Category: Software
Software
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Crappy + Crappy = Not So Bad
We’ve all seen some of the crappy pictures that cell phones have allowed us to take and distribute around the world at lightning speed. (Is…
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Getting Beyond “It Depends” for Certification
More and more electronics are going into places where they could cause real damage if they don’t work right. Things like airplanes and weapons and,…
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Correlating Power with Code
The smarter systems get, the more they are run by some kind of processor running code. So system functions that might have been controlled by…
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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…
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ThreadX Gets Safety Certification
San Diego-based Express Logic just received IEC 61508 and IEC 62304 certification for its ThreadX operating system. These two standards cover the “functional safety of…
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MIMO: Hardware or Software?
A while back we covered CEVA’s move to multicore for their communications-oriented XC architecture. One of the motivating elements was the complexity of requirements for…
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The Worst Two Answers
You’re an upstanding product marketing guy, and you want to validate your company’s product ideas with customers and potential customers. So you go get in…
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Lightweight Embedded Multicore Task Management
The Multicore Association has released the latest of its multicore management APIs. The first such API they released was MCAPI, which allows data to be…
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Debug Trick Uses CPU Cache as RAM
Embedded tool company Asset Intertech is giving away a free e-book that teaches a clever little debugging trick: Use your CPU’s on-chip cache like RAM…
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Multicore Best Practices
The hardest thing that multicore has had going for it is the perception that it’s hard. OK, that plus the fact that it is, in…