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• Following the ECAM Contribution

  A while back, on the main Symbian blog, I announced that ISB were making a contribution that would enable camera-based use-cases in QEMU.  Essentially the contribution would allow a webcam to be used on the host PC and to function like a camera on a phone. To keep everyone updated on the progress of this contribution,...

  Martin Webb Multimedia

• Free store is not free lunch

  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 exception...

  State-Space

• 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 [...]...

  Bluewater Systems Blog

• The packaging behind the HB-LEDs

  High-brightness (HB) LED packaging design continues to advance, and is contributing almost as much to performance as the LED chip itself, argues Margery Conner...

  LED Luminaries
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