Engineers need to pass on the passion for their profession to the next generation. One award-winning game does just that--gets kids interested in engineering.

Engineers need to pass on the passion for their profession to the next generation. One award-winning game does just that--gets kids interested in engineering.

Will embedded systems engineering be a viable career in the United States in the near future? A trip to Asia made Jack ponder.

To improve the efficiency and lower the operating costs of the electric motors in your enterprise, certain factors need to be considered. Christian Fritz, Product Manager, National Instruments lists these in this technical paper.

The development of an electronic medical device requires the consideration of a range of issues: reliability, certification, cost and time to market. Reuse of available proven technology is just common sense, and a commercial RTOS is a good place to start.

With no moving parts and easy conformity to curved surfaces, touch-sensor switches can be used for every thing from automotive, industrial and home control apps to mobiles and handhelds, requiring the use of wide-temperature-qualified touch-sensor controllers that operational under many environmental conditions.

IT organizations have saved millions of dollars in equipment and energy costs in the past several years with virtualization in their servers and desktop computers. It is no surprise that embedded developers a looking to do likewise in their more space and cost and memory constrained designs.

A no-nonsense guide to what to do BEFORE you begin your embedded WiFi design.

An almost "no-sweat" guide to adding MTBF software to your design.

There are some simple steps you can take to make your app "greener" and more power efficient before you take on the job of programming, or reprogramming, your motor-control algorithms.

Keep bugs out of your firmware by using coding standards. It's cheaper and easier to prevent bugs than it is to find and kill them later.

Attendees of the Embedded Systems Conference tell us their concerns, their goals, and their levels of understanding with respect to the recession.

Understand how a received signal strength indicator, combined with a networked quartet of transceivers and antennas, can pinpoint a transmitter's location

A tutorial on memory module use in embedded designs compared to other processor main memory alternatives such as embedded DRAM in System-on-Chip (SoC), Chip-on-board (COB), and Multi-chip Packages (MCP).

: How Kontron worked with Techniscan to boost the performance of its Ultrasound CT Breast Imaging System to boost the computing power of the system's scanning capabilities by incorporating a CompactPCI CP6012 single board computer using a single 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

The popularity of 8-bit MCUs could actually be on the increase, despite the trend towards faster, larger and more powerful cores.

CS enrollments have been awfully gloomy for a long time. New data suggests that at least the rate of decline is slowing.

According to LDRA's Paul Humphrys, even if your application isn't safety critical you can still benefit from the use of software verification.