Embedded Computing Design

Resistive touchscreens arguably should have been resigned to the technological scrap heap alongside ZIP drives and dial-up modems long ago. However th...

As we get closer to reaching the limits of flash capability, we naturally ponder, "What's next?" The University of Southampton believes it has the ans...

As a standalone product, the well-publicized IoT gateway has come under regular attack since its inception from seasoned OEMs adamantly realizing that...

Back in 2014, I wrote ARM vs x86: Is x86 dead? where naturally my conclusion was a simple and resounding "no." However, I observed ARM gaining such tr...

Stretching back to Medieval times the "Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" approach to offender processing was all that existed....

Having spent far too much time wrestling with why, against statistical logic, I invariably only connect a USB connector successfully on the third atte...

The raison d'?tre of the flash storage industry is arguably cross compatibility, thus strict adherence to industry specifications make it notoriously...

I'm often guilty of tunnel vision when it comes to embedded, as the majority of my career has been spent where embedded and industrial were synonymous...

In our increasingly automated world, ensuring safety and reliability of what goes on behind the scenes within embedded software code has reached new l...

No longer the niche industry it once was, the wave of IoT has grabbed embedded computing by the scruff of the neck and dragged it into the consumer sp...

The Internet of Things (IoT) not only promises new business models and revenue streams for those long embedded in our industry (pun intended), but als...

Quick to distance itself from consumer IoT, Industrial IoT (IIoT) or Industry 4.0, by definition, heralds the forth industrial revolution which promis...

To this day I find myself regularly debating the improper crowbarring of commercial IT solutions into industrial applications, where a natural lack of...

Through intense innovation and development, the primary face of embedded computing has changed constantly throughout the decades, but it's only relati...

The first Windows Embedded Standard (WES) was actually a rebranding of XP Embedded incorporating Service Pack 3, its USP componentized into more than...

In its youth, the embedded industry was far less open than it is today. Innovators were keen to keep their advances under wraps for competitive gain,...

Recently I heard a phrase that I now struggle to dislodge from my brain: "Obsolescence is opportunity." On the surface, it is the polar opposite of ho...

For decades graphics capability was the also ran, either only required for development or displaying a crude and basic GUI. Now expectations have move...

For decades graphics capability was the also ran, either only required for development or displaying a crude and basic GUI. Now expectations have move...

It's fair to say that nowadays, what most consider to be "embedded" has shifted. Previously synonymous with SBCs, HMIs, and small form factor industri...