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March - 2018
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- The High-Frequency Signals of PCIe 4.0 Demand Higher Performance from Engineers
PCIe 4.0 meets growing throughput demands but requires hair-pulling attention to detail from engineers to make it happen. If a processor has to access a peripheral, it might use Peripheral
- Embedded World 2018
Embedded World broke its own recordsâagainâthis year, with over 1,000 exhibitor companies and more than 32,000 international visitors from the embedded community. Nuremberg, Germany
- Spectre and Meltdown Create a Deep Threat
What you need to know about security flaws Spectre and Meltdown. Neither Spectre nor Meltdown are viruses, but rather exploit speculative execution techniques as vulnerabilities in
February - 2018
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- Emerging Applications Spell the End of the Battery’s Life
New mobile applications, such as wearables and mobile gaming, mean there is a shift in power management at the system level, seeing alternative ways to meet performance levels and design
- Q&A with Dave Ditzel, CEO, Esperanto Technologies
Gaming, artificial intelligence, superior graphics performance, and more have put RISC-V in the catbird seatâindustry standard tools and languages can help keep it there. Editorâs
- How a Space Warp Technique Helps Gamers
At CES in January, AMD acknowledged the strength of the mobile market and announced that it will add a Vega-architecture-based Graphics Processor Unit (GPU). In Las Vegas, details
- How Intel PSG Takes the High Performance Road
High-level tools to dial FPGA power and efficiency up while cutting through complexity help FPGA technology has origins in the early eighties with the advent of PROM, EPROM, and EEPROM
January - 2018
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- The Future of VR Depends on Lessons from Its Past
Why we need to reset our expectations of what technology can deliver today if we want VR to be successful tomorrow. Virtual reality (VR) stands at a critical juncture. Down one path
- Emerging MEMS and Sensor Technologies
Researchers continue to innovate with MEMS. But will low cost sensors demanded by IoT drive MEMS off of silicon substrates? Whatâs next? This article is adapted from the presentation
December - 2017
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- Extreme Sensor Accuracy Benefits Virtual Reality, Retail, and Navigation
What minimizes lag that leads to VR âmotion sickness,â explains why your store coupon app requires use of your smartphoneâs accelerometer, and keeps fitness trackers and cars
- Seeing More with 4K UHD Display
Prepare to capitalize as content moves to ultra-high definition streaming. 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD) streaming, broadcast, and Blu-ray content is expanding and growing rapidly.
October - 2017
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- As Embedded Vision Takes Off, Software Frameworks Bear Watching
Careful consideration of the software framework requirements for embedded vision applications for AR/VR; surveillance cameras, self-driving cars, drones, mobile phones, and more is
September - 2017
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- Increasing Slot Action with Immersive, Graphics-Rich Multi-Screen Games
Options for increasing game development ease, cost effectiveness, and flexibility, even as gaming evolves at a white-hot pace. Walk into a casino today and you will see the growing
- The Physics of Analog Cybersecurity
Are MEMS sensors inherently trustworthy? Successful acoustic injection attacks indicate otherwise: Hacking an accelerometer to output a waveform that spells âWALNUTâ with an upper
- A VR Standard to Connect Them All
Determining how VR Source devices connect and interoperate with HMDs can avoid confusion and cut costs. Anyone who remembers working with computers before USB will know what chaos
- Mobile VR: Worth it?
VR thrills depend on how well your smartphone chills. The Samsung Gear and Google Daydream View are just two of the many mobile VR headsets out there that work with several smartphones
July - 2017
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- Gaming: Another Notch towards Respectability
eSports, VR arcades, and competitive gaming for serious prize money form a growing market. Autonomous cars learn to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto. Premium PC gaming performance
May - 2017
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- Heterogeneous: Performance and Power Consumption Benefits
Why multi-threaded, heterogeneous, and coherent CPU clusters are earning their place in the systems powering ADAS and autonomous vehicles, networking, drones, industrial automation,
- USB Type-C, the Swiss Army Knife of Electronics, adds HDMI
A design worth a closer look. USB Type-Câ¢, also known as USB-Câ¢, is the latest Universal Serial Bus connector standard, handling up to 10Gbps and 100 watts of power (at 5V,
April - 2017
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- Running Your Embedded System at 0 MIPS
Even where activities such as wireless connectivity for IoT applications dominate current consumption, making as many processes as possible run autonomously can greatly improve battery
March - 2017
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- 3D Sensors Add Depth to Surveillance and Gaming
More 3D-enabled consumer devices, coupled with increased sensing in gaming and sophisticated security and surveillance systems, show the 3D sensors market cleared for take-off. 3D
- Virtual and Augmented Reality: Hot or Hype?
If people can get past the goofy headset, VR will open markets for entertainment, education, and marketing to ride a wave of technology with augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR).
- What Caught My Eye at Embedded World 2017
This yearâs show starred innovations in automotive, automation, the IoT via carrier boards, and more. More automation was displayed at VIA Technologies, for transportation, home
- An Overview of 5G: What You Need to Know
5G will significantly improve mobile wireless. Standards arenât defined yet, but technologies exist that may provide answers to the (overly?) optimistic demands placed on 5G. Who
February - 2017
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- What is Reality Anyway?
Definitions do exist for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality--along with challenges as these technologies step up to disrupt entertainment and enterprise. Virtual Reality (VR)
- HD Mobile Video Surveillance: Surpassing Network Limitations
Intel-based network appliances offer power densities that can help unburden your core networking infrastructure. Many companies are just now starting to upgrade their video surveillance
January - 2017
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- Make Chips Do More and Last Longer with Embedded FPGA
Data centers want programmable chips so they can upgrade the data centerâs ability during the life of the center without touching the hardware
December - 2016
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- Linear Redrivers Make Visible Difference in DisplayPort Connections
Capable of 10 Gbps speeds and beyond, DisplayPort requires linear redrivers to achieve proper signal integrity with link training. Digital designers understand that at Gigabits per
- Aviation: Systems Engineer Interview
The embedded design choices keeping In-Flight Connectivity fast and dependable. Editorâs Note: Whatâs embedded can go unnoticed. So can video streaming, live television and
- Gaming Devices and Wearables Sense that Biometrics are a Healthy Way Forward
Collecting and making sense of information to better our health and add new dimensions to gaming, VR and AR experiences. At the recent MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress, Ryan
