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Category: Mobile

Mobile

  • A Software View of Hardware

    One of the defining characteristics of an embedded system is that you should have no expectations about what it’s made of or how it’s arranged.…

  • Antenna Tuning Without MEMS

    Quite some time ago, we reported on WiSpry, a MEMS company that was using its technology to switch capacitors so that the antenna tuning can…

  • Separating You from Your Phone

    In high-school physics class, we did an experiment. It’s so crude by today’s standards, that I feel like something of a fossil as I recall…

  • The Next OCTEON

    Cavium has recently announced the latest in their OCTEON line: following OCTEON II is OCTEON III. (Betcha didn’t see that one coming.) If there’s one…

  • Big and Little Core Combos

    A long while back ARM introduced their big.LITTLE concept. (So cute how they put the big in little letters and the little in big letters!…

  • Adios Multimedia Frustration

    Phones have a ton of work to do – mostly things unrelated to being a phone. And we notice when things bog down and work…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Windows RT: Not So Hot for Tablets

    By now you’re heard about Microsoft’s big splash into the tablet market with Surface. CEO Steve Ballmer showed off two versions: one with an x86…

  • Indoor “GPS”

    Location-based services have become popular as smartphones are able to listen to the faint GPS (or GLONASS) signals and figure out where you are in…