Looking back on 20 great years
Hard to believe, but it was twenty years ago this past summer that four young (or youngish) embedded systems engineers – John Fayos, Omar Rahim, Dave Rice, and myself – got together and founded Critical Link.
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Weather Forecasting
Over the past month or so, I’ve been keeping my eye on the news about hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria...What’s most interesting to me in all this is, of course, the underlying science and technology of weather forecasting.
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Some Stats from the 2017 Embedded Markets Survey
A few highlights from the Aspencore 2017 Embedded Market Study.
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A stroll down memory lane
My last post (on asynch resets) wasn’t exactly light summer reading. So I thought that, as the summer winds down, I’d give you a break by focusing on a couple of recent EE Times articles that are a bit more fun. (Not that asynch resets can’t be fun…)
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Asynch resets. (Some light summer reading…)
It’s the dog days of summer. Everyone’s thinking vacation. Or back to school. Or cooling off. Or all three. So this is something of a heavy duty topic to ask you to read up on. But just a few days ago, I came across a three-part article on embedded.com, in with Reuven Dobkin addressed the topic of “Asynchronous reset synchronization and distribution – challenges and solutions.”
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Embedded systems? These guys ain’t kidding!
One Wisconsin company is giving its employees the option of getting an implanted microchip to take care of things like building access that they have been using their badges for.
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Power consumption vs. performance: making tradeoffs
As every engineer well knows, when designing electronics, you’re going to be confronted with tradeoffs. A classic tradeoff is the one between power consumption and performance.
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Hitting the Wall with Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law – which holds that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit roughly doubles every couple of years – held up for a good 25 years, but actually began slowing down a decade or so ago. It's now running up against the limits of physics.
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Quantum Computing’s Breakthrough
Quantum computing looks like it will final become a reality. That reality may be a few years out still, but it's getting closer.
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Where electronics is headed (Part II)
Part II of my summary of Rick Merritt's EE Times roundup of the recent Imec technology forum.
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