October 24th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering and Embedded Intel Solutions Accelerators offload repetitive calculations within cloud services, but what if new AI computing models do not conform to the orderly mold of array-based, data-parallel algorithms that GPUs are so good at processing? Intel thinks FPGAs are the answer. So does Microsoft. […]

October 5th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering Google anti-malware measures have treats opposing tricks. Android is used in over 1.4 billion devices today. Android versions are named after treats in alphabetical order. The treat code names began with release C for “Cupcake,” after two previously unnamed releases had so many builds that […]

October 3rd, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering, Embedded Intel Solutions Are autonomous trucks an answer to the growing truck driver shortages in the U.S.? Trucks are by far the single most-used mode to move freight around the country, moving 63 percent of the total tonnage in 2015. Nearly 18.1 billion tons of […]

September 28th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering Are MEMS sensors inherently trustworthy? Successful acoustic injection attacks indicate otherwise: Hacking an accelerometer to output a waveform that spells “WALNUT” with an upper limit of 10 G. As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows exponentially, the market for sensors will grow with it. It’s […]

September 11th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Engineering Systems, Embedded Intel Solutions How a bug created a superfund for cash-strapped open source projects It’s not an uncommon occurrence for programmers to edit code that they don’t fully understand, so it wasn’t surprising that in 2008, Debian announced that they had managed to break the […]

September 13th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering VR thrills depend on how well your smartphone chills. The Samsung Gear and Google Daydream View are just two of the many mobile VR headsets out there that work with several smartphones to produce a decent VR experience. The phone needs a 4K display to […]

July 31st, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Intel Solutions and Embedded Systems Engineering As horseless cars become driverless cars, plan to see a tremendous increase in productivity in every area that transportation touches today, and in applications yet to be imagined. Early Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are here but pose grave engineering challenges if we […]

July 31st, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering It’s generally known that 8-bit MCUs have an overall advantage over 32-bit MCUs in physical size, power efficiency, and cost. But do 8-bit MCUs have what it takes for IoT? Do 8-bit microcontrollers fit in the Internet of Things? In 2015, 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) still […]

July 12th, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering Digital forensics is a white hat operation that is underfunded. A smartphone is a portable multicore computer, packed with sensors, and the hub of our digital lives. Digital evidence has a broader scope than we are used to, coming from a single physical device. As […]

June 2nd, 2017 By Lynnette Reese, Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Systems Engineering Open-source Docker leverages Linux resource isolation features to deliver lightweight, efficient, and repeatable software delivery on complex infrastructure. Three items are key in IoT: a thing, a cloud, and the internet for communication. Within this model, the cloud is not only “someone else’s computer,” but […]