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The rapid growth of the Internet of Things, the 5G network, artificial intelligence and cloud or edge computing has a major impact on the development of embedded software.
Article: Boom in embedded technology
Interface designs and their implementation
The use of software interfaces is a fundamental means of developing durable and robust software architectures. Therefore, they should be established as early as possible in the architecture to stabilize it.
Article: Interface designs and their implementation
Secure IoT smart grids through modular hardware security
In a highly interconnected world, it is advisable to effectively protect applications against cyberattacks. This requires optimal encryption of data and communication channels. However, the cryptographic algorithms used in software do not always reliably protect devices directly exposed to attacks. A turnkey solution offers a potential way to better protect information.
Article: Secure IoT smart grids through modular hardware security
IoT security: "The biggest risk is the human element"
The Internet of Things (IoT) is multiplying the risks of hacking attacks, as every network-connected device is a potential entry point. Peter Siwon, Business Development Manager at MicroConsult, and Michael Schnelle, Consultant at Mixed Mode, describe the biggest risks and explain protection strategies in this interview.
Requirements engineering and management
Capturing and managing requirements is a key to successful projects. Whether in a traditional or agile process environment, professional requirements engineering and management for embedded and real-time systems shortens your project timelines and saves on development and maintenance costs. Take on this challenge!
Article: Requirements Engineering and Management
How well prepared are you for the Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things has already transformed products, industries, and economies in many areas. It influences the relationship between customers and suppliers and the availability of goods and services. It impacts social systems and ecosystems—indeed, virtually every system we know. These profound changes in the environment for everyone who interacts directly or indirectly with the Internet of Things present both opportunities and risks.
Article: How well prepared are you for the Internet of Things?
Requirements – A checklist for maturity
Capturing and managing requirements is a key to successful projects. Whether in a traditional or agile process environment, professional requirements engineering and management for embedded and real-time systems shortens your project timelines and saves on development and maintenance costs. Take on this challenge!
Presentation: Requirements – A checklist for maturity (ESE Kongress 2017, PDF)
Conference proceedings script: Requirements – A checklist for maturity (PDF)
More important than ever: Think in systems and architectures
Looking at the present and the future clearly shows that the embedded world and the IT world are intertwined and will become increasingly so. Embedded systems are becoming part of the Internet of Things, which is evolving into the Internet of Everything and will be a breeding ground for many new business ideas. The major challenge lies in thinking in terms of increasingly complex and dynamic systems and combining the ever-accelerating pace of technological and entrepreneurial developments to create new systems and business ideas. Our trainers have given this some thought.
Article: Thinking in systems and architectures
The Internet of Things – a breeding ground for new opportunities and risks
Many technological success stories are based on the evolutionary principle of emergent properties. This states that by networking units into a system, this system generates new properties and capabilities that did not previously exist and were possibly unpredictable.
Technical knowledge: The Internet of Things (IoT)
Trend Guide IoT – Internet of Things (August 2016)
We have tried to outline the dimension of the topic of IoT and to define more precisely what IoT essentially means for those who develop embedded software.
Reading sample: Trend Guide IoT – Internet of Things
IoT security – the biggest risk is the human element.
The Internet of Things multiplies the risks of hacker attacks, because every device connected to the network is a potential entry point – the interview describes the biggest risks and explains protection strategies.
Presentation: IoT Security Check – Detecting Threats in Time
The increasing connectivity of microdevices presents not only opportunities but also risks. This presentation demonstrates how these risks can be identified through threat analysis and how such analysis is typically conducted. Common attack scenarios and typical countermeasures are presented using a typical IoT system architecture as an example.
Presentation: IoT Security Check (PDF)
Renesas Synergy™
In the ever-growing market of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, many developers value a flexible solution that can be quickly and easily adapted to increasingly complex requirements. Renesas responded to this demand with the Synergy™ platform.
System and hardware development – Press:
Mixed Mode and MicroConsult – Cooperation in the training sector
The cooperation between the two companies includes joint workshops in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). Through this collaboration, the two partners combine their IoT project experience, decades of embedded software engineering expertise, and methodological and didactic professionalism.
Press release: Collaboration on IoT training
