Embedded Computing Design

The latest domino to fall in what has become an 18-month-long string of semiconductor acquisitions is Fairchild Semiconductor, which was officially pu...

Consolidation of the semiconductor industry continues as Renesas has agreed to acquire analog and mixed-signal IC vendor Intersil for roughly $3.2 bil...

My first day of work in the embedded computing space came the day after the Super Bowl in 2011. I had about as much knowledge of the high-tech industr...

As Internet of Things (IoT) concepts took hold and started to become realities a few years back, one of the first challenges realized was interoperabi...

The past 12 months for semiconductor IP firm ARM have been big. Really big. Let's take a look at some of the highlights: The ARMv8-M architecture was...

It's often the case that success breeds controversy, particularly in the technology industry and especially with regards to software. Given the amount...

As silicon geometries approach the edge of physics, a new rule of thumb is poised to govern the computing industry: "Thou shalt reduce power consumpti...

There was a time when isolation helped ensure IT system security. Mainframes lived in glass rooms accessible to a few carefully screened attendants. I...

Ethernet is a pervasive networking technology in the enterprise and consumer sectors, and its widespread adoption has helped drive speed and cost impr...

Click here to access the updated Development Kit Selector tool In a column earlier this year I introduced a project to help embedded and Internet of T...

Chipmakers aren't selling simple chips anymore; they are selling complete ecosystems that encompass software, development tools, design libraries, and...

Brandon Lewis of Embedded Computing Design sat down with Ron Lowman, Strategic Marketing Manager for IoT at Synopsys in Austin, where the two discussed the challenges of developing sensor...

While much has been made of the Big Data and cloud storage aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), much less attention has been paid to the growing m...

There is a disconnect between the education K-12 students are receiving and today's high-tech economies, leaving younger generations in a precarious p...

Silicon Labs began its evolution towards the Internet of Things (IoT) in 2010, at which time Tyson Tuttle, who started with the company as a design en...

With the complexity of embedded systems today, companies need to focus on their value add. 

At NXP's 2016 FTF, Dave Edward, Founder, CEO, and CTO of U.K.-based tools company Somnium walks Embedded Computing Design's Technology Editor Brandon Lewis through an optimized IDE. 

Chris Conlon, a software engineer at wolfSSL, discusses aspects of SSL/TLS encryption that make them such a burden on embedded devices.

As the IoT brings IT developers closer to the world of embedded application development than ever before, interest in using Java for resource constrained devices has piqued. 

It seems that almost everyone has a maker-level evaluation platform these days, but many embedded vendors appear only half-heartedly invested in the space.