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Using Safety Application Notes to Aid Safety Designs—Part 3: Improving Functional Safety Performance

Bryan Angelo Borres

May 11, 2026

After doing a first iteration of the failure modes, effects, and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA) on a safety function’s circuit, there can only be two outcomes. The first is that the system integrity level (SIL) requirements are achieved, and the second is a failure to meet the requirements.

Open Source

Mouser Product of the Week: NXP Semiconductors’ FRDM-A-S32K312 Evaluation Board

Tiera Oliver

May 11, 2026

Embedded automotive, industrial, and IoT applications need a reliable, versatile, and robust platform that supports the development and prototyping of safety-critical systems. Developers of these applications need to design, test, and evaluate the performance of these systems before they are deployed into the real world, and a ready-made platform board can help.

IoT

From Telematics to Edge Intelligence: Reengineering Safety-Critical Embedded Systems

Ellen Warren

May 5, 2026

A Conversation with Alekh Vaidya

Software & OS

Ada Is a Memory-Safe Language. It's Also Not New. That's the Point.

Mark Hermeling

May 4, 2026

The NSA and CISA published a cybersecurity information sheet in 2022 recommending that developers move to memory-safe languages. It was updated in 2023, then again in June 2025. These reports sparked extensive global discussion about the use of memory-safe languages in critical software. Other regulations, such as the European Cyber Resilience Act, do not explicitly mention technologies like memory safety but instead focus on higher-level concepts such as 'state-of-the-art' and 'secure-by-design'.

Storage

How Synthetic DNA for Data Storage Could Help the Memory Crisis

Tiera Oliver

May 1, 2026

If you haven’t already heard, we’re in a memory crisis. More specifically, we’re in a global memory chip shortage, which began in late 2025 and is likely to persist into 2027, according to the International Data Corporation.

This shortage is caused by the exponential increase in high-performance AI models and the amount of data and subsequent data centers required to keep them running.

AI & Machine Learning

Industrial Automation is Advancing with AI, and the Opportunity is Huge

Ken Briodagh

April 30, 2026

Ever since Physical AI became the hype term of the day, it’s rubbed me a bit wrong.

As it’s commonly defined, physical AI describes the intersection of AI with the physical world and the compute process by which AI can sense, control, and act in the real world.

Security

Using Safety Application Notes to Aid Safety Designs Part 2: Plugging in the FMEDA

Bryan Angelo Borres

April 28, 2026

After doing some sanity checks to confirm whether the assumptions in deriving the component’s functional safety (FS) failure rate, failure mode distribution (FMD), and pin failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), the next step system integrators need to take is to plug the data into their system’s failure modes, effects, and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA).

Open Source

Dev Kit Weekly: STM32MP257F Dev Kit from Newark, an Avnet company

Ken Briodagh

April 22, 2026

The STM32MP257F-DK Discovery kit is designed as a complete demonstration and development platform for the STMicroelectronics STM32MP257FAK3 based on the Arm Cortex A35 and M33.

Industrial

Aetina and Anantak Transform Warehouse Operations with Autonomous VGVs

Aetina Corporation

April 15, 2026

AI expertise and powerful embedded compute enable OEMs to meet industrial sector demand

Industrial

Humanoid Perspectives: Advancing the Future of Robotics | Episode 1: Market Dynamics and the Road Ahead

Vecow Team

April 14, 2026

Exploring the evolution, current landscape, and strategic growth trends of humanoid robotics

AI & Machine Learning

Embedded AI Isn’t Enterprise AI, and That’s a Good Thing

Rich Nass

April 13, 2026

If you listen to the mainstream AI conversation, you might assume that every meaningful deployment requires racks of GPUs, enormous training datasets, and a Cloud energy budget that could power a small city. That perception comes largely from the enterprise AI world. Large language models, enterprise analytics platforms, and recommendation engines dominate the headlines.

Edge AI

Why In-Domain ASR Is the Missing Link for Real Edge AI Deployment

Casey NG

April 10, 2026

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been defined by the rise of large language models (LLMs). Systems like ChatGPT have reshaped expectations around conversational interfaces and reasoning. Yet when we move beyond demos and examine what is shipping in consumer and industrial products, the presence of AI at the edge remains surprisingly limited.

Debug & Test

Mouser Product of the Week: Analog Devices’ ADPA1112-EVALZ Evaluation Board

Tiera Oliver

April 6, 2026

Test and evaluation are critical and repetitive processes for engineers working with a wide variety of applications, especially those that are safety-critical. Development and test platforms are designed to support engineers developing these systems, providing ready-to-use and fully equipped solutions that measure and support the reuse or adaptation of designs to fit existing systems.

Automotive

Synopsys Achieves First ISO/PAS 8800 Certification for AI-Driven Automotive Systems

Chad Cox

May 13, 2026

Synopsys announced that after independent evaluation by SGS TÜV Saar, the company has become the first to achieve product certification for ISO/PAS 8800, outlining the safety requirements for the use of AI in road vehicles. Due to the number of sensors in on-road vehicles utilizing AI, data delay is critical and secure, real-time communication is now a must for automotive safety. ISO/PAS 8800 focuses on verified product behavior, not just development processes.

IoT

Axiomtek Launches Rugged ICO150 Industrial IoT Gateway for Edge Environments

Chad Cox

May 13, 2026

Axiomtek introduced its ultra-compact (4.8 x 11 x 15 cm) and rugged DIN-rail industrial IoT gateway, the ICO150, engineered for collecting data and environmental monitoring at the industrial edge. The solution is powered by the quad-core Intel Atom x7433RE processor and is designed to support distributed deployments across factories, agriculture, and smart building environments.