Embedded systems? These guys ain’t kidding!
One Wisconsin company is giving its employees the option of getting an implanted microchip to take care of things like building access that they have been using their badges for.
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Power consumption vs. performance: making tradeoffs
As every engineer well knows, when designing electronics, you’re going to be confronted with tradeoffs. A classic tradeoff is the one between power consumption and performance.
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Hitting the Wall with Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law – which holds that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit roughly doubles every couple of years – held up for a good 25 years, but actually began slowing down a decade or so ago. It's now running up against the limits of physics.
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Quantum Computing’s Breakthrough
Quantum computing looks like it will final become a reality. That reality may be a few years out still, but it's getting closer.
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Where electronics is headed (Part II)
Part II of my summary of Rick Merritt's EE Times roundup of the recent Imec technology forum.
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Where electronics is headed (Part I)
There's always something interesting to see in EETimes about what's happening on the electronics front.
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Left-hand turns: a challenge for self-driving cars
Left hand turns are hard, even for those of us who aren’t in our 80’s...If the task is difficult for us humans, it’s especially tough for self-driving cars.
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Juicero: proof positive that technology isn’t the answer for everything
$120 million in VC. 400 parts in a juicer that squeezes $5-8 juice packets. Turns out, it's faster to squeeze those packets by hand...
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eFPGAs are coming of age
I noticed a recent article by Tim Saxe, “Embedded programmability finds sweet spot in IoT,” on EE Times, which discusses the role that FPGAs are playing with respect to embedded programming in IoT devices.
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The new Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework
The Industrial Internet of Consortium has recently published its Connectivity Framework, the latest in a series of technical papers establishing standards for Industrial IoT development.
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