What chips are other embedded systems developers using in their systems?
In our annual survey, your peers reveal their vendor and size preferences. Jack Ganssle interprets the data here. Marketers eagerly await each year’s State of the Embedded Market Survey to evaluate how their products stack up against the competition’s in the gritty real world of product design. They comb through arcane results that show how a company decides to buy a particular product. Working engineers care little that 13% of respondents claim corporate management exerts “some influence” on processor selection, or that 46% of projects use power driver ICs. But a lot of the data is fascinating and may even persuade us to change our buying habits. If that cool operating system we’ve been lusting after has only a 1% market share, then designing it into the next project is quite risky indeed. The survey covered a wide range of subjects. Future issues of Embedded Systems Design will explore other findings, but for now let’s look at the microprocessor results. Over 1,200 people responded t
