Editor-in-Chief

Embedded Computing Design

Brandon is responsible for guiding content strategy, editorial direction, and community engagement across the Embedded Computing Design ecosystem. A 10-year veteran of the electronics media industry, he enjoys covering topics ranging from development kits to cybersecurity and tech business models. Brandon received a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University, where he graduated cum laude. He can be reached at [email protected].

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IoT

Building better benchmarks for IoT systems - Other

December 02, 2016

Benchmark testing is a favorite of electronic engineers, as it provides a quick reference on performance, power consumption, latency, or other compone...

Software & OS

RTOS in the IoT: Where we are and where we're headed - Other

November 21, 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought software developers from all walks of technology into the field of embedded system design, and with them vari...

Open Source

RISC-V: Reigniting innovation in semiconductors? - Other

November 18, 2016

Do you remember when one advantage of the ARM architecture was its limited number of instructions? After all, the "R" in "ARM" stands for reduced inst...

Automotive

Top tech to watch at CES 2017: Building blocks for autonomous drive - Other

November 17, 2016

It's hard to believe, but once again it's time for the most exciting (and exhausting) show of the year - the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). CES 2017...

Processing

Could FPGA IP be headed to an SoC near you? - Other

November 08, 2016

The more integrated, the better. That's truer in the embedded space now than ever before. For proof, look at the system on chip (SoC) landscape. SoC i...

Open Source

Dev Kit Selector: Thunderboard Sense "inspirational" for IoT developers seeking quick time to market - Other

November 07, 2016

Internet of Things (IoT) development continues to get easier and cheaper as vendors package highly integrated development kits with processing, sensor...

Processing

Security, SaaS, and education headline ARM TechCon - Other

November 03, 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) and security have been mainstays in technology headlines over the past month, and really for more than a year now. Distri...

Processing

Qualcomm's acquisition of NXP and the cost of doing business - Other

October 28, 2016

Those of us in the media, at least, started hearing rumors of NXP being acquired almost as soon as they completed the purchase of Freescale late last...

Processing

Qualcomm's acquisition of NXP and the cost of doing business - Other

October 28, 2016

Those of us in the media, at least, started hearing rumors of NXP being acquired almost as soon as they completed the purchase of Freescale late last...

Open Source

Creating a killer audio product in a day - Other

October 13, 2016

The idea of delivering an audio product from start to finish in one day may seem ambitious, but that's what the Audio Engineering Society (AES) set ou...

Software & OS

Silicon Labs acquires Micrium in bid to provide complete IoT development solutions - Other

October 04, 2016

Consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues, sort of. This time, it's not a semiconductor vendor acquiring another, but instead acquiring a...

Automotive

ON Semi buys Fairchild as investment pool dries up - Other

September 20, 2016

The latest domino to fall in what has become an 18-month-long string of semiconductor acquisitions is Fairchild Semiconductor, which was officially pu...

Industrial

Renesas acquisition of Intersil to package processing, power management - Other

September 15, 2016

Consolidation of the semiconductor industry continues as Renesas has agreed to acquire analog and mixed-signal IC vendor Intersil for roughly $3.2 bil...

Industrial

On the loss of Joe Pavlat, a friend and mentor - Other

September 06, 2016

My first day of work in the embedded computing space came the day after the Super Bowl in 2011. I had about as much knowledge of the high-tech industr...

Consumer

Z-Wave opens up as smart home connectivity battle closes in - Other

September 02, 2016

As Internet of Things (IoT) concepts took hold and started to become realities a few years back, one of the first challenges realized was interoperabi...

Software & OS

What's new with the mbed OS? - Other

September 01, 2016

The past 12 months for semiconductor IP firm ARM have been big. Really big. Let's take a look at some of the highlights: The ARMv8-M architecture was...

Software & OS

Software forensics lay MS-DOS, CP/M controversy to rest - Other

August 26, 2016

It's often the case that success breeds controversy, particularly in the technology industry and especially with regards to software. Given the amount...

Processing

Sub-threshold circuitry: Making Moore's about power, not performance - Other

August 12, 2016

As silicon geometries approach the edge of physics, a new rule of thumb is poised to govern the computing industry: "Thou shalt reduce power consumpti...

IoT

Check these boxes before deploying IoT devices - Other

August 10, 2016

There was a time when isolation helped ensure IT system security. Mainframes lived in glass rooms accessible to a few carefully screened attendants. I...

Automotive

Automotive-grade Ethernet maximizes bandwidth, minimizes packet loss for connected and autonomous cars - Other

August 02, 2016

Ethernet is a pervasive networking technology in the enterprise and consumer sectors, and its widespread adoption has helped drive speed and cost impr...

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