GSA on how to reinvigorate silicon business models
Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.
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Cortus adds Arduino interface to SoC development board
Arduino Due shield interface makes adding peripherals to a Cortus-based SoC prototype easier.
Altera moves to 55nm for non-volatile programmable logic
Altera has moved to a 55nm embedded flash process to continue its Max series of non-volatile FPGAs.
Xmos launches prototyping board, aims first at industrial comms
Xmos has designed a modular prototyping board for its XA devices, which combine the company's own real-time, multithreaded processor core with an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller.
Intel pins its IoT hopes on standards and data-center analytics
Intel aims to use a dual-pronged strategy that takes advantage of internet of things applications to push the x86 back into embedded-systems designs.