Objective Interface Systems, Inc., provider of the most widely used communications middleware for software defined radios (SDRs), today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Firmware fuels innovation behind the scenes. From connected medical devices to industrial automation, nothing moves without the right embedded software. Choosing the right partner to build this layer ...

Offering full NFC Forum V1.3 compliance, the PN7120 near-field communication controller from NXP Semiconductors includes embedded firmware providing all NFC protocols, a standardized NFC controller ...

Designing an application with universal serial bus (USB) communications enables a system to be able to communicate with a wide variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

One strategy to rapidly deploy new embedded products into the marketplace is to leverage platforms. You or company probably have a product roadmap that identifies the products that will be released ...

Although embedded-system designers can integrate a built-in keyboard/display, a dedicated wireless interface terminal, or a remote networked PC for a user interface, smart phones provide a capable, ...

Prepare for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems at MTU. When software lives inside machines, failure isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a safety, reliability, and security risk. From vehicles and aircraft to ...

Hardware abstraction layers (HALs) are an important layer to every embedded software application. A HAL allows a developer to abstract or decouple the hardware details from the application code.