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Four-Wheeled Supercomputers
Smart phones. MP3 players. Notebooks. We can’t live without our portable gadgets. However, we probably drive our most computeintensive mobile electronics to work everyday. Today’s automobiles use a variety of networks, sensors, and computer platforms to deliver safer and more pleasant travel than ever. Most companies concentrate their development efforts on safety, efficiency, and performance. These features rank high with consumers, and the...
Megatrends Of The Future Will Feed Off Industry Hype
Afaltering economy hasn’t slowed the electronics industry. According to many independent market research organizations and other sources, most market sectors will experience strong growth over the next five to 10 years. In fact, what has become a digital universe is expanding more rapidly than any original estimates. Updated projections based on research by IDC suggests that with a compound annual growth rate of almost 60%, the digital...
Simple Is Better For C And Your Lawn
It’s almost summertime, and I’ve been watching the neighbors put all sorts of chemicals on their lawns. I recommend an organic approach that includes corn gluten meal (CGM) instead. CGM is a natural preemergence herbicide and fertilizer (9-0-0) that is a natural weed suppressant. It is better for the lawn, the environment, and your pocketbook. CGM prevents weeds by stopping the germination of the weed seeds, so you need to start using it at the beginning of ...
Shining A Light On Bugs
Turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. This often seems to be the way to deal with programming bugs as well. Bring out the debugger or trace tools, and the problem goes away or remains difficult to locate. While application bugs don’t really react like real bugs, changing the state of an application’s environment does affect how buggy code responds. This is one reason why tools that impose no overhead on an application are...
Java Gains Static Source Code Analysis Tool
Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java brings static source code analysis to Java developers. It can help improve code quality while reducing bugs and addressing security vulnerabilities. Its latest version is integrated with a range of integrated development environments, including Eclipse and JBuilder. It also handles popular application frameworks such as J2EE, Google Web Toolkit, and AWT. Java support is available separately or as part of the...
Smaller Stackable USB
New 1/4- and 1/2-size PC/104 boards allow StackableUSB to deliver more compact solutions. A single SAMTEC connector links a motherboard like the Micro/ Sys Pentium III-based SBC1685 with up to eight stacked USB devices. The smaller form factors could allow multiple expansion boards to fit where single PC/104 expansion boards would reside today. This approach allows support for a carrier board that handles multiple expansion modules. ...
ARM Gets Shot Of Support
Parasoft Embedded now supports ARM’s RealView Development Suite 3.1. This Eclipse-based Parasoft Embedded plug-in for C++ test helps automate static code analysis, code coverage, peer reviews, and unit and component testing. The static analysis supports MISRA C and JSF. It also supports DO-178B development. Support for Insure++, the runtime memory analysis and error detection tool, is available as well. PARASOFT • ...
Sales Drive Atmel's Charge Up The Charts
Atmel designs, develops, manufactures, and sells a wide range of semiconductor IC products, including microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, and nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components, with an emphasis on complete system solutions incorporating microcontrollers. And 2007 was a very good year. After placing 99th on our 2006 list, Atmel charged up the charts to take the 56th slot last year despite a slight decline in sales. This surge came from improvements...
PLDs Present The Key To Xilinx's Success
Untitled Document Xilinx is a top supplier of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). Customers can program these ICs in a laboratory to perform specific complex...
The Top 50 Employers In Electronic Design
Careers in the electronics industry often mix opportunities and pitfalls. The opportunities are endless, perhaps even including the chance to create and lead a world-class technology organization. But the cyclical nature of the industry creates many pitfalls, including being laid off from your favorite job and not being able to find another like it. One way to avoid the pitfalls and prepare for the opportunities is to work for a company that’s...
Multicore, Multithreaded Goes Embedded
MIPS Technologies combines multithreaded and multicore support into its latest embedded SMP platform. As with most multithreaded designs, the MIPS32 1004K’s multithreaded support provides an incremental performance boost that is less than adding another full core. Still, multithreaded support can take advantage of a core’s idle time that would otherwise waste power— a critical item in most embedded designs. Each core can include one or two...
Net Module Secures Secrets
Connect One’s IIEVB-PIC-2128 evaluation board includes the iChipSec CO2128 network system-on-a-chip (SoC) as well as Microchip’s PIC24 microcontroller. The dualcore module supports local-area network (LAN), Wi-Fi, and cellular links with SSL security. The CO2128 acts as a firewall and supports TCP/IP protocols such as SMTP, POP3, and HTTP. The PIC24 host communicates with the CO2128 using the AT+i command set. The host features 64 kbytes of flash and 8 kbytes...
Long Life For Micro-ATX Motherboard
The ITOX BL330-BR microATX motherboard can handle dual- and quad-core Core 2 Duo processors. Based on the Intel Q35 Express chip set, it offers a 1333-MHz front-side bus and QXGA video that can handle Windows Vista via the GMA300 graphics accelerator. The ICH9R southbridge supports multiple RAID configurations with up to six SATA drives. The board has a a Gig Ethernet port, eight USB, two serial, eight GPIO, and 16x and a 4x PCI Express slot plus two PCI...
Improve The QoS In Your Ethernet Control Systems
The use of Ethernet in industrial control applications is growing at an estimated 50% compound annual growth rate. Leading companies such as Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric are promoting the use of standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet as the basis for industrial Ethernet. As a result, the non-deterministic aspect of Ethernet must be addressed in time-critical control systems. Standard IEEE-1588 time synchronization can compensate for some of the...
Build A Real-Time Flash GUI For Embedded Network Devices
A critical concern for any embedded device is the user interface. Embedded network devices hold a tremendous advantage for creating an intuitive user interface by using a Web browser. Traditionally, this has been accomplished by using an embedded Web server on the embedded device and creating Web pages written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is very easy to understand and implement for static Web pages, but it’s a very poor option for rapidly changing ...
Know Your Limitations Before Designing Your Next Robot
Nuance was the name of the game at last month’s Robo- Business show in Pittsburgh. This year, the aisles were populated not just by people and remote-control robots but also by a few autonomous robots— and some of these robots weren’t research projects but platforms that were for sale. During one of the last tech sessions of the show, CCS Robotics chief technical officer Anthony Diodato described the company’s SpeciMinder robots and how they have...
SUMIT Brings Big Improvements In Small Packages
Designing a small-form-factor system with interfaces like USB or SPI is relatively simple with a microcontroller and a custom board. But things get a little more interesting when you’re going between boards or starting with modules. Module standards like COM Express (see “COM Express: A New Standard” at www.electronicdesign.com, ED Online ...
Serial-Parallel Alternatives
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Standard Serial Backplanes Dominate New Designs
It’s likely that your current designs have you pushing the proverbial envelope. If so, then high-speed serial interfaces are the way to go. Their overall bandwidth beats their parallel counterparts. Also, the newer technologies offer plenty of other benefits, such as lower pin counts and hot-swap support. The clear leader is PCI Express (PCIe), followed by Ethernet, Serial RapidIO, and InfiniBand. HyperTransport remains a chip-to-chip link, even though...
Are You Screaming For Help With Prototypes?
At last month's Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, I met with Duane Benson, the Web marketing manager for Screaming Circuits. The company assembles prototypes in as little as 24 hours for one or more boards. You simply send it a package of parts along with the unpopulated printed-circuit board (PCB), and Screaming Circuits will assemble it for you. Screaming Circuits’ assembly capabilities include machine-placed surface-mount...
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