Embedded Computing Design

I just spent a few hours at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, a very well-attended event. For embedded developers, there was a lot to...

You've now reached Part 4 of my four-part series on encryption. So now you're an expert, right? Part 1 covered AES encryption, describing the differen...

In Part 1 and Part 2 we discussed the benefits of constructing a ratiometric three-wire resistance temperature detectors (RTD) system along with an er...

As electronics become ever more pervasive in the automotive, industrial automation, and medical device sectors, fault-tolerant electronic subsystems a...

In a series of recent announcements, Wind River has upped its offerings in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. First, the company announced an enhance...

While more costly and potentially more complex, the benefits of digital PFC can vastly outweigh the alternatives. Power-factor correction (PFC) is inc...

Slide show -- There is no shortage of fitness gadgets on the market. Here are a few of our most recent favorites, including a hand gesture-powered ska...

Open-source software has been around for a while. Its longevity has surprised a lot of people, especially in the applications that are mainstream. Drew Jensen, the CMO of Sage Electronics, is a big be

I happen to be a fan of ARM's mbed ecosystem. Like many of the other development platforms, it's a great way to get your prototype designed with a hug...

To support the Maker democratization spirit, MATLAB and Simulink now include direct deployment to low-cost boards like Arduino Due and Raspberry Pi. A...

In Part 1 we introduced three-wire RTDs, lead resistance cancellation, and the benefits of designing a ratiometric three-wire RTD system. We showed th...

Different applications requires different analog inputs. HART-enabled techniques simplify the design process. It's not uncommon to see 4 m Ato 20 mA a...

There's a lot happening in the embedded space right now. Exciting and important spaces like Internet of Things, automotive, security, code analysis, a...

Agile was a strong theme at recent Verification Futures conference, with a number of speakers discussing how they have introduced continuous integrati...

As you might expect, test technologies of today don't bear much resemblance to those of a decade or two ago. This week's interviewee is Jay Alexander, the CTO of Keysight, formerly Agilent Technologie

Model-based designs are often the method of choice when dealing with critical systems as well as high quality systems. This often removes some of the...

Many medical, process control, and industrial automation applications require precision temperature measurements to accomplish their function. Resisti...

One of the aspects of Embedded World that I enjoy is that it's still a meeting place for people at the engineering level as well as those in the C sui...

Diamond Systems, a company that's known for its compact, rugged systems for real-time applications, released its Universal Driver 7.0 software toolkit...

Depending on your definition of an embedded system (a debate for another day), you could argue that such systems have been with us for decades or longer. But clearly, today's embedded systems are quit