By William Wong, May 22, 2012
AMD's R-Series accelerated processing units (APU) is built around a quad core x86 platform with a GPU that has 384 cores.
By William Wong, May 16, 2012
Silicon Labs has a program to sell raw die of their 8- and 32-bit micrcontrollers for use in custom designs.
MIPS Technologies has a new name for its product family, Aptiv. The family is divided into three performance solutions including proAptiv, interAptiv and microAptiv.
By William Wong, May 21, 2012
Ridley Scott utilizes the latest digital animation and 3D techniques to deliver a blockbuster sci-fi film.
By William Wong, May 09, 2012
Freescale's latest Qorivva, the multicore MPC5746M, is built around three e200z4 cores. Two can operate in lockstep.
Hand soldering may not be an option for production hardware but it is still actively used by hobbyists and prototypers so SparkFun wanted to see who was the fastest on the solder gun.
By William Wong, May 08, 2012
Sierra Wireless' Aleos Application Framework makes machine-to-machine application development and deployment easier. It allows Lua scripts to run on Sierra Wireless gateways.
By William Wong, May 02, 2012
Sensor Platforms' FreeMotion Library is designed to improve the use of sensor suites like those found on smartphones using algorithms and heuristics to deliver improved results on position, attitude and movement.
By William Wong, May 01, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong does a hands-on test of Parallax's Propeller Board of Education.
By William Wong, April 26, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands on look at LSI's CacheCade and FastPath with the LSI SAS 9260-8i controller, SuperMicro A+ server, Micron SSDs and Seagate 15K SAS hard drives.
Users of Xilinx’s Series 7 FPGAs will have a choice between two development tools. The Vivado Design Suite supports all of the Series 7 FPGAs and will be the development tool for all future FPGAs from Xilinx
Achronix Semiconductor's latest Speedster FPGA is packed full of hard core interfaces such as PCI Express. It is based on Intel's 22nm FinFET transistors and targets high performance applications.
By William Wong, April 22, 2012
Check out Bill Wong's top five satellite and capsule picks from the 2012 Space Symposium held in Colorado Springs.
By Bill Wong, April 18, 2012
Digital signage addresses a range of applications from hundreds of interactive kiosks to synchronized, multimonitor, multimedia displays.
By Bill Wong, April 23, 2012
What do benchmarks and surveys have in common? They can be good, bad or ugly.
By Bill Wong, April 14, 2012
Syynopsis' Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) generates Arm architecture virtual prototypes suchas quad core Cortex-A15s or big.LITTLE platforms. It generates targets for software developers.
By Bill Wong, April 13, 2012
Atmel is know for its maXTouch chips but now it is moving into the the sensor side with its flexible XSense technology.
By Bill Wong, April 12, 2012
Memoir's Renaissance tool generates multiport memory designs based on single port memory. It can provide a unified memory system for custom SoC designs.
We saw some interesting cars and robots at Design West this year. Check out the videos and Technology Editor Bill Wong's observations.
By Christian Ahler, April 11, 2012
Christian Ahler helped develop the Kilobot, a tiny robot designed to study swarm robotics. Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with Christian about the design and future of these tiny robots.