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SimpleSwitch™ Tooling: Your Guide to Streamlined Development

In the field of embedded systems, SimpleSwitch™ has become a powerful platform for the development and deployment of your applications with Avnet Embedded SMARC modules. Its ease of use and versatility have made it a popular choice among developers, but navigating its intricacies can be daunting for beginners. Today’s episode delves into the world of SimpleSwitch™ tooling, equipping you with the knowledge and tools to embark on your development journey with confidence.

Avnet Opens Technology Campus in Southern Germany

FREIBURG, Germany – November 8, 2023 – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) celebrates the opening of its new technology campus located 12 miles south of Freiburg in Eschbach, Germany.

The new facility offers design, manufacturing and integration of new purpose-built solutions, utilizing compute and display building blocks for customers serving IoT edge and data center markets. Products manufactured at the campus are typically for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) customers. Examples include cockpit controls for farming equipment, interfaces for medical diagnostic equipment, control panels for home automation systems, and servers for mission critical security applications.

Set Up SimpleSwitch™ in Under 3o minutes

In our latest Embedded Software Session, we show how simple and fast it is to set up SimpleSwitch™ on Avnet Embedded #SMARC modules. With a comprehensive documentation online, the SDK and Base Image installation is done within under 30min.
After this session, you will be ready to start developing your first project with SimpleSwitch

Harmonious, fast and convenient development with SMARC and SimpleSwitch™

You are no doubt already familiar with Smart Mobility Architecture – more often known as SMARC – as it’s a standard specification for computers and modules. What you may not know, however, is that this excellent open-source platform for embedded computing was created a decade ago by the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies and Avnet Embedded was one of SGET’s founding members.

Spotlight on Embedded – October 2023

Welcome to the October issue of the Avnet Embedded Spotlight. We’ve got lots to update you on this month with a focus on retail and plenty of information about displays as well as some exciting uses of AI from some of our Franchise partners.

Write once, deploy anywhere’: the architecture of SimpleSwitch™

SimpleSwitch™ is our solution that allows the development of embedded software with limited dependency on hardware. Or, to put it simply as we did in our previous video, creates a way to ‘write once, deploy anywhere’. For the purposes of this explainer, let’s assume that ‘anywhere’ is one of our SMARC modules and will be supported by SimpleSwitch.