National Instruments Releases "Embedded Systems Outlook 2012" Report

March 2012 - National Instruments (NI) has recently released the 2012 Embedded Systems Outlook Report to share the company's findings on the direction of the embedded system market. The report lists technology and business trends that will affect the development of next-generation embedded systems. Companies from different industries, such as energy, industrial control, life sciences, and transportation, can make full use of this information to develop high-standard embedded control and monitoring applications.

The information in the report also helps engineers and managers take an optimal strategy at a strategic height when developing and maintaining innovative embedded systems. The 2012 report discussed the following major trends:

Embedded Platform Selection: Technology vendors are developing embedded platforms that integrate hardware components and software architectures to help design teams create complex embedded systems faster.

Reconfigurable processing methods: The leading-edge embedded control and monitoring system designs use more programmable logic.

Mobile Devices and Cloud Computing: Design teams are leveraging evolving mobile devices and cloud computing technologies in next-generation embedded systems.

Smaller teams, faster innovation: Small global design teams create a more effective way to help companies bring disruptive innovation to market.

Software updates, systems keep pace with the times: As the needs and standards of embedded system applications are constantly changing, the design team is gradually adopting the "software first" mode of thinking, thus completing the continuous upgrading of products.