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Real-time Android: real possibility, really really hard to do - or just plain impossible?
Bernard Cole
5/13/2012 4:24 PM EDT
Embedded developers are taking a close look at using the Linux-based Android mobile device platform in real-time deterministic apps. But is it realistic? If so, what will it take? Or is this just another tantalizing but impractical dream?
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cdhmanning
An Android system does not have to have all those other apps any more than the Windows CE-based ...
The business of embedded design (for now) is low power
Bernard Cole
5/3/2012 2:23 AM EDT
If 2012 is the year of low power for EDA companies, it has been the decade (and more), of low power challenges for embedded systems designers and will remain so in the foreseeable future.
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Re-evaluating your virtualization options
Bernard Cole
4/25/2012 2:40 PM EDT
Despite the many tools available to aid developers in using hypervisor-based virtualization in multicore designs, Markus Levy of the Multicore Association argues that more needs to be done.
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Pub/sub, the Internet of Things, and 6LoWPAN connectivity
4/17/2012 2:11 PM EDT
The pace of development of next-gen Internet of Things networks is speeding up, driven by a first wave of devices using paradigms such as the lightweight MQTT protocol for delivery over current Wi-Fi and Zigbee wireless sensor networks followed by nextgen IPv6-based 6LoWPAN in a variety of wired and wireless environments.
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Luis Sanchez
Databases? This reminds me of cellular networks and subscriber databases. Seems the IoT will be much ...
Rethinking the graphics in nextgen embedded GUIs
Bernard Cole
4/16/2012 7:11 PM EDT
New directions pioneered by companies such as Apple in mobile phones, tablets, and MP3 players have motivated embedded developers to rethink their assumptions about graphical user interfaces.
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Cats, grasshoppers & the challenges of ESD/EMI
Bernard Cole
4/9/2012 5:17 PM EDT
Embedded systems developers remind me of a cat in a field full of grasshoppers, faced as they are with innumerable transient electrical problems in their designs.
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kalpak
Cat and grasshoppers? Certainly the wrong analogy. The bewildered engineer is more like a herbivore ...
Embedded security in a connected world
Bernard Cole
4/2/2012 4:55 PM EDT
The Stuxnet Worm attack in 2010 should have brought home to embedded systems developers that even the smallest MCU based control system is vulnerable to hackers and security intrusions.
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Immerse yourself in embedded design
Bernard Cole
3/26/2012 4:34 PM EDT
In three intense days of courses, panel sessions, keynotes, hands-on tutorials and myriad show floor activities at ESC DESIGN West, in addition to the Embedded Systems Conference, the expanded venue also includes targeted DESIGN West Summits on Multicore Development, Sensors, Medical Systems, LEDs, Android, and Security.
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Educating Embedded Software Engineers
Bernard Cole
3/19/2012 3:49 PM EDT
For more than 20 years, the continuing education of embedded software developers has been a major focus of the Embedded Systems Conference, Embedded Systems Design Magazine, and Embedded.com.
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Getting in touch with sensors in your designs
Bernard Cole
3/12/2012 3:39 PM EDT
Three recent events have changed the complexion of embedded systems design in fundamental ways, opening up significant opportunities – and challenges – to the prepared developer and engineer as it relates to sensor design.
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