Category: Embedded

Embedded

  • Hardware Security in the Cloud

    Some time back, we covered “physically unclonable functions,” or PUFs. These are techniques for deriving a key from the random characteristics of a specific piece…

  • A Standard for Standards

    Ever wanted to create your own embedded-sysems standard? If you’ve spent any time at all participating in standard-setting organization’s meetings, you know that’s going to…

  • More Custom Cores

    At DAC, there was a special event for first-time DAC exhibitors to come talk to media folks. Kind of a way for them to get…

  • Precipitating Out of the Cloud

    Today we took a look at Vector Fabric’s new Pareon tool for parallelizing embedded code, and one of the things that makes it different from…

  • Lithium Ion Parity?

    We recently looked at Infinite Power Solutions’ THINERGY batteries and, no sooner had it gone to “print” when IPS came out with another release that,…

  • Intentionally Fuzzy

    All software has bugs; every system has some kind of vulnerability. And the canonical way of dealing with them is to fix the bugs or…

  • Another Tool in the Cloud

    We saw recently that Protecode added an online capability for a quick audit of software on a one-off basis. It involves upload by a user,…

  • Cadence Supports NVMe

    Last year, a new standard was overlaid on PCI Express (PCIe) to reset the way non-volatile memory (NVM) is accessed. To date, solid-state disk (SSD)…

  • World’s Smallest Server?

    Given all of the effort that goes into building internet capabilities into embedded systems, I was intrigued by a claim to the “world’s smallest device…

  • Audio Upgrade

    Used to be that there were processors (of the “regular” kind) and there were DSPs.  It’s no longer enough to be a DSP: you have…