Category: Embedded
Embedded
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MIMO: Hardware or Software?
A while back we covered CEVA’s move to multicore for their communications-oriented XC architecture. One of the motivating elements was the complexity of requirements for…
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Maxim in MEMS
A new hat has been tossed into the MEMS ring: Maxim. You may be familiar with them as an analog name, or you might be…
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Harvesting the Smart Meter
Smart meters represent a major infrastructural change in our energy delivery industry. It’s gone smoothly in some places and has met with fierce resistance in…
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The Worst Two Answers
You’re an upstanding product marketing guy, and you want to validate your company’s product ideas with customers and potential customers. So you go get in…
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Lightweight Embedded Multicore Task Management
The Multicore Association has released the latest of its multicore management APIs. The first such API they released was MCAPI, which allows data to be…
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Tools vs IP
All of the major EDA companies have had IP. Synopsys started with DesignWare before IP was a real concept; Mentor had IP associated with consulting…
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A Hardened Hub
There’s a new 9-axis motion sensor hub in town. Called SENtral, it’s a collaboration between PNI Sensors, known for geomagnetic sensors and fusion, and EM…
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One + One > Two
The latest, greatest mobile standards appear to be beastly affairs. Added to the old ones, and the number of algorithms that a poor cellphone –…
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I Sing the Body Electric
Microchip has just rolled out BodyCom, a new way to do wireless nwtworking using your own body as the antenna. This is a body-area network,…
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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…