If you have ever wanted to implement a RISC-V CPU core in about 600 lines of C, you’re in luck! [mnurzia]’s rv project does exactly that, providing a simple two-function API. Technicall…

The Milk-V Duo is a small RISC-V embedded platform capable of running Linux and RTOS. The low-cost device features up to 26x GPIOs, optional 10/100Mbps Ethernet support and integrated with a H.264/...

We’re no stranger to homemade CPUs on these pages, but we think that [Jiri Stepanovsky]’s 16-bit serial CPU might be a little special. Why? It has an astonishingly low chip count, with …

Milk-V recently released specifications for the Milk-V Vega which is described as the first RISC-V 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch implemented on the FSL1030M network switch chip. The company also...

We always think of [Scott Manley] as someone who knows a lot about rockets. So, if you think about it, it isn’t surprising he’s talking about GPS — after all, the system uses sate…

HackBat is an open-source hardware pen-testing device designed for hackers and makers and equipped with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, an ESP8266

OpenWrt 23.05 open-source Linux operating system for routers and resource-constrained headless embedded systems has just been released with over 4300

If you have software-defined radio hardware and you are only using someone elses’ software, you are missing out on half of the fun. [Tech Minds] shows you how easy it can be to roll your own …

With the ever increasing number of applications involving video processing, AI or edge computing the appetite for suitably skilled FPGA Engineers has never been higher from the market...

WCH has announced Arduino support for their RISC-V microcontrollers such as the 10 cents WCH32V003 or the features-rich WCH32V307 MCUs.

Soft cores for FPGAs come in many different flavors, covering a wide range of applications. The Bit-Serial CPU (bcpu) soft core presented by [Richard James Howe] is interesting for taking up just a…

If your thought repurposing DVB-T dongles for generic software defined radio (SDR) use was cool, wait until you see QCSuper, a project that re-purposes phones and modems to capture raw 2G/3G/4G/5G.…

In my last post, C to C++: Using Abstract Interfaces to Create Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL), I discussed how vital hardware abstraction layers are and how to use a C++ abstract interface to...

QEMU 9.0 open-source emulator just came out the other day, and it brings on board major updates and improvements to Arm, RISC-V, HPPA, LoongArch, and QEMU 9.0 brings on board major updates and...

One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is ou…

The Milk-V Duo S is another tiny Single Board Computer that combines the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture with the widely used ARM architecture. This dual-core design offers flexibil...

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-C6-DEV-KIT-N8, a versatile development board equipped with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, and IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee 3.0 and Thread) wireless capabilities. This board offers...

The Libre Computer Solitude AML-S905D3-CC is a cost-effective Single Board Computer designed for supporting upstream AI and neuro-computing. Compatible with SystemReady IR operating systems, it...

The Milk-V Duo 256M features SG2002 SoC, Arm, RISC-V, 8051, has 256MB RAM, 1 TOPS NPU, microSD slot, camera & USB-C ports, plus GPIO headers.

With Tiny Tapeout 6, you can design your custom ICs, get them fabricated, and then receive them on a development board, all for only $300.

Espressif's ESP32-P4 SoC lacks built-in radio but features a 400MHz RISC-V CPU, AI extensions, and peripherals for AI and edge computing.

In the vast majority of cases, running a Linux-based operating system involves a pretty powerful processor with a lot of memory on hand, and perhaps most importantly, a memory management unit, or M…

These days it’s hard to not come across solid-state (micro-electromechanical systems, MEMS) microphones, as they are now displacing electret microphones almost everywhere due to their small s…

M5Stack M5Dial is a WiFi and Bluetooth-connected smart rotary knob with a round 1.28-inch touchscreen TFT display powered by an ESP32-S3 board, more

With a simple firmware update, Kaluma puts a lightweight JavaScript runtime on the Raspberry Pi Pico (which uses the RP2040 microcontroller), providing handy modules for file systems, graphics, net…

A new BeagleBoard is on the way, full of FPGA hotness: the BeagleV-Fire has been announced. The new $150 Single-Board Computer (SBC) from the pioneering open source BeagleBoard company is built aro…

Microchip now offers a Flash-based microcontroller with an integrated programmable-logic block for less than half a dollar in volume. The nine members of the Microchip PIC16F13145 family (the ‘113,...

The ULN2003 IC is an extremely versatile part, and with the help of [Hulk]’s deep dive, you might just get some new ideas about how to use this part in your own projects. Inside the ULN2003 y…

Espressif ESP32-C5 beta board with dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, Zigbee 3.0, and Thread 1.3 connectivity has shown up in a user manual.

Radxa’s ZERO 3W is an ultra-small single board computer with high-performance capabilities. Based on the Rockchip RK3566 and supporting Wi-Fi6 / BT 5.4, this compact device is designed to cater to a...

Conceptually, radar is pretty simple: send out a radio wave and time how long it takes to get back via an echo. However, in practice, there are a number of trade-offs to consider. For example, prod…

MYIR launched this month an industrial development platform based on the Xilinx XC7Z010/20 System-on-Chip. The base board supports up to 3x Gigabit ports, CAN interfaces and other flexible peripher...

Sipeed introduced today a new development board with a Gowin FPGA chip with 23K LUT4 and multiple other interfaces. The modular Tang Primer 25K is also compatible with various PMOD modules to develop...

Hitag transponders have been used in a wide variety of car keys as a protective measure against hot-wiring and theft. They’re also a reason why it’s a lot more expensive to get car keys…

LILYGO T-Deck is a development kit with an ESP32-S3 WiFi and BLE module, a 2.8-inch display with touchscreen support, a Blackberry-like keyboard based on

The Luckfox Pico Mini is a low-cost Linux micro development board equipped with a Rockchip RV1103. This tiny embedded platform integrates an ARM Cortex-A7 along with a 0.5 TOPS NPU, third generation...

When starting a new project for an embedded product, one of the most important decisions you will make, in addition to choosing the right System on Module, is choosing the most suitable operating...

Japanese company Yuridenki-Shokai Co. Ltd will soon launch the Kaki Pi single board computer based on the just-announced Renesas RZ/V2H Arm microprocessor

The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-C6 IoT Development Board is an IoT board with ESP32-C6, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, and solar charging, for smart homes.

Thunderbolt has always been a functionally proprietary technology, held secret by Intel until “opening” the standard in a way that evidently wasn’t enough for anyone to meaningful…

We’ve seen quite a few DIY 2G networks over the years, but the 4G field has been relatively barren. Turns out, there’s an open source suite called srsRAN that lets you use an SDR for se…

WeAct STM32G4 is a tiny development board based on a 170 MHz STMicro STM32G4 Arm Cortex-M4F mixed-signal microcontroller with DSP instructions and

Banana Pi BPI-F3 Development Board features an 8-core K1 chip, 16GB RAM, and a 2.0 TOPs NPU, in accordance with the RISC-V RVA22 standards.

CrowdSupply featured today the new AntSDR E200 software-defined radio (SDR) educational platform optimized for applications involving Wi-Fi, GSM, LTE and other wireless solutions. The product page...

The Mini Pini is a Wi-Fi 6 radio module designed to meet the challenges of demanding wireless environments. This product leverages Qualcomm’s advanced QCN9074/72 chipset, ensuring efficient and...

Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.9 on LKML: So Thorsten is still reporting a few regression fixes that haven't made it to me yet,

This article examines how to disable unused drivers and devices in Linux , followed by examples of a Ti AM625 based System on Module. Read now.

Efinix Titanium Ti375 SoC combines high-density, low-power Quantum compute fabric with a quad-core hardened 32-bit RISC-V block and features a LPDDR4 DRAM

If you have three hours and you want to learn the fundamentals of semiconductors, [Tiny Tapeout] has something for you: An introduction to SiliWiz. You’ll also need the SiliWiz software (or u…

Radxa NIO 12L is a low-profile single board computer (SBC) based on the MediaTek Genio 1200 octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 SoC with a 4 TOPS NPU that got Ubuntu

Pimoroni and the University of Sheffield unveil unPhone: an open-source IoT platform centered on ESP32-S3. Designed to simplify tasks.

We've seen many Arm-based system-on-modules following the Raspberry Pi CM4 form factor, but we've now got a RISC-V one courtesy of the Milk-V Mars CM CPU

Cheap Black Bill board clone features 240 MHz Artery AT32 / AT32F4) Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller with Arduino and C programming support.

The ESP32-PICO-KIT-1 development board from Espressif Systems is built around a System-in-Package module which encompasses extensive Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities. Along with a variety of pins for...

The Linux 6.6 release has just been announced by Linus Torvalds on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): So this last week has been pretty calm, and I

The Radxa Zero 3E is a compact single-board computer that features the low-power Rockchip RK3566 System-on-Chip. This device features up to 8GB RAM, a microSD card slot, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE...

LILYGO new compact T-Display-S3 variant with a colorful AMOLED display. As other recent LILYGO products, this versatile development board is powered by a ESP32-S3 with wireless capabilities, up to...

BeagleV-Fire is a new single board computer powered by Microchip PolarFire MPFS025T penta-core RISC-V SoC FPGA that follows the BeagleBone Black form

Sipeed has launched another FPGA board part of their Tang family with the Tang Mega 138K Pro Dock powered by a GOWIN GW5AST SoC with 138K logic elements

The Intel 8088 is an interesting chip, being a variant of the more well-known 8086. Given the latter went on to lend its designation to one of the world’s favorite architectures, you can tell…

Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, …

Banana Pi recently provided details about a new Single Board Computer with Pico ITX form-factor and built around the Rockchip RK3588 quad-core processor, Arm Mali-G610 Graphics Processing Unit and a...

Sipeed has unveiled 3 RISC-V platforms: the Lichee Cluster 4A cluster, the Lichee Pad 4A 10.1-inch RISC-V tablet and the Lichee Console 4A

These days, when it comes to GPS devices the antenna is typically part of the package. But what better opportunity for [Pepijn] to learn how to make a GPS antenna from scratch for a badge add-on? A…

The Raspberry Pi 5 was recently introduced with the Broadcom BCM2712 CPU and the RP1 chip handling I/Os designed in-house by the Raspberry Pi just like

LECTRONZ has recently featured the CH32V003 USB Development Board which was designed to provide developers and enthusiasts with a versatile and compact platform for RISC-V microcontroller experimen...

(Updated) Radxa previews ZERO 3E Single Board Computer with GbE port

Last week, Avalue launched an Intel Atom motherboard optimized for industrial and commercial applications such as gaming, retail, digital signage, etc. The EMX-EHLP supports up to 4x 2.5GbE LAN...

MaaXBoard OSM93 is a single board computer (SBC) based on a Size-S OSM module powered by an NXP i.MX 93 Cortex-M55/M33 AI SoC and offered in a business

AnalogLamb recently featured a new development platform powered by the Kendryte K230 chip which incorporates two RISC-V C908 cores and a new generation Knowledge Process Unit for AI computing. The...

The modern cellular network is a marvel of technological advancement that we often take for granted now. With 5G service it’s easy to do plenty of things on-the-go that would have been diffic…

Firefly ROC-RK3588-RT is a Rockchip RK3588(J) SBC suitable for networking applications such as routers and firewalls thanks to one 2.5GbE port and two

MYIR launched yesterday a low-cost CPU Module based on the Allwinner T113-i designed for entry-level HMI and embedded applications with video capabilities. The compatible carrier board includes...

Noni Radio Module with Qualcomm’s Chipsets for WiFi-7 Connectivity

LicheeRV Nano is an inexpensive, tiny camera and display board running Linux on SG2002 RISC-V/Arm AI SoC with optional WiFi 6 or/and Ethernet.

The Starlink receivers need positioning and precise timing information to function, and currently the best way to get that information is to use a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) such as …

Waveshare recently introduced the ESP32-H2-DEV-KIT-N4, a compact and versatile microcontroller development board equipped with essential connectivity features like Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth....

More Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W lookalikes are coming to market, as after the Allwinner H618-based Orange Pi Zero 2W, the Radxa Zero 3W has now been introduced

The Mini Pini emerges as a cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6 radio module engineered to effectively tackle the challenges of demanding wireless environments. Leveraging Qualcomm's advanced QCN9074/72 chipset,...

The team at Circuit Digest has designed a low-cost DIY drone controlled by an ESP32 module, based on a custom PCB and off-the-shelf parts that costs

Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it is today. The Linux kernel alone is almost single-handedly holding up the entire Internet, and various other open-s…

The Raspberry Pi line is full of capable compact computers, but they’ve never been the strongest in the bunch when it comes to graphical output. Nor have they been particularly expandable in …

[Grug Huhler] built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to extend it a bit to be a full-blown software defined radio (SDR). He then used WSJT-X to monitor FT8 signals and…

The Commodore 64 has been pulled apart, reverse engineered, replicated, and improved upon to no end over the last four decades or so. The Amiga 500 has had less attention, in part due to its greate…

Diode, essential in electronics, range from P-N junctions for AC to DC conversion, to Zener for voltage stability, and LEDs for lighting., essential in electronics, range from P-N junctions for AC to...

Sipeed has just sent me a "Lichee Console 4A portable RISC-V development terminal" for review. It's a quad-core RISC-V mini laptop based on the Alibaba

Highlights: New STM32MP2 MPUs with 64-bit processing and edge AI acceleration Built for speed, security, and...

The Teflon project is an open-source TensorFlow Lite delegate that currently supports VeriSilicon Vivante NPU and aims to support several other AI

Waveshare has unveiled two new boards based on the ESP32-S3, each equipped with 4G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth capabilities. Additionally, these boards support 18650 batteries and come with a camera...

Sipeed MaixCAM is an AI camera based on SOPHGO SG2002 RISC-V (and Arm, and 8051) SoC with a 1 TOPS NPU that takes up to 5MP camera modules and comes with

The Milk-V Duo S is another compact SBC powered by the SOPHON SG2000 Dual-Core RV64 Processor....

Every now and then there’s a part that comes along which is hotly anticipated, but which understandably its manufacturer remains tight-lipped about in order to preserve maximum impact surroun…

Waveshare's ESP32-H2-DEV-KIT-N4: 96MHz RISC-V, 320KB ROM, 128KB SRAM, 4MB Flash, Zigbee 3.0, Thread, BLE, for smart-homes and industrial app.

Hitek Systems eSOM5C-Ex is a compact embedded System-on-Module (SOM) based on the mid-range Intel Agilex 5 SoC FPGA E-Series and a pin-to-pin compatible

The LuckFox Pico Pro/Max is a cost-effective Linux micro development board designed for hobbyists and developers. Centered around the Rockchip RV1106 chip, this board can be used for smart home...

The JAGUAR is a Single-Board Computer featuring the high-end RK3588 processor and designed to speed up applications that involve robotics, SLAM and obstacle detection. This SBC also supports the...

52Pi's N04 and N05 NVMe M.2 SSD HATs for Raspberry Pi 5 support sizes 2230-2280 with Gen 3 speeds, cooling vents, and gold-plated PCB.