An embedded system is a small computer that forms part of a larger system, device or machine. Its purpose is to control the device and to allow a user to interact with it. Embedded systems tend to ...

How you organize your firmware project might seem like a minor detail. It isn't. It's one of the highest-leverage decisions ...

Embedded systems are increasingly prevalent in nearly every aspect of human life. Innovations made possible by embedded systems are making our lives healthier, safer, cleaner, and more stimulating.

Embedded system architectures increasingly feature multi-processor configurations with large numbers of independent buses and bus-bridges. Conventional design and verification strategies are not ...

Vadzo Imaging explains the imaging architecture decisions that define autonomous navigation reliability, presenting the ...

In the beginning, real-time operating systems (RTOSs) were primarily used in military, aerospace, and high-end industrial control applications. This has changed dramatically as low-cost, fast, and ...

The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build many consumer system products has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term ...

The embedded systems industry is constantly evolving. In my 20 years in the industry, embedded devices have gone from resource-constrained monolithic designs running on 8-bit microcontrollers to today ...

Every good hardware or software design starts with a structured approach throughout the design cycle, but as chip architectures and applications begin focusing on specific domains and include some ...