Embedded Computing Design

One of the recurring themes when talking to embedded industrial design engineers is how much they hate to reopen an old design to solve an obsolescenc...

Bill can claim that he's written three operating systems in his lifetime. Not too many people can make the claim of writing one, let alone three! I asked him what would lead him to writing these OSs,

In 2011, ISO 26262 was published as the international standard for the development of safety-critical automotive electronic systems, and its use is in...

Over the years, the data center has experienced tremendous computing growth, with servers now able to crunch more data while using less power. In the...

The software needed to operate a sophisticated new car can contain upwards of a hundred million lines of code - fifteen times more than the new Boeing...

Power efficiency in the cloud is a big deal, particularly as the number of servers grows at a staggering pace. The broadband and smartphone revolution...

I just Googled "IoT" and 31.7 million search results popped up in a third of a second. With such staggering search results, it is no surprise that the...

Linux has taken over the embedded industry by storm. Some predicted that this would be the case, but in mnost cases, those were people who had a Linux product to sell. In fairness, the biggest bashers

2015 is being touted by many as a make-or-break year for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this quarter's Executive Outlook, Andrew Morawski, Head of M...

Embedded vision is a subject that's been in the news recently, as technological advances have enabled fast and accurate detection of a wide range of o...

I've always been a fan of TI's MSP430 MCU. If an architecture could be labeled a "pioneer" in the low-power MCU space, that's where I'd put the MSP430...

For unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones that fly in commercial air space, it is reasonable to require applying the same software standards to dr...

It's an exciting time for autonomous driving. In the last nine days, Delphi's Roadrunner automated driving vehicle completed a ~3,400 mile drive from...

I'm afraid it happens far too often - you're instructed to tackle a particular design or add a new feature to an existing design, and you don't even k...

2014 was a tipping point for automotive, where the impacts of code faults in the field and growth in cybersecurity research were felt far beyond softw...

Should we be concerned about cyber-security for our cars? The short answer is yes. However, there's a difference between concern and panic. Here's why...

I remotely attended the Verification Futures conference, organized by TVS in the UK (you can find the slides on their web site) where NMI's Doug Amos...

In a recent survey of software decision-makers in many of the top 20 automakers, the issue of vehicle security was repeatedly mentioned as a growing c...

The number of panes is growing rapidly, with no slowdown in sight. Hence, reducing their power consumption offers big benefits. LCD and OLED panels ar...

This week's guest is Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD. There were some obvious questions to ask Lisa, and as you might expect, I did. • How do you deal with always being labeled the No. 2 processor