Here are the references for the talk I gave at this year’s Embedded Online Conference, titled: Tour of Embedded Systems - What in the World is Going On?

I really enjoyed the process of making this talk and want to thank Stephane Boucher for organising the conference and giving me the opportunity to present!

Companies

MCU

• ST - https://www.st.com
• Microchip - https://www.microchip.com/
• Texas Instruments - https://www.ti.com/
• Renesas - https://www.renesas.com
• NXP - https://www.nxp.com/
• Nordic Semiconductor - https://www.nordicsemi.com/
• Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/
• Broadcomm - https://www.broadcom.com/
• Qualcomm - https://www.qualcomm.com

FPGA

• AMD - https://www.amd.com/en/products/xilinx
• Intel - https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/details/fpga.html
• Lattice - https://www.latticesemi.com
• Efinix - https://www.efinixinc.com/
• Gowin - https://www.gowinsemi.com/
• QuickLogic - https://www.quicklogic.com/
• Cologne Chip - https://www.colognechip.com/

Everything Else

• NVIDIA - https://www.nvidia.com
• SiFive - https://www.sifive.com/

Acquisitions

• MCU Market 2021 - https://www.eetasia.com/the-five-biggest-mcu-suppliers-accounted-for-82-of-2021-sales/
• NXP acquire FreeScale - https://investors.nxp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nxp-and-freescale-announce-completion-merger
• Microchip acquire Atmel- https://www.microchip.com/pdf/mchp-completes-atml-acquisition-and-provides-update-on-its-q4fy16.pdf
• Infineon acquire Cypress - https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-releases/2020/INFXX202004-049.html
• Intel acquire Altera - https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2021/archive/2015-12-28-news-releases-intel-completes-acquisition-of-altera.pdf
• AMD acquire Xilinx - https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition
• Amazon acquire FreeRTOS - https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21805914/freertos-now-under-the-aegis-of-amazon-web-services
• Microsoft acquire ThreadX - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/04/18/microsoft-acquires-express-logic-accelerating-iot-development-for-billions-of-devices-at-scale/
• Aptive acquire VxWorks - https://www.aptiv.com/en/newsroom/article/aptiv-completes-the-acquisition-of-wind-river-from-tpg
• NVIDIA announce Arm acquisition - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creating-worlds-premier-computing-company-for-the-age-of-ai
• NVIDIA cancel Arm Acquisition - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-softbank-group-announce-termination-of-nvidias-acquisition-of-arm-limited

RISC-V

• RISC-V Foundation - https://riscv.org/
• RISC-V Github - https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual
• Renesas RISC-V boards - https://www.renesas.com/sg/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/risc-v
• SiFive Boards - https://www.sifive.com/boards
• Espresif C3 - https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3
• Microchip MI-V - https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/fpgas-and-plds/fpga-and-soc-design-tools/mi-v

SoC FPGA

• AMD SoC FPGAs - https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc.html
• Intel Stratix 10 - https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/details/fpga/stratix/10.html
• Microchip PolarFire - https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/fpgas-and-plds/system-on-chip-fpgas
• Adaptive Computing - https://www.xilinx.com/applications/adaptive-computing.html

SoM and SiP

• AMD Kria SoM - https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria.html
• Microchip SiP and SoM - https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-and-microprocessors/32-bit-mpus/sip-and-som
• Espresif Modules - https://www.espressif.com/en/products/modules
• Nordic nrf9160 - https://www.nordicsemi.com/products/nrf9160

8-bit Architecture

• Why Won’t the 8-bit Microcontroller Die? - https://www.embedded.com/why-wont-the-8-bit-microcontroller-die/
• STM32C0 Announcement - https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32c0-series.html
• Arduino Uno R4 - https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/03/25/arduino-uno-r4/

RTOS

• RTOS Comparions - https://rtos-analysis-and-rust-intro.bern-rtos.org/img/rtos-comparison.svg
• Amazon FreeRTOS - https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/
• Azure RTOS - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/rtos
• Zephyr Project - https://www.zephyrproject.org/
• Nordic and Zephyr - https://zephyrproject.org/leveraging-open-source-software-in-your-software-development-kit-nordic-semiconductors-experience-with-the-zephyr-rtos/
• AMP Hour Episode about Zephyr - https://theamphour.com/622-building-firmware-and-hardware-for-trade-shows-with-mike-szczys/
• Why Nubix moved from FreeRTOS to Zephyr - https://www.zephyrproject.org/why-we-moved-from-freertos-to-zephyr-rtos/

IoT and Fleet Management

• Foundries.io - https://foundries.io/
• Smart Cow - https://www.smartcow.ai/fleettrackr
• Memfault - https://memfault.com/
• Golioth - https://golioth.io/

Embedded Linux

• Jay Carlson on Embedded Linux - https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/
• Yocto - https://www.yoctoproject.org/
• Buildroot - https://buildroot.org/

Open Source Tools

• EU Report on Open Source Software and Hardware - https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

Rust

• Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/
• Embedded Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/what/embedded
• Embedded Rust Book - https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/
• Stack Overflow Survey 2022 - https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/
• Ferrocene - https://www.adacore.com/ferrocene
• Ferrocene Github - https://github.com/ferrocene/specification

Open Hardware

• F4PGA - https://f4pga.org/
• Chips Alliance - https://www.chipsalliance.org/
• QuickLogic EOS S3 - https://www.quicklogic.com/products/soc/eos-s3-microcontroller/
• OpenHW Group - https://www.openhwgroup.org/
• OpenFPGA - https://github.com/lnis-uofu/OpenFPGA