Dear Readers,
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V
iewpoint
February 2015
… and once again its time to meet
at Embedded World Exhibition
& Conference which will be held
from 24th to 26th February 2015
at the Nuremberg Fairgrounds. The
international Embedded Com-
munity can look forward to three
interessting trade fair and congress
days. The event – like the entire
information offering of ICC Media
- identifies the most topical issue in
embedded system development in
its basic theme “We are the Inter-
net of Things (IoT)”. The basis of
the IoT is formed by intelligently
networked embedded systems. The
event will therefore present the latest state of research for the inter-
national embedded community and shows the direction of future
trends to make this engineering revolution reality. The basic theme
of “We are the Internet of Things” runs through the whole conference
programme. The main topics under the keyword Engineering Focus
at the 2015 conference are IoT and Security & Safety. Daily keynotes
examine the topics from various perspectives and the themes are also
reflected in the exhibition halls to accompany the conference.
This 1st issue of ECE & Boards & Solutions in 2015 is also dedicated
to Embedded World, which developed itself in the last 13 years to
the most important event world wide for the embedded community.
Our cover story “The connected car addresses congestion and safety
challenges” shows that linking vehicles to the Internet of Things will
make journeys faster, cleaner, and cheaper. But this requires secure
connections including secure communication, data, and IP protec-
tion as well as system integrity. Infineon realised this issue and offers
a trusted platform module solution in its AURIX MCUs which is
described in the article starting
at page 14
. If you think about IoT
you´ll find also a huge need for effectively storing the acquired
huge amount of data in Flash memory. Beside the traditional Flash
memories there is now a new Flash architecture from Hyperstone
available - called hyMap, which significantly improves write amplifi-
cation, increase endurance and random write performance. For more
information -
see page 25
.
But IoT does not only include the embedded word it combines it with
the formerly separated IT world. Nowadays cloud computing is also
used in industrial and embedded applications. The article “Managing
SMARC Computer-on-Modules via the Cloud” starting on page 40
describes new SMARC COMs which comes complete with a connec-
tion to the SEMA Cloud making them a ready-to-use solution for a
wide variety of IoT monitoring and maintenance services.
You´ll see there is a lot of innovation going on in the embedded
industry. To keep you informed and updated you should visit
Embedded World 2015.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Wolfgang Patelay
Editor
