Embedded Computing Design

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

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