AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in Linux 6.18
AAEON announced that its UP Squared series now enjoys full mainline Linux support for the 40‑pin Raspberry Pi‑compatible GPIO header in kernel 6.18, ending reliance on an out‑of‑tree DKMS driver. The upstream effort, led with Bootlin, rewrote the driver stack to use generic gpiolib, MFD, LED, and a new GPIO forwarder library. Earlier attempts were blocked by Intel‑specific pin‑control code, but the revised patches were accepted after multiple iterations. The change delivers native kernel integration for Intel‑based edge boards.
Fanless Factor 101 Arrives with Qualcomm QCS6490 and 10GbE Networking
OnLogic has unveiled the Factor 101, a compact fan‑less industrial edge system built around Qualcomm’s QCS6490 platform. The device packs an 8‑core Kryo 670 CPU up to 2.1 GHz, 8 GB LPDDR4x memory, 128 GB UFS storage and an integrated AI inference accelerator. Connectivity includes...
ESP32 Bus Pirate Update Adds RF Tools, USB Host Mode, Signal Analysis, and Cellular Plans
The ESP32 Bus Pirate, an ESP32‑S3 based debugging platform, received a major firmware update adding extensive protocol support, signal‑analysis tools, and new hardware compatibility. The release introduces a profile system, a Wizard pin‑activity analyzer, enhanced UART features with auto‑detection and...
BPI-R4 Pro Router Board Delivers MT7988A SoC with Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Capability
Banana Pi has launched the BPI‑R4 Pro router board, built on MediaTek’s MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad‑core Cortex‑A73 SoC and supporting tri‑band Wi‑Fi 7. The board ships in two configurations – an 8 GB DDR4 “8X” model with dual 10 G SFP+ ports and a 4 GB DDR4...
Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2
The $99 BeaglePlay single‑board computer now boasts a fully upstream PowerVR Rogue GPU driver in the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa. This integration brings native Vulkan 1.2 support to the device, which is built on Texas Instruments' AM625 SoC featuring a...
Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial Linux with TI Sitara AM62x
Ezurio unveiled the Carbon AM62 system‑on‑module, a 45 × 30 mm OSM‑MF v1.2 board built around TI’s Sitara AM623/AM625 processors. The module packs a quad‑core Cortex‑A53 up to 1.4 GHz, alongside Cortex‑M4F, Cortex‑R5F and a dual‑core PRU for real‑time tasks, and offers optional Imagination...
Bit-Brick K1 Pro Adds 6 TOPS NPU and Dual NVMe to Compact SBC
Bit‑Brick has launched the K1 Pro single‑board computer, built on Rockchip’s RK3576 processor and equipped with a 6 TOPS INT8 neural‑processing unit. The board adds dual M.2 Key M slots for NVMe SSDs, HDMI 2.1 4K 120 fps output, and up to 8 GB LPDDR4X memory. Pricing starts...
XSDR Packs 2×2 MIMO, Artix-7 FPGA, and 3.8 GHz Tuning Into M.2 2230 Form Factor
The xSDR is a compact M.2 2230 A+E‑key SDR module that combines a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M transceiver with an AMD Artix‑7 FPGA. It delivers 2×2 MIMO RX/TX across a 30 MHz‑3.8 GHz range and supports both USB 2.0 and PCIe 2.0 ×2 host interfaces. Designed for laptops,...
Radxa Cubie A7S Integrates A733 SoC, RISC-V MCU, and LPDDR5 Memory
Radxa unveiled the Cubie A7S, a 51 × 51 mm single‑board computer powered by the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board pairs dual Cortex‑A76 cores with six Cortex‑A55 cores, LPDDR5 memory up to 16 GB, and an integrated 3 TOPS NPU for edge‑AI workloads. It also...
Cangaroo Open-Source CAN Bus Analyzer Supports SocketCAN and CAN-FD on Linux
Cangaroo is an open‑source CAN bus analyzer built for Linux, offering native integration with the SocketCAN stack and support for CAN‑FD. The desktop application captures, decodes, and visualizes traffic in real time, leveraging DBC databases and providing trace, graph, and...
DeepComputing Unveils RVA23-Compliant Mainboard III for Linux on Framework 13
DeepComputing announced the DC‑ROMA RISC‑V Mainboard III, an RVA23‑profile board designed for the Framework Laptop 13. The board uses the new SpacemiT K3 8‑core SoC, delivering up to 2.5 GHz and a 60 TOPS AI engine, and expands memory to 32 GB LPDDR5 with M.2 and...
