Embedded and Microcontrollers blog

A few months ago, Norwegian sensor developer Novelda unveiled a pair of adaptive Atmel | SMART ATSAM4E16E powered sensor modules capable of monitoring human presence, respiration and other vital information…

Do you recall what you were doing back in the summer of fourth grade? Chances are you weren’t creating a programmable, Arduino-based smartwatch like eight-year-old Maker Omkar Govil-Nair, let alone starting…

Microchip has expanded its popular lineup of secure, ARM Cortex M0+-based MCUs with the new SAM L22 series. The Atmel | SMART SAM L family is the highest scoring product family in the EEMBC ULPBench and…

A quick review of Ethernet switches and transceivers will highlight their importance in the automotive Ethernet and the OPEN Alliance. The connectivity that we’ve long enjoyed via the Internet at home…

Considering making the transition from an Intel-based board to an ARM-based board? I asked two experts at WinSystems what a designer might encounter when making that change.

The ARM University Program (AUP) organized a two-day faculty workshop on “Teaching Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Hands-on” on May 20 and 21, 2015, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad…

In some ways a self driving car is the ultimate embedded system (my definition of an embedded system is one where the user doesn't have access to the OS) and they have been in the news recently because…

Did you know that 45.7 million wearable devices are expected to ship this year, up 133.4% from the 19.6 million units shipped in 2014? And by 2019, reports are calling for shipment volumes to reach 126…

If you've been following our Exploring the world of ARM based Embedded Computing Boards (ECB) project you know that Texas Instruments is a major player in the ECB market and their Sitara family of…

One of the fun parts of our Exploring the world of ARM based Embedded Computing Boards (ECB) project has been hearing about all the creative ways that embedded computing boards are being used in non traditional…

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In recent months, the Femtoduino crew has been hard at work developing a range of new boards, including their highly-popular IMUduino BTLE, and even more recently, the uber-mini FemtoUSB. Now, after much…

With all the buzz around crowdfunding new hardware and after meeting some of the founders of these startups I thought it wise to talk to someone who has literally written a book on electronic products…

Since we launched the Embedded Computing Board (ECB) Resource Guide last month we have seen so much innovation in the embedded computing board world that I can now definitely say its not a sleepy market…

The ARM Single Board Computers has been up for a month now and on a weekly basis we are hearing about innovation in the board market and there is no better way to understand whats happening than talking…

After the release the new Yocto-based BSP and Buildroot support for our VAB-820 board, and AMOS-820 system, I had some time to check the new kernel in that package. Being intrigued that the Xenomai real…

The Initial SparkWe often faced lot of issues with multiple voltage levels, too many adapters & regulators in almost all our projects.  We also realized that in many instance we do require some basic add…

With so many ARM based multicore boards coming to market we are hearing more about systems running multiple operating systems on similar cores (SMP, symmetric multi-processing) or differing cores (AMP…

ARM Executive VP Dipesh Patel delivered a keynote address at the recent 25th anniversary Synopsys Users' Group event in Silicon Valley on designing products for the IoT. The full title is: "The Internet…

As I immersed myself in the world of Embedded Computing Boards it quickly became clear that the early days of the market were driven by Aerospace applications so it made sense to talk to Curtiss-Wright…

VIA Embedded has so far two Freescale i.MX6Q based products, the VAB-820 board and the matching AMOS-820 system. We have started to move from LTIB-based BSP images to Yocto recently for multiple reasons…