Category: Analog

Taking a SiP of IoT

“Internet-of-Things” or IoT and it’s challenges have been on my mind long before it became a popular term.   I’ve just finished writing an 18 part blog series on the subject, hosted on an internationally respected news site, Embedded Computing Design.  After reading this short article, I’d like to invite you to read the whole series, and engage in the discussion.

However, you may need motivation to go look for the series and actually read it. So, let me motivate you. I first heard the concept of “Cloud Computing” many years ago at a press conference in Beijing, China. My response to the question of “what do you think about Cloud Computing” surprised even me as the words came out of my mouth. Several months later I heard a better descriptor of the concept called the “Internet of Things”. What surprised me next was the apparent confusion of what the IoT was.

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Debating the Future of Processing Performance

I have been attending the IEEE’s premier Signal Processing conference, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) for over 30 years. While at Texas Instruments, ICASSP was the perfect venue for me to meet with the signal processing research community, our customers (both present and future), the editors/analysts who were following the Digital Signal Processing explosion, and our competitors. It became my platform to influence the industry while at the same time sensing the direction in which it was moving. (Read More…)