Category: Embedded
Embedded
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Time to Get Loud
It’s a classic case of upping the ante, and it’s not clear where it’s going to stop. Much consumer technology these days has been focused…
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PCIe for SSDs
Earlier this month, the first rev of the NVM Express (or NVMe) standard was published. The idea is to establish a uniform register and command…
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Full Networking Offload
Eight months ago, Atheros (now part of Qualcomm) released a WiFi offload chip, their AR4100. It’s part of a push to enable internet-of-things applications with…
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Not Your Grandpa’s UPS
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but, when you talk to me about an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), I think big, bulky, and expensive. But…
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Graychip Alternatives
Chips that have reached, or are approaching, their end of life have been a perennial problem for systems makers for years. And the solutions have…
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Benchmarking Android
With Android adoption continuing at a quick pace, there are more and more platforms available for users to choose from. But they don’t all perform…
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Less Back-Talk
RFID tags are everywhere, but they’re rather primitive as high-tech devices go. They’re programmed to do one thing: repeat a message over and over, like…
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A Conference Presentation Figure of Merit
In this business, I end up going to a lot of conferences on a lot of different topics. Now, I was trained as an engineer…
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Next Generation Firewall and Other Apps
Netronome is building onto their flow-processing platform by layering software over the top. They just announced several “application kits”, including intrusion detection/prevention, SSL, IPsec, and…
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Bad Speakers Cast a Bigger Shadow
Let’s face it: a lot of the speakers we have these days are crappy. I know how my laptop sounds; I used to attribute that…