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Rust on Embedded: Join the Elektor Academy Pro Conference on 16 July

3 weeks ago | elektormagazine.com | Alexander Neumann

Join the Rust on Embedded online Elektor Academy Pro conference on 16 July! Learn from top experts how Rust is reshaping embedded development. Rust is a safe, modern alternative to C/C++, eliminating entire classes of bugs without sacrificing performance. This full-day event is for engineers, experienced developers, and newcomers aiming to build safer, faster, and more reliable systems.
Ensuring energy efficiency for battery-powered embedded systems

3 weeks ago | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

Whether embedded or IoT, the life of battery-powered applications has always been challenging to assess. Determining an accurate battery life has become a multi-disciplinary affair that involves hardware, firmware, and software engineers throughout the stack. To simplify this challenge, Qoitech offers a product portfolio, backed up by their Otii Ace and Otii Arc hardware, that is accessed through a powerful yet free and perpetual desktop application.
Secure Firmware for Microcontrollers: Updates for IoT Devices and Industrial Applications

1 month ago | elektormagazine.com | Thomas Joos

Firmware updates for IoT devices are indispensable in industrial applications. In view of the increasing networking of industrial networks, efficiency and security are paramount. Microcontrollers often form the basis of these IoT devices. Due to their limited resources and the complex requirements in production environments, they require adapted and robust security mechanisms to prevent tampering and attacks during updates.
Precise or Accurate? Your Instruments Need to Be Both!

2 months ago | elektormagazine.com | Roberto Armani

In writing technical articles, we often risk losing some language accuracy, and this becomes more evident in rigorous fields — such as metrology — where each term has a very specific usage and, generally, inappropriate terminology is not well-tolerated. Measurements A measurement is, by definition, a numerical relationship resulting from the comparison of a given quantity to another, homogeneous to it and of known value, considered as a reference.
Discover Bridgetek BT820B - add hi-res graphics, touch and live video to your existing MCU!

2 months ago | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

Adding a complex new feature like graphics and a touch interface to an embedded system typically means changing microcontroller supplier. And that usually means learning how to use new software libraries, tools, and IDE. Bridgetek, with their EVE Embedded Video Engine chipsets, helps developers add impressive graphics and integrate camera feeds with their current MCU, as long as a spare SPI interface is available.
Getting Rust ready for aerospace and defence

2 months ago | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

Rust has been gaining much attention from embedded systems developers, with its promise of better code and memory safety. AdaCore, well-known as a supplier of Ada, C, and C++ tools to industries where safety is critical, such as aerospace and defence, is responding to this growing interest in Rust. They’re exploring how to prepare this language for these applications, ensuring tools meet the wide range of existing standards and regulations. However, there is more than just the tools.
Model Cascading: Optimize AI Performance on Embedded Devices

2 months ago | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

By cascading machine learning models, low-power algorithms can make a preliminary assessment of data. Should core attributes be present, additional, more power-hungry processing can be undertaken by a second algorithm, such as a large language model. VLMs, or vision language models, increasingly make their way into edge systems, allowing natural language algorithms to detect objects or describe a scene.
Unifying Access Control Systems by Breaking Down Silos

2 months ago | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

You may not have seen them, but Elatec multi-technology readers are everywhere. Enabling future-proof access control systems, they are often found in doors, gates and lifts. However, they also form part of smart office security systems, supporting secure printing and single sign-on. Then, there are the employee lockers, electric vehicle charging systems, and machine authentication.
Low-Cost I²C Tester: Connect I²C Devices Directly to Your PC

Feb 2, 2025 | elektormagazine.com | Ivan Cabrera

The Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C) protocol is an addressable serial bus that was innovated by Philips in 1982. It’s designed for the seamless intercommunication between various integrated circuits (ICs). Today’s market boasts a plethora of I²C-compatible devices, including — but not limited to — memory chips, expanders, sensors, real-time clocks, and LCD controllers. Given this diversity, a straightforward testing tool can become an indispensable asset in your electronics laboratory.
An Introduction to AI Algorithms: Which Algorithms Implement Each AI Tool?

Dec 4, 2024 | elektormagazine.com | Stuart Cording

Explore the foundational concepts and algorithms behind modern artificial intelligence (AI), including neural networks, machine learning, and deep learning. Gaining insight into these technologies unveils AI's vast potential beyond generative models like ChatGPT. AI rarely seems to be out of the news. Sometimes, it’s to highlight an innovative new approach to healthcare, diagnosing illnesses like cancer early and improving the chance of survival.