Embedded Computing Design

Mobica is involved with testing mobile platforms. I asked Jim what a designer's biggest challenge would be with respect to testing these platforms. He discussed the fragmentation and proliferation of

Having insight through video data could be a game changer for your application, whether it's something military, medical, or industrial. We're not tal...

As IoT devices proliferate, the vulnerabilities scale linearly. Most of the "things" connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) are produced companies...

Today, product ranges are achieved with dynamic software licensing rather than multiple hardware variants. At the inception of any new product range,...

Imagination offers solutions to lots of partners that could be viewed as competitive. Is that potentially a problem for an IP company? Maybe yes and may no, depending on how it handled, and Tony King-

In the past, manufacturers such as Sandisk and SiliconSystems created custom configurations and designated custom part numbers for customers. Now, as...

that boast low power usually get my attention. Sometimes it's because I want to see if those boasts have any merit and sometimes it's simply to see ho...

Deep learning algorithms are being used to train convolution neural networks (CNN) to enable smarter mobile devices and this may well require a new ap...

In an earlier blog, I discussed the many safety benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, which is estimated by the U.S. Department of Tran...

Over the years, I've seen many embedded systems designed to a specific vendor's flash card. In most cases, industry standard specs were available at t...

They are a company known for its positioning technology. The question asked (and answered) is, what's the future of positioning technology, as it's clear that it’s a very desirable technology. U-blox

I was recently introduced to Marvell's Final-Level Cache (FLC) architecture. It actually solves a problem I wasn't even aware existed. Imagine that. I...

Functional safety is critical for the automotive systems-on-chip (SoCs) that are the technology backbone for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)...

With today's technologies, you can have both options, prototype and emulate. As emulation methodologies become more popular and affordable for a varie...

When it comes to receiving design information, like real, hands-on, how-to information that's delivered with real hardware and software, there aren't...

The number and variety of DIY boards available today is quite amazing. There's a board for every level of maker from beginner students to advanced pro...

You need to first understand what the IoT is before you can start the process of designing attached devices. The IoT hype machine has been in full swi...

A little while back, Xilinx introduced its UltraScale+ architecture, which is 16 nm technology. The new architecture will show up in the company's Kin...

Do you feel comfortable updating your system over the Internet? What of your data is personal or mission critical. Our expert in the field claims that it's safe, sort of. But don't expect him to be in

Here I evaluate the XeThru Explorer's baby breathing monitoring function on my 4 month old son, Jake.