In any system design, there are always trade-offs that need to be made. Unfortunately, there is rarely a time when you can get your cake and eat it, too! Modern embedded systems have exceptionally ...

EI (embedded instrumentation) shows promise for supporting design debugging, validation, and testing for chips, PCBs (printed-circuit boards), and systems, according to Glenn Woppman, president and ...

Think about running your business without computers, and you'll realize how important they are to your bottom line. Whether you use a database to track sales, an inventory system that monitors stock ...

What are the main issues behind the “painful” process of embedded-systems design? Shortages of resources, components, and talent plague the design process. How the instability of toolsets and driver ...

For many years, the 8-bit microcontroller has been the workhorse of embedded systems. Design teams favor the size and power benefits that a tightly coupled processor, such as the 8051 microcontroller, ...