March 19, 2013
The Internet of Things will drive the next phase for MEMS, greatly helped by a change in the way that the mobile phone interacts with its environment, says Benedetto Vigna of STMicroelectronics.
March 4, 2013
The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.
February 23, 2013
The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.
February 19, 2013
Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures
February 19, 2013
ISSCC expert panel highlights lowering power over energy sources and identifies the need to focus on the product rather than the technology
February 14, 2013
The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.
December 18, 2012
In 2013, the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference returns to Grenoble, France and with focus days on the Internet of Things and the cloud.
December 12, 2012
Altera has cut a deal with ARM to bring unified debug support to the FPGA fabric and Cortex-A9 processors inside the Cyclone SoC products, using a specialized version of ARM’s DS5 tool.
December 11, 2012
Intel has launched its first server SoC, based on a stripped-down Atom, in a bid to seal its place in microservers before ARM can ready its 64bit architecture for production. But the chip seems more a stake in the ground than the answer for low-power servers.
December 5, 2012
Embedded software engineers need to focus on power optimization in their code much earlier and more comprehensively than many of them do today, says Mentor Graphics technologist Colin Walls.
