Embedded and Microcontrollers blog

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Earlier this spring, I wrote about my experience building a Raspberry Pi-based Aircraft Tracker and then taking it for a test flight around the traffic pattern at Hayward Airport in the San Francisco Bay…

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Well, I finally finished my Barc project. The design is attached to this blog. I think I learned a lot. Mostly that I should never pick up another soldering…

Last week we were pulling the nightshift in Cave 4B at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, using the 88-Inch Cyclotron facility to perform Heavy Ion Testing on the VA10820 Arm Cortex-M0 based microcontroller…

The seemingly impossible medical application of a new technology to address neurodegenerative disease stands to be within reach for bi-directional brain-computer interfaces (BBCI).

April 25, 2017 will be remembered by developers as a liberation day, because it’s the day Linaro announced the HiKey 960 board from HiSilicon. This innovative board was designed to resolve one of the persistent…

It has long been common knowledge that particle strikes can flip bits in memory arrays and disrupt code execution. This is a common event in space, is somewhat common when travelling on aircraft and will…

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As a developer, working on new hardware is pretty common. The product team…

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If you were following Cypress news for the few weeks, I’m sure you saw some interesting and exciting announcements…in between reading my…

Electronics packaging technology has moved on a bit since that classic line about ‘plastics’ was delivered in The Graduate movie, 50 years ago. Plastic packages are now capable of operating comfortably…

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If you read my last post about Barc you will know that I was feeling pretty confident prior to the Embedded World show. All I needed to do was add some…

Many of the engineers that are working on designs using the ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller care deeply about power consumption. This is particularly true for designers who use the VORAGO Technologies VA108x0…

One of the things that has struck me walking around the halls of Nuremberg Messe this week is that the classic definition of embedded computing needs to be updated as the market has evolved significantly…

As embedded devices become more prevalent and assume more responsibility in our daily lives, there is a need for functional safety to make sure that we are not put in danger by any faults that may occur…

(This is a wrap up of my thoughts from day 1 of Embedded World 2017. For highlights from day 2, check out EW17 day 2 blog: All about automotive) Guten tag from Nuremberg! The Embedded World conference…

Continuous integration has (finally) arrived in mainstream embedded to do away with the integration hell, mitigating the risk of project schedule delays.

Arm announces safety package for its latest-generation C/C++ compilation toolchain Arm Compiler 6. The package consists of the safety-certified Arm Compiler toolchain, compiler qualification kit and long…

Space electronics technology has not kept up the pace of innovation that we have seen in recent years in commercial products such as consumer handsets.

Today, the SpaceX CRS-10 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off containing a critical piece of experimental electronics. Why is this big news? Because the experiment…

in small satellite activity. Large satellites are expensive and use very expensive components; many tens of thousands of dollars for a rad-hard-by-design processor. SmallSats are still expensive (don…

Today is the day we’ve been waiting for:  The OpenFog Consortium has announced its reference architecture.  You can find it here.   This is the culmination of a year’s work by lots of dedicated engineers…