Embedded Computing Design

Security is top of mind for just about any application these days. The latest advances in processing technology combined with some innovative video te...

In specifying switches as part of a wider device or system, design engineers have much to consider. Such choices are important regardless of the targe...

We live in an analog world, at least in how we sense our surroundings. When you convert everything to digital, you don’t necessarily get the results you expect. The latest HMI (human-machine interface

Increased data capacity has amplified the cost of line cards by tens of thousands of dollars, making quality latching and fastening hardware paramount...

ARM's new 32-bit ARMv8-M architecture was introduced in 2015, adding TrustZone security extensions for Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs), among other f...

RF has been and continues to be a mystery to most design engineers. And that’s okay, as long as the RF providers understand that. They provide a black box that designers can drop onto their boards, an

Smart products and appliances seemed to be everywhere at the IFA show in Berlin this past week. I was attending as a speaker for the IFA+ Summit confe...

As the world of manufacturing shifts into the eras of Industry 4.0, IoT, and Big Data, companies must embrace software platforms to remain competitive...

Most people are familiar with the paper-like displays used in the Kindle and other reader tablets. Pervasive Displays has taken that technology to industrial environments, including the Industrial IoT

In this video, we give you some detailed instructions on how to make an easy raspberry pi powered home smart mirror. A smart mirror displays applications so that you can check the weather, local news,

Statistics say that at our current run rate, we’re going to run out of power. When (and if) that’s going to happen is certainly up for debate. Grant Pierce, President and CEO of Sonics, is this week’s

It's not yet 11 a.m. on a Saturday and the shop floor is already humming with activity. Several engineers are hard at work under the hood of a Chevrol...

AMD recently released the details of its latest X86-based microprocessor core, dubbed Zen. Designed from scratch (mostly), the core achieves about a 4...

The age-old question for embedded PCs was "build vs. buy." The answer, unfortunately is, it depends. It actually depends on a lot of factors. Do you h...

Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Ubuntu and he also leads product design at Canonical. So who better to discuss the use of open-source software, specifically its future. With so much software avail

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises to deliver a step change in efficiency and a leap towards autonomy for industrial automation and oth...

As Samsung recently launched its new Samsung Galaxy Note7, complete with curved active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) screen, it got me...

IPSO is a standards organization that doesn’t do standards. Huh? Well, that’s sort of accurate. This week, I spoke to Christian Legare, who is the President and Chairman of the IPSO Alliance, and he w

How do you go about building trust in an automatic code generator used for safety-critical systems? For example, given a code generator that takes a r...

Edge devices don't always have the compute power to make compute-intensive decisions. Hence, data is collected at the edge and transferred to the clou...