20 July 2007

The inside story

  • The inside story

Embedded systems technology gives designers more bang for their buck. By Graham Pitcher.

Just like the Olympic Games’ motto – faster, higher, stronger – embedded systems designers could use something like ‘smaller, faster, cheaper’ on their coat of arms – translated into Latin, of course.
There’s a range of technology helping the embedded system designer achieve those goals, but microcontrollers and, increasingly, programmable logic are the lead enablers.

Author
Graham Pitcher

Supporting Information

Websites
http://www.actel.com/
http://www.analog.com/en/
http://www.cirrus.com/en/
http://www.home.agilent.com/
http://www.intel.com/
http://www.mathstar.com/
http://www.st.com/stonline/
www.ni.com

Companies
Agilent Technologies UK Ltd
Analog Devices
ARM Ltd
Cirrus Logic
Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd
MathStar
Microsemi
National Instruments
STMicroelectronics NV
Texas Instruments
Xilinx Ltd

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