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September - 2018
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- IoT Security Starts with Threat Modeling and Security Analysis
Fighting back as more processing muscle becomes available to hackers along with the rest of us Markets that employ the Internet of Things (IoT) will increase to $520 billion in 2021,
- Time for Visionary VR Tech to Focus on Vision
Virtual Reality has immersed us in captivating alternate worlds and intense gaming experiences. However, VR has much to look into, including VR-induced cybersickness, why children should
- From Cable-TV Scrambling to Security: Simple Obfuscation Isn’t Enough
A Dutch company thatâs been securing electronic content delivery for decades wants to bring its experience to IoT. Are pay-TV hackers all that different from hackers of IoT? [caption
August - 2018
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- Two Are Better Than One: Dual Technology Architectures Leverage Flexibility to Facilitate Exciting Casino Games
What it takes to achieve a cohesive, certified and highly reliable gaming platform Creative casino gaming developers both large and small are continually looking for advanced technologies
- Take a Look at the New-Look Signage
There are not many examples where technology makes an original product bigger, but advances in display manufacture are proving to be the exception to the rule. Digital signage has
July - 2018
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- Famous Graphics Chips: NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller
The first in a series about the graphics chips, controllers, and processors that have changed the course of the computer graphics industry. In 1982, NEC changed the landscape of the
- “…the capability to store the entire trained model of the neural network…” Q&A with Sylvain Dubois, Crossbar
Autonomous driving is just one of the applications hungry for processing at the edge, giving embedded memory growing strategic importance. Editorâs Note: âThe boundary between
June - 2018
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- Simulated Reality Arrives – For Some Senses
Dimenco announced its new Simulated Reality platform. By John Blyler, Editor-in-Chief, Electronic System Design Engineering/Chip Design At the press luncheon during Display Week
- VR/AR (XAR) Makes its Way through a Fragmented Landscape
VR/AR developers continue to strive for a fully immersive experience and additional and innovative content. But why is consumer VR/AR (XAR) adoption so slow? âXARâ is a term that
May - 2018
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- MIPS Technologies: Q&A with Majid Bemanian and Mark Throndson
The venerable MIPS architecture excels at real-time response, enabling AI for functional safety compliance, automotive ADAS, robotics, and much more. Editorâs Note: Embedded Systems
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 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
- 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
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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- 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.
- 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
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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- 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
- 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
- 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, 12V,
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
