Smart Laptop Batteries Are Getting Smarter and Smarter
As I’m sure that all of you engineers out there know, your engineering prowess is very likely to earn you the job of tech support for your family. In that role, I was recently called upon to come to the rescue of a family member who had managed to spill a glass of wine on […]
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The passing of Ray Dolby
Don’t know if you saw the news, but Ray Dolby, the electrical engineer who brought us surround sound, died a few weeks back. Because the write up on Dolby’s death by R. Pell in EDN was a bit more technical than others I saw, I’ll quote from it here: The Dolby system involved both an […]
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Coming up: more and more “intelligent systems”. (A bit of market research for you.)
As we work on our product roadmap, I’ve been doing some market research, and came across some especially interesting material from IDC – International Data Corporation, which provides market research in the tech space. Basically, what they see is that the market for traditional embedded systems will be surpassed, and pretty much taken over by, […]
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Processing Primer
In a website section called Getting Started with TI Processors, TI has a good general overview piece, Getting to Know Processor Architectures. This is at a pretty high level, but it’s solid, and helps explain the different approaches. The drill down information, not surprisingly, covers TI-specific processors, but overall the information may help you decide which […]
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Embedded Medical Devices: “A hacker’s playground?”
If you watch the series Homeland, you’ll undoubtedly remember that, last season, the vice president of the United States was assassinated when the bad guys acquired the serial number of his pacemaker and caused it to malfunction. (I guess I should have put a spoiler alert in there, but I’m guessing that, if you’re a […]
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If You’re Around: TI Tech Days
We’ll be participating in some upcoming TI Tech Days, so if you’re going to be there, please swing by and say hello. We’ve done a number of these Tech Days, and our customers have been pretty positive about them. This is what TI says about these events: See the latest cutting-edge analog and digital technologies […]
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Working with your PCB Manufacturer
One of the principal reasons that developers choose to embed a Critical Link System-on-Module in their applications is to reduce their risk. A big part of that risk is what happens when a board moves from design to manufacture. If it turns out that you have design problems, this can prove very costly, losing you […]
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Crowdfunding Electronics Products
I keep coming back to The Internet of Things, which is not surprising, given that all things seem to be getting smart (at least in a technical sense) in a hurry. One item that recently caught my eye – the Goji Smart Lock – did so largely because its design resembles the Nest thermometer, which […]
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Update on the Altera-Based Mity
Since a lot of you have been asking, and there is great interest in this new Critical Link product, I wanted to give a brief progress report on where things stand. First off, to lay the groundwork, we’re coming up on shipping our first Altera-based SoM – the MitySOM-5CSX, which is based on the Altera […]
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Expanding LinuxLink support
We’re happy to let you know that we now have Linux Link support for the MityDSP-L138(F), our System-on-Module (SoM) based on TI’s dual-core OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM9 processor. LinuxLink is a Linux toolset from our partner Timesys, and enables quick and easy design, development, deployment and debugging of an embedded product based on open source […]
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