tag: sensors

Remove The Bus From Your Embedded System
By Rich Collins - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

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, brings to their designs. The compact and ultra-low power 8-bit architecture improves battery life and reduces bill-of-material costs. However, embedded systems increasingly require higher perfo... » read more

Healthy Growth Predictions For MEMS
By Paula Doe - 30 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

To figure out what’s actually happening in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market, there’s no better place to look than MEMS and sensors, which are enabling this revolution in embedded intelligence in ever more places. The MEMS market is seeing continued steady growth, but components suppliers also are seeing brutal price declines and low margins, while the data analysis side captures... » read more

Emerging IoT Applications Require Careful Consideration
By Charlie Cheng - 05 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 1

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating opportunities in the existing space held by traditional semiconductor applications, typically falling into categories that include industrial, fitness, health and lifestyle to apparel, safety and productivity. But there also are new, inventive devices. In the last several months, we’ve seen the launch of a canine Fitbit, a hybrid dog collar, and dyn... » read more

Developing Effective Design Strategies For Today’s Wearable Devices
By Ed Sperling - 23 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

While many new fitness bands, smartwatches, and other wearable devices have entered the market, most have under-whelmed prospects and users. It is quite clear the wearable industry is in its infancy and fraught with growing pains. Software developers, embedded systems architects and engineers must take heed in the early miscalculations of these devices (whether it’s functionality, utility, pr... » read more

Executive Insight: Charlie Cheng
By Ed Sperling - 14 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 1

Charlie Cheng, CEO of Kilopass, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about issues with current memory types and why the market is ready for disruptive approaches to reduce power and cost. SE: What's changing in the memory space? Cheng: Memory is a very important building block. It's a foundation and a commodity for a chip and for the system, but if you look at the big picture, ... » read more

Tech Talk: Sensor Design
By Ed Sperling - 03 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 0

NXP's Wouter Sijm talks about sensor design in the IoT age, where engineers can go astray, and why the IoT is a more complex environment for sensors than previous devices. [youtube vid=7fqEatgvZnE] » read more

Five Questions: Jeff Bier
By Brian Bailey - 26 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Jeff Bier, founder and president of BDTI, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the creation of the Embedded Vision Alliance and the proliferation of neural network technology into embedded systems. SE: Why was the Embedded Vision Alliance formed? Bier: About 5 years ago, computer vision was on the verge of becoming a world changing technology. It was becoming possible, for t... » read more

Nymi: Wearable Authentication
By Ed Sperling - 19 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 1

If you had one device that could log into all your electronics automatically, allowing you to make electronic payments more securely based on your heart beat rhythms, would you use it? That's the question a startup named Nymi is asking—and a lot of other companies are watching. The company began its life in 2011 using a biometric electrocardiogram developed at the University of Toronto. ... » read more

System Bits: Aug. 4
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Turning electric signals into light signals Transmitting large amounts of data, such as those needed to keep the internet running, requires high-performance modulators that turn electric signals into light signals, and now, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a modulator they say is a hundred times smaller than conventional models. They reminded that in 1880, Alexander Graham Bell deve... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: June 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Tiny, solar-powered sensors Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it, even at the extremely low power levels characteristic of tiny solar cells. Previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 percent. ... » read more

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