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Google Coral Dev Board
The Google Coral Dev Board is a single-board computer built around Google's Edge TPU coprocessor for local machine learning, introduced in 2019 within the Coral platform.
Ground plane
A ground plane is a large continuous copper area on a printed circuit board or near an antenna, serving as a common voltage reference and low-impedance current return path.
Hardware description language
A hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language for describing digital circuits, used for simulation and synthesis into logic gates, with Verilog and VHDL the dominant examples.
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, also known as HIL or HWIL, is a testing technique in which a real controller is connected to a real-time simulator of the physical system.
High-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS) is a method that translates untimed C, C++, SystemC, or OpenCL code into timed register-transfer level hardware designs in Verilog or VHDL.
Home automation
Home automation, also called domotics or a smart home, uses interconnected IoT devices to automatically control lighting, heating, locks, and appliances for comfort, security, and energy efficiency.
IBM System/4 Pi
The IBM System/4 Pi, also known as System 4 Pi, was a family of militarized IBM computers for aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft, derived from the System/360 mainframe.
Icarus Verilog
Icarus Verilog is an open-source Verilog simulation and synthesis tool by Stephen Williams that compiles Verilog source into netlists, most commonly for the vvp simulation engine.
IEC 61131-3
IEC 61131-3 is the international standard, first released in 1993, that defines the programming languages for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), including Structured Text, Ladder Diagram, and Function Block Diagram.
IEEE 1687
IEEE 1687, known in the industry as IJTAG, is an IEEE standard, published in 2014, for accessing and controlling embedded instrumentation in a semiconductor device.
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES) is a peer-reviewed IEEE journal covering complex systems for space, air, ocean, and ground environments, published since 1965.
In-system programming
In-system programming (ISP), also called in-circuit or on-board programming, writes firmware, configuration data, or bitstreams to a device while it is soldered on its printed circuit board, using interfaces such as JTAG, SPI, and SWD.
Infineon AURIX
Infineon AURIX is a family of 32-bit automotive microcontrollers by Infineon Technologies, built on the TriCore architecture combining microcontroller, RISC processor, and DSP in one core.
Intel Agilex
Intel Agilex is a family of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs introduced by Intel in 2019 on its 10 nm process, succeeding Stratix 10 and now made by Altera.
Intel Arria
Intel Arria is a family of mid-range FPGAs and SoC FPGAs developed by Altera, positioned between the low-cost Cyclone and high-performance Stratix lines, from 2007 to today.
Intel Cyclone
Intel Cyclone is a family of low-cost, low-power FPGAs created by Altera in 2003 as a companion to its high-end Stratix line, now sold under Intel branding, spanning six generations.
Intel Edison
Intel Edison is a discontinued compute module Intel released in 2014 for wearables and IoT, pairing an Atom CPU with a Quark microcontroller, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
Intel Galileo
Intel Galileo is an Arduino-compatible development board built on a 400 MHz Intel Quark SoC running Linux, announced at Maker Faire Rome in 2013 and discontinued in 2017.
Intel Stratix
Intel Stratix is a family of high-performance FPGAs and SoC FPGAs originally developed by Altera and now sold under the Altera brand; flagship Stratix 10 launched in 2013.
International Test Conference
The International Test Conference is an annual IEEE-affiliated conference on electronic testing of devices, boards, and systems, held since 1970 and known as the cornerstone of the TestWeek events.
Internet of things
The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical objects, from thermostats and fitness monitors to connected cars, fitted with sensors and software to connect and exchange data.
Interrupt latency
Interrupt latency is the delay between an interrupt request being raised and the first instruction of its service routine, a central performance metric for real-time systems.
ISO 26262
ISO 26262, titled Road Vehicles Functional Safety, is an international standard adapted from IEC 61508 that defines functional safety requirements for E/E systems in series production road vehicles.
Jetson Thor
Jetson Thor is a family of NVIDIA embedded robotics computers, built on a Blackwell SoC and released in August 2025 to run generative AI models directly on robots.
Kendryte K210
The Kendryte K210 is a system-on-chip for edge artificial intelligence developed by the Chinese semiconductor company Canaan and released in 2018, pairing two 64-bit RISC-V cores with a dedicated neural network accelerator.
Kria
Kria is a family of system-on-modules from AMD for embedded and edge computing, spanning K24 and K26 adaptive SOMs for vision AI and robotics, plus newer AI versions.
LEON (microprocessor)
LEON is a family of fault-tolerant 32-bit SPARC V8 microprocessor cores developed by ESA and Gaisler, distributed as open-source VHDL and used as the standard core for European spacecraft.
LEON3
LEON3 is a synthesizable VHDL model of a 32-bit SPARC V8 processor, designed at Gaisler Research in Sweden in 2004 for spacecraft, with a fault-tolerant variant flying on satellites such as Spot-6 and Galileo.
List of Arduino boards and compatible systems
The list of Arduino boards and compatible systems catalogs Arduino's open-source-hardware microcontroller boards, first released in 2005 as a teaching tool, plus the compatible and clone boards from other makers.
List of open-source mobile phones
The list of open-source mobile phones, also known as the list of open-source smartphones, covers devices like the PinePhone, Librem 5, and Fairphone that run free operating systems with published source code.