At Embedded World 2026 we caught up with Don Cantow, General Manager of Altium, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He shares the advances that Octopart Discover, the latest iteration ...

The complexity associated with the development of embedded systems is increasing rapidly. For instance, it is estimated that the average complexity of software projects in the automotive industry has ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The incredible pressures of time-to-market at “Web speed” have caused a new philosophy of successful new embedded device product/market development to emerge called “rapid prototyping.” When executed ...

A new microcontroller (MCU) from Freescale Semiconductor aims to simplify embedded software development for both experienced engineers and novices alike. The MCU, which includes software and tools ...

I remember the excitement of my first microprocessor design when, halfway through the project, Motorola announced a breakthrough doubling of its microprocessor's clock frequency – to a full 1 MHz – ...

With the rise of embedded finance (the integration of financial services or tools within the products or services of a non-financial organization), there has been a convergence between financial and ...

Across a range of financial services—including payments, lending, and insurance—embedded finance (sometimes referred to as embedded banking) will generate $230 billion in revenue by 2025, a 10x ...

When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...