Embedded Computing Design

When the discussion of “AI everywhere” comes up with the folks at onsemi, they know that there’s far more to the design complexity than massive amounts of processing. They help designers deal with the massive amount of power that’s required to drive these systems. Embedded Computing Design’s Rich Nass sat with onsemi’s Felicity Carson to understand how the company is working with designers to maximize power efficiency.

Digital twins, a virtual representation of a physical product, can simplify your development process. To me, doing something that sounds quite complex can’t actually make something easier. However, as Marc Serughetti, the Vice President of Product Line Management for the Synopsys Systems Design Group, explains to me, that’s really how it works. 

Hear it from the expert on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

If you listen to the mainstream AI conversation, you might assume that every meaningful deployment requires racks of GPUs, enormous training datasets, and a Cloud energy budget that could power a small city. That perception comes largely from the enterprise AI world. Large language models, enterprise analytics platforms, and recommendation engines dominate the headlines.

Haydn Povey of SCI Semiconductor discusses the world's most secure microcontroller with Rich Nass, from Embedded Computing Design.

If you weren't able to attend embedded world in Nuremberg, Germany, a few weeks ago, you’ll love this recap of the event featuring David Sandys, the Senior Director of Technical Enablement and Engagement at DigiKey. 

While it’s not possible to see everything at a show as large as embedded world, David and I pull out many of the highlights. 

Check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. and hear about some of the things that stood out for David (and for DigiKey).

If you were not aware, you need to be: we are in a memory crisis. 

Lattice Semiconductor's Esam Elashmawi sits with Embedded Computing Design's Rich Nass to talk about the company's latest programmable devices.

SSV Software Systems recently introduced its Wireless Remote Development services, designed to help developers maintain and update wireless IoT and embedded systems over long service lifetimes while addressing emerging European regulatory requirements such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Radio Equipment Directive Delegated Act.

Systems are demanding more from their memory subsystems, and they can get it thanks to the latest controller from Rambus, as evidenced in the discussion between Rambus' Bart Stevens and Embedded Computing Design's Rich Nass.

The Nordic Semiconductor nRF54LM20B is a wireless SoC in the company’s nRF54L series that combines an MCU, low-power wireless connectivity, and on-chip AI acceleration. The device integrates up to 2 Mbytes of nonvolatile memory and 512 kbytes of RAM, the largest memory configuration in the series.

NeoCortec has introduced an updated version of its gateway software, called NeoCortec NeoGW, along with a new web-based network management application designed to simplify the integration and administration of wireless mesh networks based on the company’s NeoCortec NeoMesh protocol stack.

Handling your AI off-chip is a great way to increase performance, which was the topic of the discussion between Axelera's Fabrizio DelMaffeo and Rich Nass of Embedded Computing Design

Industrial power conversion is somewhat of an obscure topic, but nonetheless, super-important for people designing any type of platform or equipment for the industrial space. 

Panasonic Industry recently introduced a transparent conductive film called FineX FineCross) designed for EMI shielding in applications where optical clarity must be maintained. The film targets systems such as displays, industrial equipment interfaces, and wireless communication environments where both visibility and electromagnetic control are required.

Editor Rich Nass interviews Alex Wood, Global Marketing Director, Tria Technologies, and Robert Thompson, Director Edge Processing Ecosystems, NXP, at embedded world 2026.

You’ve heard it over and over—you must incorporate security into your design. And in most cases, that’s happening today. But the task can still be somewhat daunting. That’s where a vendor like Thistle Technologies comes into play. They can make the integration far easier than you might have expected. 

Hear why and how from the company’s Founder and CEO, Window Snyder, who has seen far more than most of us when it comes to security. Window was this week’s guest on the Embedded Executives podcast.

Physical AI is a term that’s in vogue right now. It refers to the application of AI to systems that directly interact with and influence the physical world. Unlike Cloud-based AI models that analyze data and produce insights, physical AI closes the loop between perception, decision-making, and actuation. It senses its environment, processes that data locally or at the Edge, and then potentially drives such equipment as motors, valves, pumps, or actuators. In short, it turns algorithms into action.

T-minus six days for embedded world in Nuremberg. If you’ve been in the embedded space for any amount of time, you’re likely aware of embedded world, which is the annual global meeting place for the industry. 

On this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, I was able to corral Axel Sikora, the Chairman of the conference’s technical committee. We walked through some of the highlights of the upcoming event.

You need some sort of UI on your system. It may be quite elaborate, or it may be very simple. In either case, designing that UI should not be a barrier to entry for an embedded system. Enter LVGL, or Light and Versatile Graphics Library, an open-source embedded graphics library that aims to (and accomplishes) eliminating that barrier. 

To understand why this is even an issue and how designers can get past it, Rich and Vin spoke to Gabor Kiss-Vamosi, the Founder and CEO of LVGL, on this episode of DevTalk with Rich and Vin.

It’s always fun the weeks after CES, when some of the cooler the products you’ve seen on site in Las Vegas show up for real-life testing. This year, I took a look at two products, both wireless devices that are aimed at protecting the home.