Editor-in-Chief

Embedded Computing Design

Brandon is responsible for guiding content strategy, editorial direction, and community engagement across the Embedded Computing Design ecosystem. A 10-year veteran of the electronics media industry, he enjoys covering topics ranging from development kits to cybersecurity and tech business models. Brandon received a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University, where he graduated cum laude. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Automotive

Educating the auto with deep learning for active safety systems - Other

December 14, 2015

The automotive industry is entering the age of artificial intelligence and requires teachers. In this interview with Danny Shapiro, Senior Director of...

IoT

New NXP to invest in Digital Networking for IoT, maintain jobs - Other

December 10, 2015

True to their word, NXP and Freescale officially finalized a $40 billion merger before the end of 2015, creating the world's fourth-largest non-memory...

Processing

Ensuring trust in IoT with Trusted Platform Modules and Trusted Brokered IO - Other

November 29, 2015

While connecting previously isolated devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) yields countless possibilities, it has also forced industry to reconsider...

Networking & 5G

Extending networks to SoC IP saves power at the IoT edge - Other

November 25, 2015

SoC architectures have remained largely the same over the last 20 years, with designers adding IP via the main CPU bus to create increasingly complex,...

Consumer

Sensors are about to ruin your cycling routine - Other

November 05, 2015

One more mile ... I can do this ... crap, is that a hill? ... that must be a 20 percent incline ... well, at least it looks like it ... maybe my momen...

Consumer

"Contextualizing" sensor fusion algorithm development challenges in smartphones and wearables - Other

November 05, 2015

As we all know well, there are two distinct camps in the smartphone market: Apple and Android. On the one hand you have Apple, whose strict developmen...

Automotive

How important is "instant on" to your automotive application? - Other

October 23, 2015

It's a fact of life these days that people want things now. In fact we've become so accustomed to real-time or near-real-time response from our phones...

Automotive

The growing importance of ISO 26262 tool qualification for automotive software vendors - Other

October 22, 2015

Commercial test tools are helping automotive software vendors save time, money, and refine the development lifecycle, but these off-the-shelf solution...

Processing

Microchip "does the math" in converter IC for thermocouple design - Other

August 31, 2015

At Sensors Expo earlier this year I had the chance to sit down with John Austin, Product Marketing Manager with Microchip's Analog and Interface divis...

Security

Should IoT security be regulated by industry or government? - Other

August 24, 2015

After a day full of security presentations, the audience for "The Biggest Challenges Faced by Developers" panel at IoT Evolution Developers Conference...

Open Source

Hands-on cloud connectivity, debug, monitoring, and management - Other

August 24, 2015

Before diving into a hands-on workshop, Christian Legare of embedded software vendor Micrium took some time to explain a few rules of thumb for IoT de...

Open Source

Settling on standards to threat model IoT systems - Other

August 23, 2015

One of the foremost security experts in our field, Blackberry's Chief Security Officer David Kleidermacher began his presentation at the IoT Evolution...

Security

Using a trusted platform module and trusted brokered IO as the foundation of IoT security - Other

August 23, 2015

If you remember the 90s you probably remember the spread of unwanted software and the subsequent proliferation of antivirus/security products from Nor...

Automotive

How IoT is transforming the automotive software development lifecycle - Other

August 20, 2015

As you may know, QNX has been producing safety-critical software for real-time systems since the late 70s, and at the IoT Evolution Developers Confere...

Security

Leveraging IoT security to improve ROI - Other

August 20, 2015

In a standing-room only session at IoT Evolution Developers conference, Alan Grau of Icon Labs noted that security now isn't only a requirement for mo...

IoT

Seeing through the fog (computing) - Other

August 20, 2015

For most, the vision of fog computing is, well, a bit foggy. At IoT Evolution Developers Conference in Las Vegas, Biren Gandhi, Principal Strategist a...

Industrial

Lunch with Dr. T - Other

August 13, 2015

Almost 40 years after helping cofound National Instruments, James "Dr. T." Truchard still finds time to meet with the press to talk about his reflecti...

Processing

Mic check 1, 2, 1, 2: MEMS microphones add reliability for a symphony of IoT apps - Other

July 22, 2015

Acoustics is one of those sciences most of us take for granted on a regular basis, not because we overlook the importance of sound in our daily lives,...

IoT

What mobile can teach embedded about concurrency for the IoT - Other

July 01, 2015

Concurrency means different things to different industries, and in this Q&A with Rick Chen, CTO of live video streaming app Hang w/, he discusses what...

Analog & Power

Sensors Expo 2015 ? Microchip on configurable analog for high-side power sensing - Video

June 23, 2015

Embedded Computing Design's Brandon Lewis interviews John Austin of the Analog and Interface Business Unit at Microchip Technology on innovations in analog circuitry for high-side current/power sensin

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