Category: Board

Board and Module Design

  • Bill Godbout Perishes in Northern California’s Camp Fire

      People of a certain age, who mindfully lived through the early microcomputer revolution during the first half of the 1970s, know about Bill Godbout.…

  • Use Ada and win money

    Still time to enter the Make with Ada competion Got An idea for an embedded project that will be running on an ARM Cortex M…

  • What shape do you want your Pi?

    Raspberry Pi has been one of those events that leave you breathless. You will recall that the board was designed as a teaching aid, to…

  • Redpine Gives Makers a “Future-Proof” IoT Platform

    Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have been a thing since we started talking about the IoT way back with our coverage of Ayla Networks. The…

  • Raspberry Pi: The next generation

    The phenomenon that is Raspberry Pi has moved up a gear. On Monday (2nd February) the next generation of the credit card computer was announced.…

  • Planning PCB, Package, and Die Together

    Silicon chips and the packages that house them have been steadily drawing closer to each other over the years. There are so many pins on…

  • Internet of Things- This Season’s Trend

    Later this week I will be reporting on the embedded world conference, where the Internet of Things was the major topic. Just before embedded world…

  • 3D-IC Planning

    During Cadence’s recent CDNlive event, I had a discussion with Kevin Rinebold to talk about 3D-IC planning and design. Actually, it’s more than that, covering…

  • Debug Trick Uses CPU Cache as RAM

    Embedded tool company Asset Intertech is giving away a free e-book that teaches a clever little debugging trick: Use your CPU’s on-chip cache like RAM…

  • Shocking Integration

    Last year we looked at Shocking Technologies’ innovative new ESD protection approach. In it we noted that they have software that can identify where in…