Five Minutes With…Doug Patterson is VP, Aitech Defense Systems

A little over a year ago, I did an interview with then-President of the Home Grid Forum, Donna Yasay. It was an interesting conversation, where Donna outlined all the great things that the Forum was w

Is anything new in multicore aside from ramming in more cores? That’s the question I asked of Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager of MediaTek, a producer of high-end (yes, multicore) processors in this

Traditional security doesn’t work. Plain and simple. Old techniques are just that—old techniques. And many IoT devices lack the computational horsepower to stay ahead o0f the game. So what’s an OEM to

The role played by Altium is an interesting one in the embedded space. With its design-automation software and other related tools, Altium helps its customers with their projects. That sounds trivial,

According to Joyce Mullen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dell’s IoT and OEM Business Units, when it comes to the IoT, particularly the Industrial segment, “The value is in the data and

Silicon Labs has made a big bet on IoT. So far, the early returns are looking pretty good. Will it pan out in the future? No one knows for sure, but it’s looking more than a little promising. If the i

Securing the Internet? That’s not exactly a new concept. In fact, not even close. However, what differentiates SecureRF from the dozens and dozens of others that make the same claim is that they secur

We all say that the world is shrinking, but is that really true when it comes to manufacturing? Specifically, I spoke to Atilla Aknar, the CEO of 4D Systems in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion

The LoRa Alliance consists of a group of companies looking to create an interoperable standard for long-range wireless technology. And it’s based, obviously, on the LoRaWAN standard. Like most technol

When you’re the leader of a company that’s looked at as being one of the leaders of its industry, you better have a good idea of where that industry is headed. Rob McKeel, CEO of GE Energy Connections

The best CPU architecture in the world won’t do you much good if the ecosystem falls flat. RISC-V, the new kid on the block when it comes to instruction-set architectures (ISAs), is up against that st

Vision systems are [icking on so many uses within the automobiule, from backup cameras to lane departure warnings, to keeping an eye on the driver, and lots more. But where do we go from here? Are we

Grant Erickson performs double duty, serving as the President of the Thread Group while also holding down a position as Principal Software Engineer at Nest Labs. As Grant pointed out to me, Thread is

There’s no shortage of information when it comes to the Internet of Things. Conventional thinking says that the processor vendor would likely have the best information when you’re putting your design

Hacking continues and breeches still occur, regardless of how much emphasis we put on security. Why is that? Is it simply that the hackers are smarter than the folks designing in the security? That’s

AI, or artificial intelligence, is slowly creeping into our lives, whether we know it or not. The embedded world, typically at the tail end of technology (for some very good reasons), is starting to e

Culture within an organization is such a difficult thing to get a handle on and even harder to regulate. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I talked to Bruce Alexander, a vice president at W

FPGA technology has been around for eons (well Silicon Valley eons anyway). But lately, the embedded version of that technology is moving to the forefront. In a nutshell, an embedded FPGA is programma

Adacore started a challenge for embedded developers called Make with Ada. It brought in entries from around the world. But more importantly, it made a clear statement that Ada is a programming languag

Authentication is paramount in an IoT platform. If the bad guys can get in, bad things are likely to happen. Auth0 has developed a platform to keep those bad guys out using a single sign-on. Matias W