Product certification is essential for protecting consumers, complying with regulations, gaining market access, building trust, and ensuring safe and reliable functionality. It benefits manufacturers, consumers,…
Lidar: Uses and Technology Explained
Lidar – which stands for “light detection and ranging” or “laser imaging, detection, and ranging” – is a type of remote sensing technology that uses…
The What, Where, and Why of LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is a low-power wireless communication technology specifically designed to allow devices to send and receive small amounts of data…
COM Express: Finding the Right Type
COM Express is a family of modular, small-form-factor computer-on-module (COM) specifications defined by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). A nonprofit consortium of companies…
Firmware: Capitalizing on IP & Enabling Hardware
Firmware is low-level software that is embedded directly into a hardware device. The actual code – depending on the device this is usually some combination…
SWaP-C2 Applications: The Battlefield & Beyond
The term ‘SWaP-C2’usually brings aerospace and defense applications to mind. SWaP-C2 is an acronym for Size, Weight, Power, Cost, and Cooling, most often referring to…
Component Software Helps Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions
SiliconExpert is one of the major resources that Sealevel utilizes throughout the product development life cycle. In a nutshell, SiliconExpert is a software platform that…
The Difference Between Embedded Vision & Machine Vision
Embedded vision systems combine all the hardware and software components of machine vision – image capture, processing, and interpretation – into one device. By eliminating…
What is QNX?
QNX is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system owned by BlackBerry, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. QNX, initially released by Quantum Software Systems…