The Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) market is expected to reach over $130B in the next five years. Driven by the rise in construction globally, plus refurbishment of homes and businesses, the demand to put in new units is increasing rapidly. Smarter equipment with more sensors, higher efficiency, reliability and ease of maintenance are priorities for new designs. As with most rapidly growing electronics markets, the need for fast turnaround of embedded systems designs while maintaining cost controls and increasing features is critical to a strong go to market strategy. Increasingly these systems also need be configured and controlled based on information being received in real time. In order to keep up with the rapid rate at which technology is transforming the HVAC industry, design engineers need a flexible platform on which they can spend time developing the features that make their application unique and efficient, and not have to channel valuable resources into tedious complexities such as power management and DDR routing. They also need reliable, open source hardware and software design tools. The OSD335x-SM System in Package based on the TI AM335x, is the perfect solution as it provides engineers the solid foundation that they need. With the availability of low cost development tools, such as PocketBeagle® from BeagleBoard.org®, rapid prototyping HVAC features is easy. (Read More…)
Having a full Linux computer, such as the OSD335x System in Package (SiP), the size of a coin enables abundant creativity when designing new IoT applications. The global health sensors market is in the billions and increasing at a rapid rate. When a market changes that quickly, designers need a flexible platform so they can spend time on the features they want to add. They also need reliable, open source hardware and software design tools. Therefore, the OSD335x-SM SiP, the smallest Texas Instruments AM335x module available, gives a solid foundation to build a health monitor.
Austin, TX (September 27, 2018) – Octavo Systems, the leader in System-in-Package (SiP) technology, announced today, the most completely integrated 1GHz Arm® Cortex®-A8 computing platform, the OSD335x C-SiP™. The OSD335x C-SiP (Complete System-In-Package) integrates the required components for a computing system into a single IC package that is about the size of a standard Lego block. The newest addition to the OSD335x family, the OSD335x C-SiP is a complete system containing:
Due to its openness, flexibility, and tremendous community support and development, Linux has become the operating system of choice for most new embedded systems. Be it Industrial control systems, robotics applications, or IoT devices, Linux distributions pull together drivers, utilities, libraries, and application software that reduce time to market and development costs. However, the challenge with Linux is:
How does one get started using Linux on a new Embedded System?
You’re busy. We get it. You ask: Do I really have time to learn about Linux? You don’t have time NOT to. 8 reasons why MCU users love switching to Linux on OSD335x :
1. Code is written while you sleep
The software libraries and device drivers for Linux are supported by a huge open-source community that stretches around the globe with thousands of passionate programmers and developers. This means that device drivers and software libraries, like OpenCV, an image processing library, or the TCP/IP stack, a complete set of networking protocols, are already available for most hardware components in your design. Even with new hardware that has just hit the market, there is a good chance that someone has already started developing or has developed the software you need. It is like having your own world-wide team of software developers.
2. A friend has started your hardware design for you
Developers can now rapidly prototype with the OSD3358 System-in-Package (SiP) using BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® and MikroElektronika click boards™. This blog will describe the procedure for interfacing a new click board™ with PocketBeagle® using the OLED-C click board™ as an example. BeagleBoard.org® is a 501c3 Foundation focused on education. PocketBeagle® is a completely open source, highly affordable super tiny single board computer featuring the OSD335x-SM SiP. One of the most exciting things about the BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® is that is conforms to the standard of the MikroElektronika mikroBUS™ click boards™.
There is a Hackster.io project page with the instructions for you to follow along, download the code and build your own project with this great learning platform. We’ve also added a Hackster.io project page with full instructions to build, test and add device tree overlays to BeagleBoard. org® bb.org community repository for click boards™ if you are adding a new one. (Read More…)
For my first post as a part of Octavo Systems, I am pleased to inform you that we have started our journey toward validating our Best-in-Class organization by becoming ISO9001: 2015 certified. The International Standards Organization (ISO) that provides this certification is an independent, non-governmental organization of over 160 standards bodies.
From its inception, Octavo Systems has focused on delivering the highest quality products and services to our customers. We have built a team with deep industry experience and knowledge across every part of the organization, including the Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Applications, Packaging, Operations, and Manufacturing Departments. We are also partnered with Best-in-Class manufacturing organizations from around the world, which are already ISO certified. Octavo Systems does this to provide our customers, suppliers, and partners the best possible experience when working with us (Read More…)
The application engineering team at Octavo Systems is always looking for cool ways to showcase the distinct and creative ways our devices can be used. Recently, we built a tweeting Rubik’s cube solver to showcase some of the IoT and industrial control capabilities of the OSD335x Family of System-in-Package(SiP) devices. It was amazing how easy it was to give the robot a voice and allow it to talk to the world via social media. So, we decided to explore more IoT capabilities the OSD335x Family of devices can implement without a lot of development overhead. This time, we wanted to incorporate human interaction into the device. What better opportunity than to explore America’s favorite IoT phenomenon, Alexa. So, we whipped out a BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® and got to work. Though our vision for this IoT project is bigger than just implementing Amazon’s Alexa voice service on the PocketBeagle, this is a good place to take a break and showcase a simple step by step way to get your PocketBeagle to be a “man’s best friend” personal assistant. Check out the Hackster.io page for the steps.(Read More…)
Our engineering team has been hard at work developing some new products that we will be announcing soon. In the meantime I wanted to take some time to explain our product development philosophy and how that influences the products that we currently have and our Roadmap products.
System Integration Company
At our heart, Octavo Systems is a Systems Integration company. We utilize System-In-Package technology to create modular building blocks that help system designers do their jobs. Our products abstract away tedious and complex tasks the designer is forced to spend time on but don’t really add any value to the end system.
Take the DDR3 in our OSD335x device. Routing DDR is a notoriously difficult and time-consuming task that at the end of the day doesn’t differentiate your product from the next one. The OSD335x integrates the DDR3 and takes care of the routing for you. This means you don’t have to waste your time doing something that just needs to work. Designing with the OSD335x allows you to spend more time on the features that make your product unique.
This is the overarching principal behind our products. We integrate the tedious time-consuming parts of system design so you can focus on what differentiates your product.
With the introduction of Siri, Cortana, Alexa and other voice based personal assistants; communicating with computers using voice has become the order of the day. Voice communication also makes things more intuitive and definitely cooler. People have been using various versions of electronic speech synthesis since the 1950’s and it has come a long way since our Founder, Gene Frantz helped develop the Speak & Spell, utilizing the first single-chip voice synthesizer. However, the most famous Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesizer was used by the great scientist, Stephen Hawking, starting in the late 1980’s as a result of degradation of his natural abilities from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Dr Hawking’s synthesizer went silent this month, and the scientific community for speech synthesis and many other areas are grateful for his tremendous contributions.
Since TTS technology has matured, many resources are available including open source libraries like eSpeak and Flite that can be easily incorporated into projects. This article helps you install and use TTS synthesizers for any board using the OSD335x family.
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