Software and hardware have a “chicken and egg” relationship – one really can’t work without the other. In Steve Leibsen’s blog, he talks about getting more capacity through multi-core based systems. That’s the hardware side of the equation, now let’s look at software to make realtime industrial control function. Ethernet was born of a PhD Dissertation by Robert Metcalf in the early 1970s. Xerox PARC, center of many new computing technologies, develope...Read More
As a roving reporter for Intel® Embedded & Communications Alliance, I recently paid a visit to Advantech, a Premier member of the ecosystem program and an exciting group of people to talk to. Our subject was what role their products for wind power generation are playing in the coming world of 15 billion intelligent connected devices . Obviously, this is a great field to be in. There's a lot to feel good about in contributing to the wind power industry. Wind power is clean, pl...Read More