#Firmware Development

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Firmware Development Services: Elevating Your Business Through Advanced Technology Solutions | HugeCount

Technologically driven world and the significance of firmware in enhancing device functionality and offering competitive advantages is undeniable. Firmware development services play a pivotal role in the operational success of embedded systems across various industries, including consumer electronics, automotive, healthcare, and telecommunications. By tailoring firmware to meet specific hardware requirements, companies can unlock new levels of performance, security, and functionality. Understanding Firmware and Its Critical Role in Modern Devices Firmware is the lifeblood of modern hardware systems. It is a specialized type of software placed in non-volatile memory units such as ROM, EPROM, or flash memory, enabling devices to perform […]

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At Adequate Infosoft, our mission is to provide high-quality firmware development services that enable our clients to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. We strive to innovate, collaborate, and exceed expectations in every project we undertake.

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Top 5 Benefits of Industrial Internet of Things in Industry 4.0

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I haven't booted my old 3ds in like 6 months. What did I DO to this thing last time

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tech companies should release new versions of a line of hardware (eg ryzens, pixel phones, geforce graphics cards, whatever) once a decade and no more frequently. stop releasing new hardware every few months!!!!!!!!!!!!

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IMO: Absolutely, positively spot-on. Been a software engineer from 1980 to 2016, and this just nails the tech industry economics (and phases) that I saw then, and that I see now.

Must-read. Brilliantly written and on target. Kudos and applause, OP.

If anyone wants to know why every tech company in the world right now is clamoring for AI like drowned rats scrabbling to board a ship, I decided to make a post to explain what's happening.

(Disclaimer to start: I'm a software engineer who's been employed full time since 2018. I am not a historian nor an overconfident Youtube essayist, so this post is my working knowledge of what I see around me and the logical bridges between pieces.)

Okay anyway. The explanation starts further back than what's going on now. I'm gonna start with the year 2000. The Dot Com Bubble just spectacularly burst. The model of "we get the users first, we learn how to profit off them later" went out in a no-money-having bang (remember this, it will be relevant later). A lot of money was lost. A lot of people ended up out of a job. A lot of startup companies went under. Investors left with a sour taste in their mouth and, in general, investment in the internet stayed pretty cooled for that decade. This was, in my opinion, very good for the internet as it was an era not suffocating under the grip of mega-corporation oligarchs and was, instead, filled with Club Penguin and I Can Haz Cheezburger websites.

Then around the 2010-2012 years, a few things happened. Interest rates got low, and then lower. Facebook got huge. The iPhone took off. And suddenly there was a huge new potential market of internet users and phone-havers, and the cheap money was available to start backing new tech startup companies trying to hop on this opportunity. Companies like Uber, Netflix, and Amazon either started in this time, or hit their ramp-up in these years by shifting focus to the internet and apps.

Now, every start-up tech company dreaming of being the next big thing has one thing in common: they need to start off by getting themselves massively in debt. Because before you can turn a profit you need to first spend money on employees and spend money on equipment and spend money on data centers and spend money on advertising and spend money on scale and and and

But also, everyone wants to be on the ship for The Next Big Thing that takes off to the moon.

So there is a mutual interest between new tech companies, and venture capitalists who are willing to invest $$$ into said new tech companies. Because if the venture capitalists can identify a prize pig and get in early, that money could come back to them 100-fold or 1,000-fold. In fact it hardly matters if they invest in 10 or 20 total bust projects along the way to find that unicorn.

But also, becoming profitable takes time. And that might mean being in debt for a long long time before that rocket ship takes off to make everyone onboard a gazzilionaire.

But luckily, for tech startup bros and venture capitalists, being in debt in the 2010's was cheap, and it only got cheaper between 2010 and 2020. If people could secure loans for ~3% or 4% annual interest, well then a $100,000 loan only really costs $3,000 of interest a year to keep afloat. And if inflation is higher than that or at least similar, you're still beating the system.

So from 2010 through early 2022, times were good for tech companies. Startups could take off with massive growth, showing massive potential for something, and venture capitalists would throw infinite money at them in the hopes of pegging just one winner who will take off. And supporting the struggling investments or the long-haulers remained pretty cheap to keep funding.

You hear constantly about "Such and such app has 10-bazillion users gained over the last 10 years and has never once been profitable", yet the thing keeps chugging along because the investors backing it aren't stressed about the immediate future, and are still banking on that "eventually" when it learns how to really monetize its users and turn that profit.

The pandemic in 2020 took a magnifying-glass-in-the-sun effect to this, as EVERYTHING was forcibly turned online which pumped a ton of money and workers into tech investment. Simultaneously, money got really REALLY cheap, bottoming out with historic lows for interest rates.

Then the tide changed with the massive inflation that struck late 2021. Because this all-gas no-brakes state of things was also contributing to off-the-rails inflation (along with your standard-fare greedflation and price gouging, given the extremely convenient excuses of pandemic hardships and supply chain issues). The federal reserve whipped out interest rate hikes to try to curb this huge inflation, which is like a fire extinguisher dousing and suffocating your really-cool, actively-on-fire party where everyone else is burning but you're in the pool. And then they did this more, and then more. And the financial climate followed suit. And suddenly money was not cheap anymore, and new loans became expensive, because loans that used to compound at 2% a year are now compounding at 7 or 8% which, in the language of compounding, is a HUGE difference. A $100,000 loan at a 2% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, accrues to $121,899. A $100,000 loan at an 8% interest rate, if not repaid a single cent in 10 years, more than doubles to $215,892.

Now it is scary and risky to throw money at "could eventually be profitable" tech companies. Now investors are watching companies burn through their current funding and, when the companies come back asking for more, investors are tightening their coin purses instead. The bill is coming due. The free money is drying up and companies are under compounding pressure to produce a profit for their waiting investors who are now done waiting.

You get enshittification. You get quality going down and price going up. You get "now that you're a captive audience here, we're forcing ads or we're forcing subscriptions on you." Don't get me wrong, the plan was ALWAYS to monetize the users. It's just that it's come earlier than expected, with way more feet-to-the-fire than these companies were expecting. ESPECIALLY with Wall Street as the other factor in funding (public) companies, where Wall Street exhibits roughly the same temperament as a baby screaming crying upset that it's soiled its own diaper (maybe that's too mean a comparison to babies), and now companies are being put through the wringer for anything LESS than infinite growth that Wall Street demands of them.

Internal to the tech industry, you get MASSIVE wide-spread layoffs. You get an industry that used to be easy to land multiple job offers shriveling up and leaving recent graduates in a desperately awful situation where no company is hiring and the market is flooded with laid-off workers trying to get back on their feet.

Because those coin-purse-clutching investors DO love virtue-signaling efforts from companies that say "See! We're not being frivolous with your money! We only spend on the essentials." And this is true even for MASSIVE, PROFITABLE companies, because those companies' value is based on the Rich Person Feeling Graph (their stock) rather than the literal profit money. A company making a genuine gazillion dollars a year still tears through layoffs and freezes hiring and removes the free batteries from the printer room (totally not speaking from experience, surely) because the investors LOVE when you cut costs and take away employee perks. The "beer on tap, ping pong table in the common area" era of tech is drying up. And we're still unionless.

Never mind that last part.

And then in early 2023, AI (more specifically, Chat-GPT which is OpenAI's Large Language Model creation) tears its way into the tech scene with a meteor's amount of momentum. Here's Microsoft's prize pig, which it invested heavily in and is galivanting around the pig-show with, to the desperate jealousy and rapture of every other tech company and investor wishing it had that pig. And for the first time since the interest rate hikes, investors have dollar signs in their eyes, both venture capital and Wall Street alike. They're willing to restart the hose of money (even with the new risk) because this feels big enough for them to take the risk.

Now all these companies, who were in varying stages of sweating as their bill came due, or wringing their hands as their stock prices tanked, see a single glorious gold-plated rocket up out of here, the likes of which haven't been seen since the free money days. It's their ticket to buy time, and buy investors, and say "see THIS is what will wring money forth, finally, we promise, just let us show you."

To be clear, AI is NOT profitable yet. It's a money-sink. Perhaps a money-black-hole. But everyone in the space is so wowed by it that there is a wide-spread and powerful conviction that it will become profitable and earn its keep. (Let's be real, half of that profit "potential" is the promise of automating away jobs of pesky employees who peskily cost money.) It's a tech-space industrial revolution that will automate away skilled jobs, and getting in on the ground floor is the absolute best thing you can do to get your pie slice's worth.

It's the thing that will win investors back. It's the thing that will get the investment money coming in again (or, get it second-hand if the company can be the PROVIDER of something needed for AI, which other companies with venture-back will pay handsomely for). It's the thing companies are terrified of missing out on, lest it leave them utterly irrelevant in a future where not having AI-integration is like not having a mobile phone app for your company or not having a website.

So I guess to reiterate on my earlier point:

Drowned rats. Swimming to the one ship in sight.

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The Proto team has launched the Mining Development Kit (MDK) beta program with the mission to decentralize Bitcoin mining and empower builders of all scales. Their goal is to strengthen the Bitcoin network through inclusivity and technological development, providing essential tools to enhance mining innovation. The MDK – created by @blocks – is built to make #Bitcoin mining #hardware and…

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Embedded Computing Marled is Anticipated to Witness High Growth Owing to Wide Adoption Across End-use Industries

Embedded computing refers to a computer system that is part of a larger mechanical or electrical system designed to perform a dedicated function. Embedded systems are designed for specific control functions within embedded products and machines and operate under the direct control of an embedded program. Some key features of embedded systems include rugged construction, low power usage, real-time operating capabilities and compact size. Embedded devices are commonly found in industrial equipment, automobiles, consumer electronics, home appliances and medical devices to control electronic systems. Their key advantage is the ability to control electronic processes in a precise, flexible and cost-effective manner.

The global embedded computing market is estimated to be valued at US$ 112.45 Bn in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 174.38 Bn by 2031, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5% from 2024 to 2031.

Wide adoption across industries such as industrial automation, transportation, healthcare, telecommunication and consumer electronics is fueling market growth. Embedded systems allow streamlining of electronic processes, reducing downtimes and operation costs for end-use industries. Key Takeaways Key players operating in the embedded computing market are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc., Advantech Co., Ltd., Avalue Technology Inc., Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Dell Technologies Inc., Emerson Electric Co., Fujitsu Limited, General Electric Company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Honeywell International Inc., Intel Corporation, Kontron ST AG, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Rockwell Automation, Inc., and Texas Instruments Incorporated. The Embedded Computing Market Demand offers significant opportunities for system integrators and solution providers through new product development and capability expansion. Growing digitization trends across industry verticals will continue to generate strong demand for embedded systems with advanced computing and connectivity features. Leading embedded computing companies are focusing on global expansion strategies through partnerships, joint ventures and acquisitions to solidify their presence in emerging economies of Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. These regions offer high growth potential driven by ongoing modernization of infrastructure and growing electronics manufacturing activities. Market Drivers Wide adoption across industrial automation applications is a key driver for the embedded computing market. Use of embedded systems allows streamlining of electronic processes, reducing downtimes and operation costs for industrial equipment manufacturers. Growing connectivity trends through Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will further propel demand. Rising electronics content in automobiles is positively impacting the market. Advanced driver assistance systems, infotainment systems and vehicle networking require powerful embedded computing solutions. Strict fuel efficiency and vehicle emissions norms will accelerate integration of embedded computing hardware. Market Restrain Design complexity of developing embedded system on a chip (SoC) poses challenges, especially for integrating advanced Embedded Computing Companies capabilities with low power requirements. This increases new product development timelines and costs. Limited standardization across various embedded system platforms inhibits seamless interoperability, data exchange and application portability. This poses difficulties for globally distributed product development activities.

Segment Analysis Automotive industrial and transportation is dominating the embedded computing market due to increasing implementation of advanced driver-assistance systems, connected vehicles solutions, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles. According to recent surveys over 65% of all new light vehicles shipped will have features like adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, and blind spot monitoring by 2030. All these emerging technologies are driving the growth of embedded systems in automotive applications. Security and defense is another major sub segment in the embedded computing market owing to rising implementation of thermal weapon sights, combat management systems, imaging payloads and guidance systems in warships, aircraft carriers and fighter jets. Real-time information, enhanced situational awareness and integrated mission capabilities are some key priorities for embedded systems in defense applications. Various nations are also focusing on developing autonomous weapons which will further augment demand in coming years. Global Analysis North America dominates the global embedded computing market with a share of over 35% due to substantial research funding and presence of major OEMs in the region. US and Canada are hub for embedded technology development owing to advancement in networking infrastructure, IoT penetration and adoption of Industry 4.0 concepts. Asia Pacific shows fastest growth momentum led by China, India, Japan and South Korea. Low manufacturing cost and government initiatives to digitize industries are driving Asia Pacific market. Intensifying Sino-US trade war may impact supply chain dynamics in long run. Europe captures around 25% market share led by Germany, United Kingdom and France.

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New Firmware Features for the Move 4K 20x PTZ Camera - Videoguys

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New Firmware Features for the Move 4K 20x PTZ Camera - Videoguys

Great news! The PTZOptics Move 4K firmware is now available for our 20X models, enhancing the performance and features of your PTZ cameras.

Currently available for 20x models ONLY; firmware update for 12x and 30x models coming soon!

Move 4K 20X Firmware Feature Highlights:

Subject Selection A unique number is now provided for each subject shown in the live video area of the web interface. This new feature allows you to quickly switch between subjects that you would like to track using the web-interface or the IR remote control. Plus, our intuitive bounding box system only appears on the web interface, keeping your SDI, HDMI, USB, and NDI feeds clean and distraction-free. Simplify your video experience with our smart auto-tracking technology!

Auto-Tracking Composition Modes Introducing composition framing for auto-tracking in the Move 4K. Whether you prefer your subject centered, to the left, or to the right, these innovative modes offer the flexibility to frame your shots just as you envision. The camera seamlessly tracks your subject, ensuring they stay in the perfect spot within the scene. These new modes allow camera operators to determine how they want the subject framed in the scene while the camera automatically tracks the subject.

Auto-Tracking Zoom Modes Take control of your visuals with the Move 4K’s advanced Auto-Tracking Zoom Modes! We’re excited to introduce four new zoom modes: Dynamic, Close-Up, Medium, and Long Shot. Dynamic Zoom Mode puts you in the director’s seat, giving you full command over optical zoom during auto-tracking. Prefer consistent framing? Choose from Close-Up, Medium, or Long Shot modes for steady, uniform zoom levels. This feature is great for tracking subjects with one close-up view and a second wide angle shot.

Track Now Introducing the ‘Track Now’ feature in our Move SE and 4K cameras! With ‘Track Now’, the camera begins tracking from its current position, offering immediate and seamless subject following. This mode is a perfect addition to our standard auto-tracking, which starts from a pre-defined PTZ preset location such as a teachers desk or presenter podium.

Auto-Tracking Sensitivity Enhance your camera operations with the Move 4K’s new Auto-Tracking Sensitivity feature! This customizable sensitivity setting allows you to adjust camera movements to your specific needs, ensuring smooth, responsive tracking in every scene. Whether it’s a subtle pan or a quick zoom, your Move 4K can adapt to your creative vision. Experience seamless, professional-grade video with just a few adjustments.

Auto-Framing Auto-Framing is now available in the PTZOptics Move 4K cameras! Auto-Framing seamlessly includes multiple subjects in every shot, intelligently adjusting pan, tilt, and zoom to frame your composition perfectly. Whether it’s a group discussion, a team presentation, or a special event, the camera can intelligently adjust to frame all participants in a single, harmonious scene.

Note: Auto-Framing operates independently and cannot be used simultaneously with auto-tracking.

PTZOptics API G3 Exciting news for developers! We’re thrilled to introduce the PTZOptics API G3, a significant leap forward in camera control technology. Building on the success of our previous versions, the new API expands your capabilities with over five times more options. Now, harness the power of advanced features like auto-tracking, auto-framing, and subject selection, all through our robust API. PTZOptics API G3 is designed to empower our developer community, enabling you to create more dynamic, responsive, customized camera experiences. Dive into a world of possibilities with PTZOptics API G3!

Preset Tour The Preset Tour feature allows users to cycle through a specific set of saved pan, tilt, and zoom presets. Designed for automation and precision, this feature allows you to cycle through a series of customized pan, tilt, and zoom presets effortlessly. Once activated, the Preset Tour navigates through your pre-determined settings at a chosen speed, ensuring smooth transitions and consistent framing. Ideal for controlled environments like studios, conferences, or theaters, where precise camera positioning is key.

Privacy Mode Introducing the Privacy Mode on PTZOptics cameras, a feature designed for your peace of mind. In today’s world, privacy and security are paramount, especially in sensitive environments. Privacy Mode goes beyond just turning off the camera. When activated, it places the camera in a standby state, closes the lens iris, and physically turns the lens to face the wall, ensuring complete privacy. Unlike powering down, this mode keeps the camera ready to activate instantly when needed. This blend of convenience and security makes Privacy Mode ideal for confidential settings where quick reactivation is essential.

FreeD Step into the future of video production with FreeD support now available on PTZOptics Move 4K cameras. FreeD, a camera tracking data protocol, unlocks new creative possibilities. By integrating PTZ camera position data with FreeD systems such as those found in Unreal Engine, you can craft immersive virtual environments and enhance your live video projects. This feature is perfect for creators seeking to blend physical and digital realms, offering a dynamic and engaging viewer experience. Dive into a world where your imagination is your only limit with PTZOptics Move 4K and FreeD.

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Embedded Firmware Development | Bermondsey Electronics Limited

Embedded Firmware Development is a specialized field focused on creating the software that directly manages hardware components. Bermondsey Electronics Limited excels in this area, crafting custom firmware solutions that enhance the performance, reliability, and functionality of electronic devices. Our expertise spans various industries, ensuring your products meet the highest standards of innovation and quality. Trust us to bring your vision to life with cutting-edge embedded firmware.

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NXP: FRDM Development Boards for Rapid Prototyping

https://www.futureelectronics.com/resources/featured-products/nxp-mcx-n-mcx-a-microcontrollers . FRDM development boards are a low-cost, scalable hardware platform supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience. Designed to promote creative freedom while developing for various end applications. https://youtu.be/YpHF9rL0oRQ

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Latest Trends of the Embedded System Industry.