Embedded Design

Important Electronic Design Considerations for Data Acquisition Systems: Part 2 – Harsh Environments

By Alex LeBlanc | Nov 15, 2023

Over the past two decades Nuvation Engineering has developed data acquisition systems for a wide range devices and market applications. Based on our experience performing hundreds of engineering desig...

Embedded Filesystem Translation Layer Encryption

By Daniel Lizewski | Sep 23, 2019

Internal flash storage is at a premium on embedded micro-controllers. Typical micro-controllers often have less than a megabyte of internal non-volatile memory, which is shared for both program and da...

HBM and FPGAs

By Mark Bingeman | Jul 22, 2019

Bandwidth Gap An emerging issue in the computing industry over the last several years is the bandwidth gap between the major communication interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, USB, etc.), and the external m...

Graphical Interface Considerations for Embedded Devices

By Daniel Lizewski | Apr 29, 2019

In the world of smartphones and tablets, customers have high expectations when it comes to graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Customers expect swipe animations, blending, and smooth transitions. This c...

Simulating Embedded Devices

By Melissa Chinnick | Feb 12, 2019

SIMULATIONS AND EMBEDDED devices A simulation generally refers to a computer program that models a system of some kind, for example, an embedded device. An embedded device is a computing device tha...

Maximizing BLE Security & Privacy Features

By John Chinnick | Jan 3, 2018

Wearables often communicate using radio protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave, Cellular, or LoRa, among others. These protocols provide solutions that meet a spectrum of ...

Getting Started With Publish-Subscribe Messaging Systems

By Stephen Munnings | Dec 22, 2017

*In this article we are using "publish-subscribe" in the context of software architecture. What is Publish-Subscribe? Publish-subscribe is a messaging facility. It describes a particular form of...

Embedded Software Development: Outsource or In-House?

Feb 6, 2017

Digital Engineering recently interviewed Nuvation Engineering COO Michael Hermann to discuss when to outsource your embedded software development. He explained that the complex products being develope...

Putting Quality Products on the Shelves: Reliability DVT

By Neil Miller | Oct 11, 2016

Earlier in this series we discussed why design validation testing (DVT) is important and how environmental DVT is performed. Now we’ll take a look at Mechanical and Reliability DVT, and how electron...

Nuvation Partners With Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Research Laboratory

By Lindsay Farlow | Oct 10, 2013

As we mentioned previously, Nuvation Engineering has signed a 4-year research and development agreement with researchers from the University of Waterloo. The research will be conducted by the Waterloo...