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Send us Fan MailIn this week’s Embedded Experts Podcast, Embedded Com-puting Design editors Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis hash out some of the roadblocks of TrustZone technology with Rein-hard Keil, Senior Director of MCU Tools at ARM and Foun-der of Keil Elektronik GmbH, including the tools and tech-niques available to developers working with new TrustZone-enabled Cortex-M devices, the Cortex-M23 and -M33.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailOn this week’s podcast with the Embedded Experts, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis, we look at the semi-shakeup in the world of operating systems. There’s been some acquisition and there’s been some realignment. Security is in vogue and “real time” is, well, not necessarily real time. And then there’s open source. Let us know if you agree with our opinions.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThis week, the self-appointed Embedded Experts, that being Brandon Lewis and Rich Nass of Embedded Computing Design, discussed automotive technologies. The duo got into autonomous driving and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), which were both under the spotlight a few weeks ago at CES, and brought in a special guest to help fill in the gaps: John Buzsek, a Senior manager for ADAS at Renesas.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailEmbedded Computing Design editors Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis introduce the Embedded Tech Studio podcast, and review some of the highlights they experienced at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, NV.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailBrandon Lewis of Embedded Computing Design sat down with Ron Lowman, Strategic Marketing Manager for IoT at Synopsys in Austin, where the two discussed the challenges of developing sensor processing systems for the Internet of Things, as well as the opportunities afforded by designing around the right semiconductor IP. Low power, security, and RF baselines are all considered in the context of systems that can be differentiated from the competition.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailAccording to Louis Parks, President and CEO of of SecureRF, the company’s security protocols for the IoT are computationally much more intensive than other types of security that are available. The technology addresses the size, speed, and power that are needed for just about any “thing” on the market today. It also eliminates having to go back to the server for authentication. Louis was able to explain it way better than I could. Hear his description.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThere's been a media frenzy around security breaches such as the Jeep hack, pacemaker's being compromised, and insulin pumps being commandeered, but is it really warranted? In all of these cases, the white hat hackers demonstrating vulnerabilities had months (if not years), physical access to the devices, and intimate knowledge of the systems they were attacking. Well, according to Mike Rohrmoser, Director of Product Management for Embedded Systems at Digi International, the concerns are real. And, in part, this is thanks to the maker movement.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailWith the integration of IT and OT on the Internet of Things, Java is becoming more relevant to embedded development. However, traditional bottlenecks still persist with Java. In this interview, Fred Rivard, CEO of MicroEJ and co-author of the Java JDT compiler, explains how virtual machines are making Java as applicable to device design as traditional C, and discusses how to maximize IoT portability through an app store concept.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailIn no other industry is the impact of connected device/system security more important than healthcare. The requirements for connected medical devices, and the data they transmit and store, are therefore extremely stringent, but those requirements vary across geographies as certain countries approach data privacy and security differently. In this interview with Steven Dean, Director of Healthcare at QNX Software Systems, he describes the multiple layers of security required for connected medical devices, as well as network capabilities available today for the healthcare segment.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailSensors are complex, which is why so few companies are really developing them. For the past few years, however, Ian Chen, formerly of Freescale's Sensor Business Unit and now the Director of System Architecture for Software and Algorithm Development at NXP, has been working to make them more accessible. In this conversation with Embedded Computing Design's Brandon Lewis, Ian explains the importance of sensor data analytics at the edge, the release of an intelligent sensor development framework, and how companies like NXP can help with fundamental sensor challenges such as drift.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com