DESIGN West

The motivations are diverse and the projects are exciting, but the long-term impact remains questionable. more >>

Agile software development methods produce higher quality code more quickly than traditional techniques, but needs to be specifically adapted to embedded system design. more >>

Low-power RF specialist highlights chip and module designs using ANT+, Bluetooth and proprietary 2.4-GHz wireless communications and "appcessories" from third parties. more >>

China and the U.S. both engage in cyper-espionage on military targets, but so far only China has been accused of also hacking private companies. more >>

I hope to hear talks on a Google OpenFlow router, a class on the new patent laws—oh yes, and a networked trash can and a wireless beanie network. more >>

You can learn to hack into someone’s car or smartphone, build an underwater vehicle or tele-presence robot among the interesting DIY projects at Design West 2013. more >>

Android is not just for smart phones and tablets, as attendees at DESIGN West will learn in this two-day session on everything engineers need to know to create and deploy an Android-based embedded system. more >>

The new Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung will be able to use its camera to watch you watching it. more >>

Software designers need to adopt hardware design methods to create a foolproof architecture from the very beginning, before writing a single line of code. more >>

I just saw the Hands-On Speed Training schedule for the forthcoming DESIGN West Conference and Exhibition. more >>

MLove Confestival founder Harald Neidhardt foresees "empathetic" electronics, which adapt their functions users' environments. more >>

The three new "From Napkin Sketch to Shenzhen" tracks are among 17 other tracks at DESIGN West 2013. more >>

Learn from entrepreneur Bob Baddeley's failure and his friend's success as he talks crowd-sourced funding for startups. more >>

Day-by-day I am becoming more-and-more excited, because DESIGN West is racing towards us as we speak. more >>

Embedded vision is everywhere around us, including industrial automation, surveillance, automotive safety systems, medical devices, and the hottest kids’ toys. more >>

There's a whole bunch of cool stuff headed our way at the forthcoming DESIGN West 2013 Conference and Exhibition, including free hands-on training sessions from the folks at SparkFun. more >>

Few surprises, but the global appetite for protectionism is high, while education, investment are concerns. more >>

Electronics firms are thinking about supply chain risk management after a disaster-plagued 2011. Will they continue to do so? more >>

The nation’s smart grid is constantly under threat of real attack and potentially no amount of investment in securing it will help, according to a white hat security expert. more >>

Dr. James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky, two cofounders of National Instruments Corp. (Austin, Texas) honored with the lifetime achievement award at the UBM Electronics ACE awards on Tuesday (March 27), sat down with EE Times to discuss a 35-year progress since the formation of their company. more >>

In the AMD booth on the DESIGN West exhibit floor, Xi3 unveiled its plans to enter the data center market with its microservers. more >>

Operating system vendor Enea AB (Stockholm, Sweden) announced at the DESIGN West exhibition that it is now supplying Enea Linux together with some complementary technologies. more >>

Computer vision still has a lot to learn, but if researchers embrace real-world challenges they could make important breakthroughs, said a DARPA program manager. more >>

McAfee expects mobile threats to continue along the trends set in the PC world, moving from simple monetary gain towards deep privacy loss, corporate espionage and cyber war, according to a company representative more >>

Slow, steady improvement in battery technology over the past several decades as brought the world to the cusp of a tipping point that will lead to greater adoption of electric vehicles, according to JB Straubel, chief technology and co-founder of Tesla Motors. more >>

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has become tougher but more predictable in how it handles its 510(k) process, said a consultant at the DesignMed conference. more >>

Amidst all the ICs and software, heat pipes are there to help you carry your (thermal) load more >>

Will the processing power being enabled by many-core processors cause the advent of machines with super-human intelligence, an event sometimes referred to as the singularity? That was the question put to a panel of some of the best minds in multicore processor theory and design assembled at the Multicore DevCon, part of DESIGN West being held here this week. more >>

Imperas, a pioneer of high-level modeling and virtual prototyping, has models of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor in beta and expects them to be available in the first half of 2012. The range of available models, together with Imperas tool and operating system support, is helping platform and software developers debug systems in parallel with SoC design, speeding up and improving system development, the company said. more >>

The Freespace MotionEngine has already empowered the smart TV revolution at LG, Roku and Sony by enabling remote controllers to point-and-click on-screen air-mouse style. Now Hillcrest Labs has repurposed it for tablets and smartphones running the Android and Windows Phone operating systems. more >>