Embedded Computing Design

The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge

The future lies within energy-efficient connected devices, also known as the consumer IoT. Bluetooth Smart is one of the technologies that'll take us to that eventual future. To show exactly how we ge

Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with

Ali Sebt is the President of the U.S. division of a Japanese company. Do you think that comes with challenges? You bet it does, and Ali elaborates on that. How do you convince the powers that be with

PCcardsDirect.com sells, amongst lots of other things, PCMCIA cards. Is there still a market for this technology? You'd be surprised (at least I was) by Michaels's response. Then we addressed the othe

Use of multicore processors in embedded systems has dramatically increased over the past several years, and virtualization is an important component t...

Do you know someone who can claim to be a lead designer on Amazon's Kindle? Listen to this interview and you can answer in the affirmative. Adrian Caceres has a passion for anything wireless, includin

Tony is an analog and power guy, and frankly, there are fewer and fewer of these people around today. We had an interesting five-minute discussion about whether analog would actually go away at some p

Oh great, I was hoping there would be another ARM-based processor. That's just what the world needs. Yes, this is dripping with sarcasm, but it's also...

Guess who's involved with the Internet of Things? You got it—IBM. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that a company the size of IBM could be nimble enough to operate in a space that ch

Are you familiar beacon technology? If not, you should be, especially if you're designing products for the consumer and/or retail. In a nutshell, beacon technology takes GPS indoors, to your home, you

Digi claims to have been a leader in IoT for more years that the technology has been around, sort of. How can that be? That's the first question I posed on Joel Young, and he straightened me out. The

While I generally don't think about Microchip when I'm thinking about DSP vendors, they do offer some DSP-based products that are aimed at specific ap...

Mobica is involved with testing mobile platforms. I asked Jim what a designer's biggest challenge would be with respect to testing these platforms. He discussed the fragmentation and proliferation of

Imagination offers solutions to lots of partners that could be viewed as competitive. Is that potentially a problem for an IP company? Maybe yes and may no, depending on how it handled, and Tony King-

They are a company known for its positioning technology. The question asked (and answered) is, what's the future of positioning technology, as it's clear that it’s a very desirable technology. U-blox

Do you feel comfortable updating your system over the Internet? What of your data is personal or mission critical. Our expert in the field claims that it's safe, sort of. But don't expect him to be in

We talk about the Internet of Things, the IoT, all the time. But do people even know what that means? As I said to Dr. Nelson, if I posed that question to ten different people, I'm likely to get at le

In this week's interview, we tackled two key subjects: 1. What's an embedded system? 2. What advice would you give someone looking at doing a start-up? One response was a simple one, and one wasn't

Bill can claim that he's written three operating systems in his lifetime. Not too many people can make the claim of writing one, let alone three! I asked him what would lead him to writing these OSs,