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Send us Fan Mail This week, the Embedded Insiders briefly consider ABB's acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions, and wonder if GE is going too digital. Then, the two discuss "open source". The term is widely, and loosely, used these days, making it hard to differentiate between what's really open and what's being guided by the invisible hand of the private sector. Citing e...

Send us Fan Mail A few weeks ago, the Embedded Insiders tackled the topic of artificial intelligence and machine learning. After further review, one of the Insiders called foul, saying that there’s nothing new here. “It’s just the same technology with a new catchy name.” Insider B clams Insider A doesn’t know what he’s talking about; that AI and Machine Learning really are new technologies and are...

Send us Fan Mail As the old axiom goes, “if you have to ask the price, then you can’t afford it.” I’m here to say that nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to securing your network. In fact, depending on the data that you’re protecting, it’s possible that there’s no cost that’s too high. That’s the message I tried to present (well, it was a lot more aggressive than “present”) in t...

Send us Fan Mail The Embedded Insiders stumble upon an interesting question this week: Why haven't hybrid and electric vehicles been more successful? The capability to support these technologies has been available almost since cars themselves, yet today they represent less than 1 percent of the world vehicle population. Can embedded power and analog components help? Tune in as the Insiders ex...

Send us Fan Mail "Data classification" is helpful for analyzing information in IoT environments to support business intelligence applications, but it's also an elegant way of monitoring the behavior of devices to determine whether they are being used as part of a potential cyber attack. In this week's Embedded Insiders podcast, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis welcome Jeff Finn, CEO...

Send us Fan Mail A FireEye report recently found that the cyber threats that have penetrated an organization's network defenses have an average dwell time of almost 5 months before they are discovered and expelled. This leaves a lot of time for sensitive data to be siphoned, damaged, or, worse, for systems to be irreparably harmed. Obviously, current security technology isn't cutting it....

Send us Fan Mail With shrinking margins in the board and module market, companies are merging to acquire proficiency in areas like software and networking. That’s precisely the driver behind the Kontron and S&T Deutschland Holding AG merger announced last month. This week, the Embedded Insiders chat with Kevin Rhoads, General Manager at Kontron Americas to find out more about what S&T and...

Send us Fan Mail One half of the Embedded Insiders made a trip to Southern California this week, where he encountered to opposite sides of the Industrial IoT spectrum. On one end, engineers from ADL Embedded Solutions discussed how its legacy of standard board products and MIL-SPEC designs are filling a need at the mist computing level. At the other, Qualcomm representatives demonstrated how priva...

Send us Fan Mail The NAND flash memory market has evolved (or devolved depending on who you ask) into a battle of the BoMs, where the lowest price usually wins. But is that really the only consideration anymore when selecting a flash memory device, particularly for harsh environment applications? These are questions the Embedded Insiders ask this week, and have answered by Steve Larrivee of indust...

Send us Fan Mail In the summertime when the weather is hot, the Embedded Insiders are indoors with development kits on their minds. Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis have been doing some hardware hacking of their own lately on a Raspberry Pi-based Z-Wave reference platform from Sigma Designs; a Bluetooth garage door monitoring application based on Nordic Semiconductor's Thingy board; and an IoT str...

Send us Fan Mail Embedded Computing Design's second Industrial IoT University conference occurred this week, with industry experts from Cisco, zigbee alliance, Digi International, LoRa Alliance, Trusted Computing Group, Renesas, Mentor Graphics, Wind River, Software Design Solutions, and Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation addressing networking and security challenges for an audience of...

Send us Fan Mail Earlier this year the Embedded Insiders posed the question, “Where have all the RTOS vendors gone?” During that discussion the Insiders offered that silicon companies have gobbled up independent real-time operating system vendors in an effort to provide their customers with fully integrated, “total” solutions. The (at least perceived) downside of this for developers is, of course,...

Send us Fan Mail As IT and OT players stake out their claims in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape, Amazon and partner Ayla Networks are deploying a technology called AWS Greengrass that brings a subset of cloud security, management, and provisioning technology to the gateway level. The goal, of course, is to provide more intelligence closer to the edge of IIoT networks, but the an...

Send us Fan Mail Wrapping up embedded world 2017 from their hotel bar, the Embedded Insiders, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis of Embedded Computing Design, discuss some of the highlights they saw on Day 3 of the show. While safety and security remained a big theme, Nass also had the opportunity to discuss advances in GE’s Predix platform with representatives from the company, which continues to positi...

Send us Fan Mail Embedded Computing Design editors Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis review some of the highlights from days one and two of embedded world 2017, including how software and solutions continue to eat the world, and the embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) industry's continued delivery of development kits. For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail Once again, power takes center stage, at least in this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast. ECD Power Editor Alix Paultre is at the PCIM show in Germany, Europe’s premier event for the power-semiconductor industry. In our discussion, Alix details what was hot at the show, and why. Interestingly, we discussed how and why some technologies seem to be more in vogue in the U.S. verses Eu...

Send us Fan Mail Many types of animals live on land, many more in the sea, and more still spend their time airborne. What’s that got to do with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)? Earlier this year the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) released the IIC Connectivity Framework, a new network model for the IIoT that defines four Core Connectivity Standards: OPC UA, oneM2M, Web Services, and...

Send us Fan Mail Researchers at Princeton recently found memory consistency errors in the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), an extensible, open-source ISA spawned out of academia that is being adopted by industry in the development of everything from Internet of Things (IoT) microcontrollers (MCUs) to data center processors. While certain media outlets have sensationalized these findings,...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Embedded Insiders welcome David Kleidermacher, Chief Security Officer at BlackBerry and one of the leading security evangelists in the embedded and IoT technology markets. Of particular interest to Mr. Kleidermacher is medical device security, and in this episode the Insiders probe him with questions regarding the state of the medical device security arms race; looki...

Send us Fan Mail The Embedded Insiders, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis, both of Embedded Computing Design, drive into the Society of Automotive Engineer's (SAE's) six levels of autonomous driving. From full human driver control to complete autonomy, the two outline each of the levels, discuss where they believe we are on the autonomy spectrum today, and discuss a recently released offering...

Send us Fan Mail The Embedded Insiders welcome in the newest member of the Embedded Computing Design editorial team, Alix Paultre. Alex will be covering analog and power topics from his home base outside of Frankfurt, Germany, and in this episode he discusses highlights from the recent Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), including Gallium Nitride (GaN), silicon carbide, packaging, and dig...

Send us Fan Mail As connectivity becomes cheaper, data becomes more valuable. This is a paradox the Embedded Insiders Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis explore in the context of low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) standards that have emerged to capture Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connections in the face of sunsetting 2G infrastructure. For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail There's no rest for the weary, as the Embedded Insiders have been worn down with embedded world 2017 preparations before even leaving for the show. Still, Rich Nass, Executive Vice President and Brand Director of Embedded Computing Design and Brandon Lewis, the property's Technology Editor, found a few minutes to discuss what they've heard about, and are excited to...

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