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What to Know When Selecting a Hardware Platform for Your Next Project

Lisandro Pérez-Meyer , Stephanie Van Ness

January 24, 2025

Selecting the right hardware platform for your software project can feel overwhelming. Whether you're developing a simple embedded application or a complex, resource-heavy system, the hardware you choose plays a crucial role in determining your product’s performance, features, and scalability. While many factors must be considered, the impact of these decisions often manifests in subtle ways that may not be immediately obvious.

Here’s a look at key considerations and how your choices can influence the behavior of your software.

AI & Machine Learning

Consumers on AI: It’s About Engagement

Tawfik Jarjour

January 23, 2025

Generative AI is everywhere. It’s on the phone you just looked at, the social media you consume, and that wearable that’s keeping you honest with your step count. As the technology becomes more ingrained in our daily lives, the new challenge facing companies isn’t simply innovation: It’s a matter of truly understanding consumers’ needs and delivering the products they want.

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Product of the Week: Infineon Technologies’ AIROC™ CYW55513 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® Combo IC

Embedded Computing Design Staff

January 20, 2025

Today’s demanding IoT and multimedia applications, like smart homes, wearables, and industrial IoT devices, are often deployed in increasingly crowded wireless environments, requiring high-speed data transmission, reduced latency, and secure communication for users to achieve a seamless wireless connectivity experience.

Consumer

Open Source and Open Standard Synergy: the Tools for Network Innovation

Lincoln Lavoie

January 17, 2025

Today the ‘Connected Home’ is no longer a visionary pipedream, but a reality, with smart devices quickly becoming staples in our homes and making our lives simpler (hopefully). Standardization, well-defined Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and seamless interoperability between different platforms and applications act as the key pillars to achieving ubiquitous connectivity in the home.

Industrial

Structured Data for Analysis and Transparency in Supply Chain Resilience

Dr. Adam Schafer

January 17, 2025

Semiconductor shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions served as a wake-up call for the entire industry regarding the high complexity, increasing interconnectedness, and growing vulnerability of the electronics value chain. In 2024, new opportunities and challenges have emerged for the semiconductor industry amidst economic and political turbulence.

Security

The Shine on Rust

Benjamin Monate

January 15, 2025

Although C and C++ continue to dominate embedded systems, the relatively new language, Rust, is showing promise as a language that provides much of the flexibility of older languages but with stronger guarantees of safe operation.

Storage

Optimizing Data Transfer: Exploring Interrupt and Polling Mechanisms in DMA

Daniel Bar

January 14, 2025

In the ever-evolving world of computer architecture, optimizing data transfer is crucial for maintaining system performance. Direct Memory Access (DMA) controllers provide a powerful solution, enabling high-speed data movement between peripherals and memory without constant CPU involvement. However, a critical decision arises when configuring DMA transfers: choosing the flow sequence for the transfer.

Consumer

The Logitech Mevo Core 4K camera enables seamless wireless live streaming anywhere with the help of AIROC™ CYW55573 and Murata 2EA Module solution

Mei-Ling Chiang

January 13, 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown rapidly in the last 10 years across many applications. One area with significant growth is live streaming social media applications such as Facebook (Meta), YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, WeChat, QQ and Instagram. This rising demand stems from content creators’ desires to deliver real-time, professional-level content anywhere without professional-level experience.

Automotive

How 10BASE-T1S Ethernet Simplifies Zonal Architectures in Automotive Applications

Andreas Pellkofer , Madhura Deyanda Poonacha

January 10, 2025

With modern cars aiming to provide home-like comfort and entertainment, the demand for electronic control units (ECUs) has grown exponentially. However, older bus technologies and electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures are struggling to keep up. This article explores how Ethernet technology transformed cars into fully connected experiences.

Storage

From Spark to Boom: 40 Years of Flash Memory

Marco Mezger

January 8, 2025

In 1984, a groundbreaking innovation was unveiled at the IEEE Integrated Electronics Devices Conference, Fujio Masuoka introduced Flash memory — a technology that revolutionized how data is stored and accessed. Four decades later, Flash memory remains central to devices and systems across diverse fields, from mobile technology to enterprise data centers and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Automotive

The Rise of Software-Defined Audio in Automotive

Jose Maria Marin

January 8, 2025

As vehicles become increasingly reliant on centralized computing systems, traditional hardware-dependent audio architectures face challenges in scalability, flexibility, and development speed. Enter software-defined audio (SDA), a groundbreaking approach that shifts audio processing and control from hardware-centric systems to software-driven solutions within system-on-chip (SoC) platforms.

AI & Machine Learning

The Impact of AI and Machine Learning on Mobile App Development

January 8, 2025

We will explore the profound impact of AI and ML on the mobile app industry and how these technologies are shaping the future of app development.

Industrial

Robots in the Factory: How 5G-Enabled AMRs can Boost Efficiency

Embedded Computing Design Staff

January 7, 2025

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are transforming the way work is carried out, from repetitive tasks on factory floors to operations in healthcare, retail, agriculture, and beyond.

Storage

Weebit Nano's ReRAM to Power onsemi’s Treo Platform in New Licensing Deal

Chad Cox

January 24, 2025

Hod Hasharon, Israel. Weebit Nano Limited released information it has licensed its resistive random access memory (ReRAM or RRAM) technology to onsemi. Weebit Nano’s ReRAM IP will be integrated into onsemi’s Treo platform delivering embedded non-volatile memory (NVM).

Processing

Toradex's New SMARC SoM Family: Reliable, Cost-Effective, and Ready for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Chad Cox

January 24, 2025

Toradex is launching a new SMARC System on Module (SoM) Family beginning with the SMARC i.MX 8M Plus and SMARC iMX95 System on Module. The SMARC iMX8M Plus delivers machine learning capabilities with power efficiency ideal for companies currently utilizing the i.MX 6, 7 and 8 SMARC-based designs.