In this White Paper, commissioned by ARM, author and leading industry commentator John Blyler (jblyler), takes a look at the current economics of custom System-on-Chip development relative to discrete…
The Technical and Business Side of Custom SoCs vs. Discrete IC Boards
New data shows that the break-even, return on investment (RoI) point continues to fall as custom SoCs compete directly with traditional discrete IC board designs.By jblyler, Editorial Director, JB SystemsCompelling…
Techcon 2015: Embedded Compute Board Tour
The most advanced System on Chip in the world is only so much inert silicon without the printed circuit board that supplies it with power, connects its interfaces and otherwise gives it a home where it…
How to bring mobile processing power to robotics and drone designs
I recently met up with Vasu Madabushi, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Inforce Computing (Silicon Valley). I found out to my surprise that InForce is one of the few Qualcomm partners…
PoP technology makes wearables viable market for board makers.
Embedded Computing Boards is much more than industrial PCs. In fact there are unique and differentiating technologies such as PoP, which stands for Package on Package technology that can be offered by…
Prometheus is NOT a 3D printer
While open source hardware has dramatically reduced the time and cost associated with product development, there are still a few speed bumps that Makers and designers must endure en route to taking their…
Do you believe in magic?
There is an Arthur C. Clark quotation that states "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Call it ubiquitous, pervasive, ambient or IoT - but we've reached an intersection…
ARMv8-M architecture lays foundation for secure embedded solutions
Advances in processor architecture and connectivity technology have pushed embedded solutions into an increasing set of applications as demonstrated by ARM® partners shipping over 4 billion devices into…
What is NFC and Why it Matters?
This brief introduction on nfc technology will help designers select the best connectivity implementation amongst the plethora of today’s wireless standards.
STEMI lets you build your own spider-like robot
What’s better than a bio-inspired, crawling robot? A spider bot that you can build yourself, that’s what. Locomotion mimicking nature has been around for a little while, but up until now has only been…
Missed the Sensor Fusion Hangout? Catch up on ARMFlix!
If you missed the live Sensor Fusion and Contextual Awareness Hangout, you can watch the playback on the ARMFlix channel on Youtube here:
You can find bios of all the participants on the intro blog he…
Sleep Solution Tops Smart Product Design Competition
The winners of the ARM® Smart Product Design Competition each produced real world problem-solving products in just three months, all without prior experience with ARM tools.The top five finishers were…
ZymKey secures Raspberry Pi and Linux devices
More times than not, developers are faced with two bad options: either deliver a substandard product quickly, or reinvent the wheel and miss the market altogether. Luckily, one Santa Barbara-based startup…
This Arduino radar lets you control an LED with your breath.
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…
Eight-year-old Maker builds an Arduino-based smartwatch
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…
The SAM L22 is an ARM Cortex-M0+ MCU with a segment LCD controller
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…
Basics of Switches and Transceivers in Automotive Ethernet
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…
Making the leap from Intel to ARM? Here's what you need to know.
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.
Teaching DSP Hands-on
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…
We need self driving cars, humans are terrible drivers
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…