Embedded Computing Design

I saw some demos at WindSpring that really got my attention. The company takes data compression to a level that I had not seen before. One great example was a device that’s a person locator/communicat

There are many building blocks required to put together an IoT system. 

Red Hat has an interesting take on IoT, which I found out when our IoT Roadshow traveled up to Massachusetts. When I asked Ken Johnson, Senior Director of Product Management for Red Hat what it’s all

I could come up with a lot of reasons why I wouldn’t want to develop my IoT system on an open-source platform. Apparently, there are just as many reasons where the opposite thinking is true, and maybe

Michael Murray, General Manager of Analog Devices’ Industrial Sensing Group, described the company’s initiative into autonomous sensing. You’re not familiar with that technology? 

Nuance Communications is very good at developing voice-input technology. 

It’s easy to call the hardware portion of the IoT subsystem a commodity. And in some instances, actually many instances, you’d be right. But there are some nuances that make some hardware providers sh

One of the current presidential candidates is touting that we should be offering free college tuition to our young people. 

Here’s a topic that’s pretty controversial—moving jobs to third-world countries to save money on labor. 

Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, has been around for a while and has seen more than his share of game-changing inventions. 

Embedded TechCon moves to Austin this year on June 7th and 8th, and, just like last year, the program consists of 20 hands-on classes that are designe...

Learn how to leverage Node.js, Python, and the MediaTek Cloud Sandbox to push firmware updates over-the-air instantly to a LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo board.

Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, and I discussed the Internet of Things (IoT) in this week’s segment. 

In my experience, just about every CEO has a large ego. But is it necessary? In fact, is it helpful? Those are the questions I asked Ray Zinn, the former longtime CEO of Micrel. 

They don’t qualify as IoT products, but that’s only because they were developed WAY before the Internet came to be. 

The IoT Editorial Roadshow traveled north of Silicon Valley to Santa Rosa and Keysight Technologies. 

Avnet was an interesting stop on the OSM IoT Roadshow, and it cleared up a misconception for Rich Nass, Brand Director of Embedded Computing Design. 

The first stop of the OpenSystems Media IoT Roadshow took Rich Nass to San Jose, and Ayla Networks, an IoT platform as a service (PaaS) solution provider. There he spoke with Rod McLane, the company's

Over 37 years, Ray Zinn, author of Tough Things First and former Micrel Founder and CEO, had more than his share of experience promoting people. 

Intel is making a big push into IoT, a really big push. That tells me that IoT isn’t simply a fad, but something that’s going to be with us for a long time. To understand the reasons why that’s the ca