For many months now, I have been looking into the factors that would make IoT reach mass deployment. There are many…
For many months now, I have been looking into the factors that would make IoT reach mass deployment. There are many…
It’s that time of the year again where spring is in full force, the sun is shining, birds are chirping and this year’s college graduates are spreading their wings and sending out resumes. Despite at least four years of schooling and tens of thousands…
For those of you that have met me or heard me speak about the “Internet of Things” (IoT) would know that I normally indicate my displeasure for the term. Don’t get me wrong. I am a firm believer that the future will consist of a world where systems can…
A wide variety of applications will be impacted by the massive trend which is broadly named as the "Internet of Things" (IoT). Even if some may consider this term as being overused, and newer marketing names arise trying to replace it, there is the undeniable…
When I first saw the name of the series from Nordic Semiconductor, namely nRF51, I thought to myself "Oh God! These guys are doing great RF, but still use the good old 8051 processor -- what a shame!". Fortunately, I was misled by the family naming, and…
In the spirit of some of the more well-known ARM-based development boards and their popular communities, I was curious what other innovative ideas are out there being crowdsourced. Just a bit of research quickly revealed eight ARM-based embedded projects…
Crossing the chasm from early adopter to mass market
Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in embedded processing solutions, has released two Layerscape architecture (LS) SoCs based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture that Freescale describes as “delivering unprecedented performance and integration…
The ARM mbed IoT Device Platform is designed to simplify the deployment of IoT products by delivering a free operating system and licensable software platform providing server-side technologies. It has been built around open standards and will bring…
Smart sensors are far from a myth, it is already used in million of devices (e.g. your mobile phone might already contain several smart sensors).
Traditionally a number of smart sensors are designed with custom design digital logic (e.g. Finite State…