Building safe and secure embedded systems is getting harder as firmware grows in scale, complexity, and connectivity. Even with sophisticated safeguards, such as microprocessor (MPU) regioning, ...

Mixed-mode signal chains are everywhere. Simply put, any system that transforms a real-world signal to an electrical representation, which is then digitized, can be classified as a mixed-mode signal ...

At the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco last December, TSMC introduced its 2nm process technology, highlighting advancements in nanosheet transistors. Branded as N2, ...

The levels of vehicle autonomy The concept of autonomous vehicles has been around for decades, with initial tests conducted in the 1980s. These tests were relatively simple, getting a car to steer ...

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has launched an agentic AI solution for automating front-end silicon design and verification. Claiming the first agentic workflow for automating chip design and ...

SDRs and SDNs provide fundamental tools to enable unique 5G features, such as network slicing and DSS. The world of wireless communication is about to ...

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, companies are pushing the boundaries of innovation to meet the growing demand for smaller, more powerful embedded solutions. From ultra-compact ...

Conclusions Designing an embedded system for low-power usage is not just a requirement for battery-operated devices but also for grid-connected devices. As you have seen in this post, low-power design ...

While RISC-V was rightly preferred because of its open standard community and accessibility, it was not yet ready to replace competing architectures. Its fragmentation and immaturity often made ...

Autonomous vehicles are starting to become a real possibility in some parts of industry. Agriculture, transportation and military are some of the examples. The day when we are going to see autonomous ...

Axiom Space and Spacebilt will work together to put an Orbital Data Center Node (AxODC Node ISS) on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2027. This is another step forward for the idea of orbital ...

Software developers in the embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) spaces face a dizzying array of options which it comes to choosing Operating Systems (OS) to support their designs. Decisions made ...