AIoT SoCs with an up to 4 TOPS NPU. The SMARC modules feature 4GB or 8GB LPDDR4 memory and 16GB flash by default (upgradeable up to 128GB), offer dual Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, and various interfaces exposed through a standard 314-pin MXM connector, including HDMI, DisplayPort, eDP, and MIPI DSI display interfaces, two MIPI CSI camera interfaces, two I2S audio interface, PCIe Gen2 x1, and more. Ezurio Tungsten 510/700 specifications: SoC (one or the other) MediaTek Genio 510 (MT8370) CPU – Hexa-core processor with 2x Arm Cortex-A78 core up to 2.2 GHz, 4x Cortex-A55 cores up to 2 GHz GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU VPU – 4Kp60 H.265, AV1, VP9, H.264 video decoding, 4Kp30 H.265 and H.264 video encoding Accelerators – Up to 3.2 […]

April 2, 2026April 3, 2026 by Debashis Das - No Comments

Nuvoton NuMicro M3331 Cortex-M33 MCU features built-in ARGB LED controller, optional USB 2.0 OTG interface

Nuvoton’s new NuMicro M3331 is a series of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 MCUs clocked at 180 MHz that integrate an ARGB LED controller, a DSP instruction set, a single-precision FPU, and TrustZone security for smart factories, renewable energy systems, and consumer devices. In the past, we have written about other Cortex-M33 MCUs like the STM32U3B5/C5, Texas Instruments MSPM33C321A, Nordic Semi’s nRF54LM20A, and various others, but the Nuvoton M3331 series specifically features a built-in Enhanced LED Light Strip Interface (ELLSI) and up to 10 standard LLSI channels. This allows the MCU to natively support gaming ARGB Gen1 and Gen2 LED control protocols, completely offloading the CPU to run fluid, dynamic LED effects. It comes in two variants, the M3333 series and the M3334 series, with the latter adding a high-speed USB 2.0 OTG controller with an integrated PHY. NuMicro M3331 specifications: MCU core – Arm Cortex-M33 32-bit CPU @ 180 MHz with single-precision […]