Our lives intersect daily with systems containing an average of 200 to 400 integrated circuits, whether in our smartphones, our elevators or our washing machines. Powerful processors and small microcontrollers alike are ubiquitous and punctuate the lives of today’s increasingly demanding consumers.
The Fortune 100 consumer electronics companies immediately spring to mind, but there also exist a variety of companies of all sizes that rely on electronic systems to differentiate their products and increase their performance and overall usability.