Embedded Computing Design

AMRs, or autonomous mobile robots, are becoming more common in the workplace. They can be a perfect fit for industrial and automation applications, given the right controller and software stack. On the hardware side, the system could include a host of sensors, including cameras, radar, lidar, etc. Then on the software side, you obviously need to link al those components together, and be sure you can communication both internally and externally.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, we’re discussing cyber resiliency with Eric Sivertson, VP of Security at Lattice Semiconductor, specifically highlighting how organizations can benefit from implementing a personalized data security plan, and how FPGAs can help. 

From afar, you may not notice a big difference between the railroad cars today and those that ran down the track a couple of decades ago. However, you can be assured that when you peel back the skin, there are massive differences that have occurred, specifically with respect to the on-board computer systems.

In this fifth installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, we’d like to introduce you to Samer Mabrouk, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Welcome to the fourth installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, where we take a closer look at the lives of unsung heroes in the world of engineering whose work impacts uncountable lives across the globe. See the bottom of the article for additional content on Levi Zima and our other heroes.

In this fourth installment of our Engineering Heroes series, sponsored by Wind River, we honor Levi Zima, an RF Microwave Engineer. Levi was born in Oregon, spent several years of childhood in Wisconsin, and currently resides in Florida, just north of Orlando.

Industrial automation applications are often demanding, requiring specific reliability, durability, and long-term support features. This is why the industrial-grade motherboards within these applications are often specialized solutions with distinct characteristics such as ruggedness, a wide temperature range, security, remote management, and more.

PCIe FPGA cards, like typical FPGAs, are versatile semiconductor devices capable of being reprogrammed to perform specific tasks or functions for computing and data processing applications. Commonly used as accelerator cards in various computing applications, PCIe FPGA cards, like the Agilex series from BittWare, support accelerated computing, flexibility, real-time processing and much more.

Industrial electronic enclosures aid in protecting the electronic components and equipment used in industrial environments. Typically, these enclosures are specially designed to house and defend electronic devices, control systems, and sensitive instrumentation from environmental hazards and other unwanted interferences.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Randy Fish, director of product line management for the Silicon Lifecycle Management family at Synopsys, highlights how automotive engineers can benefit from the SLM on-chip monitoring and analysis process.

Embedded vision and processing applications benefit from hardware that is highly configurable with versatile integrated circuits that aid in the customization of a wide range of applications. Embedded vision, sensor fusion, industrial automation, medical imaging, IoT devices, and AI and machine learning are applications and technologies that are capable of processing data and accelerating applications with the help of an FPGA.

Artists all over the world and in every industry seek to enhance and improve their work with the aid of digital tools. The developers of those tools must therefore create simple but powerful apps to meet end users’ needs – such applications have to be fast, accurate, and accessible if artists are going to be successful with them.

As always, the world is moving towards more modern mobile computing devices designed to support high-quality media capabilities such as high dynamic range (HDR) within Android devices. While still used universally, SDR is not as equipped to support a broader color spectrum, brighter highlights, and deeper shadows.

The heart of any industrial platform is what drives the end application. Without a strong heart, performance will suffer.

Most people don’t put much thought into how the various products we use in our lives came to be. Despite the chronic overlooking of product design, it remains one of the most important parts of the development process.

Human-Machine Interface (HMI) computing is essential in the design and development of computer systems and software applications, like industrial automation. Both users and organizations that implement and use these interfaces benefit from the enhanced user experience, accessibility, data visualization, remote control, customization, and more.

Smartphones evolve on a regular cadence, and new features come out with every new generation. While some new features fall into the category of revolutionary, such additions are rare.

In a world where technological innovation shapes our daily lives, the clunky jingle of keys may soon become a distant memory.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Production Editor, Chad Cox interviews Josh Heller, Security Engineering Manager at Digi International, about cyber threats in critical infrastructure networks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, how AI & ML can help, and the future of cybersecurity with quantum computing.

Welcome to the third installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, where we take a closer look at the lives of unsung heroes in the world of engineering whose work impacts uncountable lives across the globe. See the bottom of the article for additional content on Valentyn Hlukhotskyy and our other heroes.