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Embedded Design

Efficient GPGPU programming with OpenCL 24/05/2012

Today's graphics processors are highly programmable, massively parallel compute engines. In this role, they are commonly called general purpose ...

Intelligent debug tools becoming a commercial necessity 22/05/2012

When developers start a new microprocessor based project, they are faced with a critical choice – which debug solution should they use? This article ...

Hardware processing blocks give highest video performance ... 10/04/2012

When digital signal processors first appeared commercially in the early 1980s, they took the electronics world by storm, eventually enabling the ...

Driving the workhorse: The best amplifier to use with SAR ... 27/03/2012

Applications engineers are often asked which amplifier is the best driver for a specific analogue to digital (a/d) converter.

New Electronics Roundtable: Industry looks to support ... 27/03/2012

While power supply design is becoming increasingly important, knowledge is leaving the industry. How are suppliers responding?

Offloading tasks from the microcontroller can improve power ... 14/02/2012

The single biggest concern among microcontroller users used to be system cost, but energy consumption has steadily become a bigger issue.

Mixed signal asics meet cost and performance targets 24/01/2012

Custom analogue/mixed signal asics are economical at comparatively low volumes, with affordable non recoverable engineering (NRE) costs, meaning a ...

EV battery management essential for desired lifetime and ... 22/11/2011

For hybrid (HEV) and full electric vehicles (EVs), Li-Ion batteries offer the best trade off of power, energy density, efficiency and environmental ...

GPUs set to enter the mainstream 13/09/2011

Until recently, demand for more processor performance has been met by faster clocking, more bit width and ever smaller fabrication nodes. The ...

The 10 best ways to make your device drivers unreliable 30/08/2011

Device drivers, the foundation of many embedded systems, are expected to be robust and stable while also delivering high performance.

Facebook's new data centre is home to numerous innovations 09/08/2011

It is reasonable to assume that anyone reading this article has dealings, in some way, with a data centre. Whether it's through the use of social ...

The perils involved when pushing direct conversion to the ... 09/08/2011

Direct conversion, or zero IF, receivers are popular in applications where the need to reduce power consumption, reduce costs and extend battery life ...

The best route to avoiding counterfeit electronics 11/07/2011

It's been discussed and analysed for years, yet there does not seem to be an end in sight for the trade in counterfeit electronics.

Digital technology helps guitarists achieve pure analogue ... 29/06/2011

Producing a pure, organic and natural sound from an electric guitar has long been considered the Holy Grail for musicians. Traditionally, guitarists ...

New Electronics Roundtable: More support needed as analogue ... 14/06/2011

There is a perception that analogue design is getting harder; alongside the usual time to market issues, the devices with which designers work are ...

Will AMD's Fusion architecture meet the needs of ETX and ... 14/06/2011

The discontinuation last year by Intel of the Pentium M and Celeron M processors and the 855/852 chipsets raised doubts about the future of the ETX ...

FRAM set to save energy in write intensive mcu applications 06/05/2011

Texas Instruments has launched the first of a series of 16bit microcontrollers that use ferroelectric memory (fram) instead of flash, claiming that ...

Data converters set to help meet comms systems challenges 26/04/2011

As the number of mobile phone subscribers continues to climb, pressure is growing on the communications infrastructure to support the amount of data ...

How the dynamics of microcontroller selection are changing 26/04/2011

Outside of the apparent ability of an mcu manufacturer to deliver the right product at the right price, with the right development tools, technical ...

32bit mcu demand drives need for support programmes 12/04/2011

For the last year or so, there has been a continuing flurry of activity as companies introduce more variants of microcontrollers designed around ...

New approaches to a/d conversion technology 22/03/2011

Advances in architecture and integrated circuit design techniques have allowed a/d converter manufacturers to push sample rates, resolution and power ...

Easing design headaches with programmable supplies 21/02/2011

Power supplies with digital control are gaining in popularity. However the term 'digital control' has two quite different meanings.

Floating point enabled microcontrollers in embedded designs 08/02/2011

Floating point units (fpu) can increase the range and precision of mathematical calculations or enable greater throughput in less time, making it ...

Is the hardware engineer becoming an ‘endangered species’? 07/02/2011

There is general agreement that software is now the dominant part of the embedded design process. There is also a trend towards platform based ...

Better noise performance in analogue design 25/01/2011

The seemingly humble operational amplifier is one of the basic building blocks of electronic design; its small pin count belies its importance in the ...
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