Embedded Computing Design

Benchmark testing is a favorite of electronic engineers, as it provides a quick reference on performance, power consumption, latency, or other compone...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought software developers from all walks of technology into the field of embedded system design, and with them vari...

Do you remember when one advantage of the ARM architecture was its limited number of instructions? After all, the "R" in "ARM" stands for reduced inst...

It's hard to believe, but once again it's time for the most exciting (and exhausting) show of the year - the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). CES 2017...

The more integrated, the better. That's truer in the embedded space now than ever before. For proof, look at the system on chip (SoC) landscape. SoC i...

Internet of Things (IoT) development continues to get easier and cheaper as vendors package highly integrated development kits with processing, sensor...

The Internet of Things (IoT) and security have been mainstays in technology headlines over the past month, and really for more than a year now. Distri...

Those of us in the media, at least, started hearing rumors of NXP being acquired almost as soon as they completed the purchase of Freescale late last...

Those of us in the media, at least, started hearing rumors of NXP being acquired almost as soon as they completed the purchase of Freescale late last...

The idea of delivering an audio product from start to finish in one day may seem ambitious, but that's what the Audio Engineering Society (AES) set ou...

Consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues, sort of. This time, it's not a semiconductor vendor acquiring another, but instead acquiring a...

The latest domino to fall in what has become an 18-month-long string of semiconductor acquisitions is Fairchild Semiconductor, which was officially pu...

Consolidation of the semiconductor industry continues as Renesas has agreed to acquire analog and mixed-signal IC vendor Intersil for roughly $3.2 bil...

My first day of work in the embedded computing space came the day after the Super Bowl in 2011. I had about as much knowledge of the high-tech industr...

As Internet of Things (IoT) concepts took hold and started to become realities a few years back, one of the first challenges realized was interoperabi...

The past 12 months for semiconductor IP firm ARM have been big. Really big. Let's take a look at some of the highlights: The ARMv8-M architecture was...

It's often the case that success breeds controversy, particularly in the technology industry and especially with regards to software. Given the amount...

As silicon geometries approach the edge of physics, a new rule of thumb is poised to govern the computing industry: "Thou shalt reduce power consumpti...

There was a time when isolation helped ensure IT system security. Mainframes lived in glass rooms accessible to a few carefully screened attendants. I...

Ethernet is a pervasive networking technology in the enterprise and consumer sectors, and its widespread adoption has helped drive speed and cost impr...