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Category: Computers

Computers

  • Ten years and rolling

    Ten years ago today the Mars Rover Opportunity bounced its way on to the surface of Mars, at the start of a three month mission.…

  • IntrinsicID and InsideSecure Come to DropBox

    We’ve taken an occasional look at physically-unclonable functions (PUFs), and, in particular, IntrinsicID’s implementation of them, as they seem to have gone further in productizing…

  • Gesture Progress

    At the recent Interactive Technology Summit (erstwhile Touch Gesture Motion), gesture was featured more on the day I was checking out the TSensors summit. But…

  • A Software View of Hardware

    One of the defining characteristics of an embedded system is that you should have no expectations about what it’s made of or how it’s arranged.…

  • Cache Clunker

    We all know that server computing and embedded computing are different for lots of reasons, many of which can be summed up in one word:…

  • QTC Moves to the Screen

    Not long ago we looked at Peratech’s QTC technology. You might remember it as a functional ink that’s highly sensitive to pressure. Our focus at…

  • Teenage scribblers

    Many years ago the British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) referred to financial analysts as “teenage scribblers”. And they don’t seem to have grown…

  • Big and Little Core Combos

    A long while back ARM introduced their big.LITTLE concept. (So cute how they put the big in little letters and the little in big letters!…

  • 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…

  • Multicore Best Practices

    The hardest thing that multicore has had going for it is the perception that it’s hard. OK, that plus the fact that it is, in…