Scaling the “Internet of Things”

Happy New Year!

January brought an unseasonably warm wave of weather to Las Vegas as International CES converged on the city this month.

The size and scope of this worldwide consumer electronics tradeshow continues to grow each year with new products and industries on the rise, now driven by a phenomenon called the “Internet of Things” (IoT).

Shawn Dubravac, Ph.D., Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) kicked off the event by presenting a summary of his new book, “Digital Destiny”.

According to Dr. Dubravac, the electronics industry is at another inflection point as digital technology continues to replace legacy analog technologies. There are 1.7 billion personal computers in the world today, now eclipsed by 2 billion smart phones. But the “Internet of Things” (IoT) could produce 50 billion smart, connected sensor modules that communicate with each other and can be aggregated as “Big Data” to work on important social issues. These electronic modules could potentially be embedded in every device that we own, from smart home appliances, to the cars we drive, and even inside the clothes we wear.

This is good news for digital design and verification engineers as digital logic circuitry will continue to be an important component within each of those 50 billion devices over the next decade.

For the last thirty years, Aldec has been promoting the benefits of employing digital design and verification solutions that interface computer-aided design software tools with embedded-circuit hardware platforms. For the rest of this article, visit the Aldec Design and Verification Blog.

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