Recent Blogs

Selecting the Best Battery for Embedded-System Applications

By Keith Odland, Silicon Laboratories Inc. November 18, 2010

As systems and their corresponding power-management strategies become more sophisticated, so, too, does the task of selecting a battery that suits both static and dynamic requirements. Appropriate battery selection involves chemistry, temperature, peak demand, energy transfer, and environmental concerns.

Texas Instruments' Sitara and DSP-Inclusive Integra: ARM CPUs For The Rest Of Ya

By Brian Dipert October 19, 2010

A month-plus back, I provided a preview of ARM’s upcoming Cortex-A15 (aka ‘Eagle’) core, whose first publicly announced licensee was Texas Instruments. The ‘A’ in its marketing moniker exposes its “highly integrated application processor, primarily for mobile devices” primary focus, as a successor today’s Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 devices. And in addition to its consumer electronics concentration, I suggested that ARM aspired to find homes for it in trendsetting server designs.

SandForce's SF-2000 Series: SSD Controllers Get Even More Serious

By Brian Dipert October 7, 2010

After reading my most recent print feature article on flash memory-based solid-state drives published late last November, you hopefully came away from it with an appreciation for the media controller’s critical role in determining the drive performance, power consumption, price, reliability and other important variables.

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News Spotlight

DiSTI Announces New Visual Interface Bundle For Embedded Systems "VIBE"

March 11, 2011

The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of advanced graphical user interface technology, announces a new comprehensive visual development software bundle for the Embedded community, offering an "out of the box" solution for the rapid development and deployment of visual interfaces utilized in standard and safety critical embedded systems. Industry leaders ALT Software and Green Hills Software, have joined with DiSTI to form this new Visual Interface Bundle for Embedded systems (VIBEs), with proven software tools that deliver immediate, cost-effective results.

Embedded Systems Conference Program Alert

March 9, 2011

ESC SV is the largest, most complete technical conference and exhibition in North America. It offers you a range of hands-on and classroom education experiences in topics ranging from fundamental skills in embedded design to the latest and most challenging issues: Android as an embedded platform, the importance of security in embedded systems after the Stuxnet virus, or the role (or risk) of Agile development in mission-critical embedded systems, to cite just a few examples. Our presenters come from the first rank of industry developers and training professionals, selected for their proven results on in-class evaluations. May 02 - 05, 2011 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.

Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 clients offer another way to get 'thin'

March 9, 2011

Repurposing Windows machines as thin clients isn’t the only way that Microsoft customers can go the thin-client route. They also can use dedicated thin clients running the newly released Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack (SP) 1 to do the same.

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