3 Design Trends Shaping the Embedded World

By Embedded Advisor | Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Current trends in embedded technology are driven by the need to gain enhanced operational capability along with reduced power requirements.

FREMONT, CA: The technological innovations in the past few years have presented the firms with massive potential to leverage previously unavailable data and resources. However, when it comes to innovations in embedded systems, the product development phase matches the essence of technological advancements. The key features of embedded industrial systems include security, speed, size, and power. Thus, the innovations in device designs also revolve around these factors. Here are the key design trends that will impact the future advancements in embedded devices.

Enhanced Computing Power with Innovative Architectures

Increasingly, firms are eyeing advancements in terms of power and efficiency and computing power of the embedded systems. Thus, firms are focusing on improving device designs that will ultimately lead to enhancement in device performance. Moreover, enhanced computing power will also impact the reliability and safety of embedded devices.

Improved Security

With a growth of the internet of things (IoT), the main focus of manufacturers and developers will be on security. Embedded device manufacturers are focusing on microcontroller security solutions in order to isolate security operations from normal operations. The security concerns will mainly focus on authenticity verification, secure data exchanges, secure data storage, and secure code execution.

Low Energy Consumption

One of the key challenges for embedded device manufacturers is the optimization of battery-driven devices. The focus is on reducing power consumption as well as in increasing the maximum uptime of the embedded system. Various prototypes are being tested for monitoring and reducing the energy requirements of embedded devices. Such prototypes will enable the developers to streamline various aspects of an embedded system such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules enabling them to consume less energy at the hardware level.

Embedded device manufacturers understand the impact of design on performance parameters such as efficiency, power, and security requirements. Thus, future trends in embedded device designs will be guided by the aforementioned parameters.

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