IEEE 802.1 TSN IP and software from TTTech Industrial now available packaged with selected Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is the IEEE 802.1 standard for deterministic packet transmission and handling over Ethernet networks. It is a set of evolving IEEE standards that support a mix of deterministic, real-time and best-effort traffic over fast Ethernet connections; provides precise time synchronization of network nodes using synchronized, distributed local clocks; and serves as the network foundation for smart factories, Industry 4.0, and Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. Intel is now offering special TSN versions of three Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs that include TTTech Industrial’s TSN Edge IP Solution with both an IP core and the embedded software required to build a TSN switch. There are no up-front license fees, no per-unit royalty reporting, and no protracted negotiations for the TTTech Industrial IP or software when the Cyclone V SoC FPGAs are purchased through Intel or its authorized distributors. Three Cyclone V SoC FPGAs are available packaged with the TTTech Industrial TSN Edge IP solution: Cyclone V SE SoC FPGA, U484 package (19mm), OPN: 5CSEBA6U19I7NTS Cyclone V SE SoC FPGA, U672 package (23mm), OPN: 5CSEBA6U23I7NTS Cyclone V SX SoC FPGA, U672 package (23mm), OPN: 5CSXFC6C6U23I7NTS For more details including ordering instructions, click here. For more information on implementing and using TSN in Intel FPGAs, see “Time Sensitive Networking: From Theory to Implementation in Industrial Automation.” Intel’s silicon and software portfolio empowers our customers’ intelligent services from the cloud to the edge. Notices and Disclaimers Your costs and results may vary. Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.FPGA-Based Cloaking and Security Tech Helps Protect Equipment on IT and OT Networks from the Bad Guys
You can’t attack what you can’t see, and cloaking technology for devices on Ethernet LANs is merely one of many protection layers implemented in Q-Net Security’s Q-Box to protect networked devices and transaction between these devices from cyberattacks. Other security technologies built into the Q-Box include encryption, authentication, and the use of different, randomly generated security keys created just in time for each transaction – called JITKeys – with no external key management. Adding security to a networked device is as simple as placing a small Q-Box between a protected device and its LAN using an extra RJ45 cable. Each Q-Box can protect as many as 2000 network endpoints, allowing operators to create protected LAN segments throughout a larger network. Connect the Q-Box to a WAN router and the protected LAN segments can be located anywhere in the world. You can use the Q-Box to protect a wide range of networked devices including: Servers and PCs on IT networks Financial equipment ranging from ATMs in banks to slot machines in casinos Equipment connected to Operational Technology (OT) networks in buildings, factories, refineries, and utilities including PLCs and other industrial controllers, lighting systems, security systems and cameras, and even robotic equipment The Q-Box can secure any device on an Ethernet LAN. The Q-Box works with all networked devices including legacy systems. Face it. Cyberspace is getting more dangerous every day. Need proof? Here are just a handful of recent cyberattacks: December, 2020: Hackers inserted malicious code into SolarWinds’ Orion software, exposing sensitive and critical data at top government agencies including parts of the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Treasury; corporations including systems Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, and Deloitte; and other organizations including the California Department of State Hospitals, and Kent State University. 1 February, 2021: A Hacker attempted to poison the drinking water supply for Oldsmar, Florida by dangerously increasing sodium hydroxide levels in the water. 2 March, 2021: Hackers compromised more than 150,000 security cameras located in gyms, jails, schools, hospitals, and factories. 3 May, 2021: The DarkSide Russian hacking group forced Colonial Pipeline to cut the connection between its IT and OT networks, shutting down the company’s 5500-mile pipeline for several days and causing massive gasoline shortages on the US east coast. 4 Q-Net implemented the secure technology inside of the Q-Box using the programmable hardware in an Intel® Cyclone® FPGA. The Q-Box provides access protection without requiring changes or additions to an endpoint’s legacy code and with no modifications to existing equipment. In addition, the FPGA-based hardware in the Q-Box does not require and does not permit software updates or patches from the network. The network security protection it supplies is immutable. Because it’s implemented in hardware on an FPGA, the Q-Box introduces only a few microseconds of network latency. For more information about Q-Net Security’s Q-Box, click here. Notices and Disclaimers “SolarWinds Hack Victims: From Tech Companies to a Hospital and University,” The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/solarwinds-hack-victims-from-tech-companies-to-a-hospital-and-university-11608548402 “A Hacker Tried to Poison a Florida City's Water Supply, Officials Say,” Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/oldsmar-florida-water-utility-hack/ “Hackers just pulled off one of the most mind-boggling hacks of 2021 so far,” BGR Media, https://bgr.com/tech/security-cameras-hacked-verkada-customers-exposed/ “Intel® Agilex® FPGAs target IPUs, SmartNICs, and 5G Networks,” https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/central-libraries/us/en/documents/agilex-fpgas-target-ipus-smartnics-5g-networks-white-paper.pdf Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.Win cash prizes in this year’s environmentally friendly, cloud connected InnovateFPGA design contest
InnovateFPGA contest sponsors – Terasic, Intel, Microsoft, Analog Devices, Arrow, Digi-Key, Mouser Electronics, and Macnica – invite ecologically minded teams to enter this year’s design contest to win cash prizes, medals, and fame. Competing teams will use the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit with Analog Devices plug-in cards and IoT cloud connections provided by Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to create design solutions that help to reduce the environmental impact and the demands that we place on the Earth’s resources. All submitted projects must be based on and make complete use of the Intel® Cyclone® V SoC FPGA in the Cloud Connectivity Kit. The Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit with an Analog Devices plug-in card and credits/limited-time access to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services will be provided at no cost to selected participating teams. Contest teams will demo their designs at regional finals and at the Grand Finale, to be held in San Jose, California on June 23, 2022. Click here for more information and to enter the InnovateFPGA contest. Technical proposals are due by September 30, 2021. For full contest rules, click here. Get details on the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit by clicking here. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit gets you from the Edge to Microsoft Azure IoT quickly
A new FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit developed by Terasic and Intel and based on the Intel® Cyclone® V SoC FPGA can get you from raw sensor data on the edge to Microsoft Azure IoT in the cloud quickly, with simple tools, simple templates, and open source design examples. Microsoft Azure IoT allows you to connect, monitor, and control billions of devices with speed and simplicity on a fully managed application platform. The FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit coupled with Microsoft Azure IoT allows you to meet tight market windows by developing smart, connected IoT designs that quickly integrate into the cloud. FPGAs bring several critical characteristics to IoT design including: Connectivity Deterministic Compute Safety Hardware-Level Flexibility Data Security Industrial-Grade Use Conditions Reliability Long Product Life Cycles There’s a free, four-module tutorial for this kit titled “Build, Deploy, and Manage your FPGA-Based IoT Edge Applications using Microsoft Azure” in the Intel Developer Zone. This step-by-step tutorial takes you through the process of connecting an FPGA-based edge device to the cloud, where edge data can be turned into actionable knowledge either by people or by AI. More in-depth information about the FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit is available in a 14-minute YouTube video titled “Build, Deploy and Manage Your FPGA-based IoT Edge Applications.” The FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit is available now from Mouser Electronics for $189. Click here for details. Notices and Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.How Exor International forged an Industry 4.0 Edge and Cloud Infrastructure out of more than 200 industrial automation protocols
By Exor International Exor International provides products and services that support the growing need for intelligence in industrial automation markets during the rapid, ongoing digital transformation and streamlining of nearly every industrial process in nearly every factory on the planet. The benefits of this transformation include: Reduced energy consumption Increased productivity and throughput Improved production quality Higher reliability levels and better uptime This market requires specialized products and services tailored to the real-time nature of the industrial automation business and Exor strives to meet those requirements with products closely adapted to those needs. Two significant examples include: The Exor Industrial Smart Edge Platform used for implementing smart Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) and HMI/controllers, edge controllers, and multiprotocol field gateways for industrial IoT (IIoT) networks The Corvina Cloud and Corvina Edge used for implementing network architectures optimized for industrial applications The Exor Industrial Smart Edge Platform employs Intel® Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs to bring a combination of real-time Linux and high-speed, FPGA-based response times to bring real-time response capabilities and secure, enterprise-class network connectivity to existing applications using more than 200 legacy industrial automation protocols. The continually evolving Industrial Smart Edge Platform incorporates an RTOS running on the Intel SoC FPGA’s internal multicore processor and implements EtherCAT functionality. It is extremely difficult to implement the real-time aspects of EtherCAT without an FPGA or other dedicated hardware to execute time-critical portions of the protocol. Similarly, the increasingly popular Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) protocol also requires the capabilities of an FPGA’s programmable logic to meet real-time protocol specifications. Further, the TSN specifications are still in development, they are still in flux, so an FPGA’s reprogrammability is extremely helpful for today’s TSN implementations. Exor’s Corvina Cloud and Corvina Edge IIoT networking platform allows the data generated by new or legacy products, plants, systems, and machines to be collected, processed, and analyzed to bring industry 4.0 benefits including asset performance management, predictive maintenance, and operational technology (OT) remote monitoring to a wide range industrial processes. Exor designed the Corvina Cloud and Corvina Edge Cluster with a solid infrastructure that permits automatic procedures to constantly monitor system state and to predict and warn of any detected issues. For example, an automatic object inspection (AOI) system might need to use a variety of equipment including linear cameras, colorimeters, image photometers, surface-brightness measurement sensors, contrast TFT measurement sensors, and other instruments to perform complex inspections of manufactured goods or even farm produce. Such an integrated system can perform inspections for surface uniformity, scratches, and blob or printing defects and can detect particles, fingerprints, contamination, or non-uniform surfaces. Each of these sensors generally employs different interface protocols and data formats. All of these can be handled by the Corvina platform and Corvina Edge devices. To help ensure overall network reliability, Exor has built a redundancy capability into its Corvina products. Corvina Edge devices can be twinned. If a Corvina Edge device operating as the primary unit in a twin configuration stops working, the twin secondary device can take over until the failed device can be replaced. The result is uninterrupted factory output. Exor’s gigaSOM platform is the computing element that implements a Corvina Edge node. The Exor gigaSOM teams a multicore Intel® Atom® E3930, E3940, or E3950 processor with an Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA. The Intel Cyclone 10 FPGA addresses the real-time needs of industrial automation requirements and the Intel Atom processor opens the door to a wide range of Intel-developed software that Exor has used for its own product development including: Edge Insights for Industrial Orchestrator (code named Castle Lake): A set of pre-integrated ingredients designed to accelerate the development and deployment of industrial solutions. The package is designed to be deployed on an edge device closest to data generation such as the tool or machine assembling a product. This package enables the ingestion of video and time-series data, storage of data, and data analysis for closed-loop control and networked reporting. Edge Control for Industrial (ECI): A suite of BitBake (make-build) recipes that can build custom real-time operating systems with virtualization capabilities, integrated industrial protocol support, CPU and kernel optimizations, and benchmarking tools for real-time applications. Edge Insights Software (EIS): An open, modular, and validated software package that ingests, processed, and stores time series data – such as image, video, or audio data – so that it can be subsequently processed by data analytics running in edge devices or in the cloud. Wireless TSN (WTSN): Provides time synchronization and time-aware traffic scheduling and shaping to create a low-latency, time-sensitive wireless network using WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 networks. WebAssembly (WASM) and SoftPLC: A reference kit that serves as a programmable automation controller (PAC) prototyping tool using a provided runtime engine and a WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR). Open Network Services Software (OpenNESS): An open-source software toolkit that enables easy orchestration and management of edge services across diverse network platforms in multi-cloud environments. Coreboot: A firmware platform that provides fast and secure boot capabilities for embedded platforms. In addition, Intel and its strategic IP partners offer a broad portfolio of configurable IP cores that are optimized for Intel® FPGAs. These many cores allow us to shrink development time by reusing proven, existing cores in our designs. We need only develop cores that are specific to our own requirements. Intel also provides FPGA-specific IP, such as the AI Deep Learning Acceleration (DLA) suite, which we expect to harness in future product revisions. Exor has benefitted from Intel’s help in many more ways that just the availability of an immense software and IP library and infrastructure. Intel continues to evolve its processor and FPGA products by constantly introducing more advanced semiconductor products, which allows Exor to do the same with its system-level industrial offerings. In addition, Intel has provided engineering and prompt technical support on an almost daily basis, which has been of tremendous help to Exor’s design team. Intel’s sales team has offered our solutions to its customers and has connected interested clients and partners to us. Exor and Intel have commonly promoted solutions at trade fairs and virtual events. As a result, we have already established important cooperative relationships with Intel’s partners and throughout the broader Intel ecosystem. For more information about Exor International and its products, click here or contact Exor International directly. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Code names are used by Intel to identify products, technologies, or services that are in development and not publicly available. These are not "commercial" names and not intended to function as trademarks. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Free Webinar: Unlock the Benefits of Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) with FPGAs in Industrial Applications
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) – the evolving set of IEEE standards that support a mix of deterministic, real-time and best-effort traffic over fast Ethernet connections – provides precise time synchronization of network nodes using synchronized, distributed local clocks. It’s increasingly being used for smart factories, Industry 4.0, and Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. If you want to build TSN into your equipment designs, Intel® FPGAs are a good choice. Looking for an easy way to wade into the topic? Intel and Arrow have you covered with a free Webinar titled: “Unlock the Benefits of Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) with FPGAs in Industrial Applications,” presented by Dr. Joshua Levine from Intel and Dr. Patrick Loschmidt from TTTech. The Webinar covers: What TSN is and how it works The Open Platform Communications (OPC) Unified Architecture (UA) How TSN can be used for Industrial Automation and other applications The Intel TSN offering Detailed look at TSN solutions based on Intel FPGAs The Webinar kicks off on October 19, but even if you can’t make that date and time, register anyway and you’ll get access to a recording of the presentation so that you can watch at your convenience. Register here. For more information about TSN and Intel FPGAs, see “IEEE 802.1 TSN IP and software from TTTech Industrial now available packaged with selected Cyclone® V SoC FPGAs.” Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.Full-day virtual event discusses embedded edge processing using EXOR’s tiny GigaSOM, based on a multicore Intel® Atom® SoC and an Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA
EXOR Embedded, Intel, and Arrow are conducting a full-day, online event on July 21 to familiarize you with the EXOR GigaSOM gS01, a small system on module (SOM) measuring 81.6 x 54 mm (3.2 x 2.1 inches), that combines the processing capabilities of a multicore Intel® Atom® SoC with an Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX FPGA. The EXOR GigaSOM is available with 2- or 4-core Intel Atom processors, either 85K or 220K logic elements in the Intel Cyclone 10 GX FPGA, as much as 8 Gbytes of LPDDR4 SDRAM dedicated to the Intel Atom processor and as much as 2 GBytes of DDR3 SDRAM for the FPGA. That’s a lot of embedded processing capability in a fairly compact package. The EXOR GigaSOM also bristles with interconnect capability including six USB 2.0 ports; two USB 3.0 ports; two SATA3 ports; a Gigabit Ethernet port; two PCIe ports; and a collection of I2C, SPI, CAN, and UART ports. Both Linux and Android BSPs are available for the EXOR GigaSOM. The day-long virtual event being held on July 21 consists of three Webinars, including one dedicated to the EXOR GigaSOM and its use for embedded edge, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 projects. The virtual event starts at 9 am CET (Central European Time). Click here for more information and to register for the event. Intel’s silicon and software portfolio empowers our customers’ intelligent services from the cloud to the edge. Notices & Disclaimers Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy. Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.See the explosive intersection of Intel® FPGAs, Intel® CPUs, and ProAV digital video in action at ISE 2020 next month in Amsterdam
Now that ProAV has gone completely digital and must deal with high-quality, high bandwidth, low-latency, uncompressed and compressed video workloads, Intel’s corporate, data-centric mantra clearly applies: Move data faster, efficiently store and access data, and process everything You’ll be able to see this mantra in action in the Intel booth (#8-C210) at next month’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2020 show in Amsterdam. ISE is the world’s largest AV and systems integration tradeshow with 1300 exhibitors, many thousands of products on display, and 80,000 attendees from 190 countries. The Intel booth will contain several significant demos including: A real-time, video-based, traffic-tracking demo by Corerain that collects statistics on the people observed in the Intel booth at the show. The demo determines the number of people in the booth and the average time spent per person in each booth zone. There are obvious applications for this technology in both the retail environment and for security applications. This demo showcases the Corerain CAISA AI inference engine (for more information, see “Corerain’s CAISA stream engine transforms FPGA into Deep Learning Neural Network without HDL coding”) running on an IEI TANK-AIoT Dev Kit, which includes a IEI fanless industrial PC based on an Intel® Core™ i5 processor and a pre-installed copy the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO® toolkit, developed specifically to aid in the development of vision-based solutions and compatible with a range of Intel® CPUs, Intel® GPUs, Intel® FPGAs, and the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick. An Inspur PAC A10 programmable accelerator card – which is based on an Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA – is plugged into one of the PC’s PCIe slots. It provides a real-time acceleration platform for the Corerain CAISA AI inference engine. A highly responsive, large-format, 46-inch interactive flat panel display (IFPD) based on SigmaSense® technology, which provides superior touch performance compared to existing solutions. This display demonstrates full concurrency for self-capacitive, mutual-capacitive sensing. The company’s SigmaDrive™ concurrent drive and sense technology provides ultra-low-latency and achieves industry-leading signal-to-noise (SNR) by implementing real-time computational functions with five Intel® Cyclone® V SoCs. The demo’s IFPD communicates with a host PC based on an Intel® Core processor. The PC runs a variety of touch-enabled applications that integrate SigmaVision™ capacitive imaging functionality. The interactive SigmaSense touch technology accommodates screen sizes up to and beyond 100 inches (diagonally) and reduces the time needed for sensor tuning – an often tedious task that can require weeks of engineering work – to minutes. This touch technology works through water, gloves, or thick glass and is well suited for interactive tabletops and outdoor and retail interactive digital signage. An Ibase SP-63E 8K/12K Digital Signage Player that uses an Intel Core processor and three Intel Arria 10 FPGAs to display video from a media player based on an Intel® NUC Mini PC on a large mosaic of HD displays. Together, the Intel Core processor and the three Intel Arria 10 FPGAs process the video, scale it, slice it, and distribute it in real time to a large video wall constructed with twelve 1080p60 HDMI display panels. Large video walls are well suited to retail, enterprise, and educational environments and anywhere else that needs large, attention-getting digital signage. ISE 2020 takes place in Amsterdam on February 11-14. Legal Notices and Disclaimers: Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Results have been estimated or simulated using internal Intel analysis, architecture simulation and modeling, and provided to you for informational purposes. Any differences in your system hardware, software or configuration may affect your actual performance. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should review this content, consult other sources, and confirm whether referenced data are accurate. Cost reduction scenarios described are intended as examples of how a given Intel- based product, in the specified circumstances and configurations, may affect future costs and provide cost savings. Circumstances will vary. Intel does not guarantee any costs or cost reduction. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Altera is a trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Cyclone is a trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.