Vendors at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston September 21 and 22 highlighted an impressive range of technologies that address issues ranging from "green" applications to data and code security.
Tim Dehne, until recently a longtime executive with National Instruments Inc, has joined the board of directors of Asset InterTech Inc, a supplier of boundary-scan and embedded-instrumentation tools. Over a career stretching more than 21 years at NI, Dehne led global marketing and R&D at the company, which reported $824 million in revenues in 2008.
GUEST OPINION: Although highly popular embedded computing components that have been around for several decades, computers-on-modules (COMs) lacked the continuity needed to make these boards appeal to the various industries for which they were designed.
"A thriving ecosystem, whether in nature or economics, emerges from an evolutionary culture that nurtures diversity, doesn't artificially pick 'winners,' and embraces failure early and often."
David Stewart, founder and CEO of CriticalBlue (Edinburgh, Scotland) talks about his company's approach to hardware/software co-design and the challenge of multicore programming.
EDN talks with Rodger Hosking, vice president and co-founder of Pentek Inc, about high-performance data-acquisition, software-defined radio, upcoming technical opportunities, hiring engineering talent, and more.