Embedded Computing Design

There's been a media frenzy around security breaches such as the Jeep hack, pacemaker's being compromised, and insulin pumps being commandeered, but is it really warranted? In all of these cases,...

In no other industry is the impact of connected device/system security more important than healthcare. The requirements for connected medical devices, and the data they transmit and store, are...

Sensors are complex, which is why so few companies are really developing them. For the past few years, however, Ian Chen, formerly of Freescale's Sensor Business Unit and now the Director of...

Cees Links, Founder and CEO of GreenPeak is a true pioneer when it comes to WiFi. In fact, he helped develop the original specification. In this week’s Five Minutes With… segment, we discussed what it

The Internet of Things (IoT), the connectivity of everything, is really all just hype. We're getting excited about something that't not actually possi...

QD Vision develops products with quantum dots. That sounds pretty futuristic, but it’s actually a technology that’s available today. In my weekly Five Minutes With… segment, QD Vision’s CEO, Mustafa O

Recent survey data suggests that Java is gaining strength for development of embedded IoT applications. This data can be viewed by looking at the IoT...

In a recent interview with Ray Zinn, I asked him what he thought was the greatest invention of his lifetime. He came up with a bunch of good answers,...

In today's digital design world, speed is often the main factor determining a product's performance. Many designs are packed with too many high-speed...

Schneider Electric sought to create a building automation system that would be affordable for small to mid-sized existing properties such as schools a...

Not long ago, Necip Sayiner was the CEO of a very successful high-tech company, Silicon Labs. Now, he heads up another high-tech company, Intersil. So I asked him what he learned from his previous job

It's Kentucky Derby week! So let's talk about horses and specifically how technology can positively impact the well-being of horses. On the NXP Smarte...

As the traditional software application market migrates from the enterprise to mobile and embedded devices, end-user license management has become a m...

MyScript develops handwriting recognition technology. The obvious question for me was, with speech recognition working so well today, why do we need handwriting recognition? Gary Baum, Vice President

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues its rapid pace of growth, there's been no shortage of inflated expectations. Platforms promising to ease the...

Sensuron was formed because of a really bad event. But some good things have come from it. In this week’s Five Minutes With…, I speak to Michael Heflin, the CEO of the company that came out of that se

Digital power is an oxymoron to some people, but it really shouldn't be. While many (old-school?) designers think that power is analogous to analog, t...

Slide show -- Advances in electronic imaging, including low-cost high-resolution image sensors and image processors combined with low-power, high-outp...

Slide show -- It's easy to get caught up in the details of our hardware and software designs for electronic devices, but the task of new-product devel...

By performing operations at the edge rather than the server, overall system performance can be greatly enhanced. The two main topics at the IoT confer...