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Software & OS

The IDE Is Dead. Long Live the Toolchain.

Rich Nass

June 10, 2026

For decades, the Integrated Development Environment, commonly known as the IDE, has been treated as the hub of software development tooling. Whether it was Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, or others, the promise was always the same: put everything in one place; editor, compiler, debugger, project manager, source control, and eventually every other tool imaginable. That promise made sense during the early days.

Industrial

Application Highlight: ADLINK ISB-W890 Redefines High-End Automated Inspection

Ken Briodagh

June 9, 2026

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) is at the leading edge of industrial Edge AI systems, and semiconductor production, in particular, relies upon high-end AOI for maximum efficiency in manufacturing.

Advanced semiconductor production is becoming increasingly complex as wafers become thinner and the process is miniaturized. Despite this growing complexity, semiconductor manufacturers still need to ensure high yields with maximum accuracy.

Industrial

Mouser Product of the Week: Microchip Technology dsPIC33AK Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs)

Tiera Oliver

June 8, 2026

DC/DC converters, DC/AC, motor control, advanced sensor interfacing, high-performance embedded control, and many other applications require flexible, high-performance, and real-time precision control. These capabilities can be leveraged by a solution designed to support complex, mathematical computations like a digital signal processor, with the versatility of a microcontroller.

Edge AI

When Correct Outputs Aren't Enough: Testing Edge AI for Hidden Timing Failures on Shared Silicon

Akul Swami

June 1, 2026

Edge AI systems on shared-silicon platforms can produce stable, accurate outputs while violating real-time deadlines under realistic deployment contention, a failure mode that accuracy-based validation cannot detect. This article presents a same-hardware controlled experiment on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super demonstrating the gap, and proposes a joint verification condition combining an output-stability metric with a tail-latency bound that engineers can apply to their own systems.

Industrial

Application Highlight: ADLINK Robotics and Automation

Ken Briodagh

June 1, 2026

Robotics are important in every industry, from healthcare and manufacturing, where they’ve been aiding human workers for many years, to cutting-edge automation solutions in warehousing, transportation, and other areas.

AI & Machine Learning

Product of the Week: BootLoop Test, AI-Powered Hardware-in-the-Loop

Tiera Oliver

June 1, 2026

As embedded systems continue to grow in complexity and connectivity, and become more software-defined, firmware development, testing, and debugging are increasingly crucial processes for modern hardware teams trying to get products to market faster.

But automating and accelerating these processes just got a whole lot easier with AI.

Storage

The Road to COMPUTEX 2026: BIWIN to Showcase High-Performance Enterprise SSDs

Chad Cox

May 31, 2026

BIWIN is attending COMPUTEX 2026 where it will showcase its innovative enterprise SSDs at Hall 2, Booth 4F, R0102. The company will showcase its SP50Y/51Y and SS821 solutions.

AI & Machine Learning

Computer Vision in Smart Manufacturing: Defect Detection and Predictive Maintenance

Chad Cox

May 27, 2026

In 1943, at the University of Chicago, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts published A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Imminent in Nervous Activity, leading to the foundational work on neural network concepts and modern-day artificial intelligence (AI). Now that AI is moving more to the edge, computer vision is becoming a critical tool. Computer vision systems use machine learning and deep learning to visualize and analyze data for defect detection and predictive maintenance in smart manufacturing

Software & OS

Developing Formally Proven Code with AI

Quentin Ochem

May 26, 2026

Developing formally proven code is challenging. It is also extraordinarily valuable: it produces software with a level of robustness that is otherwise unreachable, and you can have very high confidence that your code will not fail over time. But there is no way around it: it’s hard work.

Analog & Power

The Road to COMPUTEX 2026: Seasonic to Unveil PRIME ENTERPRISE AI Power Platform

Chad Cox

May 26, 2026

Visitors to COMPUTEX 2026 (Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center) will want to visit Booth R1014, Hall 2, 4F where Seasonic is set to introduce its new flagship power platform for AI, PRIME ENTERPRISE. Attendees will also witness Seasonic’s innovative ultra-efficient power development inspired by emerging 80 PLUS Ruby standards and the latest evolution of OptiGuard intelligent protection technology.

Security

Securing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Why Medical-grade OTA Updates are Essential

Eystein Stenberg

May 20, 2026

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a connected infrastructure of medical devices, applications, health systems, and services. Its global market size, valued at $47.32 billion in 2023, is projected to reach $814.28 billion by 2032, reflecting an impressive annual growth rate of 38.5%.

HPC/Datacenters

Preserve Data Center Power with 3 nm PCIe 6.0 Switches

Tam Do

May 19, 2026

Data centers are being constructed more rapidly as the trend of increasing data generation continues, and data must be stored and transferred. Increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are among the many applications boosting their reliance on data access.

Security

What Triggers Work in Firmware? Uncovering Event-Driven Execution in EDK2

Swastik Ghosh

May 18, 2026

Many people think firmware runs in a simple, step-by-step way. Drivers seem to load one after another, and the execution log shows a smooth boot process. Traditional debugging tools also suggest everything happens in order. However, this view is not always correct.

Industrial

Northern.tech Issues Report Showing Software Challenges Remain Leading Cause of Delays in Industrial IoT Product Launches

Chad Cox

June 10, 2026

Northern.tech announced its annual State of Industrial IoT Device Lifecycle Management report. Research includes that organizational ambitions for connected products are running well ahead of the systems built to support them and the gap between business objectives and current device management abilities is no longer a future challenge, it is ongoing.

Edge AI

7STARLAKE Releases the NV500 Military Jetson Thor Computer for Edge AI Defense Applications

Chad Cox

June 10, 2026

7STARLAKE launched the rugged NV500 Military Jetson Thor Computer promoting Edge AI for mission-critical defense, aerospace, and autonomous systems. The platform leverages the Arm Neoverse V3AE 64-bit processor. Its 14-core CPU architecture features one MB of L2 cache per core and a 16 MB shared system L3 cache.