While PLCs (programmable logic controllers) are an industry norm, demands for data, memory, and processing power are intensifying. Soon enough, the PLCs may no longer be the go-to industrial computer.

Design of embedded control systems has been greatly simplified with the availability of out-of-the-box development kits which contain hardware and software which will dramatically speed early system ...

We hope this will accelerate the spread of IoT equipment powered by energy harvesting." The new RE01 Evaluation Kit includes an evaluation board which features an RE01 embedded controller, an ...

Future Electronics has introduced a development board which it claimed will simplify the design of embedded systems based on 8- and 32-bit Freescale Semiconductor microcontrollers (MCUs). Called ...

Editors Embedded systems have come a long way as more and more hard cores, soft cores, and design tools are available. These devices are now providing more functionality as well as easier design, ...

[Ben Heck] found an old card-swipe point-of-sale box at the Goodwill store, took it home, and tore it down to see what was inside. He found a completely serviceable single board computer based on the ...

Embedded systems engineer Pascal Wistinghausen based in Germany has created a new 3D printer controller board in the form of the Sigmoid S7P, which he has made available via the Kickstarter ...

Figure 1. SPLat Control's HMI430 programmable logic controller is based on 120 MHz ARM Cortex-M4F processor with an LCD touch panel. The HMI430 has a 4.3-in color touch screen with dimmable ...