Embedded Wireless Articles

Deal with Component Shortages Using Abstraction Based Connectivity Solutions

Supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic have had major repercussions on the embedded systems industry. Firms have been forced to switch from one supplier to another in an attempt to fulfil their customers’ orders, and engineering teams have been faced with an enormous amount of rework. This paper discusses abstraction based connectivity solutions that enable the same software libraries and application layers to run across dozens of different target platforms to deal with component shortages.

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Embedded Wi-Fi Development Best Practices

Get our eight Embedded Wi-Fi Development Best Practices to help you overcome common development challenges and deliver projects on time.

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Bluetooth Development Made Easier

Five factors to consider when deciding whether free or commercial Bluetooth is the better fit for your device requirements.

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Is Free Bluetooth Really Free?

Let's get right to the point. If you pay nothing for software (like the Bluetooth® that's already embedded in chips or RTOSs) but it costs you 50 percent more in development costs and perhaps significant time in opportunity costs associated with delayed time-to-market, is free Bluetooth really free?

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The Role of Short Range Wireless in IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the shape of the embedded systems industry. A key component of this change is the role that short range wireless - such as Bluetooth Low Energy, WiFi® and Bluetooth - will play in new IoT scenarios. The focus of this paper will be on the many aspects of short range wireless connectivity for IoT applications. It will give managers greater understanding of the practicalities behind new scenarios involving short range wireless.

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Short Range Wireless Usage, Concerns, Directions and Debugging in the IoT Era

The world of embedded is changing. It is being impacted by one of the major growth markets of our time – the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT demands innovative solutions to a new set of requirements, impacting upon the decisions, issues and preferences of engineers tasked with wireless embedded designs.

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The Future of the Medical Device Industry

A significant growth in the medical device marketplace can be realized by expanding the market to individuals that can benefit from preventative support and ongoing monitoring of treatments. This will create a market for millions of new devices. Paper published with permission from Embedded Market Researchers.

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Saving Time to Market

According to Nevens, M T, Summe, G L and Uttal B, Commercialising technology: What the best companies do "Companies that are first to market their products can command higher prices and enjoy a greater market share".

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How To Keep Costs In Check When Designing Connected End Point/IoT Devices

As the use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are becoming more common, the need to create cost effective devices is critical. The challenge is how to enable new features and functionality while lowering your costs. In this whitepaper, Mentor Graphics and Clarinox Technologies underline important embedded hardware and software factors when designing a high complexity wireless device to remain cost effective and robust.

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Connectivity, Complexity and the Role of Enhanced Debugging

Over the last three to four years, the adoption of inter-device connectivity and a multitude of other ‘smart features’ (e.g. adaptive control and device learning) into many traditional embedded products has drastically increased the level of underlying software and hardware complexity. In parallel, product development timelines are rapidly reducing with a corresponding tightening of quality requirements, especially in regulated markets such as the defence, automotive and health sectors. elated data (MQTT, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi) between multiple nodes.

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Jannal Intelligent Design Environment

Developers are increasingly incorporating additional software such as wireless protocol stacks into their embedded products creating large, complex systems. Building and debugging such complicated systems consumes valuable resources and extends project timescales. The use of Jannal Intelligent Design Environment eases the challenges and allows engineers to focus on their end application.

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Getting your Medical Devices to Market Faster

In this paper Embedded Market Forecasters acquaint medical device manufacturers with currently available technologies that are used effectively in other vertical marketplaces to speed up the development process, lower the cost of development and better enable integration of wireless, USB and very efficient GUI development and deployment.

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Long-term value from short-range connectivity

In this age of smartphones, touch-screen tablets and imminently wearable computing, the ubiquitous radio communications device seems to be just as resilient to change as it is to the rigours of the environments in which it's used. Read the full Tait Connections Magazine article.

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Low Power leads to Big things

Electronic News Magazine paper discussing the power of low power.

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Developers Report on their Use of Wireless Protocols for Embedded Applications

Wireless protocols are deployed across a large number of markets. This paper takes a look at what wireless protocols developers are using for embedded applications and how they are using them.

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Complexities of embedded systems

Increasing complexity has long been a major embedded systems developer concern. Some industries have seen this trend earlier than others but it appears none will escape the trend. It is just a matter of time until this is a concern across every market segment.

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Embedded Debugging

A flexible, plug-in based debugger is described. The debug system, built as a C++ interface class, is independent of the physical layer, which can be a network, a serial connection (e.g., RS232), or even a file on hard disk or flash memory. The plug-in approach presented was conceived to overcome the major barriers to fast and efficient debugging of embedded systems and is based upon many years of experience in the embedded industry.

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Embedded Industry Issues

An overview of the issues in the embedded industry and the Clarinox approach to dealing with these. Presentation provided as part of the NICTA workshop "Developing with ARM Microcontrollers - Past Present and Future" with pictures courtesy of Tata Consultancy Services and Fredric J Harris, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University.

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Real Time Location Systems

Real Time Location Systems are used to track and identify the location of objects or people in real time. This is done through the use of electronic tags/badges attached to the object or person and electronic readers to receive the signals from these tags. Signals are filtered and the information processed to determine location.

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Hardware / Software Debugging

A rapid protoyping example is used to higlight an approach to debugging when the issue is not clearly either hardware or software.

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Debugging Embedded Systems

For many years debugging has been the number one issue of embedded engineers according toEmbedded Systems Design's annual market survey.

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Picking Wireless Technologies?

Think the number of choices for wireless technologies makes things confusing? Clarinox provides a (rough) guide to some main differences between technologies at Industrial and Wireless Conference.

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Dealing with a Complex QNX Design?

Clarinox was announced as an approved QNX partner for Bluetooth protocol stack software at Embedded World, a sample development on QNX platform is discussed.

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Working across Multiple Embedded Platforms

Traditionally the requirements placed upon embedded systems are quite different to those applied for desktop computing. While there is no single characterization that applies to the whole gamut of embedded systems some combination of the variables of robustness, small size and weight, real-time requirements, long life cycle and low price could be expected to figure in the design criteria for most embedded systems.

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Streaming MP3 via Bluetooth

A joint presentation by Clarinox and TCS at WiCon Asia.

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The Place of Wireless

Clarinox article published in Radio Comms Magazine.

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Location Determination using Bluetooth

Clarinox has been involved in a number of location determination and location based services solutions and presented on this topic at WiCon US.

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