Embedded Computing Design

Deploying AI at the edge often means facing limits in power, space, and reliability. It’s critical to address these challenges and limitations by designing with processing, form factor, and resiliency at the front of mind at all phases of the process.

The conventional legacy workstations present limitations when handling modern resource-intensive simulation and AI workload, which requires high computational power and performance.

In this episode of Embedded Insiders, the VP of Sales and Business Development at Gateworks Corporation, Kelly Peralta, joins me to discuss the trends, challenges, and innovations surrounding Wi-Fi HaLow for industrial and IoT applications.

The next segment is sponsored by Analog Devices, and Contributing Editor, Rich Nass, and Analog Devices’ Senior Vice President of Software and Digital Platforms, Rob Oshan, discuss the complexity of designing AI systems and how Analog Devices’ CodeFusion Studio, which includes an IDE, a software development kit, and coding tools, is designed to accelerate the process. 

Check out the embedded world North America 2025 Best-in-Show winners. 

Featuring high-resolution capacitive touchscreens ranging from 7” to 21”, Octolux offers vibrant colors and contrast, sharp graphics, and a smooth, responsive display with ideal visibility in any lighting condition. Rugged construction resists vibration, dust, moisture, and extreme temperatures to ensure reliable performance in harsh environments

Demanding, safety-critical applications today, such as medical equipment, imaging, factory automation and robotics, smart cities, IIoT gateways and edge appliances, and wireless infrastructure, rely on cost-optimized solutions that leverage low-power, flexible configurations, high I/O counts, and more.

Today’s evolving AI applications demand advanced performance, robust security, and flexible connectivity. These high-performance solutions must support space-saving designs in business-class, on-premises environments, and always keep efficiency and ruggedness in mind.

Industrial environments today are growing in complexity, with demands for high-performance compute at the edge. These environments need efficiency and reliability to perform accelerated AI inference and multitasking tasks for applications, such as smart manufacturing, logistics, and security applications.

Developing edge AI, machine vision, and automation applications to be deployed in harsh environments requires flexible processing, robust memory, rich I/O, and much more in order to perform efficiently at the edge. Managing the demanding workloads from these applications is becoming increasingly difficult, which is why engineers can benefit from a compact, industrial-grade system.

Booth HB143, CES Unveiled Europe, Amsterdam – October 28, 2025 – POLYN Technology announced the successful manufacturing and testing of the world’s first silicon-proven implementation of its unique NASP (Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing) technology.

Modern AI application demand is surging and evolving to have more power in less space - challenging the traditional system design.

Today’s evolving industrial applications require support for high-performance computing and advanced AI capabilities in digital signage, kiosks, POS/POI applications, and other industrial use cases. Applications like these are often embedded within compact environments, which means that the solutions supporting them must also provide the aforementioned capabilities, including flexible connectivity, reliable power, and robust I/O options, all within a single solution.

Today’s high-performance edge AI computing systems deployed in environments such as industrial, smart cities, and retail often need to support advanced video analytics applications, from intrusion detection to real-time assistance. These functions require robust memory, advanced processing, the ability to perform in commercial conditions, and much more.

PHOENIX — October 23, 2025: Newark, an Avnet company, launched The DevKit HQ, a new online resource to bring together evaluation boards, development kits, single-board computers (SBCs), tools, and technical documents in one place.

The demand for modern, rugged computing solutions for industrial automation and machine vision applications is increasing. These advancing applications, deployed in robotics and factory environments, require robust performance, wide operating temperature ranges, reliable networking, flexible storage, and acceleration for AI workloads.

Modern industrial edge environments are increasingly tasked with managing expansive AI workloads that require real-time access to data, without relying on the cloud. These advanced workloads need AI acceleration capable of real-time image recognition, object detection, and intelligent decision-making at the edge.

Today’s modern and continuously evolving connected devices and environments, such as smart homes, industrial, wearables, and other IoT applications, require solutions that are compact, power-efficient, and provide constant and reliable wireless connectivity. These solutions benefit from simplified designs that accelerate development time, promote low latency, and provide secure connectivity on a single platform.

Morse Micro and Gateworks Corporation are partnering to bring Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah) connectivity to industrial environments. Together with Silex Technology, they are launching a high-performance ecosystem that makes secure, low-power, and long-range Wi-Fi a reality in smart factories, transportation systems, and energy infrastructure.

CHANDLER, Ariz., October 13, 2025 — Microchip Technology introduced its next generation of Switchtec™ Gen 6 PCIe® Switches. According to the company, these are the industry’s first PCIe Gen 6 switches manufactured using a 3nm process. 

IoT, industrial, and smart devices, such as smart doorbells and locks, smart thermostats and lighting, and Point of Sale (POS) terminals demand consistent and reliable wireless connectivity. These advanced technologies not only rely on seamless Wi-Fi, but they often require Bluetooth connectivity and 802.15.4 radios to connect devices to the cloud and to each other.

TDK Corporation announced a new custom sensing solution for intelligent eyewear: InvenSense SmartMotion for Smart Glasses, which is designed to enable precise, responsive, and context-aware motion tracking for smart glasses at ultra-low power. Ideal for augmented reality and seamless AI accessibility, this solution is designed to provide high-accuracy head tracking, stable image/video capture, intuitive UI control, and posture recognition.