IntroductionGone are the days when buying a car with only a music player was lavish. The time has changed! Today technology is evolving rapidly, and everything is getting automated. Vehicles with

Overtime, we have been witnessing the evolution of Android framework, with new features, increased security levels and a more user centric design. From the time when HTC introduced the first Android p

Internet of Things or IoT refers to an ecosystem of devices/things that are connected to each other over a network enabling communication among them. These connected devices are equipped with UIDs (Un

Every time a silicon company launches a new processor or System on Chip (SoC), they simultaneously release Development Kit or Software Development Platforms. Development platforms are physical boards

The recent advancements in technology and the plethora of electronic devices that have emerged over the recent years have transformed the lives of common man. One of the most notable and humbling tech

Industry 4.0 has many synonyms.  It is referred to as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Digital Revolution, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It doesn’t matter how we define it; Industry 4.

Wearable Electronics are smart gadgets and/or accessories with specific functionalities and applications. Wearable Technologies focus on the efficient and brilliant use of internet, various sensors, t

WHAT IS PRODUCT ENGINEERING SERVICES?Product Engineering Services refers to the use of Embedded software, hardware design & Industrial Design techniques to develop an electronic product. Servi

Artificial intelligence (AI) is heralding the next big wave of computing, changing how businesses operate and altering the way people engage in their daily lives.Artificial Intelligence (AI) and M

As we welcome a brand new year, I am thinking and looking forward to the top tech trends of 2019. Of course, there are lot of new things coming up like blockchain and quantum computing, but I am inter

Sometime back I had written how the Augmented Reality / Glasses have moved beyond just Hardware and into a combination of many things (www.mistralsolutions.com/augmented-reality-virtual-reality-mixed-

It’s been an interesting decade and I remember clearly that it was sometime in 2007 when we actually started working on head-mounted glasses project for one of our customers. The customer had an int

Industrial automation systems typically require data acquisition and processing in real-time. These systems could range from a simple lighting control system to a large distributed control system comp

1) Wearable ElectronicsIn 2015, Wearable devices garnered the most attention from multi-functional smart watches with brands like Samsung, Motorola and Apple fighting for a place on the Wearable c

Over the past decade the embedded world has undergone tremendous change. With the advent of mobile phones, smart lifestyle gadget like wearables, health and wellness devices, on the consumer front, us

The world of Internet of Things (IoT) fascinates me for its potential to impact everyday life by extracting the immense power hidden within data and inference based actions. IoT infrastructure is a c

There are a few people I consider visionaries of their times. In the 15th century, we had Leonardo da Vinci. He was centuries ahead of his times and unmatched in his abilities, talent and knowledge of

In 2014, wearable electronics technology saw an enormous increase in popularity with Internet searches for related terms increasing ten-fold and over $1 billion invested towards development in this do

Product design and development has come a long way from traditional product development. Earlier, development involved a semi-conductor company building a reference design around a brought out silicon

The Internet of Things is not just a futuristic vision of a better connected world; it is already here, giving healthcare providers an unprecedented level of technology inter-operability and flexibili

Sensors form the edge of the electronics ecosystem, in which the physical world interacts with computers, thereby providing a rich array of data to be available at a click of a mouse. We have had sens

From smart phones to smart cars, technology is transforming virtually every aspect of our busy lives. Technologies not only make life easier while on the go, but new options are quickly simplifying li

The market for the wearable electronics devices is estimated to reach $19 billion in the next 5 years. We are already seeing the biggies like Google and Samsung launching several innovative products i

IntroductionToday’s automotive electronics solutions are going through a major transition in terms of technology consolidation and hence we come across many new feature additions and integration

Serial digital interface (SDI) is a standard for high quality lossless digital video transmission. Depending on the data rate there are different variants of SDI video streaming.SD-SDI carries

The performance of embedded devices is highly dependent on adequate power consumption management. Embedded devices are being packed with more and more features while the power budget has not changed m

Virtualization is a term that has taken some time to internalize for me. My introduction with virtualization was as far back as 1992 when Windows 3.1 introduced the 386 enhanced mode, and the ability

In general, power optimization seems opposed to product feature enhancement. Power optimization on feature–rich devices is built with high degree of focus on optimizing power consumption based on th

A Quick Glimpse at the Automotive Linux Summit 2012September 19 and 20, 2012 at HERITAGE MOTOR CENTRE, GAYDON, WARWICK, UNITED KINGDOMThe Linux Foundation had organized the Automotive Linux Su

Till recently, connectivity used to be about being able to connect to the internet. Whether it was from a notebook, a tablet or a smartphone it was about being connected to the rest of the world. Over

The tech world is going through unprecedented changes in the last few quarters. Apple and Samsung have taken the mobile phone market leadership to a different level where both of them have surged forw