As designs become more complex, the logic analyser is moving towards becoming a virtual instrument 26/06/2012 The logic analyser had a difficult birth. It only came about as a result of the struggle by Hewlett Packard to keep pace with Tektronix oscilloscopes during the early 1970s. And so dominant was the oscilloscope in design it took the logic analyser some time to be recognised as a category of instrumentation in its own right. Read Article
Creating the software that drives embedded system design 13/03/2012 The term 'embedded system' dates back to a time when most things had code buried deep inside. The user interface might be nothing more than a segmented led and nobody expected the code inside to be updated, short of a complete board replacement. Now, even a cooker might have some form of touch based graphical user interface, even if it is not quite up to the job of running downloadable apps. And, as more systems acquire network connections, customers expect to be able to update the products they use. Read Article