Category: Software

Software

  • Will We Ever Really Know Who Invented the Microprocessor?

    FPGA luminary David Laws has just published a well-researched blog on the Computer History Museum’s Web site titled “Who invented the Microprocessor?” If you’re wildly…

  • Safety and Security Conference

    With the growth of the IoT there is increased interest in the overlapping areas of safety and security. There is already a lot of knowledge…

  • Use Ada and win money

    Still time to enter the Make with Ada competion Got An idea for an embedded project that will be running on an ARM Cortex M…

  • Securing the core

    A Franco-German announcement brings improved security to SoCs for the IoT Following Jim Turley’s report on Arm and ARC adding security to their small processor…

  • Through-The-Looking-Glass Security

    Buckle up folks, because we’re about to take a ride through the looking glass, where computations can happen in an obscure way sure to confuse…

  • Toyota Unintended Acceleration

    The Toyota Unintended Acceleration case has seen a lot of discussion, but much of it is, to put it mildly, not terribly well informed.  Last…

  • Bashing Bugs on SoCs

    UltraSoC, the SOC debug company I wrote about a few weeks ago www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20150728-ultrasoc/ is being pretty imaginative in their marketing. Today, they have launched a…

  • Motion for User Interfaces

    We’ve looked before at ways of controlling machines with just your hands in the air, like you just don’t care. No touchy-feely, no mouse. Just…

  • Auto-Updating Autos

    So you’re merrily toodling around rugged mountain roads – the kind with a 3000-foot cliff up on one side and a 3000-foot cliff down the…

  • Goodbye Robert Dewar, Gary Smith

      In the last few days we have heard of the death of two major players. The first is Robert Dewar, one of the towering…