From devices for very sensitive power applications to those used for applications such as LiDAR time-of-flight, signal-chain amplifiers bring benefits across a wide range of designs.

Modern and future avionics systems for commercial and military applications are based on open architectures and will be leveraging reuse of hardware and software elements via common interfaces for hardware and common application programming interfaces (APIs) for software. Driving this trend are Init...

The FDA is increasing its focus on cybersecurity in medical devices and hospital systems. At the same time, technical trends like IoT connectivity, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence are increasing the attack surface of these devices and systems. The medical industry is joining other indu...

In the medical, rail, aviation, industrial and vehicle sectors, embedded device failure can lead to human injury or damage to the environment. The international standards that outlined functional safety best practices were first written over 30 years ago and, as technologies and the hardware systems...

Certification authorities and industry suppliers have invested in numerous studies and discussions over recent years to identify the issues multicore processors pose for safety critical systems. Formalized positions of these efforts are the FAA CAST-32A Positioning Paper. The crux of this paper (r...

Industrial Drives are used in a variety of environments that expose the semiconductors used in the drives to harsh gases in addition to needing to last extended lifetimes. Currently, the most commonly used semiconductor power modules are gel-filled that experience reliability and robustness issues...

The automotive industry has already embraced virtualization in digital cockpit designs and driver assistance modules. The massive cloud computing market emerged due to the potential found in virtualization technology. However, the traditional embedded markets of industrial control and medical device...

Once the realm of science fiction, directed energy weapons – laser, RF, sonic, etc. – are becoming a key element for military forces worldwide. They will be force multipliers on the battlefield, but they still present many technological hurdles for designers to overcome – especially with managing po...

As the data generated by IoT devices grows exponentially, the broadband infrastructures is not keeping up. How do we navigate through all this? We can bring together applications with networking and storage platforms closer to the world of the IoT.

IoT systems tend to be thought of as a “clean slate” environment where historical systems have no bearing. This couldn’t be further from the truth when considering Industrial IoT. IIoT must be an extension of the existing industrial systems in order to enable a new business model without disrupting...

The modern field-training paradigm requires rapidly deployable, secure simulated environments. Modeling, Simulation, and Training (MS and T) systems need to be assembled and reconfigured in an agile manner from ready-made, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components with response times closely match...

Intelligent and connected cars are growing in sophistication, thanks to technologies like the IoT and advanced wide-bandgap semiconductors. However, this confluence of technologies also means that system designers are challenged with the task of proper system integration as technologies and regulati...

Join Ken Marlin, Windows Champ from Arrow Electronics, to learn about moving your older Windows 7 systems to the Modern Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019. With End of Support (EOS) for Windows 7 products coming in January 2020, now is the time to learn your options for extending security updates o...

Intelligence in machines, vehicles, supply chains, factories, and more is growing at an astounding rate. In many cases, it’s transforming how we manufacture and supply products, and how we do business. Such technologies are becoming a requirement as we look for new ways to help the industrial world...

The open source model has been around for over 25 years and has helped propel the IoT industry forward. Recent acquisitions of major open source businesses by large companies have proven the success of this concept. Join Sierra Wireless as they share their insights on how the evolution of LPWA techn...

Governments across the world are setting policies to increase the use of renewable energy. Thus the solar market is experiencing rapid growth with no sign of slowing down. In addition to generating the energy, renewable energy customers are looking for ways to store it. We will explore various to...

The defense acquisition community is looking to reduce costs and development time via open-architecture principles in a practical and consensus-driven way with all three services Air Force, Army, and Navy working together. This tri-service convergence effort set itself up for success since it is dri...

End-to-end IoT use cases and operational scenarios are becoming understood in a variety of industries. Focus starts shifting toward operational corner cases that can make or break the IoT system and how to plan for them. Initial deployment is one thing - how does the system behave if sensors, softwa...

Energy producers and operators are at a pivotal point as they grapple with ways to address the shifting economics of energy production. Today, the cost to produce green energy is now lower than that of traditional fossil fuels. This change has resulted in the introduction of Distributed Energy Resou...

With the path to fully autonomous driving still up for debate, embedded automotive solutions providers have wasted no time bringing Level 5 autonomous vehicle development platforms to market. These integrated prototyping and design suites provide the software and/or hardware required to process, fus...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize building automation, especially through the use of advanced analytics. Some common examples come in the form of lighting and temperature regulation. But it’s also possible to make a building far more safe and secure. And of course, saving time and money...

IoT platforms are beginning to transition from being used by early adopters to mainstream industries and applications. These early adopter IoT environments have given IoT platform vendors a glimpse into new and innovative use cases, identification of key performance indicators, and refactoring and r...

Uncertainty lies ahead for the Automotive market. As the technology matures and we get closer to deploying highly autonomous vehicles, there is a debate about how and where self-driving cars will be monetized. Each market segment - autonomous electric vehicles, shared vehicles, robotaxis, personal v...

Designers of modern avionics systems are leveraging technology such as multicore, graphics processing, and other key commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies. The performance benefits these innovations bring to the flight deck are game changing, however challenges remain when it comes to the saf...

Autonomous driving systems can only be released to the public after developers have demonstrated their ability to achieve adequately high levels of safety. Today’s hands-off autonomous driving systems are largely built with deep learning algorithms that can be trained to make the right decision for...