Embedded Computing Design

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.

Plastic enclosures for industrial electronics, like desktop and wall-mount electronics, serve as protective cases or housings to shield devices against various environmental challenges. They are often designed to withstand mechanical impact, shock, and vibration, work as electric insulators to meet electrical isolation requirements, and withstand exposure to corrosive substances.

Power applications rely on the ability to connect power, utilizing cables and/or other power distribution equipment, to wire-to-board applications. However, in situations where it can be difficult to visually align and make these connections, a blind mate connector allows two mating connectors to properly mate with the help of guide pins, keying, and self-aligning mechanisms.

In the increasingly dynamic landscape of smart parking and traffic law enforcement, one important requirement for solutions providers lies in the adoption of highly resilient and efficient Edge computing solutions that can seamlessly cater to the demands of their technology-driven initiatives. This article explores how the ASUS IoT PE1000N Edge computer has emerged as a potentially paradigm-shifting solution for both smart parking and traffic enforcement officials on the streets and highways of Korea.

You may not be a farmer, per se, but imagine that it’s your responsibility to make sure that an abundance of crops is yielded. Thankfully, you have technology on your side that enables a vigilant oversight of the fields using a handheld device – a smartphone. Devices with these capabilities have moved from being modern conveniences to necessary tools.