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Send us Fan MailThe reason you should care about MISRA C is a simple one. It stops you from doing things that the C language allows you to do that you really don’t want to do. Well, maybe not so simple. But that’s the way that Andrew Banks explained it to me in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. Andrew is the Chairman of the MISRA C Working Group and also a Technical Specialist with LDRA. There are some anomalies within C that even savvy developers may not be aware of. Conforming to the spec will make all your troubles go away…at least your development troubles.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailSmart homes are built with lots of sensors. The more sensors you’ve got, the smarter your home (sort of). But you still have to make a fair amount of choices, including which radio you employ and how it is deployed. One of the better ways to do it is in a SiP, at least according to Cees Links, general manager of Qorvo’s Wireless Connectivity Business Unit, who was my guest on this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. He’ll explain why the SiP is a good way to go, along with lots of other things that have to do with the smart home, including why you don’t need a mesh network.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailWork on artificial intelligence (AI) is taking place in all corners of the globe. In fact, a recent event was held in China to further the advancement of AI as it relates to heterogeneous computing. Who better to discuss this topic than John Glossner, President of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HAS) Foundation in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. If you want to know what’s going on over there or who is leading the race, I suggest you tune in.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailMachine learning (ML) is something that really needs to occur at the Edge of the IoT. That sounds great, except that it’s quite difficult to achieve. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Ed Kuzemchak, CTO and Director of IoT for Software Design Solutions, we discussed what’s required to make ML at the Edge a reality.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailNeural nets and simulators. This is not a combination that I would have put together, but after it was explained to me, putting them together makes a lot of sense. If you don’t get the connection, check out this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Peter McGuinness, CEO of Highwai, an expert in simulation for autonomous vehicles.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailNew computer architectures come along all the time. Some stand the test of time while others get EOLed (end of lifed) pretty quickly. Why is that? Is it for technical reasons, marketing reasons, or something else? This is the topic that the Embedded Insiders tackled this week. And to give it a perspective, we asked Jonathon Miller, CEO of Diamond Systems, to join us. Diamond Systems offers products that take advantage of new architectures and old, so we figured Jonathan would have some answers to our questions (and he did).For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailUSB-PD is a newer specification that deals with the power that can be derived from a USB port. It’s quite an important spec and one that has lots of potential. Unfortunately, it’s one of the specs that’s not well understood. To get a better understanding for myself (in turn, for you), I invited Doug Bailey, a vice president at Power Integrations to be my guest for this week’s Five Minutes with…podcast.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThe Industrial IoT industry is full of promise. But wait, haven’t we said that before? At some point, it has to bear fruit, and we seem to be pushing out the “hockey stick” yet again to next year. What is the reason for that? That’s what I asked Bruce Chatterley, Senet’s President and CEO in this week’s Five Minutes with…podcast. His response made as much sense as anything I’ve heard before.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan Mail5G is the wireless standard that’s poised to revolutionize how we interact with data. And it’s only a year away from being a reality. Or is it? Isn’t that what we were told last year, and the year before that? In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I spoke to James Kimery, the Director of Wireless Research at National Instruments to understand when exactly we’d be seeing 5G.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailApple took center stage this week as it announced a series of new iPhones and a new Apple Watch. Is that exciting technology? It probably is to some, but not to the Embedded Insiders. So that begs the question, who are the real innovators in the embedded space? That’s the question the Embedded Insiders tackled this week. Give it a listen and see if you agree.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com