Embedded Computing for High Performance: Architectures
Spurred on by the explosion of interest in the Internet of Things, there’s been an explosion of interest in embedded systems. Because of this, Embedded.com is running excerpts from the recently published book "Embedded Computing for High Performance". In this and my next few posts, I’ll be briefly summarizing these excerpts (and encouraging all readers to read the articles in their entirety
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Medical Device Security in the News
Technology that both “enhances the quality of our lives” while at the same time posing “potential challenges” pretty much sums up the Internet of Things when it comes to the consumer end of the product spectrum.
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Rick Merritt’s Top Innovations for 2017 (from EE Times)
It’s still January, so I think it’s okay to sneak in a final 2017 wrap-up, this one a summary of Rick Merritt’s column, “8 Top Innovations of 2017: Engineers march toward progress,” that appeared in a late December EE Times.
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What I missed at CES 2018
I’m always curious about what goes on at CES, the mega consumer electronics show held in Las Vegas every January. Consumer is not the market we typically plays in, but the types of technology that make their way into consumer applications are also found in industrial and scientific applications.
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Tech Trends 2018
Like everyone else in the world, when the new year rolls around, I start thinking about what’s going to happen in this bright and sparkling new year. And I’m curious about what others are saying about what’s going to happen.
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Holiday Greetings
Holiday Greetings!
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The Tech Toy Shopping List for 2017
Shopping for tech toys for the holidays? Here's some tech toys - and one not so tech ones - worth looking at.
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An anti-poaching collar: yet another interesting application using sensors
Ákos Lédeczi is a professor of computer engineering at Vanderbilt, and George Wittemyer teaches in Colorado State’s department of fish, wildlife and conservation biology. They’re designing an anti-poaching collar designed for use with big game in Africa, which they wrote about in an EE Times article.
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Filling ‘er up gets the Faraday treatment
Engineers have been playing around with coming up with an alternative way to charge electric vehicles, and what they’ve come up with is a method based on induction
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Sensor Proliferation
Two things that tend to capture my interest in an article are sensors and cars, and Bill Schweber’s entertaining post in a recent EE Times featured both. So I was entertained.
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