Common knowledge says that if you want to create an ASIC, you’d better have at least $1M in your bank account. The folks at Efabless say that my common knowledge is inaccurate by a long shot. They claim to be able to get folks started for far less than $100k.

I needed to understand how this is possible, so I invited Michael Wishart, the CEO and co-founder of Efabless, to explain how it works on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, with Kumar Gala and Maureen Helm, both Distinguished Engineers with Analog Devices.

Smart transmitters can normalize gain and offset, linearize the sensor by converting its analog signal to digital, process the signals with arithmetic algorithms resident in the microcontroller, convert back to analog, and transmit the result as a standard current along the loop. They also add the capability for digital communications, which share the twisted-pair line with the 4-20 mA signal. The resulting communication channel allows for transmission control and diagnostic signals along with the sensor data. The SoC that integrates AFE, microcontroller, HART®, and 4-20 mA transmitter technology allows for the small size of the 4-20 mA smart transmitter.

A few weeks ago, at CES, I encountered a technology that seemed too science fiction to actually work. In its simplest form, you wear a headband that contains a few sensors, and those sensors read your brain waves. That’s not really possible, or is it? Being the skeptic that I am, I told the spokespeople that I doubted their technology could work, and I moved on.

In this episode of Embedded Insiders, Alex Iuorio, Avnet’s Senior Vice President of Global Supplier Development, delves into the findings of the 2025 Avnet Insights engineering survey. This year’s report focuses on Artificial Intelligence, examining what engineers expect from the market, the challenges they anticipate, and how AI is influencing product design.

Open tools are becoming the norm in the embedded software development space. And that’s definitely the case for Analog Devices’ CodeFusion Studio tool.

The IDE lets developers start with an SoC, and design their systems from there. The software development platform is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

On this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, with Kumar Gala and Maureen Helm, both Distinguished Engineers with Analog Devices’ Software & Digital Platforms Group, we defined what “open” means in this space, then jumped into how and where a developer would get started.

With modern cars aiming to provide home-like comfort and entertainment, the demand for electronic control units (ECUs) has grown exponentially. However, older bus technologies and electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures are struggling to keep up. This article explores how Ethernet technology transformed cars into fully connected experiences.

In the world of Embedded Computing, power management is one of the key pillars to any system’s design. Keeping power use optimized and efficient is important, of course, but also, managing the risks of power surges.