September 18th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Intel® Solutions Mobile devices and social networks are making digital signage more interactive. Information adapts in real time based on location, time of day, online information feeds, and audience demographics. The possibilities for enhanced engagement are nearly endless. Many brick-and-mortar stores are fighting to stay ahead while […]

July 3rd, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Intel Solutions Accelerate AI inference. The OpenVINO tool optimizes a DNN model (TensorFlow or Caffe) for running on an Intel CPU, GPU, Movidius, or FPGA. The single-shot command line utility can also convert the model from any Intel AI-suitable platform to another, enabling quick experimentation among platforms. […]

June 18th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering Creating a composable infrastructure by leveraging the latest PCIe standard equates to something like…using pencils in space. Sometimes it makes sense to think up a simple solution that’s merely crafty rather than succumb to the hype. Keeping data center infrastructure ahead of rapidly increasing demands […]

June 21st, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering LTE Cat-M1 and LTE Cat-NB1 have been launched to replace 2G and 3G, which are slated for shutdown. What you need to know about these new LTE technologies for IoT: coverage, speed, cost, and the hardware to make them work. Internet of Things (IoT) product […]

June 4th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering VR/AR developers continue to strive for a fully immersive experience and additional and innovative content. But why is consumer VR/AR (XAR) adoption so slow? “XAR” is a term that industry experts use to refer to some mixture of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). […]

March 20th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering, Embedded Intel Solutions PCIe 4.0 meets growing throughput demands but requires hair-pulling attention to detail from engineers to make it happen. If a processor has to access a peripheral, it might use Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe® or PCI Express®). PCIe is a high-speed serial […]

March 9th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering What you need to know about security flaws Spectre and Meltdown. Neither Spectre nor Meltdown are viruses, but rather exploit speculative execution techniques as vulnerabilities in the way hardware works with an OS. Although recently uncovered, both have existed for years. Since at least 2010, […]

March 9th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering How do neural networks scale up to 20,000 processors and beyond? How does machine learning scale massively if connections are a potential weak link in the race for acceleration? Editor’s Note: Neural networks have been around since the 1950s. The advent of fast, massively parallel […]

February 8th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering USB Type-C™, delivering both power and data, will grow to 5 billion units shipped worldwide by 2021. And with USB Fast Charging, minutes of charging can power devices for hours. The Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard has expanded to include Fast Charging, which enables charging […]

February 8th, 2018 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering The payoff could include increased transparency, with time savings and error avoidance RISC-V is an open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), named thus because it is the fifth Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) ISA developed at UC Berkeley. The base ISA was designed to be simple, […]