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Internet of Things (IoT) applications are changing the way we live, learn, work and play. It's also changing the way engineers develop.

Radar technology is at the forefront of the race towards autonomous vehicles, and it just took a big step into the W-band. 77 GHz radar provides the long-range detection needed to evolve active safety beyond beeping backup indicators into the collision avoidance systems that can help save lives.

As companies strive to advance their modeling and simulation capabilities toward realizing full virtual prototypes of aircraft systems, they face a number of challenges associated with assembling multi-domain system models. Beyond the inherent time and budget pressures, they interact and collaborate with a variety of departments, suppliers, and manufacturers as a source of models, they must deal with a diverse mixture of tools, modeling formats and conventions of different domains, and they must preserve and repurpose an often decades-old legacy of modeling knowledge and assets.

The Internet of Things paradigm is bringing with it a myriad of useful and essential services based on virtualization and software-driven control of sensors, devices, gateways, and cloud. Increased software control provides better flexibility and easier upgrades.

Over the past 20-plus years, the security, industrial, remote monitoring, and other sectors have relied almost exclusively on 2G networks to power their machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, applications, and services. But with carriers looking to reclaim bandwidth for future network technologies, 2G service is slated be taken offline by the end of 2016, leaving embedded OEMs in need of connectivity solutions for their existing and future IoT products.

The Ada programming language is particularly well suited to developing mission-critical and safety-critical systems that must be cost-effectively maintained over long lifecycles. These systems increasingly consist of multiple components distributed across processing nodes.

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives require integration of the physical, or operational world with the digital world of IT. Choosing the right IoT ecosystem architecture and technology enables this integration while ensuring security and dynamic, analytics-driven action.

Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives require integration of the physical, or operational world with the digital world of IT. Choosing the right IoT ecosystem architecture and technology enables this integration while ensuring security and dynamic, analytics-driven action.

Cloud computing has demonstrated huge cost savings and operational efficiency benefits for the private sector and now Department of Defense (DoD) program managers are exploring the concept for enterprise and tactical applications with cybersecurity at the forefront of challenges to be overcome. Eventually clouds will be common as the DoD consolidates each respective network from IT departments at domestic bases to tactical clouds such as within a deployed battle group.

In the past the selection between an LDO and DC/DC converter centered on solution size and generated noise. If these were the only considerations, the LDO would usually win "hands down".

The proliferation of connected devices coupled with network infrastructure advances have ushered in a new era of communication and machine-to-machine (M2M) automation in all industries. These advances bring significant risk - attacks on systems have become purpose-built - targeting specific machines in order to access unauthorized information or cause system failures.

Software differentiates you from your competitors, and the speed by which you deliver new capabilities determines if you win or lose in todays competitive IoT market. Continuous Deployment has been proven to be effective in the web and enterprise app space.

The modern SoC is designed with many modular IP blocks that have been commercially licensed or reused from previous designs, along with some new proprietary components. Integrating all of the components has typically proven to be time-consuming and error-prone as designers stitch their SoCs together by hand or rigid and outdated scripts.

For many manufacturers, a key decision in their connected device strategy is quite often the simple yet very complex question of build vs. buy.

Today's commercial processors from Intel, AMD, and Freescale bring unprecedented levels of performance to embedded computing solutions based on standards from VITA, PICMG, and other standards organizations. They are the enabling technology for radar, sonar, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), avionics, vetronics, and other applications in military electronic systems.