Embedded Computing Design

PCcardsDirect.com sells, amongst lots of other things, PCMCIA cards. Is there still a market for this technology? You'd be surprised (at least I was) by Michaels's response. Then we addressed the othe

The Amtrak derailment and the Germanwings crash earlier this year raise a fundamental question about vehicle automation. Who or what should be in ulti...

Ethernet is widely used for all kinds of applications. However, for demanding multimedia-streaming applications in a fully loaded network, Ethernet is...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere right now. All industries could (and likely do) have systems connected to the IoT. And while we think it's...

Do you know someone who can claim to be a lead designer on Amazon's Kindle? Listen to this interview and you can answer in the affirmative. Adrian Caceres has a passion for anything wireless, includin

Temperatures inside datacenters are on the rise in an effort to save money. Most datacenters operate between 68 ºF and 72 ºF, but raising the temper...

When selecting wireless modems, there's a checklist of features to consider. We've presented those here. The growth rate of machine-to-machine (M2M) c...

When designing a system for applications ranging from automobiles to simple temperature measurements, interfacing with the analog world typically requ...

This quick demo of the Anaren Atmosphere development platform shows how using the Anaren Bluetooth Mutli-Sensor Development Board (MSDB) with an STMicroelectronics LPS25HB piezoelectric pressure senso

Tony is an analog and power guy, and frankly, there are fewer and fewer of these people around today. We had an interesting five-minute discussion about whether analog would actually go away at some p

Engineers and makers got a primetime slot on TV again last nights with the premiere of a new season of BattleBots. With more than a decade of technolo...

Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields Yoichi Ochiai*, Kota Kumagai**, Takayuki Hoshi***, J

Guess who's involved with the Internet of Things? You got it—IBM. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that a company the size of IBM could be nimble enough to operate in a space that ch

Santiago Romero of Zebra Technologies demos the company's new Zatar IoT platform based on ARM mbed tools at COMPUTEX Taipei 2015.

Retailers can capitalize on this ultra-low power technology to enhance the shopping experience and maximize profits. Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and...

New system designs that become market-leading products are the result of innovation that's not only evolutionary and revolutionary, but also elegant,...

Embedded TechCon Day 3 concluded the event with another full schedule of classes on a wide range of topics. Dr. Jakob Engblom, Product Line Manager at...

Embedded TechCon Day 2 saw a large variety of topics being covered, more great discussion between our expert speakers, some development kit giveaways,...

Embedded TechCon is underway! In our inaugural hands-on event collocated with the Design Automation Conference, Day 1 focused a lot on the IoT, especi...

Are you familiar beacon technology? If not, you should be, especially if you're designing products for the consumer and/or retail. In a nutshell, beacon technology takes GPS indoors, to your home, you