Built with contributions from hundreds of software experts, the Linux operating system has captured the attention of embedded developers worldwide and is available in commercial distributions throughout the embedded market. To help eliminate the requirement to match a specific Linux config...

With each new project, embedded developers are often challenged to enhance software execution speed and reduce overall code size with fewer resources and a shorter schedule. Offering support for all of their PIC microcontrollers and dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), Microchip Techno...

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is a growing trend in embedded design and promises to transform connectivity and remote management across many market segments, including industrial, transportation, health care, utilities, retail, and consumer electronics. Offering designers lower d...

With the performance and portability requirements of critical applications in markets such as industrial automation, embedded vision, video surveillance, and medical imaging on the rise, embedded designers are looking for low-power, cost-optimized components. With these applications in min...

When designers undertake applications with extreme space limitations, such as wireless sensing nodes, home automation systems, and portable health and fitness products, package size becomes a critical component selection factor. Extending its EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers to meet t...

Software projects continue to grow in size and complexity, making it extremely difficult for developers to test and analyze the relationships between elements of the source code. At this year’s Design West conference, GrammaTech introduced a new software architecture visualization sy...

Smartphone technology has become commonplace with the general public, and customers expect similar performance and touch-screen interaction features with all of their electronic devices. Supporting the certification of the human interface portion of embedded design, Renesas Electronics Ame...

As intelligent embedded devices become ubiquitous, designers are searching for small, low-power techniques to provide continuous, autonomous connectivity and effective remote management. To meet this growing demand, Logic PD recently introduced a small form factor, low-power System-On-Modu...

Texas Instruments (TI) recently unveiled the SimpleLink product family of wireless connectivity technologies for low-power, low-cost embedded applications. The most noticeable product is the SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000, a self-contained 802.11 network processor that enables designers to add Wi...

With a focus on low-power, handheld/portable embedded ap-plications, Advantech recently announced the SOM-7565 COM Express module powered by the new Cedar Trail archi-tecture from Intel. Cedar Trail, which is based on the latest Intel Atom processors plus the Intel NM10 Express chipset, of...

Microchip Technology announced the MCP2210 protocol converter for adding USB Certified connectivity to Serial Pe-ripheral Interface (SPI)-based systems. The converter utilizes the USB human interface design class, which is supported by Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems and is 100 p...

As embedded designers start each new project, they face the potential challenge of matching the latest high-performance computing devices with legacy peripherals. Targeting these challenges, Integrated Device Technology (IDT) recently announced a protocol-conversion bridge allowing designe...

Medical and industrial applications such as gas sampling/collection, respiration screening, and blood analysis systems that monitor and control pneumatic flow are among the specialized embedded projects that require accurate pressure sensors. For these applications, Honeywell introduced a...

With smartphones and tablets leading the way, consumers now expect touch-screen interfaces
on most new portable embedded products. With high-volume consumer applications such as GPS,
gaming consoles, and digital still cameras in mind, Atmel released the Atmel maXTouch mXT112E
controller op...

With microcontroller manufacturers integrating more and more features and functions into each new generation, users are finding it difficult to adapt existing development hardware to match the changes. In support of these users, IAR Systems has delivered a complete starter kit for the new...