Embedded Computing Design

With only about 500 North Atlantic right whales still on the planet, there's an urgent need to rescue the remaining population from the brink of extin...

While I was out for Thanksgiving and in a turkey coma, a new Raspberry Pi dev board was released, put on sale, and quickly sold out in less than 24 ho...

Smart watches such as Magellan's Echo can transmit and receive data from a smartphone for up to 11 months from a single CR2032 coin cell.

More than 100 designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, conservationists, and wildlife enthusiasts gathered in Chicago November 14-15 to attend the fir...

The semiconductor industry is consolidating as it is expanding. This seemingly contradictory situation has an origin, but no end in sight. I've seen t...

Makers, electronics hobbyists, and professional design engineers always have ideas, and I'm sure all of you have at least one sketched out on a piece...

Timing is everything in software development. Just think about the timing of when a software defect is found. Found after a release, it can be a disas...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the rapid spontaneous transfer of electrostatic charge induced by a high electrostatic field, which is commonly gener...

We all remember the Verizon Test Man and his seemingly endless quest to verify the company's wireless network by asking an anonymous other-ender, "Can...

Medical devices are undergoing an evolutionary change partly due to the current emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), opening the door to an enti...

The Librarian of Congress recently announced exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that now make it legal to circumvent specific t...

Renesas Devcon 2015 - what an experience! Never before have I attended a developer's conference and come away so excited. It was part conference and p...

Touchscreens are an increasingly common interface that allow for an intuitive way for people to interact with their devices. Cars increasingly have da...

Raspberry Pi Trading is partnering exclusively with element14 to provide customized Raspberry Pi A, B/B+, Compute, and Pi 2 model designs for use in i...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) offers so much more than the widely-popular GPS technology and is one of the fastest growing technologies in...

Development tools are important in all stages of the embedded design process, and research is no exception. Limited budgets can create extra challenge...

The gap between the technical and practical skills employers expect graduates to possess and those the curriculum delivers is well documented in the m...

The USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard presents an order of magnitude increase in data rates compared with USB 2.0, thereby giving engineers the ability they...

PCIe's layered protocol brings about different challenges, and thus, different solutions. Key concerns for PCI Express (PCIe) validation teams are int...

The surge in multiple devices and content streaming in the home has seen an equally dramatic increase in the use of wireless technology as the primary...