Embedded Technical Features
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By Navraj Nandra, May 09, 2012
Synopsys' Navraj Nandra uses a hypothetical tablet computer to explain ways to save power in a new design through better custom-chip design: in the USB driver (and USB alternatives), colapsible power supplies,and new sleep states.
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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.
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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.
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By William Wong, May 01, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong does a hands-on test of Parallax's Propeller Board of Education.
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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.
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By William Wong, April 26, 2012
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
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By Bill Wong, April 23, 2012
What do benchmarks and surveys have in common? They can be good, bad or ugly.
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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.
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By Hank Cohen, April 22, 2012
Today’s online connected lifestyle is delivering unprecedented amounts of raw data on consumer preference to modern businesses. However, those companies working to harness this information must first winnow innumerable petabytes of raw data to glean some concentrated, actionable, useful intelligence.
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By Darren Etheridge, April 20, 2012
Historically used most widely in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Android operating system has taken on new markets outside this space.
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By Bill Wong, April 18, 2012
Digital signage addresses a range of applications from hundreds of interactive kiosks to synchronized, multimonitor, multimedia displays.
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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.
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By Bill Wong, April 12, 2012
We saw some interesting cars and robots at Design West this year. Check out the videos and Technology Editor Bill Wong's observations.
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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.
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By Bill Wong, April 11, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong checks out remote server management options for Super Micro Computer's AS-4022G-6F A+ Server.