IoT
Sensors Expo 2015: Quick hits - LeddarTech optical time of flight and ZMDI sensor signal conditioning round out 30th Sensors Expo - Other
June 23, 2015I was running behind and had to catch a flight at LAX (which I ended up missing anyway thanks to a subpar Uber driver), so my stop bys at the LeddarTe...
Open Source
Sensors Expo 2015: MEMSIC brings MEMS sensors to UAVs, agriculture, more in INU/INS dev platforms - Other
June 23, 2015Another MEMS-focused sensor shop, the aptly named MEMSIC focuses on flow sensors and inertial measurement units (IMUs). Like so many IC designers thes...
IoT
Sensors Expo 2015: Hoffmann + Krippner membrane sensors put IoT at your fingertips - Other
June 20, 2015Jens Kautzor, CEO of Germany-based Hoffmann + Krippner, not only offered me an outlet to charge my phone, but opened my eyes to the limitless possibil...
Automotive
Sensors Expo 2015: ams sensors address automotive inefficiencies - Other
June 20, 2015Recalling a brief history of the MEMS industry, ams is one designer and manufacturer of sensors and sensor ICs whose bread and butter still lies in th...
IoT
Sensors Expo 2015: EMAC engineers give embedded take on "IoT" - Other
June 19, 2015Marketing teams have been on the Internet of Things (IoT) train for a while now, but embedded engineers are a different breed. No matter where I am or...
Industrial
Sensors Expo 2015: HSI Sensing experience lends itself to deep industrial sensing - Other
June 19, 2015You can never count out experience when operating in critical environments, and HSI Sensing has nearly 50 years of it. At their booth at the 2015 Sens...
Consumer
Sensors Expo 2015: ROHM and Kionix on sensors as a "natural language" - Other
June 18, 2015Sensors are something most of us usually take for granted, whether it be the 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer that modify smartphone displ...
Industrial
Sensors Expo 2015: Fabless friendly - Rogue Valley Micro supports companies designing for emerging silicon - Other
June 18, 2015With all the overhead involved in semiconductor manufacturing, it's no wonder so many companies are going fabless these days. An increasing number of...
Processing
Sensors Expo 2015: Bosch Sensortec and subsidiary Akustica bring new waves of MEMS to market - Other
June 18, 2015How much do you know about MEMS microphones? Well, probably more than you think, because there are probably several of them in your smartphone. In a b...
IoT
Sensors Expo 2015: Olea Sensor Networks gets personal with intelligent partitioning and identity management for IoT - Other
June 18, 2015For those that were under the impression that Sensors Expo was limited to simple input hardware, you should put the 2016 Sensors Expo in Silicon Valle...
Open Source
Sensors Expo 2015: What's on the bus? 9-axis Sensor Fusion Toolbox on display in Freescale IoT bus - Other
June 18, 2015Speaking of MEMS sensor fusion, my next meeting paired me with Ian Chen of Freescale, one of the individuals who was instrumental in bringing open-sou...
Open Source
Sensors Expo 2015: STMicro packs MEMS, BLE, and open source into quick start dev environment - Other
June 18, 2015A common theme from Sensors Expo was that the design engineer of today expects more. More hardware, more software, more connectivity, and they sometim...
Healthcare
Sensors Expo 2015: Exergen extends medical temp sensors to industrial OEMs - Other
June 17, 2015I never expected a briefing to begin with a product that is being used to in place of rectal thermometers, but I guess now I can cross that off my buc...
Industrial
Sensors Expo 2015: Linear Technology on the current (and voltage) state of energy harvesting - Other
June 17, 2015Energy harvesting technologies are the stuff that dreams are made of in the minds of engineers. If perfected, they could help us reduce emissions, sav...
Consumer
Sensors Expo 2015: Grid Connect contemplates the wireless factory - Other
June 17, 2015Last summer I met Grid Connect's Adam Justice at an IoT show in Silicon Valley where we overviewed the company's ConnectSense platform. To kick off th...
Industrial
Floored: COMPUTEX Taipei 2015 - Other
June 07, 2015Slide show -- COMPUTEX may be the biggest tech show in Asia, and if you don't believe it simply take a look at the number of industrial PC (IPC) vendo...
Industrial
COMPUTEX Taipei: Cavium displays OCTEON Fusion technology in advance of OCTEON III release - Other
June 06, 2015Leading up to the release of their OCTEON III network processors last week [Link], Cavium had their full portfolio on display at the Grand Hyatt durin...
IoT
COMPUTEX Taipei: Startup Tuxera brings interoperable filesystem technology to embedded - Other
June 06, 2015My colleague Rory Dear did a brief pre-show write up on the Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability framework being developed by Swedish startup Tux...
Storage
COMPUTEX Taipei: Cervoz industrial storage brings T?V-certified MLC, SLC to embedded - Other
June 06, 2015One of a few storage vendors that I met with at COMPUTEX, Cervoz is a manufacturer of MLC and SLC flash SSDs for the embedded/IPC industry, but what s...
Processing
COMPUTEX Taipei: TechNexion takes ARM-first approach to IPC - Other
June 06, 2015Henri Parmentier of TechNexion introduced me to the company for the first time, which he says began targeting ARM-based IPC boards almost eight years...