The smart home market has been seemingly poised for takeoff for decades. As we approach 2019, Avi Barel, Director of Business Development at the ULE Alliance, gives his perspective on what's working, what's not working, and what to expect in the connected home technologies of the future.

Open-source RISC initiatives have, for the most part, failed to live up to expectations. OpenRISC, for example, introduced an ISA and architectural description for a family of 32- and 64-bit processors in 2000, but that resulted in only one implementation and limited adoption outside of academic circles. Another RISC-based open-source hardware project, OpenSPARC, has also had limited commercial success.

Embedded Computing Design recently conducted targeted industry research on the prevalence of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the development community. Much to our surprise, more than 75 percent of the respondents are already researching or using AI in one capacity or another.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. released the 200 MHz, 4-channel models of the InfiniiVision 1000 X-Series oscilloscopes that include 4-wire Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) decode and remote connection via local area networks (LANs).

The Bluetooth Mesh prhas a huge upside in my opinion. But when is it going to be ready for prime time? Or is it already? And what about competitive media, like ZigBee or Wi-Fi? These are just some of the questions I threw at Mahendra Tailor, a Technology Leader at Laird Connectivity in this week?s Five Minutes with?discussion.

BOPLA will be appearing at embedded world from February 26 - 28 in Nuremberg in hall 3, booth 3-155 exhibiting its integration of displays and touchscreens into industrial embedded applications.

As automobile electronics become more prevalent and sophisticated, ensuring the reliability of the embedded software code within those systems becomes critical to the safety of passengers and pedestrians.