Embedded Computing Design

First, why would someone name a company after a striped animal? Actually, the company's history dictated that, as Phil Gerskovich, Sr. VP at Zebra Technologies explained to me. When I asked how the co

Momentum continues to grow around the latest incarnation of USB, dubbed USB Type C. Synopsys recently introduced what it is calling "the industry's fi...

Lots of industry pundits continue to crow that the 8-bit MCU market is dead, that 16- or 32-bit devices are so cheap that there's no need for 8-bit de...

Kruberg is the president of Gumstix, a company that specialized in development kits. They began delivering such kits way before it was in vogue to do so. I asked Kruberg why he thought this idea would

Kruberg is the president of Gumstix, a company that specialized in development kits. They began delivering such kits way before it was in vogue to do so. I asked Kruberg why he thought this idea would

A funny thing happened while I was on vacation last week - ams, a provider of high-performance sensors and analog ICs, announced that it has acquired...

Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) took off a few years ago when major cellular operators embraced the trend and began offering low-cost data plan...

Are you looking to extract a business strategy form the Internet of Things (IoT)? That's what you can get from PrismTech, because they know it's really all about the data more than anything else. In t

Are you looking to extract a business strategy form the Internet of Things (IoT)? That's what you can get from PrismTech, because they know it's really all about the data more than anything else. In t

Simon Davidmann, Founder and CEO of Imperas is a self-described "serial engineer." A what? Well, listen to the five-minute interview and you'll understand what that means. As a long-time veteran of t

Simon Davidmann, Founder and CEO of Imperas is a self-described "serial engineer." A what? Well, listen to the five-minute interview and you'll understand what that means. As a long-time veteran of t

The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge

The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge

Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with

Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with

PCcardsDirect.com sells, amongst lots of other things, PCMCIA cards. Is there still a market for this technology? You'd be surprised (at least I was) by Michaels's response. Then we addressed the othe

Use of multicore processors in embedded systems has dramatically increased over the past several years, and virtualization is an important component t...

Do you know someone who can claim to be a lead designer on Amazon's Kindle? Listen to this interview and you can answer in the affirmative. Adrian Caceres has a passion for anything wireless, includin

Tony is an analog and power guy, and frankly, there are fewer and fewer of these people around today. We had an interesting five-minute discussion about whether analog would actually go away at some p

Oh great, I was hoping there would be another ARM-based processor. That's just what the world needs. Yes, this is dripping with sarcasm, but it's also...