Embedded Computing Design

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

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. 

I would think that when somebody calls you to say that they want to buy your company, that would be reason to celebrate. 

We cover five vertical industries here at Embedded Computing Design: industrial, consumer, automotive, military, and medical (note that IoT and securi...

Do you know what application lifecycle management is? Should you know what it is? It’s highly likely that you should, and if you’re like me, you probably have heard of it and have some idea what it is

Do you know what application lifecycle management is? Should you know what it is?

In this week’s weekly spot with Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, we talked about one of the biggest names and certainly most respected people in our industry, Andy Grove. 

As PCBs become a more integrated part of the overall system design, the advantages a board manufacturer, like Isola, can provide can be a big competitive advantage for an OEM. However, that OEM has to

As PCBs become a more integrated part of the overall system design, the advantages a board manufacturer, like Isola, can provide can be a big competitive advantage for an OEM. 

Many people want to start their own company for one reason--to get rich. But according to Ray Zinn, author of Tough Things First and former Micrel Founder and CEO, that's clearly the wrong reason.

Proto Labs is a leader in quick-turnaround prototyping, especially for low volumes (yes, I know low volumes means different things to different people). The 3D printing phenomenon has had a great impa

Proto Labs is a leader in quick-turnaround prototyping, especially for low volumes (yes, I know low volumes means different things to different people). 

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Stan Schneider, who is the CEO of Real-Time Innovations, who are better known as RTI. RTI plays in the IoT space, like lots of other players. However, th

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Stan Schneider, who is the CEO of Real-Time Innovations, who are better known as RTI. RTI plays in the IoT space, like lots of other players.

This year's presidential race is shaping up to be something that's far different from what typically happens every four years. That's mostly due to the candidacy of Donald Trump.

I spoke to Doug Carlson, who has to define the strategy for Macom. So it only made sense that I ask him not just about the strategy for Macom, but for the strategy of the RF power industry that Macom

I spoke to Doug Carlson, who has to define the strategy for Macom.

Type-C USB is coming, that's for sure. In fact, many folks will tell you it's already here. With the faster throughput, video over USB makes more sens...

In this week's spot with Ray Zinn, former longtime CEO of Micrel, we talk about mistakes that people have made (including from Ray himself). People make mistakes all the time.