Embedded Computing Design

“By using this computer and module philosophy, you end up with a very flexible system," said Chris Engels of Avnet Integrated. "The result is a system that’s widely usable over a long period of time."

An interview with Burrell Best of Samtec, an overview of the signal integrity and platform integrity subgroup activities enabling COM-HPC.

The COM-HPC specification consists of two basic components, the server and the client. Here, I’m going to focus on the client side by referencing a recent interview with Max Chi of Advantech.

The new PICMG COM-HPC specification includes both client and server implementations. Here, I look at the server side based on an interview with ADLINK Technology, Inc.

With technologies like Gen 5 PCI Express (32 Gtransfers/s) and 5G on the horizon, the time is right for a new COM spec, and COM-HPC is, in essence, an upgrade to—but not a replacement for—COM Express.

Jens Hagemeyer and Martin Kaiser, a pair of research associates at Bielefeld University in Germany, discuss platform management for COM-HPC.

Simply put, today’s IIoT devices gather enough data to power virtual manufacturing equipment known as “digital twins” that businesses can use to automatically plan or test new strategies.

Twilio, the publicly traded cloud communications platform, recently acquired electric imp, a long-time embedded software and services company. What gives? Is this the end of embedded as we know it?

COVID-19 starts just about every conversation, and that was the case in this week’s Embedded Executives, when I spoke to Jason Carlson, the CEO of congatec. But I really wanted to discuss COM-HPC.

In this edition of the Embedded Insiders, Brandon and Rich discuss the semantics of AI and intelligent technology and what qualifies as a smart system these days.