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The Impact of AI on Electronic Product Engineering

This blog speaks about the impact of AI on Electronic Product Engineering covering its possibilities, the benefits of AI integration, and how Embien leverages it.

Avoiding Certification Pitfalls in Product Development

This blog discusses how underestimating compliance impacts product development and explores ways to avoid certification pitfalls.

FMEA for developers

This blog explores FMEA for developers across domains by covering the basics, DFMEA, PFMEA, software FMEA, and best practices to boost safety and reliability.

The Cost of Insecure Firmware & How to Secure It

This blog highlights the cost of insecure firmware in electronic products and how to secure the devices including secure boot, firmware update strategies etc.

Poor Thermal Design in Electronics: Mitigation Strategies

This article discusses the impact of Poor Thermal Design in Electronics along with the necessary Mitigation Strategies to ensure product success.

Validation in Embedded Medical Product Development

This blog explores the importance of validation in embedded medical product development and how it ensures devices are safe and effective for real-world use.

Navigating Modern Challenges in Electronic Product Engineering

This blog highlights the modern challenges in Electronic Product Engineering like Miniaturization, Power Efficiency, Edge Intelligence, and Connectivity.

Rapid Prototyping & MVPs: Iterative Electronic Product Validation

The blog dives into Rapid Prototyping & MVPs to help Iterative Electronic Product Validation against market fit and Embien's offerings on Rapid Prototyping.

Managing Feature Creep in Electronics Engineering

This blog explores the universal problem of scope deviation in the context of electronic product engineering - Managing Feature Creep in Electronics Engineering

Verification in Embedded Medical Product Development

This blog explains how verification ensures safe, reliable embedded medical devices by catching errors early and meeting strict regulatory standards.

Scaling Up: Pilot to Production & Field Support

This blog dives deep into the challenges OEMs face when Scaling Up from Pilot to Production and how proactive Field Support and techniques like FOTA can overcome them.

Regulatory & Compliance Roadmap for Electronic Products

This blog on the Regulatory & Compliance Roadmap for Electronic Products speaks about need and best practices for Medical, Automotive, Industrial & Defence domains.

The High Cost of Ignoring EMI/EMC & How to Prevent It

This article covers how products fail due to not considering EMI/EMC compliance from the start, leading to avoidable risks and delays.

UI/UX Guidelines for Medical Devices

This blog highlights the importance of UI/UX design in medical embedded systems, focusing on safety, usability, alarm management, and compliance.

FCC, CE, UL, RoHS: Your Global Electronic Certification Guide

As a Global Electronic Certification Guide, this article touches up on different regulatory requirements like FCC, CE, UL, RoHS and suggests best practices.

Mastering Design for Manufacturing (DFM) for Electronics

This blog presents a guide on Design for Manufacturing (DFM), provides Actionable Tips for Electronics Manufacturing and a checklist to improve efficiency.

Fixing Power Management Issues in Electronic Design

This blog discusses poor electronic product engineering power management design and techniques to fix power management issues in electronic design.

Best Practices in Embedded Medical Software Development

This blog highlights best practices in embedded medical software development, focusing on safety, compliance, and reliability from design to deployment.

Ingress Protection (IP Ratings) for Electronics: A Design Guide

This blog serves as a design guide on Ingress Protection for Electronics covers overview of IP Ratings, design considerations, common Pitfalls and Material Selection

Thermal Considerations for Robust Electronic Product Design

This article explores Thermal Considerations for Robust Electronic Product Design covers Dissipation, Effective Thermal Management Techniques, Trade-Offs etc

Mitigating Supply Chain Risks in Electronics Design

This blog discuss the impact of Failing to gauge Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and ways of Mitigating Supply Chain Risks in Electronics Design

Architecting Safe Embedded Medical Products

This blog explores how layered architecture, processor choices, and safety principles enable design of reliable, life-critical medical systems.

Mechanical Design for Electronics: Beyond the Enclosure

Article on Mechanical Design for Electronic products covering topics of Aesthetics and Functionality, Strategic Material Selection and Ensuring Durability

Electronic Product Development Lifecycle - A Step-by-Step Guide

This article explores the Electronic Product Development Lifecycle as a Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to Market - System Architecture, Layout, Prototyping etc

7 Modern-Day Sins of Product Engineering (And How to Avoid Them)

This article captures 7 Modern-Day Sins of Product Engineering And suggests ways about how to avoid them to mitigate risks in electronics development.

Designing Medical Software

This blog explores how medical product development ensures safe, certified devices (IEC 60601, ISO 14971, and IEC 62304) for reliable, compliant, and innovative patient care.

Introduction To Embedded Medical Product Development

This article introduces medical product development that ensures safe, certified devices (ISO 13485, IEC 62304, ISO 14971) for reliable, compliant, and innovative patient care.

LoRa for Long-Range Communicaiton

A guide for developers to build and test efficient LoRa systems suited for smart, scalable, and long-range wireless applications.

Exploring Google Mobile Services GMS

Exploring Google Mobile Services (GMS) that enhances Android with essential APIs and services, shaping app functionality, compliance and alternatives.

AOSP Security with SELinux

Blog on AOSP Security with SELinux outlining practices for Securing middleware, HAL, daemon services, and Binderized HAL with SELinux in Android.

System Services Interaction with Apps and HAL

Article on System Services Interaction with Apps and HAL Dives into Android System Services & covers how they connect apps, framework, & HAL in modular way.

Debugging AOSP HAL Drivers

With this blog learn the art of Debugging AOSP HAL Drivers, as it covers verious techniques including BinderDump, system calls etc.

A deep dive into AOSP Passthrough HAL

Article on Passthrough HAL Development covers AOSP Passthrough HAL architecture, benefits & best practices for proprietary driver implementation in Android.

Deep Dive into AOSP Binderized HAL

Article on Binderized HAL Development covers AOSP Binderized HAL architecture, benefits, & best practices for proprietary driver implementation in Android.

Deep Dive in to Android HAL Architecture

Explore the AOSP HAL, its architecture, key types (Binderized, Passthrough, Manifest) and best practices for building efficient and maintainable HAL modules.

Exploring the Android Build System

This blog introduces the Android Build System and explores AOSP Build Process, provides tips for analyzing, debugging and optimizing Android Build Time etc.

Decoding AOSP Folder Structure for Developers

An overview of about how the Android Open Source Project - AOSP Folder Structure is organized covering impact areas of each folder like kernel, System etc.

Understanding the AOSP Architecture

Explore the layers of AOSP from the Linux Kernel to System Apps and understand how each component contributes to Android’s architecture and functionality.

Introduction to AOSP - Android Open Source Project Platform

This article introduces the source code of the popular Smartphone OS - Android covering AOSP - Android Open Source Project Platform, its pros and cons, etc.

Kind of Products and Solutions that need to adhere to ISO 21434

This blog discusses the different kind of Products and Solutions that need to adhere to ISO 21434 like ECUs, ADAS systems and the rationale behind it.

Comparative analysis of ISO 21434 and ISO 62443 standards

A detailed comparative analysis between the popular security standards of automotive & industrial systems - ISO21434 & ISO62443 including compliance & audits.

Software update in line with ISO 21434 and ISO 62443

This article discusses rolling out Software updates in line with ISO 21434 and ISO 62443 standards and recommends best practices minimizing user impact.

Secure Development Lifecycle in context of ISO 21434 and ISO 62443

A guide for secure development lifecycle (SDLC) for software developers working in ISO21434 and ISO62443 Automotive/industrial cybersecurity developments.

Mapping ISO 62443 and ISO 21434 for multi-domain development

Blog on mapping ISO 62443 and ISO 21434 explores similarities & key difference between the cybersecurity standards in multi-domain development perspective.

Advanced Interrupt handling Techniques in Linux

This deep dive into Advanced Interrupt handling in Linux discusses top halves & bottom halves and ways to write complex interrupt handlers in device drivers.

Writing Interrupt Service Routines for Linux

This blog introduces the interrupt handling concepts in Linux including functions and flags with example of writing interrupt handlers for device drivers.

Developer's Role in Implementing ISO 21434

This blog is a developer guide to implement ISO21434 for Automotive ECU Development and discusses the Role of Developers in Implementing ISO 21434.

Scalable & Secure OTA architecture with Snap

Build a scalable, secure OTA update system using snap to deliver module remote software upgrades reliably, with easy deployment, testing, and compliance support.

Developer Guide to incorporate ISO62443 in Software Development

This blog is a developer guide to incorporate ISO62443 in software development taking a practical example of fire alarm control panel as the OT system.

Using Interrupts for context switching in RTOS

This article discusses using interrupts for context switching in RTOS specifically covering Renesas RH850 context switching in FreeRTOS.

ISO 21434: Navigating the Automotive Cybersecurity components

This article explores the ISO 21434, a de-facto standard for Automotive Cybersecurity including its Core Components, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment.

Interrupt handling in RISC-V architecture

This article on interrupt handling in RISC-V architecture covers Privilege Levels, Direct/Vectored Interrupt Handling, HARTs in RISC-V along with examples.

Introduction to RISC-V interrupt handling

This article introduces concepts necessary for interrupt handling in RISC-V architecture like Privilege Levels, Direct/Vectored Interrupt Handling & HARTs.

IEC 62443 - The Cybersecurity standards for OT Systems

This article explores ISO 62443, the Cybersecurity standards for OT Systems guiding developers to design, implement, and maintain secure industrial systems.

Interrupt Handling in PIC MCUs

This blog explores interrupt handling in PIC MCUs ranging from the basic variants to the higher ones involving vector interrupt controller and priorities.

NIST CSF-2.0 : A Comprehensive Guide

Explore how NIST CSF 2.0 enhances the cybersecurity framework from version 1.1, offering new features and improvements to strengthen risk management

Interrupt Handling in Renesas RH850 MCUs

This article on Interrupt Handling in RH850 MCUs captures its register set, RH850 Exception Model before going into RH850 Exception Handling with example

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

This blog introduces the cybersecurity framework (CSF), different frameworks in practise today and delved deep into the NIST Cybersecurity framework.

Interrupt Handling in ARM Cortex M Core

This blog on Interrupt Handling in ARM Cortex M Core explains the Cortex M Vector Table and discusses way to setting it up and switching the Vector tables

Cyberthreats and Cybersecurity for embedded systems

This blog discusses Cyberthreats and CyberSecurity for embedded systems, a few examples of the critical cyberattacks and Cybersecurity Frameworks in use.

ARM Interrupt Controllers - The gateway to CPU's attention

Vendor Specific Model, Vectored Interrupt Controller(VIC), Generic Interrupt Controller(GIC) and Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller(NVIC) - ARM handling

Microservices at the Edge - Challenges and Solutions

Outlining potential deployment points for Microservices at the Edge, this blog touches up on challenges with embedded Microservices & mitigation strategies.

Microservices Architecture for embedded systems

This blog introduces Microservices Architecture for embedded systems, traditional monolithic architecture and discusses its adoption in embedded systems

ARM Architecture – Registers and Exception Model

This blog on ARM Architecture introduces different ARM architectures from the earlier ARMv4 to the latest ARMv9, its Registers and ARM Exception Model.

Interrupt Handling in Embedded Software

This blog introduces interrupt handling in embedded software and terms like interrupt controller, interrupt nesting and preemption, interrupt latency etc.

Software Update Testing Challenges and Test cases

Learn software update testing challenges and test cases, discover best practices for firmware upgrade testing, ensure reliable updates and minimize risks.

Device Firmware Update - DFU Architecture

This blog captures the Device Firmware Update process and DFU architectures such as Updating only Application, Updating Bootloader and with recovery.

Bootloaders in embedded system

In this blog, we will cover Bootloaders in embedded system, bootloader architecture, stages, features and ready to use bootloaders available in the market

Firmware Upgrade importance, best practices and OTA methods

This blog captures the firmware upgrade importance and explores the Firmware Upgrade importance, firmware update best practices and OTA methods.

Environmental Monitor Testing Tools and Methods

Blog on Environmental monitor testing tools and methods discussing product architecture, various tests including Sensor Interface testing, Alert tests etc.

Smart Watch Testing 101: Features, Tools and Methods

This smart watch testing article explores the features, key testing aspects, and simulation tools and analyzers to validate and build a quality smart watch.

Demystifying the Face Recognition Process: Algorithms and Models

This blog introduces the Face Recognition Process, various steps associated along with popular models such as FaceNet, DeepFace, ArcFace and EdgeFace

Overview of machine learning based Face Detection Frameworks

This blog covers some of the popular machine learning based Face Detection Frameworks that are in use with background about the Face Detection algorithms

Exploring Bluetooth Device Testing Methodologies and Techniques

Covering Bluetooth device testing, this article introduces validation tools for Bluetooth classic/BLE devices at Application/Profile and Physical Levels.

Bluetooth Auracast(Multi Listeners)

An article introducing the Bluetooth extended advertisement details and audio broadcast in Bluetooth 5.0

A Comprehensive Introduction to Multipoint Bluetooth

This blog introduces the Multipoint Bluetooth feature where the Bluetooth PicoNet is used to achieve seamless connectivity between more than 2 devices.

Exploring Bluetooth Profiles and their Applications

An article introducing the Bluetooth Profiles including the Bluetooth Multi Profile Specification and covering their typical applications and use cases

An Introduction to Higher level Bluetooth Protocols

This article covers higher level Bluetooth protocols like service discovery protocol, SDP, TCS BIN, RFCOMM, OBEX, etc. that forms the backbone of Bluetooth.

An In-depth Guide to the radio layer of Bluetooth Technology

This blog delves into the physical and data link layers of Bluetooth technology, covering the channels, adaptive frequency hopping and BT/Wi-Fi Coexistence.

An introduction to the Bluetooth Technology

This blog introduces the Bluetooth technology, its evolution, versions from classic to the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and network architecture.

Modbus Device Testing Methodologies

This blog captures the Modbus device testing methodologies covering Modbus conformance tests for both client and server along with some relevant test cases

Product level Functional Testing of Wi-Fi Interfaces

This article continues about the Product-level Functional Testing of Wi-Fi Interfaces covering Wi-Fi Channel Configuration tests, Seamless Handover etc

Wi-Fi Standards and Testing – An Introduction

This article introduces Wi-Fi Standards and testing covering generations, versions, Wi-Fi Pre-Compliance Testing and finally Wi-Fi Testing using Automation

Validation Methodologies of UDS Features in an ECU

This article on Validation Methodologies of UDS Features in an ECU covers UDS Services Test cases, Manual Testing and UDS Validation based on HIL tools

Static and Dynamic image loading techniques in QT for MCU

This blog captures different techniques for Static image loading and on-the-fly dynamic image loading in QT for MCU to create an engaging user experience

Qt for MCU Application Development on Bare metal and RTOS

This blog provides an overview of Qt for MCU Application and outlines steps in both Bare Metal and RTOS based QT for MCU Firmware development

Navigating Automotive Cluster Testing: Types, Challenges & Solutions

This article explores the testing methodologies and challenges associated with each component of an instrument cluster and offers potential solutions

Electronic Devices Display Validation - Challenges and Solutions

This article on Electronic Devices Display Validation captures various display technologies along with the challenges in display testing and solutions

EOL Testing for Electronic Devices - EoL Test Stages and Testers

This article covers in detail about EOL Testing for Electronic Devices spanning EoL Test Stages, EoL Testers, Challenges and solutions

Embedded Product Test Automation across Industrial domains

This blog covers how embedded test automation benefits industries such as consumer electronics, medical devices, industrial, aerospace, and automotive.

Automation in Testing : Today and Tomorrow

This article article shares the author's thought on how test automation stands today and how role of modern technologies may influnece its evolution

Safety Testing Of Embedded Systems

This article touches upon some of the functional safety standards across industries and stresses the importance of Safety Testing of Embedded Systems

Guide to Embedded System Testing Methods

This article discusses both the embedded system testing methods - black Box Testing and White Box Testing for embedded hardware and software in detail

Verification and Validation in Embedded product development

Verification and validation (V&V) are procedures used in Embedded product development to check if it meets all requirements, specs, and intended purpose

Crucial Need for High Quality in Embedded systems

This article lists need for quality in embedded systems, analyses Embedded System Failure impacts & lists some of best Embedded product development process