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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Open Source

Sensors Expo 2015: STMicro packs MEMS, BLE, and open source into quick start dev environment - Other

June 18, 2015

A common theme from Sensors Expo was that the design engineer of today expects more. More hardware, more software, more connectivity, and they sometim...

Healthcare

Sensors Expo 2015: Exergen extends medical temp sensors to industrial OEMs - Other

June 17, 2015

I never expected a briefing to begin with a product that is being used to in place of rectal thermometers, but I guess now I can cross that off my buc...

Industrial

Sensors Expo 2015: Linear Technology on the current (and voltage) state of energy harvesting - Other

June 17, 2015

Energy harvesting technologies are the stuff that dreams are made of in the minds of engineers. If perfected, they could help us reduce emissions, sav...

Consumer

Sensors Expo 2015: Grid Connect contemplates the wireless factory - Other

June 17, 2015

Last summer I met Grid Connect's Adam Justice at an IoT show in Silicon Valley where we overviewed the company's ConnectSense platform. To kick off th...

Industrial

Floored: COMPUTEX Taipei 2015 - Other

June 07, 2015

Slide show -- COMPUTEX may be the biggest tech show in Asia, and if you don't believe it simply take a look at the number of industrial PC (IPC) vendo...

Industrial

COMPUTEX Taipei: Cavium displays OCTEON Fusion technology in advance of OCTEON III release - Other

June 06, 2015

Leading up to the release of their OCTEON III network processors last week [Link], Cavium had their full portfolio on display at the Grand Hyatt durin...

IoT

COMPUTEX Taipei: Startup Tuxera brings interoperable filesystem technology to embedded - Other

June 06, 2015

My colleague Rory Dear did a brief pre-show write up on the Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability framework being developed by Swedish startup Tux...

Storage

COMPUTEX Taipei: Cervoz industrial storage brings T?V-certified MLC, SLC to embedded - Other

June 06, 2015

One of a few storage vendors that I met with at COMPUTEX, Cervoz is a manufacturer of MLC and SLC flash SSDs for the embedded/IPC industry, but what s...

Processing

COMPUTEX Taipei: TechNexion takes ARM-first approach to IPC - Other

June 06, 2015

Henri Parmentier of TechNexion introduced me to the company for the first time, which he says began targeting ARM-based IPC boards almost eight years...

Open Source

COMPUTEX Taipei: congatec works to bring high-end OEM to APAC market - Other

June 06, 2015

Like many of the engineers enlisted at congatec, Bryan Lin, VP of Sales and Marketing, Asia, at congatec has roots in the embedded board space that ca...

Industrial

COMPUTEX Taipei: Neousys machine vision combines Core i series and MCU for real-time video processing - Other

June 06, 2015

A quick break from straight board-level products paired me with Neousys, an embedded manufacturer that focuses on machine vision technologies for indu...

Processing

COMPUTEX Taipei: WynMax rides x86 wave into ODM space - Other

June 06, 2015

IPC company WynMax is another IPC vendor looking to translate a legacy of standardized Intel and AMD industrial computing boards into success in the O...

Processing

COMPUTEX Taipei: COMMELL stays true to standards-based heritage - Other

June 06, 2015

Bucking the trend of Taiwanese ODM shops, Taiwan Commate Computer, or COMMELL has elected to stay the course with a wide variety of standards-based bo...

Industrial

COMPUTEX Taipei: iBASE boasts big win in digital signage - Other

June 06, 2015

In addition to having a couple of products in the running for the annual d&i awards and winning a Best in Show award for their SI-60E super-high 8K vi...

Consumer

COMPUTEX Taipei: DFI's gambling addiction pays of big time in embedded gaming - Other

June 06, 2015

DFI came into COMPUTEX with some recent news, having moved into a new headquarters this past fall with plans on expanding its manufacturing space, and...

Processing

COMPUTEX Taipei: ARM mbed helps bring "digital voice to physical things" in Zebra Zatar LBS platform - Other

June 06, 2015

One of the more interesting meetings of the show for me, Thomas "TK" Kurian, Senior Director, New Growth Platforms at Zebra Technologies explained to...

Consumer

COMPUTEX Taipei: Giada brings looks to correlate consumer success into digital signage systems - Other

June 06, 2015

Another Intel partner looking to transform success as a board- and system-level OEM, Giada has focused primarily on the Chinese consumer tech market f...

IoT

COMPUTEX Taipei: PERFECTRON goes rugged in rail/rolling stock - Other

June 06, 2015

Putting rugged expertise to use in transportation, defense, and other verticals, PERFECTRON overviewed some of the Intel Atom- and Intel Core-based so...

Security

COMPUTEX Taipei: Bestek balances x86 and ARM for diverse markets - Other

June 06, 2015

Bestek is one of the IPC vendors that helped make up the theme of COMPUTEX, focusing on the information security, interactive display/digital signage,...

Industrial

COMPUTEX Taipei: Quanmax tightropes between ODM and open standards - Other

June 03, 2015

New-to-me IPC vendor Quanmax was the next stop on the show floor, and I spoke with Vincent Wang, Vice President of the company's Embedded Product Divi...

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