What assembly language is friendly to beginners?
Published. May 24, 2013

I am have been programming in C++ for a few years now. Now I would like to also learn assembly language. I have tried NASM, but I dont like it, it works better on linux and my main development platform is windows. I have also tried FASM, its better but ......

Simon Phipp's Blog

Ubuntu 'superphone' needs a superstrategy
Published. May 24, 2013

No doubt you've heard about Ubuntu Touch, the open source mobile OS for touchscreens currently in development by Ubuntu's owner Canonical.read more...

Linux and Open Source

Build your own supercomputer out of Raspberry Pi boards
Published. May 24, 2013

Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000....

All About Microsoft

Hortonworks releases its Hadoop for Windows distribution
Published. May 21, 2013

Hortonworks has released its open-source implementation of its Hadoop implementation for Windows, paving the way for Microsoft to deliver its own Hadoop software and services....

Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

Welcome Arduino Yún
Published. May 21, 2013

Massimo Banzi announced it some minutes ago during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area:  Arduino Yún  is the first of a revolutionary family of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux. Yún means “cloud” in chinese language,  as the purpose of this board to make it simple to connect to complex web […]...

Blog Post: Call for Innovation – Part II
Published. May 20, 2013

Call for Innovation – Part II What can you look forward to, if you are taking part in Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge: India Analog Design Contest C.P. Ravikumar, Texas Instruments Listen to what the winners of last year’s contest have to say about Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge: India Analog Design Contest!   "This is taking it too far! Even the winners' stand is analog!" The cake and the icing I remember the evening of April 5, 2013 distinctly....

Mocana Device Blog

Samsung Profits The Most From Android’s First Quarter 2013 Sales
Published. May 21, 2013

According to a new report, Samsung may be making more money off Android than Google. The latest data from Strategy Analytics shows that in the first quarter of 2013, Samsung realized about 95 percent of the global Android profits. ” The report states: “Samsung captured a huge 95 percent share of all Android smartphone industry [...]...

Daniel Cazzulino's Blog

NuGet References: publishing my first open source extension to the DevStore
Published. May 18, 2013

Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with a bunch of friends at the OuterConf 2013, including pretty much the entire NuGet team. I also could attend to the hackathon they organized, and I got to hack what I think is a pretty cool Visual Studio 2012 extension: NuGet References. An improved NuGet [...]...

Daniel Cazzulino's Blog

NuGet References: publishing my first open source extension to the DevStore
Published. May 18, 2013

Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with a bunch of friends at the OuterConf 2013, including pretty much the entire NuGet team. I also could attend to the hackathon they organized, and I got to hack what I think is a pretty cool Visual Studio 2012 extension: NuGet References. An improved NuGet [...]...

Laptops and Desktops Blog

Why I'm not writing off Nvidia's Shield
Published. May 15, 2013

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Shield, Nvidia's Android-based gaming device, which begins shipping in June for $350. But after trying out a prototype, I'm not writing it off just yet....

Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded

Intel vs GM: What’s In Store for Intel’s New CEO, President
Published. May 2, 2013

Today chip giant Intel announced outgoing CEO Paul Otellini’s replacement: he’s Brian Krzanich, former Intel COO and likely an Intel lifer. As Otellini bids goodbye at the annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16, Krzanich moves in as the company’s sixth … Continue reading →...

Open Source Initiative blogs

OSI Board Changes 2013
Published. May 2, 2013

One of the ways we're turning OSI into a member organisation is to gradually replace the Board with member-selected directors. This process started last year when OSI's Affiliate members -- non-profit organizations themselves -- selected candidates for the Board. This year, two directors have left the Board; Fabio Kon, whose education initiatives for OSI have been held in high regard, and Alolita Sharma, who has been an OSI director for many years and in multiple roles but most recently served as...

The Java Posse

Java Posse #419 - Roundup '13 - Big Data
Published. April 28, 2013

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Tech Deseign Forums Blog

The BeagleBone Black is uncorked
Published. April 24, 2013

Half the price, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of integrated storage and some 'interesting' plug-in capes. All for $45. Let the wild Linux-Making begin.The post The BeagleBone Black is uncorked appeared first on Tech Design Forum....

McAfee Labs

Blackhole Exploit Kit Spam Campaigns Disguised as Top Service Brands
Published. April 17, 2013

Spam campaigns based on the Blackhole Exploit Kit send messages that contain links to compromised legitimate websites, which serve hidden iframes and redirections that exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems–from Android to Windows. Spam themes we have seen vary rapidly and are disguised to appear as legitimate messages from familiar services. Campaigns spoofing Facebook, LinkedIn, American Read more......

John Day

Which is better – open source or open standard software?
Published. April 8, 2013

  Andrew Poliak, director of automotive business development at QNX Software Systems, believes there is confusion among automakers and suppliers about open standard and open source software. In his view, too many people consider the two to be basically the same. Too many people believe: Open standards are incompatible with delivering great, cost-effective user experiences. [...]...

#WIRELESS: "Facebook Home Replaces Lock Screen"
Published. April 4, 2013

Facebook has released a suite of apps dubbed "Facebook Home" which takes over the lock screen of any Android device, replacing it with your real-time Facebook newsfeed: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Facebook Home shows a steady stream of friends’ posts and photos on your lock screen.Further Reading...

scalability.org

Windows 8 is terrible
Published. March 26, 2013

No, thats unfair to things that are truly terrible. It sets a low mark … a really … really … low mark. Trying to help a relative with adding a printer. A printer that happily works under windows 7. No issues, just works. Works under Linux on my laptop here. Nothing special, just works. But [...]...

Joel on Software

Town Car Version Control
Published. March 12, 2013

The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features is Kiln Harmony, which lets you operate on Kiln repositories using either Git or Mercurial. So you can push changes to a Kiln repo using Git and then pull them using Mercurial. This means that you never have to decide whether you want to use Git or Mercurial. Religious war: averted. But, I’m getting ahead of myself! For those of you that have been...

Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect

Fighting in the cloud service orientation wars
Published. March 12, 2013

Big players are now involved in open source and cloud services orchestration and they're placing increasingly large bets....

EDA Blog

Microchip, Digilent Debut chipKIT uC32 Development Platform and Wi-Fi Shield
Published. February 26, 2013

chipKIT uC32 Microchip Technology and Digilent introduced the chipKIT uC32 open-source development platform and the chipKIT Wi-Fi Shield. The chipKIT uC32 is based on Microchip’s 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller. The chipKIT Wi-Fi Shield enables designers to implement wireless projects with chipKIT, Uno32 and Max32 boards. The chipKIT uC32 is priced at $34.99 each. The chipKIT Wi-Fi [...]...

Embedded World 2013: Virtual Platforms Connected to Everything
Published. February 22, 2013

Sometimes it is hard to explain why certain ideas take off and why others don’t. There are many stories of poor products that are more successful than much better products. There are also many stories about products that struggle in one time or place, but the same thing is a big hit at another time in history. This is especially difficult for engineers who tend to analyze everything.Embedded World 2013 starts Tuesday (Feb. 26, 2013) in Nuremberg, Germany. Since the event revolves...

Multicore – assimilating the new developments
Published. October 9, 2009

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 [...]...

Ed Burnette's Dev Connection

PlayFirst abandons PC/Mac market for greener mobile pastures
Published. October 9, 2012

PlayFirst calls it quits on PC and Mac, doubling down on iOS and Android instead. Flo fans will just have to go buy a tablet to get their daily dash on....

An explanation of the USB Video Class (UVC)
Published. December 7, 2012

At IDF, I talked with Terry Moore, CEO of MCCI.  He explained the USB Video Class (UVC). Video Class, in this case, means moving video from a web camera or digital video camera to another device like a display, or PC, or game console. UVC is built into Windows, Mac OX, Linux, FreeBSD, and the [...]...

Mobile Breakfast Series – Dec 11 – Seattle – What is in store for Mobile 2013?
Published. October 15, 2012

Hope you are enjoying the advent of the fall. We are preparing for our final Mobile Breakfast Series of the year. What is in store for Mobile 2013 2012 has been an incredible year for mobile. We crossed several key industry milestones – 6.5B subscriptions, 1B subscriptions in China, 1B broadband subscriptions, 500M android activations, Apple’s monstrous [...]...

Brian's Brain

Open source: not always a successful course
Published. February 6, 2013

The longstanding Achilles Heel of most open-source software is the lack of adequate help, maintained by one or a handful of developers and "supported" by a rag-tag band of enthusiasts....

Twitter’s Heartbeat and the Human Condition
Published. December 4, 2012

Using Twitter a day will keep the doctor away. That’s right, forget having that daily apple, your health may very well be improved simply by using Twitter through well…. Apple. And it’s all account of engineers. What am I talking about? Well, since Twitter is built on open source software, Twitter engineers use, contribute to [...]...

Olliance Group: Open Means Business

Open Source and the Mobile Applications Gold Rush
Published. September 2, 2011

Since the launch of the Apple iPhone App Store in July 2008, the focus on investment in mobile/wireless has shifted from handsets for their own sake to a near obsession with mobile phones as applications platforms, and to building and marketing applications for them. Apple didn’t invent the applications store concept – handset manufacturer Palm [...]...

Law & Life: Silicon Valley

Major Step Forward on FOSS for US Government: FOSS Compliance with Trade Agreements Act
Published. December 7, 2012

Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 (19 USC 2511 et seq.) (“TAA”). Open source software adoption by the US Federal government must comply with many regulations, some of which [...]...

Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant

Branding and the Open Source Marketplace
Published. November 26, 2012

I’m quite busy with transitioning from my life as a consultant to working for Magnolia. Hence, I was not yet able to let you know that opensource.com published yet another article from yours truly. In the extremely overcrowded open source Continue reading →...

Soft Talk - Multicore and Parallel Programming

The Power of Open Source
Published. December 18, 2012

Sometimes open source can be a misunderstood part of the software industry – is it made up of developers that are working for free? Or are these developers getting a free education?  Do we have any idea how many people are developing using open source? A recent article by analyst house Forrester showed that five [...]...

BCL Team Blog

MEF and TPL Dataflow NuGet Packages for .NET Framework 4.5 RC [Nick]
Published. May 30, 2012

If you’ve installed the .NET Framework 4.5 RC, you may have noticed some differences between this prerelease and the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta. One of the changes we made was to move two libraries to an independent distribution model via NuGet. Many of you sent us feedback about the frustration of waiting for a full product cycle to get small changes. By changing the distribution model, we are taking our first steps toward meeting this challenge. We expect this will enable us to invest in these...

UVM SystemVerilog in a Multi-Language SoC World: UVM-ML Webinar
Published. October 11, 2012

Every SoC project uses multiple languages. Even if the design itself is purely Verilog RTL, it's likely that you have some PLI-based stimulus. In many cases there are multiple languages in use due to multiple suppliers, globalized teams, multiple abstractions, and more. Integrating e, SystemVerilog, SystemC, and C/C++ into one simulation is basic but insufficient for SoC verification.  The question asked by SoC verification teams is "how can these work together in a cohesive...

Frank Schirrmeister Blog

Securing the Internet of Things
Published. December 13, 2012

While I had looked at the challenges of hardware/software integration in various application domains like automotive, industrial and wireless before, I had the most unsettling experience last week at the Amphion Forum in San Francisco in the application area of device security. I am officially scared. And I am somewhat hopeful that hardware/software co-development will help address the security issues I heard about.When Kurt Stammberger, VP of Market Development at security firm Mocana, kicked...

iPhone5 Differentiation is Chip Design
Published. September 19, 2012

In case you may have missed it, Apple recently launched a new iPhone. As per the iPhone launch tradition, it brings with it a lot of excitement over the latest capabilities. Of course we don't know everything until it is actually available, but this latest incarnation has broken all kinds of records for pre-sales, so it must be groundbreaking. Right?There are a lot of comparisons out there between the iPhone 5 and the 4S, but in reading through all of them it seems on the surface like the 5 is...

2013 CES: Top 4 Trends Benefiting EDA
Published. January 17, 2013

While a variety of EDA customer segments are growing, consumer electronics continues to drive the lion's share EDA of industry revenues.  Hence, many events at last week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas can be extrapolated as leading indicators for the EDA business.  While I couldn't personally attend CES this year, like last year my two trusted agents (specifically, Unified Communications (UC) expert David Danto of Dimension Data, and Joseph Hupcey...

Why the Demand for Acceleration and Emulation is Growing
Published. February 14, 2011

The dream of any marketer is a growing demand for its product line. Let me start this blog by quoting the System Realization (part of the Cadence EDA360 strategy) section from the transcript of the recent (Q4) Cadence earnings call. "In April (2010), we introduced the Verification Computing Platform, enabling emulation, acceleration, and simulation all on one single platform. Customers who are designing SoCs at 40nm and below find this product necessary to meet the time-to-market and quality targets....

Pre-RTL Software Development -- You Can't Get Your Product to Market Without It!
Published. May 23, 2011

It's been an exciting month for the System Realization team with the announcement of our System Development Suite. One of the new products, the Cadence Virtual System Platform, made its debut at the Embedded Systems Conference and has generated a lot of interest from our customers. DAC is right around the corner, and we'll be there with the latest demos of the System Development Suite, and a suite demo focusing on the VIrtual System Platform on Monday at 3pm, Tuesday at 9am, and Wednesday...

What Does it Take to Migrate from e to UVMe?
Published. September 5, 2012

So you are developing your verification environment in e, and like everyone else, you've been hearing a lot of buzz surrounding UVM (Universal Verification Methodology). Maybe you would also like to give it a try. The first question that pops in your mind is, "What would it take to migrate from e to UVM e?"Well, this is a bit of a trick question. The short answer is that if you've adopted eRM in the past, migration to UVM e will only take a few minutes. If your environment is not...

What does the Sagrada Familia and Embedded Linux have in common?
Published. November 27, 2012

What does the Sagrada Familia and Embedded Linux have in common? I recently attended the Embedded Linux Conference in Barcelona representing Synopsys.   I must admit, it is nice to have conferences in beautiful places so you can kill two birds with one stone. When not networking, speaking or sitting in sessions, I enjoyed seeing the [...]...

Announcing AMD AppZone Player, Powered by BlueStacks
Published. September 27, 2012

BlueStacks' powered AMD AppZone Player brings Android apps to Windows based PCs Continue reading...