Ensuring that currents don't exceed safe levels is just one area that will be explored in Day 2 of this three-day class. Using specific product examples to remove the guesswork, our expert instructor will explain how to protect against overcurrent damage using a 12-V buck regulator family as the des...

Recent events have proven that you can never be too careful when you're designing batteries into your systems, and that covers everything from wearables to hybrid/EV battery packs. In Day 1 of this three-day class, we'll look at how to make your battery packs safer; how to build a USB-to-controller...

Given the influx of IoT devices flooding the market, getting your product to market quickly and having your product stand out against the competition are key to success. Learning how to design, build, deploy, and manage your devices takes time and knowledge. Focus on your iot differentiators and let...

Reality - Lives and businesses depend on medical device software and the IoT world we now live in makes the risks even greater to the growing class of connected medical devices and the larger healthcare system as a whole. We don't want to think about it but imagine the possibility of an infusion pu...

Connecting operational systems with the higher-level IT or cloud systems is a key challenge facing the next generation of Industrial IoT and Industrie 4.0 systems. IIoT systems represent a convergence between the Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) worlds. Both domains have...

Internet of Things applications are advancing past prototypes and proof of concepts into commercial use. As these systems get deployed, the security architecture enters a new danger zone with high stakes if a security breach occurs. What is the biggest security threat that needs to be addressed? Wha...

Commercial processors and FPGAs promise and deliver performance advantages for military communications systems, sensor applications, radar, and electronic warfare programs at a lower price point than custom-designed systems. But to accomplish that performance they must generate a lot of heat and eve...

Learn how to add intelligence and sensing to discrete functions with cost effective microcontrollers that minimize the impact on the bill of materials. Quickly and easily implement smart functions such as a programmable comparator set to trigger a UART data packet on change of state or a smart tempe...

83% of Auto industry executives believe that there will be a major business model disruption in the automotive industry within the next five years. Autonomous driving, electrification, infotainment, connectivity...in the face of the rapidly changing market, successful automotive suppliers rely on a...

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape today is a confusing mix of proprietary connectivity technologies and standards. Some are general purpose, some are mostly appropriate for enterprise applications, and others are optimized for a narrow set of domain-specific use cases in vertically...

Every developer is in search of an embedded operating system platform that boasts performance and security, which are the hallmarks of the new QNX Software Development Platform 7.0. (QNX SDP 7.0). Join us as we examine market forces and industry challenges in the automotive and general embedded sect...

Autonomous driving concepts are on the mind of every major auto manufacturer, but while advances sensors, software, processing, connectivity, and cloud analytics have laid the groundwork for driverless cars, the reality is we're still a considerable distance from mass production of fully autonomous...

How do SOMs best fit into agile product development--especially in wireless IoT applications? Join Digi and Fraser-Nash RandD to gain an insider's view of how Frazer-Nash hardware and software teams developed London's first zero emission capable taxis--one of the famous black cabs of London.

Embedded and IoT systems today don't typically stop with the device or sensor. Today's embedded systems are connected to gateways and industry applications to meet a specific need for that industry. Embedded and IoT systems need to interoperate and sometimes integrate with these higher end systems....

In our final class, we will look at the "Things" of the IoT - our nodes and devices - and how we can effectively commission, monitor, and detect problems in them throughout their lifecycle. We will look at methods for adding device management capabilities in our devices from the design stage as well...

In our second class, we will begin at the heart of the Internet of Things - the sending and receiving of data. Whether it is collecting a simple room temperature reading or capturing a video frame for analysis, the IoT enables us to collect huge amounts of data for analysis then send out data in the...

Developing a new cloud based solution for managing, analyzing and taking action on data from an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployment is not an easy task if you're new to it. While there are a lot of available resources to coach you through the steps, working from a proven model is the bes...

In this lead-off class, we will briefly review the principles of the IoT and some of the basic configurations that we may encounter (star with gateway, tree, and mesh). We will look at the major issues we face as these networks become more complex, including data issues, communication issues, device...

Autonomous aircraft -- from hand-thrown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to high-flying jet-powered platforms are close to being certified to fly in multiple sections of the national airspace. The main hurdles remaining are safety related such as properly certifying their hardware and software for fl...

IoT known for its unique architecture involving sensors, embedded devices and gateways, and data center/cloud applications. Once the architecture is understood, defining platforms that implement the architecture is the next logical step toward effective deployment of a variety of IoT applications. O...

IoT encompasses a wide range of embedded, network, and cloud systems where the value is unlocked by the data gathered from sensor and edge devices that can be used by gateways, cloud applications, and analytics to drive significant value. However, communications is not as simple as one protocol, one...

Military radar and electronic warfare (EW) system designers are leveraging Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology more and more for their RF solutions as the price for GaN devices drops and as the industry learns more about GaN's performance benefits. GaN enables power density and higher efficiencies not...

There are many frustrations with DOORS users today. DOORS Next Generation, based on Rational Jazz technology, was released in 2012 - a long time ago in technology time. Now that the product is being overhauled, there are conflicting reports about which features IBM is revising or migrating to the ne...

There are so many wireless technologies one could use to connect sensor networks to the cloud. It becomes much more difficult to connect these networks to the cloud when you need longer range than just a few 10s of meters or in the use case where networks contain 100s of sensors.

Safety critical systems, whether in avionics, automotive, and medical applications are built on requirements. Today the complexity of these systems in each market is expanding at an exponential rate. Combine that with compressed product development schedules and the need for a strong requirements fo...