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Wireless Broadband & Emerging Markets Change Baseband Rules
Qualcomm, MediaTek, Infineon and Broadcom increased their share in cellular basebands in 2009 despite an overall decline in the market, reports Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Component market research service....
Windows Embedded Standard
March 2010 Runtime Security Updates are Now Available on ECE
The March 2010 Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Windows® Embedded Standard 2009 and/or Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, Update Rollup 1.0 and Service Pack 3. This month’s security updates can be applied directly to runtime images.This download is a cumulative update which incorporates all updates from prior months for the current year. Therefore you do not need to download and install previous monthly updates for the current year...
Mike Deliman
Quit Bugging Me: Another Surprise NaN!
An Earlier QBM, "Surprise NAN" covered how floating point computations may become corrupted from unexpected sources. Today's Quit Bugging Me is about... another Surpise! NAN! An application runs with several tasks. One task, which computes a set of floating point......
FPGA Gurus
Half-empty, half-full, or new world?
Editorial colleague Ed Sperling may seem a bit serious in person, but he usually has a pretty upbeat way of observing the electronics industry from......
The Mil & Aero Blog
Arms embargo against the only reliable U.S. ally in the Middle East
Posted by John KellerThe administration of Barack Obama is orchestrating an arms embargo of sophisticated military weapons against the only reliable U.S. ally in the Middle East -- Israel.How much sense does this make at a time when nearby Iran is nearing development of deliverable nuclear weapons and is belligerent as ever? If the U.S. and Israel do not stand united against a nuclear-armed Iran,...
MedTech Pulse
Edge Medical Devices Wins Frost & Sullivan Digital Radiography Award
Each year, global research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan (Mountain View, CA) recognizes companies, strategies, processes, technologies, and executives with its Excellence in Medical Devices and Life Sciences Awards. The recipients include companies that Frost & Sullivan believes have achieved world-class performance in the pharmaceutical, biotech, drug-discovery, clinical diagnostics, medical imaging, and [...]...
Editor's Note
The hidden message inside Intel’s new server chip, and what it means to the electronics supply chain....
Technology Review Feed - Energy Top Stories
Increasing Yield from Gasification
A new process can make more fuel from biomass....
Always On Real
LTE May Heat UP Mobile Net Neutrality Debate
Talked to Stephen Lawson of the IDG News Service about LTE/PCRF and he does an in-depth article on the subject which appeared in several places including the NY Times LTE May Heat Up Mobile Net Neutrality Debate By STEPHEN LAWSON of IDG News ServiceSan Francisco Bureau,IDG Published: March 18, 2010 Fine-grained network controls that are coming with next-generation mobile [...]ShareThis...
Brian's Brain
Viacom Versus Google's YouTube: Dueling Documentation From Deceptive Rubes
The motivation for me a week-plus ago to finally put into action my longstanding plans to analyze the Viacom-vs-YouTube lawsuit was a report from M......
Barr Code
Toyota’s Embedded Software Image Problem
It remains unclear whether Toyota’s higher-than-industry-average number of complaints regarding sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) is caused (in whole or in part) by an embedded software problem. But whether it is or it isn’t actually firmware, the company has clearly denied it and yet still developed an embedded software “image problem”. They’ve brought some [...]...
Electronics Design Blg
Low Cost 3D Printer From Makerbot
Technology Editor Bill Wong has fun checking out Makerbot's 3D printer that will construct almost any small object from a CAD file....
EEBeat
April Ceremony Will Honor ONR-funded Deep-sea Dive
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic deep-sea dive of the Trieste with an April 15 ceremony at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 23, 1960, the Trieste plunged more than 35,810 feet to the deepest known point on the Earth’s surface, the Challenger Deep in the [...]...
EDA Blog
DM365 Digital Media System-on-Chip On-Ramp Technical Session
Avnet Electronics Marketing introduced an On-Ramp Technical Session that features the TMS320DM365 DaVinci video system-on-chip (SoC) from Texas Instruments (TI). The TI TMS320DM365 DaVinci is a single-chip ARM processor capable of capturing, encoding, decoding and displaying high definition (HD) video. The DM365 DaVinci On-Ramp session is available free of charge in North America upon request. Read [...]...
NextGenLog
"ENERGY: Design Automation Tackles Cleaner, Greener Fuels"
Green fuels and clean-burning engines used to be the domain of old-fashioned trial-and-error design methodology, but Reaction Design aims to bring design automation software to the modeling and simulation of modern fuels and engines. Look for EDA-like tools for testing new fuels and engine designs to be adopted at major automobile makers worldwide over the next few years. R.C.J.If you thought that design automation software was being used to model and simulate new fuels and combustion methods at...
Leibson's Law
Social Media abuses: Twitter polices, LinkedIn doesn’t
As soon as you toss a product into the social media mix, you can be sure that there will be people attempting to make money from the product by abu......
Open Source Engeneering with Linux & GNU
STMicroelectronics speaker at SHARE on-line event
On the 22nd of March 2010, at 11 (GMT +1) SHARE will be hosting the 'Open Source Software and enterprises: the Bellagio story'. The main speaker is Giulio Urlini from STMicroelectronics...
FPGA Blog
Opal Kelly introduced the Opal Kelly Experts Program. The program features expert consultants to augment in-house expertise and bandwidth for completing FPGA and FrontPanel-based development. The consultants in the Opal Kelly Expert Program have been selected for their expertise in HDL, FPGA, and software design. The founding consultants of the Opal Kelly Expert Program are [...]...
Playing Developer's Advocate
Making Really Tiny ELF Executables
Brian Raiter, proprietor of Muppet Labs, has created an astoundingly wonderful exercise showing how to create a Hello, World executable in quite literally as small a space as possible. I honestly can’t remember where I found this page. When I first started reading it I thought, ho hum, here’s another grad student trying [...]...
Magic Blue Smoke
Again sorry for the long break in writing, wish I could write at least one post per week, Recently based on some silicon debugging, we realized verification did not cover some aspect of the power down function that lead to chip failure. Later realized that, this is being mentioned some where in VMM LP manual, thought [...]...
Green SupplyLine
Smart grid protocol will ride Wi-Fi at home
Zigbee and Wi-Fi backers will collaborate to on bringing the Smart Energy 2.0 protocol to Wi-Fi networks as the first phase of a broad collaboration between the Zigbee Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance on wireless home area networks for smart grid applications....
Everything USB
NEC USB 3.0 Host Controllers Ramped up to Full Production Mode
SuperSpeed USB's knight in shining armor is ready to fulfill your high bandwidth peripheral dreams. NEC has announced today that their USB 3.0 host controllers should be in full production by the end of next month. The company is currently producing 1 million of these chips per month and that number will jump to 2 million in the next 30 days or so. Given the lack of enthusiasm by some big names, NEC's expansion is a great win for consumers who will start to see better and faster products hit the...
Discover the Windows Embedded Experience
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Windows Embedded CE Live Chat!
MS is hosting a live chat about Windows Embedded CE. Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows Embedded CE for which you're seeking answers? Then join the upcomming live chat with the Microsoft guys! Don't forget to put the date in your schedule and join it!!! Title: Windows Embedded CE Live Chat! Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 18:00 - 19:00 CET To join this chat, please log on via the main MSDN chat page at: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx ...
The Standards Game
The 2nd Commandment for Effective Standards – Revisited
In writing my short book, “The Ten Commandments for Effective Standards”, which will be published in a few months, I received much feedback with a variety of perspectives. A lot of it centered around the 2nd commandment: don’t mix patents and standards. When I first wrote about patents and standards, my experience was that they [...]...
Practical Chip Design
Lifetime and reliability in high-brightness LEDs, and why SoC designers should care
One of the wonderful things about this job is the chance to sit in on papers unrelated to my beat. The subject of this posting, a paper at EDN's De......
Embedded Software Resources
In last week’s blog I talked about what was going on at Embedded World and made some observations about what seemed to be “hot”. I have been thinking about this and wondering which topics, technologies or products embedded software engineers actually think are important, interesting or exciting. Obviously trend surveys and the like give some indication, but I realized that I already had a tool at my fingertips that gave me insight … How do you measure anyone’s interest in anything? For...
CPTA Blog
ATCA has been on a winning streak lately – and this is great news for all of us in the xTCA ecosystem. If you haven’t already seen the recent press releases, here are a few headlines, quotes and links for you to review:1) March 16 – Alcatel-Lucent Reinforces Commitment to ATCA (http://is.gd/aKP72)“Alcatel-Lucent today reinforced its commitment to Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology as the foundation for its next-generation telecommunication...
Trenton Technology Blog
Embedded Motherboards with Westmere-EP Intel Processors by Trenton
As you know, Trenton has a long history of supplying innovative single board computers in robust embedded computing applications where long-life product stability and availability are critical to the rackmount computer design. Our latest entries into the embedded motherboard market place are the Westmere-based WTM7026 and the Nehalem-based NTM6900. Yes, you heard right Trenton is in the motherboard business and providing the same level of performance and long-life product support that, you...
LED Luminaries
Samsung finds LED fridge lighting cool
Why I am I mentioning this an LED blog? Well, Samsung seems to be highlighting the place of LED lighting to differentiate products at the top of the respective ranges......
EE Times Blog
Cosmic warning on Toyota problems
An anonymous tipster at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has warned the government agency that the Toyota problem of sudden acceleration may well be caused by cosmic rays bombardment from space....
CEA Digital Dialogue
All I Ever WanteD To Know About DTV, But Was Afraid To Ask
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and watch 3D. By Carolyn Slater One of the many benefits of working for CEA is that you get to attend the International CES each January and are among the first in the nation and often, the world, to see the latest technology has to offer. But how does [...]...
RocketBlog
Get real FPGA verification advice virtually: March 18
We all know how much fun trade shows, seminars and technical conferences can be...the travel and time away from the office and important deadlines, the hours of sifting through oodles of content in order to find the relevant sessions to you, the pushy sales guys in flashy booths...Seriously, trade shows and conferences certainly serve their purpose in terms of learning about what is going on the industry, meeting peers, and general networking with suppliers, partners and some pretty smart people.But...
Micro-Controller 8051: data acquisition and control system
APIS Automatic Plant Irrigation System with microcontroller AT89C2051
The Project (APIS Automatic Plant Irrigation System with microcontroller AT89C2051)presented here is for learning and it is a hobby project. Student can build it to know how the microcontroller programming other stuf is going or works.This system waters your plants regularly when you are out for vocation. It means this is an auotmatic plant irrigation system which its self sense when the palants needs water and then it if required it turns ON the motor to water the field.Drip irrigation is the most...
Windows Embedded Blog
Windows Phone 7 Series CTP Tools
Today at MIX 2010 the keynote contained a TON of content for Windows Phone 7 Series, including immediate availability of Windows Phone 7 Series developer tools CTP – Tools can be downloaded from here. Catch up on the MIX Keynote announcements on MSDN Channel 9 - Mike...
PowerSource
Solar heat engine’s 20% efficiency may trump solar panel’s 15% for some apps
What’s the most efficient way to convert solar power to electrical power? Photovoltaic panels clock in at the mid to high ‘teens in eff......
Stack Overflow
Reading a register for its side effects in C and C++
Although today’s post is the first real post on the new EmbeddedGurus, it’s special for another reason. This post is being jointly written with John Regehr. John is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah and maintains an excellent blog, Embedded in Academia which I heartily recommend. [...]...
Anablog
AWR gives a free year of Microwave Office to every graduating engineer
One of the exciting things that happened yesterday at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association conference in Clearwater......
Microchip Coupon Codes & Discounts
Get the Demo! Project-MC - Integrated Development Toolset for PIC
from: http://www.phyton.com/htdocs/tools_mc/tools_mc.shtml Project-MC is a toolset that includes hardware and software tools for developing applications based on the PIC microcontrollers under control of one integrated development environment. A full package includes PASM-MC macro assembler, PDS-MC software debugger/simulator, PICE-MC in-circuit emulator integrated under control of the Project-MC IDE. The IDE with an embedded editor, project manager and PASM-MC macro assembler is a common...
Mark Hermeling
Virtualization and Fault Handling
In several of my previous posts I have written about the fact that embedded virtualization has low overhead, maintains determinism and all that good stuff. I have also written about some of the benefits of virtualization due to partitioning, scalability and such. However, there is one aspect of virtualization that gets little 'air time' and that is the fact that there the hypervisor really is a nice, lean, partitioned management layer of your multicore (or single core) hardware. You may wonder why...
Microchip Coupon Codes & Discounts
Get the Demo! Project-MC - Integrated Development Toolset for PIC
from: http://www.phyton.com/htdocs/tools_mc/tools_mc.shtml Project-MC is a toolset that includes hardware and software tools for developing applications based on the PIC microcontrollers under control of one integrated development environment. A full package includes PASM-MC macro assembler, PDS-MC software debugger/simulator, PICE-MC in-circuit emulator integrated under control of the Project-MC IDE. The IDE with an embedded editor, project manager and PASM-MC macro assembler is a common...
Pallab's Place
Playstation Move – Motion Controller at GDC
At Game Developer Conference, Sony introduced thier new motion controller for the Playstation called “Move”. It is similar in function to the remotes the Nintendo Wii, but utilize a 3 Axis Gyroscope and a 3 Axis Accelerometer with higher sensitivity to the Wii controller. The Move controller works in partnership with a camera system (Playstation [...]...
Now Hear This!
Google experimental 1-gig fiber network could challenge ISPs
“Think big with a gig” is the catchy start to a Google blog post this morning introducing company plans to experiment with a fiber netw......
Jason Kajita
Embedded TCP/IP Network Module from LJCV Electronics
Do you want to play with Microchip's PIC24HJ128GP202 16-bit Microcontroller and ENC424J600 new 10/100Mbps Ethernet Network Controller? LJCV Electronics has a fun network development board for you. The eIP-24/100 is a small network module that will assist you in early development of a networked microcontroller based application and allow you to put together a proof-of-concept for a new product. Electronics enthusiasts can use it to quick start fun projects.The circuit board includes all required components...
State-Space
In my previous post “A Heap of Problems” I have compiled a list of problems the free store (heap) can cause in real-time embedded (RTE) systems. This was quite a litany, although I didn’t even touch the more subtle problems yet (for example, the C++ exception handling mechanism can cause memory leaks when a thrown [...]...
TWICE Viewpoint Blog
A ‘Powerhouse’ Deal, And Powerhouse Trend
To USB or not to USB
Synopsys USB 3.0 Finalist for EDN Innovator of the Year
Synopsys is a finalist for EDN’s Innovator of the Year. I’d like to ask all the readers of this blog to please go to the EDN website and vote for Synopsys. Our engineers have worked hard to create a combined solution of USB 3.0 SuperPHY and USB 3.0 Controllers of the highest performance, highest quality [...]...
DSP DesignLine Blog
TI's multicore SoC: Right notes, ringing hollow
While the new multicore system on chip (SoC) signal-processing architecture announced by Texas Instruments this week at Mobile World Congress hits all the right notes with respect to 3GPP Long Term Evolution, Multicore Shared Memory Controller, Multicore Navigator, Multicore SoC Architecture, Mobile World Congress, Floating Point, Fixed Point and Spectral Efficiency with TeraNet 2 Release 8, and all of what's needed in next-generation basestation designs, it rings a bit hollow given how sketchy the...
Critical Links
No consensus yet on ROHS, WEEE
The Council of Ministers has been discussing the European Commission (EC) proposals for the recast of the ROHS and WEEE directives since March 2009......
Notes From The Lab
One of the great ironies of engineering is that we try to control a non-linear world with a linear circuitry. Entire text books have been written just on the subject of linearization of sensors, and until recently, this linearization usually entailed complex op-amp circuits and tedious/expensive calibration techniques in manufacturing. However, now that we are firmly [...]...
Martin Webb Multimedia
Please give a warm welcome to the new and improved Symbian Multimedia Blog! The new blog replaces this one. This blog and all its posts will remain online so as not to break any existing links or bookmarks, however no new content will be posted here. Instead new posts will be appearing on the new blog from [...]...
Rick Lyons's DSP Blog
Computing an FFT of Complex-Valued Data Using a Real-Only FFT Algorithm
Someone recently asked me if I knew of a way to compute a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of complex-valued input samples using an FFT algorithm that accepts only real-valued input data. Knowing of no way to do this, I rifled through my library of hardcopy FFT articles looking for help. I found nothing useful that could be applied to this problem. After some thinking, I believe I have a solution t... read more...
DeviceTalk
Secant Medical Rebrands at MDM West
Biomedical textile manufacturer Secant Medical (Perkasie, PA) is launching a new marketing and branding campaign at MD&M West this week in Anaheim, CA. The company, which will be located at booth #2374, will be displaying samples of its textiles, along with its new logo and branding materials. In a company statement, General Manager Karen West [...]...
Sensor Blog
Crossbow Technology taken over
The acquisition price of $18 million in cash by MEMSIC is not bad. For Crossbow is at least a success story when compared to some wireless motes companies, particularly those university spawned ones, that hoped to catch the WSN frenzy but folded along the way. Whether this is the exit strategy Crossbow had initially hoped [...]...
Bluewater Systems Blog
ARM, Intel and the Meaning of iPad
It is perhaps a little over a year since it became obvious to everyone that Intel and ARM were starting to stamp on each other’s toes. For years it was assumed that only x86 could do ‘real’ computers and only ARM could do battery devices. For some reason it was netbooks, a tiny market with [...]...
Circuit Professor >> Low Power
Ease into the Flexible CANbus Network
CANbus networks have been around for over 15 years. Initially this bus was targeted at automotive applications, requiring predictable, error-free communications. Recent falling prices of CAN (Controller Area Network) system technologies have made it a commodity item. The CANbus network has expanded past automotive applications. It is now migrating into systems like industrial networks, medical [...]...
Stephane Boucher's DSP Blog
In my last post, I wrote that DSPRelated.com was about to reach the 50,000 members mark. Well, I am very happy to announce that it happened during the holidays, and the lucky person is Charlie Tsai from Taiwan. Charlie is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Central University in Taiwan where he teaches the "Biomedical Signal Processing" ... read more...
Branden Williams' Security Coverage Blog
On Writing: The Funnel vs. the Brain Dump
Ben Tomhave posted a GREAT overview of what he calls The Writing Funnel—his method of organizing thoughts into publishable content. If you have not already read his post, you should stop by the link above first. A ten minute read and well worth it. Ben describes how a thought becomes content in his “Falcon’s *-line (star-line) [...]...
Domeika's Dilemma
Multicore – assimilating the new developments
There was a brief pause in my blogging as I have been assimilating some of the new developments in the multicore realm. Some of the items are close to home for me at my respective company with the acquisition of Wind River, Cilk Arts, and RapidMind. I’m not at liberty to comment on strategy, future [...]...
World of LEDs
Solid-state education for the LED Nation!
The May/June issue of LEDs Magazine featured an article entitled “Asking the right questions helps to educate customers and suppliers alike.” In a continuing effort to advance SSL market transformation, we thought it beneficial to request and receive comments from our readers that may serve to further benefit and enhance the procurement process and protocol.>> Read the full article: Solid-state education for the LED Nation!>> Post your Comments: What are the crucial questions that buyers should...
Absolute Power
What Engineers Do In Their Spare Time
DH: On the drive into work I was stuck in traffic behind a slow-moving Toyota Matrix. As my blood pressure began to rise, my mind started wandering into the movie, “ The Matrix” and the benefits that a virtual existence would offer to my current situation. That cascade of thoughts led to a follow-on to [...]...
The Telsa Tales
You, too, can bid on wireless spectrum ... for a few billion bucks
It's increasingly likely that Google will bid on that 700MHz wireless spectrum when it goes for auction next year. Whether they'll become their own carrier, and whether they'll design their own phones, are unknown variables. But we know they'll design the operating system. Options they could include are numerous......
