ByteSnap is adding to its existing team with additional team members across its hardware, software, and EV divisions.

The electronics industry has been facing a major challenge due to the ongoing chip shortage since the start of the pandemic.

Multi-award-winning embedded electronics design and software development consultancy, ByteSnap Design, has this week celebrated its 15-year milestone. 

From Matter to how smart technology will come of age as it contributes hugely towards energy cost reduction, and handling continued supply chain pressures, ByteSnap Design embedded electronics engineers look at trends that will drive growth in the embedded electronics sector in 2023.

Paige West speaks with Dunstan Power, Director of ByteSnap Design about why electronics design projects fail, and the road to recovery.

The Engineering Design Show (EDS) returns on the 12 – 13 October 2022 to the Coventry Building Society Arena. The UK’s biggest show for engineering, electronics and embedded design.

For electronic and software design houses, the cost of non-conformance can be significant if a pre-production bug isn’t resolved.

Only 12% of the UK’s engineering pool are women and globally, only two percent of all professional engineers are women of colour. Women in Engineering Day - this year on 23 June 2022 - raises awareness over the career opportunities available to girls in this industry and focuses on those women that enjoy successful careers in the sector, like Magda Abdelbasit Abbas.

Thanks to Brexit, the pandemic and now the Russia/Ukraine war, the risks and shortfalls in our global supply chains have become front and centre for most companies over the last two years, especially for the electronics industry.

ByteSnap Design’s engineers have expertise ranging from electronics design through to embedded Linux development, and have been contemplating the year ahead. Here are their predictions of trends that are most likely to dominate the embedded electronics industry in 2022.

ByteSnap Design showcased its AI Gesture recognition technology, accelerated GUI development for 4K displays at the Engineering Design Show. EDS 2021, giving attendees an opportunity to access not only ByteSnap’s latest services and innovations, but also workshops on industry trends and best practice.

The electronic design industry was just one of many that saw business change as a result of the recent supply chain disruptions brought about by the unforeseen COVID-19 lockdown. By Dunstan Power, Director of ByteSnap Design

There are some tips and tricks you can deploy when developing a new PCB to help produce a useful first-time prototype and allow easier debugging of the design. Roland Bodlovic, Technical Manager, ByteSnap Design, offers some advice for prototype testing.

A remote monitoring solution is being demonstrated by ByteSnap Design at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition in Farnborough (March 21-23). The ByteSnap team will demonstrate how its remote monitoring demo with ground movement sensors can help improve maintenance response times.

  Electronics design engineers from award winning consultancy ByteSnap looked at some of the most useful free electronic design software tools available today. If you are looking to predict PCB characteristics or manipulate screens and icons, here is the useful list.

  As 2016 draws to a close, embedded systems consultancy ByteSnap Design share their predictions for what may dominate the electronics industry in 2017.

Electronics design consultancy ByteSnap Design has scooped a top industry award for providing both electronics design and software expertise for smart home security device Cocoon. ByteSnap is now the BEEA Design Team of the Year 2016. Its client Cocoon is a technology company transforming the home security market by designing beautiful products that help people feel safe.

  Winner of BEEAs 2016 Design Team of the Year, ByteSnap Design, is launching the latest Snap UI at this year’s EDS on stand L22. ByteSnap Design’s user interface development framework SnapUI has now been extended to support Raspberry Pi and i.MX6-based embedded devices. 

So far in 2016, nearly a quarter of a million apps have been added to Google Play, this is due to Android now commanding 76% of the smartphone market in the EU, 67% in the US and a massive nearly 80% in China.

  The technology company, Cocoon, is transforming the home security market by designing beautiful products that help people feel safe. It won silver at the 2014 London Design awards and recently secured a £2m investment from Aviva Ventures and Breed Reply Investments.