Embedded Computing Design

Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, and I discussed the Internet of Things (IoT) in this week’s segment. 

In my experience, just about every CEO has a large ego. But is it necessary? In fact, is it helpful? Those are the questions I asked Ray Zinn, the former longtime CEO of Micrel. 

They don’t qualify as IoT products, but that’s only because they were developed WAY before the Internet came to be. 

The IoT Editorial Roadshow traveled north of Silicon Valley to Santa Rosa and Keysight Technologies. 

Avnet was an interesting stop on the OSM IoT Roadshow, and it cleared up a misconception for Rich Nass, Brand Director of Embedded Computing Design. 

The first stop of the OpenSystems Media IoT Roadshow took Rich Nass to San Jose, and Ayla Networks, an IoT platform as a service (PaaS) solution provider. There he spoke with Rod McLane, the company's

Over 37 years, Ray Zinn, author of Tough Things First and former Micrel Founder and CEO, had more than his share of experience promoting people. 

Intel is making a big push into IoT, a really big push. That tells me that IoT isn’t simply a fad, but something that’s going to be with us for a long time. To understand the reasons why that’s the ca

Intel is making a big push into IoT, a really big push. That tells me that IoT isn’t simply a fad, but something that’s going to be with us for a long time. 

I would think that when somebody calls you to say that they want to buy your company, that would be reason to celebrate. 

We cover five vertical industries here at Embedded Computing Design: industrial, consumer, automotive, military, and medical (note that IoT and securi...

Do you know what application lifecycle management is? Should you know what it is? It’s highly likely that you should, and if you’re like me, you probably have heard of it and have some idea what it is

Do you know what application lifecycle management is? Should you know what it is?

In this week’s weekly spot with Ray Zinn, former Founder and CEO of Micrel, we talked about one of the biggest names and certainly most respected people in our industry, Andy Grove. 

As PCBs become a more integrated part of the overall system design, the advantages a board manufacturer, like Isola, can provide can be a big competitive advantage for an OEM. However, that OEM has to

As PCBs become a more integrated part of the overall system design, the advantages a board manufacturer, like Isola, can provide can be a big competitive advantage for an OEM. 

Many people want to start their own company for one reason--to get rich. But according to Ray Zinn, author of Tough Things First and former Micrel Founder and CEO, that's clearly the wrong reason.

Proto Labs is a leader in quick-turnaround prototyping, especially for low volumes (yes, I know low volumes means different things to different people). The 3D printing phenomenon has had a great impa

Proto Labs is a leader in quick-turnaround prototyping, especially for low volumes (yes, I know low volumes means different things to different people). 

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Stan Schneider, who is the CEO of Real-Time Innovations, who are better known as RTI. RTI plays in the IoT space, like lots of other players. However, th