Embedded Computing Design

Nuance does voice recognition. That means that it offers an entryway into a ton of cool applications. 

It’s no secret that software companies are valued higher than hardware companies, even though, in many cases, they don’t have a tangible product to sell. So why are they worth more? That’s a great que

I had a brief encounter with Cadence’s Krishna Balachandran, who is responsible for low-power products. As you can see in the video, I handled the toughest part of the interview — pronouncing Krishna’

When we went to Sierra Monitor to shoot a video for the IoT Roadshow, they were more than prepared for us. In fact, they took matters into their own hands — literally. 

When we went to Sierra Monitor to shoot a video for the IoT Roadshow, they were more than prepared for us. In fact, they took matters into their own hands — literally. In part 2 of the video demo, Kel

Silicon Motion develops technologies for the embedded graphics subsystem within your IoT device. According to Arthur Lee, a director at the company, they do this by developing a series of SoCs that co

The IoT roadshow took us to northern California, better known as Silicon Valley. The IoT expert: Asit Goel, who is the vice president and general manager of NXP’s IoT group. 

If you’re designing an IoT system that needs to communicate over various media, or you’re just not sure which one is the right one for you, Renesas has a solution. In my discussion with Jason Chieng,

I saw some demos at WindSpring that really got my attention. The company takes data compression to a level that I had not seen before. One great example was a device that’s a person locator/communicat

There are many building blocks required to put together an IoT system. 

Red Hat has an interesting take on IoT, which I found out when our IoT Roadshow traveled up to Massachusetts. When I asked Ken Johnson, Senior Director of Product Management for Red Hat what it’s all

I could come up with a lot of reasons why I wouldn’t want to develop my IoT system on an open-source platform. Apparently, there are just as many reasons where the opposite thinking is true, and maybe

Michael Murray, General Manager of Analog Devices’ Industrial Sensing Group, described the company’s initiative into autonomous sensing. You’re not familiar with that technology? 

Nuance Communications is very good at developing voice-input technology. 

It’s easy to call the hardware portion of the IoT subsystem a commodity. And in some instances, actually many instances, you’d be right. But there are some nuances that make some hardware providers sh

One of the current presidential candidates is touting that we should be offering free college tuition to our young people. 

Here’s a topic that’s pretty controversial—moving jobs to third-world countries to save money on labor. 

Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, has been around for a while and has seen more than his share of game-changing inventions. 

Embedded TechCon moves to Austin this year on June 7th and 8th, and, just like last year, the program consists of 20 hands-on classes that are designe...

Learn how to leverage Node.js, Python, and the MediaTek Cloud Sandbox to push firmware updates over-the-air instantly to a LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo board.