OpenSystems Media - Video
February 19, 2016For the past 30+ years OpenSystems Media (formerly OpenSystems Publishing) has focused solely on the embedded computing market. OpenSystems Media offers balance: taking not only a broad, encompassing
Five Minutes With... Jim Douglas, President, Wind River - Video
February 18, 2016Jim Douglas was recently named the President of Wind River, which is a subsidiary of Intel. First, in my five-minute interview with Jim, I asked him what that meant exactly, and if Wind would still co
Five Minutes With Jim Walsh, CTO, Global Logic - Video
February 17, 2016So many vendors today feel the need to "act like a product company." What exactly does that mean? In my interview with Global Logic CTO Jim Walsh, we go through not only what he term means, but why it
Five Minutes With Mark Barrett, CMO, Blu Wireless Technology - Video
February 10, 2016Blu Wireless Technology is a leader in 60-GHz WiGig technology. That begs the question, what exactly is WiGig and do we need another wireless protocol on top of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and so on. In
Five Minutes With Martin H-gerdal, Ericsson - Video
February 03, 2016Power is something that end users can never get enough of. However, those same users are demanding smaller and lighter systems, meaning that smaller power systems are needed. This is a dilemma that Er
Five Minutes With John Molyneux, COO, Blue Pearl Software - Video
January 27, 2016Blue Pearl Software is an EDA company, one that competes with the big guys that you’re likely familiar with. I started the discussion with John Molyneux, the company’s COO, by asking him how a little
Annual reader survey: What are your preferences? The results are in. - Other
January 21, 2016The results are in. We asked you what your design preferences are, and you made it quite clear. I'm referring to the Annual Embedded Reader Study prod...
Five Minutes With Bruce Powel Douglass, IBM's IoT Chief Evangelist - Video
January 20, 2016Believe it or not, Bruce Powel Douglass, one of the most respected experts in the embedded computing space, was able to make a connection between the Internet of Things and neurocybernetics, an area i
Five Minutes With Todd Mozer, President, CEO, and Founder, Sensory - Video
January 13, 2016Sensory is a leader in speech recognition. Is it just me, or have we been promised a truly hands-free world for a very long time. Todd Mozer, Founder of Sensory, explained the difference types of spee
Women in the STEM workforce - Other
January 08, 2016Are women starting to close the gender gap in STEM-related jobs? You bet they are, although the number of engineers is relatively low. As the infograp...
Five Minutes With Tracy Rees, President and CEO, Intrinsyc Technologies - Video
January 06, 2016Intrinsyc provides development kits for design engineers. Currently, they focus on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform. Are you curious why they chose that platform? I certainly was, and that's where this
Dev board with lots of options carries a small price tag - Other
December 28, 2015If you're a regular reader, you're aware of my affinity for development boards/kits. I have a stable of them in my home office (which my wife often re...
Mentor Graphics releases end-to-end IoT gateway solution - Other
December 24, 2015Mentor Graphics recently announced a customizable edge-to-cloud IoT solution that simplifies the "get to market" process for IoT device vendors. Mento...
Five Minutes With Ray Zinn, former (longtime) CEO of Micrel - Video
December 16, 2015Ray Zinn was the CEO of a very successful Silicon Valley tech company, with an emphasis on "very." I asked Ray how he was able to achieve that, through extremely turbulent times in our industry. His r
Five Minutes With? Kaveh Azar, President, CEO, and Founder of Advanced Thermal Solutions - Video
December 09, 2015People often take thermal issues for granted, or hope that those issues will simply go away on their own. Why is that? That's the first question I posed to Kaveh Azar, President, CEO, and Founder of A
D2O development boards add popular industry architectures to portfolio - Other
December 08, 2015We're inundated with development boards. Don't get me wrong - I'm not complaining. I think that's a great thing for our industry. The easier the manuf...
More functions means less protection - Other
December 04, 2015ICs are getting denser. Yes, I know you know that. But did you know that as they get smaller and denser, they get harder (in some cases significantly...
Five Minutes With Steve Sanghi, CEO, Microchip Technology - Video
December 02, 2015Microchip has very much been in the news lately, mostly for two feats. One is the acquisition of Micrel, and the second is the completion of 100 consecutive quarters of profitability. In my interview
Five Minutes With Ted Miracco, CEO, SmartFlow Compliance Solutions - Video
November 25, 2015SmartFlow is focused on software piracy, trying to keep software company's IP from being used without the consent of their owner. There are many categories of "pirates," ranging from soft pirates, tho
I experienced the full spectrum of technology in a weekend - Other
November 24, 2015I was recently exposed to the two extremes of technology over matter of days. First, at a family gathering, I spoke with a cousin who works for a comp...