Embedded Computing Design

I recently attended a roundtable discussion held by Texas Instruments to talk about their latest technology, a wireless battery-management system (BMS) for electric vehicles (EVs).

New version of IoT IDE adds lots of features.

Should you fear the quantum security apocalypse? Do you even know it is and what it means and how it can occur? If you have any doubt, I suggest you listen to this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

“One of the major advantages of the COM-HPC architecture is that you can share the same module and use it across different applications,” offers Joel Finkel of Intel.

The beauty of an open standard like COM-HPC is that it’s interchangeable between different vendors and also between different technologies,” says Christian Eder, congatec.

“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.

My definition of Industry 5.0 has to do with putting people and robots into the same environment, and having them work and operate together, safely and securely.

Standards abound in the world of the IoT. There are standards organizations, some ad-hoc, some with some real muscle behind them. That is certainly the case when it comes to security for the IoT.

Design engineers love development kits, for a bunch of reasons. One, they enjoy seeing how things work and the kits expose the technology.

All Gumstix Raspberry Pi CM4 embedded boards were designed and built in the drag and drop Geppetto design tool and their design templates can be quickly modified from any browser.

Cellular IoT is one way of connecting our devices. But is it the best way?

In practice, an unclonable identity solution is generated from within the PUF SRAM chip. Note this can be easily provisioned and implemented at low cost within the IoT device.