Last week, I attended the 2018 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg Germany (February 27 – March 1). As usual, companies from around the world descended on Nuremberg to show off their latest and greatest embedded technologies. While I was there giving several talks, networking with colleagues and walking the conference floor, I started to see … Continue reading 5 Trends from Embedded World 2018
One of the top complaints about electronic devices in our modern, mobile society is that their batteries don’t last as long as expected. Human beings have to some degree become addicted to our ability to always be connected and streaming data of one form or another. The increased use of mobile devices has resulted in … Continue reading 7 Tricks for Estimating Battery Life
Less than a decade ago it was difficult for an engineer to get ahold of a development board without doing some serious damage to their pocketbook. Development boards were produced in small quantities and were usually big and bulky. It was not uncommon to have to shell out at a minimum $500 for a decent … Continue reading Tools – Kinetis-L Freedom Boards
Course Overview: The Internet of Things looms, and given the features and processing power that will be necessary for many IoT products, the use of modern, low-power processor architecture is critical. This course will elucidate the inner workings of the ARM Cortex-M processor using an STM32 32-bit microcontroller. Starting with an overview of toolchain setup, … Continue reading Design News CEC – Mastering the ARM Cortex-M Processor
Embedded developers today work during exciting times! There are a plethora of tools at our fingertips just waiting to make our jobs easier and STM32Cube does exactly that! STM32Cube is a configuration tool suite provided by ST Microelectronics for its ARM series of Cortex-M processors. The tool is designed to help developers decrease development effort, … Continue reading Tools – STM32Cube
When it comes time to start optimizing an embedded device for energy consumption it is often really tempting to start out by adjusting the operating voltage of the system. If an engineer were to look back in his notes on MCU power consumption they would find something along the lines of Power = Constant * … Continue reading Embedded Basics – Linear Dynamic Current