Planning Ahead: Data-Streaming Basics

April 13, 2022

Developing systems that handle streaming data like audio and video can be challenging. It means continuous data processing in real-time.

William G. Wong

Related To:

Electronic Design

Check out more TechXchange Talks videos.

This video appeared on Electronic Design and has been published here with permission.

Processing streaming data from sensors, such as cameras for video or microphones for audio data, is common practice. These days, high-speed data from multiple sources is often the case for applications where filters and machine-learning models are being applied in real-time. Mapping data to software data structures and combining them to application code can be a challenge (see figure).

Designing a system to handle real-time streaming data means mapping the hardware flow to programming data structures.

This video (at the top of the article) is the first in a series I'm doing with Heather Meloy Gorr, Senior Product Manager at MathWorks, talking about the challenges, methodologies, and solutions associated with high-speed communications and data processing.

Links

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.>

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.