Why Can’t I Use Raspberry Pi for My Embedded Design Project?
Here’s Why You Can’t Use Raspberry Pi For Your Project Have you ever worked on a project that started out like this? And ended up looking like this? The initial impression of a clear-cut solution that could be delivered on time and under budget has been washed away. Unfortunately, misconceptions around different technology and a […]
Top 9 Factors when Choosing Radio Systems for IoT Design
Top 9 Factors when Choosing Radio Systems for IoT Design In fact, you probably have access to around nine different connected devices on a day-to-day basis. Whether that number is higher or lower; you are benefitting from the phenomenon known as the Internet of Things. This modern marvel is celebrated each year – with April […]
9 Development Tips to Get Your Proof of Concept to Market
9 Development Tips to Get Your Proof of Concept to Market It’s a common error to underestimate the difference between a Proof of Concept (PoC) design and a production-ready device. Here, we discuss in detail the difference between the two, while outlining how to go from one to the other. What is the purpose of […]
DSP Fundamentals Every Electronics Engineer Should Know
A guide to the core knowledge required for DSP application development and feature engineering – by Dunstan Power and Guest Author John Edwards of Sigma Numerix Digital Signal Processing (DSP) has been a key part of many real time applications for several decades but over the last few years the use of hybrid devices, which […]
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project Determining the practicality of a proposed (Internet of Things) IoT project is the first and most important step in IoT product design. If done correctly, this will set up the project for success. Want to turn a good concept into a brilliant, IoT product? There are […]
Survey: Biggest challenges faced by electronic design businesses into 2020
Survey: Biggest challenges faced by electronic design businesses into 2020 As an embedded systems consultancy we wanted to understand what fellow electronic design businesses expected of the future. While exhibiting and presenting at the Engineering Design Show (EDS) recently we interviewed show visitors and asked what they felt their greatest challenges were. We questioned executives […]
FPGA Design: Connecting Custom Peripherals to AXI Using BRAM Interface
Download the new eBook: FPGA Design – Interfacing Over AXI Using A Simple Address Data Bus In FPGA design, interfacing over AXI (ARM eXtensible Interface) is an increasingly popular choice due to its status as the most widespread AMBA interface, enabling the connection of potentially hundreds of Masters and Slaves in complex SoCs. However, it […]
Design trade-offs in M2M product design and development
Design trade-offs in M2M product design and development Long before the phrases M2M product design and the Internet of Things came to wider attention, we were already making machines talk to each other, says Dunstan Power of ByteSnap Design. Early adopters like General Motors and Hughes Electronics Corporation could see the benefits that machine-to-machine communications (M2M) offered forward-thinking businesses as […]
Our Embedded Hardware Design makes BBC News Top Story
ByteSnap’s Embedded Hardware Design shown on BBC National News ByteSnap Design was featured right at the beginning of the lead news report on the 10 O’Clock news programme last night. The story, by Robert Peston, was about the latest UK job figures. ByteSnap was featured as a company toughing out the gnarly economic climate and […]