Embedded Computing Design

The Home Grid Forum is all about making home networking as simple as possible for end users. Its charter is to promote G.hn networks, which are simple and easy to install. They can include things that

Interactive electronic devices require a human-machine interface (HMI) that allows a user to communicate with the underlying electronic device. That r...

A new COM Express specification developed by the PICMG is soon to be released. One of the upcoming major advancements is the COM Express Type 7 pinout...

EU or no EU, the UK will continue to pride itself on its environmental consciousness. Hence, we need to do our due diligence in one of our most import...

Over the past several years, the use of tablet technology has proliferated not only for personal use, but also across industry and government. These p...

As noted in part one of this blog, self-encrypting storage (SES) will increasingly be required to protect embedded products, especially as the Interne...

PICMG recently released a new version of its embedded computer board standard, one that redefined the pin-out. When dealing with a standard with a long history, changing the pin-out could unnerve desi

Problems associated with the loss of data, data breaches, brand damage/impact, and compliance issues are well known to desktop and portable computer u...

Agile is a way of thinking, but it’s also a way to develop code. Where do these two paths converge? That’s the question that I posed to Bob Elfanbaum, the Co-Founder and General Manager of WWT Asynchr

The way the industrial world approaches process management and control is changing. The concept of interconnectedness of intelligent devices in the co...

Have there been big enhancements in the audio industry lately? According to Mark Lippett, President and CEO of XMOS, there have been. In this week’s Five Minutes With… segment, Mark went through not o

When contemplating a new Internet of Things (IoT) design, embedded developers have many options to consider when selecting a means of communication fo...

CIA, TPM and IoT: You might ask what these three acronyms have in common and how they relate to each other. To make a long story short, it is all abou...

Many of Datalight's recent conversations with customers and industry folks have focused on concerns over the decreasing endurance of flash memory. At...

A recurring discussion we have each year with our thousands of clients in the embedded and IoT space is, "How can we better engage with engineers?" As...

Improving the software development process is obviously the goal of every developer and every tool provider. It sounds simple, but clearly it’s not. In my Five Minutes With…Johan Kraft, Founder and CE

Every once in a while, you come across a product that's so simple, you say, "Why didn't somebody think of that before?" A perfect example of that is t...

The industry has moved from punch card to keyboard and from mouse to touchscreen, all in pursuit of more direct system manipulation to optimize user e...

The Amazon Echo is the epitome of an Internet of Things (IoT) device. It combines an embedded applications processor from Texas Instruments, MEMS micr...

Materials design is not for the faint of heart. Intermolecular develops such materials for the design of integrated circuits. In the past, just a few materials were used for just about all of the ICs