Top 5 Tips For Developing Secure Android Applications
Electronics & Software Product Design Android has maintained it’s command of the global smartphone market at just over 71% – which includes a 68.86% market share in Europe and over 82% in Asia, according to latest figures. Despite being second place to iOS in the US (at 40.54% to iOS’s 59.17%) Android’s strong performance in […]
BSP Porting: Your 5 Key Steps to Development Success
BSP Porting: Your 5 Key Steps to Development Success Take BSP Porting from Stress to Success When selecting the hardware which will make up the core of your next product, there are many choices. Once this has been decided, BSP porting must be completed to ensure the software elements fit the new hardware. Among the […]
Electronic Consultants Nominated for Two Industry Awards
Electronic Consultants Nominated for Two Industry Awards ByteSnap Design is delighted to have made the finals of two prestigious industry competitions; this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) and the Elektras (European Electronic Industry Awards), in extremely competitive, high-calibre fields. The embedded electronic consultants are up for the BEEAs Consultancy of the Year accolade, which […]
Intel : 47 Years of Pioneering Processor Progress
Intel : 47 Years of Pioneering Processor Progress PC Revolution Architects It’s 47 years since the launch of silicon chip giant Intel – sparking the 1970s personal computer revolution with the world’s first microprocessor. Left to right – Andy Grove, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, 1978 Image credit: Intel Free Press The semiconductor pioneer has […]
Five advantages of pre-compliance EMC testing
Five Advantages of Pre-compliance EMC Testing You have built a great product that meets market demands. You are confident that it radiates little energy and is not susceptible to outside interference, yet when you reach final EMC testing stage, your product fails. This is the nightmare scenario for most of us product designers. The cost […]
CE marking – 20 things you need to know
CE marking – 20 things you need to know Placed on several categories of products, CE marking is mandatory for machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, medical devices, personal protective equipment and toys. We recently published updated advice for CE and UKCA marking to get you up to date on how compliance law is changing and […]
Install Android 4.4 with Play Store on Wandboard in 7 Steps
Install Android 4.4 with Play Store on Wandboard in 7 Steps Happy New Year! The Wandboard is a really great imx6 development system that allows easy comparison of the performance of three of the processor variants. Here is a guide on how to get it up and running with Android KitKat. For this (apart from […]
ByteSnap Embedded Electronics Designers at EDS 2014
EDS 2014 Kicks Off To A Great Start for ByteSnap Embedded Electronic Designers Embedded Electronics Designers ByteSnap enjoyed an extremely brisk first day at the Electronic Design Show in Coventry – with the consultancy seeing an even busier kick off to the event compared with last year. “It’s been a great opening day at EDS,” said Director Dunstan […]
Microcontroller Design: Optimising Power Consumption in 12 Easy Steps
Microcontroller Design: Optimising Power Consumption in 12 Easy Steps Long battery lifetime is a frequent requirement in embedded product design – particularly in microcontroller design. For instance, we designed an animal tracking product that could run for four years using a 1/3 of an AA cell. Microcontrollers are getting ever more meagre in their power […]
ByteSnap Design named 2013 ‘Consultancy of the Year’
Birmingham-based consultancy takes the title home from this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards ByteSnap Design Ltd, a specialist in embedded systems design and development, has been named ‘Consultancy of the Year’ at this year’s British Engineering Excellence Awards. Having been shortlisted within the ‘Consultancy of the Year’ category for two years in a row, it […]