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Send us Fan Mail Machine learning is one of the hottest topics in our industry. If implemented correctly, it can be used in a host of applications, particularly those related to the Industrial IoT. And there are few vendors who aren't trying to get a piece of this puzzle. One of those vendors is Lattice Semiconductor. In this week's Five Minutes with…discussion, I spoke to Glen Hawk, Lat...

Send us Fan Mail Believe it or not, Embedded World is just around the corner. The Insiders' show schedules are already full of meetings with tech vendors who will demonstrate their latest wares, but what are those? Tune in as the Insiders speculate as to what technologies and trends will headline Embedded World 2018. For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail Coming off the heels of CES, it was clear that home automation is a hot topic. One vendor making waves in that space (pun intended) is EnOcean. The company is behind the technology that provides for self-powered IoT devices, including sensors, switches, etc. It's a very cool technology, one that was worthy of delving into, which is exactly what I did with my Five Minutes with...

Send us Fan Mail Security is at the forefront of all IoT design. Or is it? I'm hearing too often that security is employed when it makes fiscal sense to do so, and not on just about every design, which is how it should be. This was the heart of the conversation I had with Rod Schultz, who is the Chief Product Officer for Rubicon Labs in this week's Five Minutes with…discussion. https://w...

Send us Fan Mail The HSA Foundation is a non-profit group whose goal is to simplify the programming of heterogenous systems. in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I spoke to John Glossner, President HAS Foundation. He went through some of the findings of a recent survey conducted by the Foundation. http://www.hsafoundation.com/ For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail Last week the Embedded Insiders faced the grind of CES 2018, but came away with a bunch of interesting topics to kick off 2018. Most notably, the Insiders encountered some problems with current use of the term, "connected car," listened in on some amazing advances in digital signal processing (DSP) for virtual assistants, and heard that LiDAR was a bunch of sh**. Tune in...

Send us Fan Mail Make the digital transformation. What does that mean? That’s the first question I asked of Shawn Reynolds, the Chief Marketing Officer for Telit in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. It has everything to do with capturing data and applying it in an environment like the IoT. Telit is in the module business, so it’s in their best interest to make this transformation, both in...

Send us Fan Mail Last episode, the Embedded Insiders explored how voice recognition will impact privacy and security in the smart home. This episode, Todd Mozer, CEO of audio and voice processing company Sensory, joins the pair. Mozer gives an insider's perspective of the DSP and machine learning technologies powering voice rec platforms, and what they mean for developers (and users) of virtu...

Send us Fan Mail What’s more important than reliability when you’re dealing with an industrial IoT system? Not much. That’s the reason why ATEK Access Technologies installed a Director of IIoT Reliability in its organization. Hence, it’s Craig Truempi’s job to ensure the reliability of the company’s platforms, including predictive maintenance. How does he do that? You’ll have to tune in to this we...

Send us Fan Mail RISC-V has caused a slew of start-ups. One of those, SiFive, is composed of some of the folks behind the original spec, derived at Berkeley. Jack Kang, SiFive’s Vice President of Product and Business Development, had a great perspective on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and cleared up some of the misconceptions. On this week’s Five Minutes with…interview, Jack went throu...

Send us Fan Mail It always seems like it's a ways away, and then you look at the calendar and it's right around the corner. The Embedded Insiders' inboxes are already overflowing with CES 2018 meeting requests, and unfortunately there's not enough time to meet with everyone. Tune into this week's Embedded Insiders podcast as the two try to decipher which meetings are most...

Send us Fan Mail Last week, the RISC-V Foundation held a workshop in Silicon Valley. The purpose was to update developers on the progress of the technology and also let some of the partners talk about their own developments/products. By most measures, the workshop was deemed a success. I spoke to Rick O’Connor, the Executive Director of the RISC-V Foundation in this week’s Five Minutes with…discus...

Send us Fan Mail Industrial IoT has a huge upside from a manufacturing perspective. In other words, there’s a lot of money to be made here. That’s the lead in to this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, where I spoke to Enrique Herrera, from OSIsoft. We talked about the specific areas that could best profit from IIoT in the both the short term and the long term. https://www.osisoft.com/ For more...

Send us Fan Mail A recent tour of Europe revealed several advances in automotive safety technologies, with companies such as ON Semiconductor and Toshiba making big pushes into ADAS. Meanwhile, Broadcom continues to eye Qualcomm, and industry still seems ignorant of RISC-V. For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail There have been some significant changes with respect to Java recently. If you’re a developer and/or you support a Java-based product, you had better be up to speed on these changes. To get the information directly from someone in the know, I turned to Scott Sellers, the President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Azul Systems for this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. Azul bills itself...

Send us Fan Mail Industrial IoT is here—just about. We’re already taking advantage of some of the technologies that are available to us in the manufacturing sector, but there’s still a long way to go. According to Ed Baca, the IoT Technical Manager at TTI, retrofitting your factory is a great path to go, as opposed to starting from scratch. Ed let loose with lots of ideas for those in this IIoT sp...

Send us Fan Mail Voice input is all the rage, with Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Home, and so on. According to Paul Beckmann, the Founder and CTO of DSP Concepts, we’ve just scratched the surface on where this technology is going and what it’s capable of. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, Paul and I talk about some specific applications, including automotive, and what it’ll take...

Send us Fan Mail Tuangru is a software company focused on data-center management. In layman’s terms, the company manages their customers’ data. It seems like a lot can be obtain by the analysis of that data, thereby allowing decisions to be made based on facts rather than opinion or hunches. Just how that happens and how those decisions are made and the impact of those decisions are what I discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Getting into the Halloween spirit, the Embedded Insiders pick ten "spooky" trends in the embedded electronics space for engineers to keep an eye on. Topics Include: - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - IoT Networking - Security - Processors and IP - Development Tools and Open Source Software For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail Adesto Technologies is a provider of non-volatile memory. That said, they claim to be able to reduce power in a system, particularly one that’s headed for a smart IoT application. I challenged whether such a claim was really accurate, and that’s the basis for this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Narbeh Derhacobian, who is the President and CEO of Adesto. http://www.adesto...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the Embedded Insiders, Brandon Lewis and Rich Nass, look at where the Arduino architecture is headed. If you’re an aficionado of Arduino, and we know that many of you are, this is information you’re going to want to hear. For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail Everybody who builds an IoT platform says they’re concerned with security. But are they really? While there is lots of lip service paid to security, whether developers are going it its appropriate due can still be questioned. However, when you finally get to the point where you don’t question whether security is required (it is), the question becomes whether it’s a hardware proble...

Send us Fan Mail The Industrial Internet Consortium, aka the IIC, works with many different organizations to ensure that, amongst other issues, there’s smooth sailing between organizations when making an IoT connection. That holds true wither it’s other industry consortiums, governments, or even specific vendors. It’s the job of the Liaison Working Group to ensure that smooth process. I had the pl...

Send us Fan Mail The Embedded Insiders take a look at the news of the week. This week, we looked at some of the terminology used in the IoT, namely the Mist verses the Edge versus the Fog. What are all these different layers? And, do we really need them? Also, we discuss whether the MIPS architecture has run its course, thanks (or no thanks) to some recent business activity. For more information,...

Send us Fan Mail I was only marginally aware of the work being done by the HSA Foundation, which stands for Heterogeneous System Architecture. So, my first question in this week’s Five Minutes with… to John Glossner, who is the current President of the Foundation was, what do you guys do? After understanding the high level of compute power that the Foundation deals with, we moved into one of my cu...