Category: Embedded
Embedded
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MORE Lawyers, Please!
In response to Dick Selwood’s recent article “Lawyers, Bankers, and Engineers”, I want to take a different (and perhaps controversial) stand: We need MORE lawyers.…
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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…
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More Analog
There’s been a clear trend over the last decade or so: analog is succumbing to digital. More and more, the modus operandi has been, “Sample…
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You Put That Where??
Wearable electronics is the coming thing, and fitness-related gear is the most obvious thing to wear. And CES had a huge section dedicated to these…
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Cloud Computing Deniers
I’m not a big fan of “cloud computing,” as EEJ readers know. It seems like a stap backwards, to 1970s-era timeshare machines instead of the…
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A Vote for Java
I don’t know this for sure, but I can imagine that some marketing folks at STMicroelectronics were less than thrilled by the high-profile Java issues…
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Detecting Intuitive
A little over a year ago I went on a bit of a rant about intuitive design. Now… for those of you running for the…
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The OS is the Standard
There are two widespread myths in the MEMS world. Or so said ST’s Benedetto Vigna, EVP and GM of ST Micro’s Analog, MEMS, and Sensor…
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Breker Tests Multicore
Earlier this year we were introduced to Breker, a company that generates C tests for stressing SoC architectures and verifying that things work even with…
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MIPS Gets a New Home
Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…