The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed Missing Link Electronics the US Patent 11,695,708 for Deterministic Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport a technology that finds a wide range of application in automotive networking, factory automation and robotics, and 5G Radio campus networks.
June 13-15 2023, MLE attends AMD’s Authorized Training Provider and Premier Partner (ATP) Summit and, together with fellow partner Trenz Electronic GmbH, will demo a 40 GigE SD-WAN Customer Premise Equipment solution which runs MLE’s Full System Stack for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Deterministic Networking on Trenz Electronic’s System-on-Modules (SoM) featuring AMD FPGAs.
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH in Stadtroda, Germany, has worked with Missing Link Electronics (MLE) to integrate and to optimize MLE NPAP, the TCP/UDP/IP Full Accelerator Stack from Fraunhofer HHI, into a series next-generation camera products. NPAP, the TCP/IP Full Accelerator from Fraunhofer HHI, provides TCP connectivity in accordance with the GigE Vision standard.
For more than 30 years, Allied Vision Technologies GmbH has been helping people to reach their imaging goals. Allied Vision supplies camera technology and image capture solutions for industrial inspection, medical and scientific imaging, traffic monitoring, and many more application areas in digital imaging. With a deep understanding of customers’ needs, Allied Vision finds individual solutions for every application, a practice which has made Allied Vision one of the leading camera manufacturers worldwide in the machine vision market. The company has nine locations in Germany, Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China and is represented by a network of sales partners in over 30 countries.
For more information about the Advantages of Using TCP for GigE Vision Devices please read this White Paper.
MLE has updated NPAP, the Network Protocol Accelerator Platform based on Fraunhofer HHI’s TCP/UDP/IP stack for ASIC and FPGA. Work includes enhancements for performance and interoperability when connecting to Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 TCP stacks. And, in close collaboration with Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group, NPAP was optimized for HyperFlex2 in new Agilex FPGAs. Intel HyperFlex and HyperFlex2 can significantly increase performance via Hyper-Retiming, Hyper-Pipelining and Hyper-Optimizations while avoiding “bloating” the FPGA design.
5G Radio addresses machine-type communication with low energy demands. 5G Edge Clouds reduce processing latency by bringing extra compute close to the “edge”. To be cost efficient, Edge Cloud systems are implemented following modern datacenter technology, such as NVMe. MLE demonstrates an “NVMe-over-5G” implementation, based on MLE’s PCIe Long-Range Tunnel, along with a methodology for detailed latency analysis of 5G URLLC networks. MLE actively contributes to the 6G Platform Germany, an R&D initiative with a total funding of €700 million.
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Berlin has always been a hot-bed for research and development of new communication technologies. BMBF funded Project 6G-ICAS4Mobility along with the German Platform for Future Communication Technologies and 6G (6G Platform) is one of those many examples. To deepen collaboration between MLE and partners at Technical University Berlin, Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Fraunhofer HHI and Fraunhofer Focus, MLE has opened R&D offices at the Schindler Innovation Campus in Berlin.
The AMD-Xilinx Security Working Group takes place face-to-face in Munich, Germany, from December 6-7, 2022. Presentations include the latest security features in Versal ACAP and updates for the product roadmap.
MLE, a Premier AMD-Xilinx Alliance Member, will participate and present its security solutions for ARM OP-TEE and for hardening AMD-Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC based systems when used in datacenter networking and telecommunications.
Advanced Driver-Assist Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) functions require a challeging combination of of compute performance and energy efficiency, especially when deployed in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV).
MLE has joined research initiative “Central Car Server (CeCaS)” to advance MLE’s PCIe connectivity solutions based on PCIe NTB (Non-Transparent Bridging), PCIe ISB (Inter Systems Bridge), PCIe Long-Range Tunnel along with partners Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden, Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, AVL Software and Functions GmbH, Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Infineon Technologies Semiconductor GmbH, Swissbit Germany AG, Kernkonzept GmbH, Ambrosys GmbH, STTech GmbH, Berliner Nanotest und Design GmbH, Glück Engineering GmbH, INCHRON AG, emmtrix Technologies GmbH, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik in Karlsruhe, Lübeck University, TU München, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München, TU Chemnitz, Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Wärmemanagement in der Elektronik (ZFW), Fraunhofer ENAS, Fraunhofer IPMS, Fraunhofer IMWS, Fraunhofer IZM.
The “CeCaS” research project will investigate heterogeneous architectures and supercomputing for automotive and autonomous vehicles and is funded with 88.2 Mio Euros by the Research Initiative MANNHEIM from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).