Category: Embedded
Embedded
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Multicore Microcontrollers for IoT and audio
XMOS has, from its base in Bristol, England, been quietly building up its business of creating a new force in the embedded market. The company…
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CEVA’s Next-Gen Vision Processor
CEVA has introduced a new vision platform, which they’re calling the CEVA-XM4. We’ve looked at their prior platform, the MM3101, before; you could consider this…
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Freescale Acquired by NXP
Did not see that coming. American chipmaker Freescale will be acquired by Dutch rival NXP in a cash and stock deal worth about $11.8 billion.…
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PNI’s Wearable (and IoT) Dev Kit
Wearables are hot these days, and PNI Sensor sees a good fit in that space for their SENtral chip. They’ve bundled it into what they…
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Is Someone Tampering with Your IoT?
The stronger the hype, the likelier it will be accompanied by a “yesbut.” A yesbut is that nagging question that needs to be asked in…
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Atmel Gives SIGFOX a Transmitter
You may recall that, some months ago, we wrote about SIGFOX. As a quick review, SIGFOX is installing a completely new cellular system optimized for…
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Raspberry Pi: The next generation
The phenomenon that is Raspberry Pi has moved up a gear. On Monday (2nd February) the next generation of the credit card computer was announced.…
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World’s Smallest Chess Program
Chess is tough, right? It’s a complicated game. Just explaining the rules can take hours, or hundreds of pages, and that’s before you get into…
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More than Memory
I don’t know about you, but when I hear “Spansion,” I hear memory. But there’s more going on there these days than FLASH. I talked…
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Calxeda Isn’t Dead Yet
Remember Calxeda? The chipmaker that was going to do super power-efficient server chips based on ARM? Well, that company went under a year ago, but…