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How Matter Addresses Interoperability Issues in Smart Home Devices

Incompatible smart home products can be problematic for both customers and device manufacturers. Matter is a vendor-independent unifying standard that closes the gap between smart home ecosystems.

2 days ago by Sujata Neidig, NXP Semiconductors

IoT Communication Protocols—IoT Data Protocols

Dive deeper into the Internet of Things (IoT) communication through a brief overview of the different IoT data protocols.

June 16, 2022 by Ignacio de Mendizábal

Incorporating Bias Nodes Into Your Neural Network

This article shows you how to add bias values to a multilayer Perceptron implemented in a high-level programming language such as Python.

February 05, 2020 by Robert Keim

How to Increase the Accuracy of a Hidden Layer Neural Network

In this article, we’ll perform some classification experiments and gather data on the relationship between hidden-layer dimensionality and network performance.

February 04, 2020 by Robert Keim

How Many Hidden Layers and Hidden Nodes Does a Neural Network Need?

This article provides guidelines for configuring the hidden portion of a multilayer Perceptron.

January 31, 2020 by Robert Keim

Training Datasets for Neural Networks: How to Train and Validate a Python Neural Network

In this article, we’ll use Excel-generated samples to train a multilayer Perceptron, and then we’ll see how the network performs with validation samples.

January 30, 2020 by Robert Keim

Signal Processing Using Neural Networks: Validation in Neural Network Design

This article explains why validation is particularly important when we’re processing data using a neural network.

January 28, 2020 by Robert Keim

How to Create a Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network in Python

This article takes you step by step through a Python program that will allow us to train a neural network and perform advanced classification.

January 19, 2020 by Robert Keim

Neural Network Architecture for a Python Implementation

This article discusses the Perceptron configuration that we will use for our experiments with neural-network training and classification, and we’ll also look at the related topic of bias nodes.

January 09, 2020 by Robert Keim

How to Train a Basic Perceptron Neural Network

This article presents Python code that allows you to automatically generate weights for a simple neural network.

November 24, 2019 by Robert Keim

How to Use a Simple Perceptron Neural Network Example to Classify Data

This article demonstrates the basic functionality of a Perceptron neural network and explains the purpose of training.

November 17, 2019 by Robert Keim

How to Perform Classification Using a Neural Network: What Is the Perceptron?

This article explores the basic theory and structure of a well-known neural network topology.

November 13, 2019 by Robert Keim

Embedded Firmware Tips: How to Initialize Arrays in C with Signal Waveforms and Other File Data

This article shows how to initialize arrays in a C program with values from text files.

September 25, 2019 by Stephen Colley

Why Raspberry Pi Isn’t a Good Choice for Commercial Products

RPi has done some amazing good in the world, especially for aspiring young engineers, but here's the breakdown on why it's probably not what you need for a professional project.

July 19, 2019 by Pallav Aggarwal

Hardware Security Vulnerabilities that Engineers Should Know

Why should engineers care about hardware security? Because they can help prevent vulnerabilities through design!

July 12, 2019 by Mark Hughes

Union in C Language for Packing and Unpacking Data

Learn about packing and unpacking data with unions in C language.

June 05, 2019 by Dr. Steve Arar

Learn the Embedded C Programming Language: Understanding the Union Data Object

Learn about data objects called unions in embedded C language.

May 21, 2019 by Dr. Steve Arar

When Can Electrical Engineers Use Python? Applications for the Python Programming Language

Where can EEs use Python in their day to day? Here's a look at the applications where Python excels.

May 05, 2019 by Christopher Wang

Understanding Embedded C: What Are Structures?

After introducing structures, we’ll take a look at some of the important applications of this powerful data object. Then, we’ll examine the C language syntax to declare a structure. Finally, we’ll briefly introduce the data alignment requirement. We’ll see that we may be able to reduce the size of a structure by simply rearranging the order of its members.

May 01, 2019 by Dr. Steve Arar

Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

In this article, we explain how the use of open-source functional simulators like Antmicro’s Renode can be an integral part of hardware-software co-design efforts.

April 16, 2019 by Greg Sullivan, Dover Microsystems