Curt Schwaderer, Technology Editor
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Securing the IoT from the Chipset Up
The breadth of IoT systems is diverse resulting in broad vulnerabilities at the sensor, gateway, and cloud environments. Thanks to the rich history of enterprise cloud computing and applications, securing cloud syst...
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Embedded Sensors & Cloud Apps: What about the Connection?
IoT is a cross-discipline mash-up of embedded and sensor technologies, cloud and IT applications, with network connectivity in-between. The vast majority of the innovation around IoT has been related to sensors, emb...
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5G Adds Distributed Cloud Capability for Intelligent Edge
5G mobile networks will provide a number of new capabilities by increasing per-user bandwidth, increasing the number of users/devices, service isolation through segmenting the physical 5G network resources into sepa...
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5G Primer Part 1: Basic Architecture
All major mobile operators are actively promoting their 5G advancements – If you believe the commercials, 5G is being rolled out and turned up, enabling higher bandwidth applications and machine-to-machine int...
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Exploring Embedded Machine Learning
In 1943 neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts wrote a paper on neurons and how they work. A model was created using an electrical circuit and the neural network came into being. Seventy y...
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Adding Blockchain Data Integrity to IoT
There has been a lot of focus on taking a data oriented approach to IoT systems. This approach makes a lot of sense given the nature of IoT and the foundational component of the system is the data – where it...
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New Debugging Initiatives for Today’s New IoT World
If you’re a software developer, you are likely all too familiar with the convergence that has occurred between embedded and enterprise programming environments. Devices must be connected. Devices must perform ...
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AI Challenges & Opportunities in the Automotive Industry
The automotive industry has seen significant advances in driver assist capabilities. In May, a wireless technology company called Metawave announced a $10 million additional seed investment from strategic investors ...
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Touch controller and display driver integration (TDDI) innovations
Touchscreen performance and efficiency is a make-or-break proposition for embedded devices employing them. And the advancements and options for touchscreens may surprise you. Synaptics has made several announcements over the past few months related to advancements and customer applications for TDDI. I caught up with Kevin Barber, Senior Vice President and General Manager of [...]
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Between machines: Insights into tools and technologies for M2M communications
As M2M systems become more varied and widespread, new networking and platform-building methods can help solve communication, implementation, and scalability challenges.
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Code reviews take a page from social networks
Code reviews are an important part of software development, but the usual methods are often inefficient and disconnected from how developers typically work. Integrating social media-like collaborative features in the IDE can improve reviewing efficiency and effectiveness.
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HMIs: Write once, display anywhere
Players within the industrial control market have begun trying to take advantage of the mobility craze and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concepts. High mobility essentially boils down to using smartphones, tablets, or laptop equipment to make jobs easier and more efficient, drive down equipment cost, make replacement easier, and provide a more intuitive, familiar environment for end users.
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The Deep Packet Inspection spectrum: Evolution from technology development to plug-and-play products
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) has been around for a while and many companies in a myriad of industries have DPI capabilities in their products. For example, intrusion detection and virus scanning are both common technologies that utilize DPI to identify...
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Managing the transition to multicore: Part I
In part one of the two part series Curt speaks with David Stewart of CriticalBlue about a software that maps out the route for the “migration to multicore.”
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Virtual prototyping pushes the fast forward button for software development
Curt reports on his conversation with Marc Serughetti, Director of Marketing at Synopsys. Learn where virtual prototyping, fast simulation of hardware that makes testing without physical hardware possible, is most likely to make its mark and why.
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Embedded database technology becomes increasingly important for AdvancedTCA system applications
With the modern business workforce fueled by information that streams out from a central core via a mix of wired and wireless devices, flexible and efficient database storage and access is key.
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Execution partitioning for embedded systems increases security, reliability
Embedded systems software continues to grow in complexity. With the increase in performance and capacity of embedded hardware platforms, embedded software programming has grown to where it is not uncommon for an embedded system to reach or exceed one h...
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Execution partitioning for embedded systems increases security, reliability
Embedded systems software continues to grow in complexity. With the increase in performance and capacity of embedded hardware platforms, embedded software programming has grown to where it is not uncommon for an embedded system to reach or exceed one h...
