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Open Source

Rust, A Programming Language

Marie Christiano

April 18, 2025

Rust, a general-purpose programming language, emphasizes low-level efficiency and security. Its unique features make it suitable for systems, web apps, and GUI applications. Let’s take a look at Rust and its trending use.

Tech News Roundup

Intel Sells Controlling Interest in Altera to Silver Lake

Ken Briodagh

April 17, 2025

Intel this week announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of Altera to Silver Lake, a private equity firm that's been involved in Dell, AirBnB, and many other technology deals for more than 15 years. But what does it mean?

Processing

Unlocking the Potential of AMD Versal AI Engines

Scott Turnbull

April 15, 2025

As the complexity of signal processing applications continues to grow, engineers need to use all available heterogeneous processing elements to meet performance goals. AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoCs address this challenge by integrating programmable logic, hardened compute resources, a high-speed network-on-chip (NoC), and a scalable AI Engine (AIE) array—all within a unified architecture.

Security

Strengthening IoT Defenses in Preparation for Quantum Computing

Avishay Shraga

April 15, 2025

The key to modern asymmetric cryptography is to create an equation that is easy to solve in one direction but difficult to reverse by an adversary in the other direction. Traditionally, this was done through modular arithmetic, where a large prime modulus and a generator were used to generate a key, although there are multiple methods to do so.

Processing

Handle Capacitive, Inductive, and Liquid Sensing With a Single PSOC Device

Vibheesh Bharathan

April 14, 2025

The ability to “sense” in different modalities is known as multi-sensing. In a perfect world, that multi-sensing capability would be integrated into a single MCU. And thanks to the Infineon PSOC 4 Multi-Sense MCUs, the perfect world has ascended upon us. But more about that specific device in a bit.

Consumer

Product of the Week: Heilind Electronics’ Brady M410 and M510 Series Printers

Embedded Computing Design Staff

April 14, 2025

Productivity and efficiency are essential for today’s professionals, who need tools to keep up with demanding, ever-changing work environments. Portable, durable, and reliable solutions are key to allowing them to work freely and effectively, wherever work takes them.

Heilind Electronics offers a line of portable printers designed to meet these needs. The Brady M410 and M510 printers cater to professionals in industrial (non-robotics), computing, data communications, telecommunications, test, measurement, and laboratory settings. The M410 printer is designed for handheld, industrial-grade printing use cases, and the M510 is designed as a durable desktop solution for workstations and assembly.

Debug & Test

Simulating Reality: How Advanced Vibration Testing Shapes Product Durability

Ellie Gabel

April 8, 2025

The results of advanced vibration tests show manufacturers, designers, engineers and others whether their products will perform as anticipated in the real world. Creating things that work well in the laboratory is a good first step, but people need to verify that such consistency is also present in less-controlled environments. Vibration testing examines whether devices and other items tolerate shocks and keep working effectively and safely.

Open Source

Mouser Product of the Week: NXP Development Board Powered by the i.MX 93 Applications Processor

Embedded Computing Design Staff

April 7, 2025

Today’s developers are expected to bring the power and performance of machine learning to the edge. This is possible with the help of a development platform capable of evaluating and prototyping applications like edge computing, industrial automation, smart devices, and automotive applications, which increasingly demand use cases like low power consumption and machine learning acceleration.

Automotive

The Future of In-Vehicle Infotainment with Emerging Technologies

Ranganathan Sk

March 31, 2025

In-vehicle infotainment (IVI) is now more than just music and navigation—it’s an intelligent driving companion. The inclusion of AI-driven systems, AR/VR, and 5G enhances connectivity and decision-making and elevates the experience, making driving safer and more interactive.

Industrial

Longsys: Advancing High-Reliability Storage to Power the Intelligent Era

Embedded Computing Design Staff

March 31, 2025

At the global industry show embedded world 2025 in Nuremburg, Germany earlier this month, there was lots of talk about how important memory has become to embedded systems. The drive toward implementing technological trends like AI and neural network computing is driving the necessity for reliable and robust memory and storage solutions.

Analog & Power

Samtec Halo Optical Transceivers to Pave Way for High Performance

Ken Briodagh

March 26, 2025

Embedded systems are becoming ever thirstier for performance, and this is true in every segment of the industry from the far edge to the enterprise and the data center, and all the way up to the cloud.

Storage

Memory-Retaining Transistors Mark a Leap Forward in Electronics Design

Eleanor Hecks

March 24, 2025

Transistors are the lifeblood of modern technology, fueling data transmission and storage worldwide. Experts have continuously refined these mechanisms, and they are essential components in various industries, including aerospace, defense and transportation.

Recent studies demonstrate how engineers might be entering a new age of transistors with memory-retention capabilities.

AI & Machine Learning

Mastering FPGA Optimization: High-Speed Data Movement & AI Acceleration on AMD Versal SoCs

Scott Turnbull

March 20, 2025

To implement adaptive systems with stringent throughput and latency requirements, engineers have access to AMD Versal Adaptive SoCs. Versal provides programmable logic with DSP slices, various hard processing elements, AI engines and a network-on-chip to move data fast and efficiently.

IoT

ESA’s FLEXHab Habitat Gets a Boost with DFRobot’s LattePanda and Sensor Systems

Chad Cox

April 18, 2025

DFRobot has deployed its LattePanda Delta and LattePanda Sigma single-board computers along with its innovative environmental sensors, in the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly unveiled 28-square-meter FLEXHab lunar training habitat.

Open Source

Witekio Offering Ubuntu Pro for Devices in Partnership with Canonical

Chad Cox

April 18, 2025

Witekio, an Avnet subsidiary, announced it has joined a strategic collaboration with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, to introduce various innovations for the fast growing embedded and IoT markets. Witekio is already an authorized provider for Ubuntu Pro for Devices, Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for open-source security.