Don Dingee —

This month, we look at a couple of ideas changing the way today's greener, smarter cars are designed. In two contrasting cases, one manufacturer is designing hybrid propulsion systems faster, while the other is bringing real-time traffic information into cars to improve commute efficiency.

Don Dingee —

In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

Don Dingee —

Embedded devices are at the forefront of social change.

Hermann Strass —

A small embedded computer with a MIPS-based RISC processor provides full-function multimedia video performance.

Jeff Richardson —

Asymmetric multicore architectures are needed to achieve wire-speed, deterministic performance at the lowest power and cost.

Rick Leatherman —

Developers must choose a processor architecture with a seamless development environment that includes compilers, debuggers, and performance and profiling tools.

Stephen Lau —

Optimizing multicore devices will be one of the biggest challenges facing developers in the future.

Eric Carmes —

The Fast Path architecture offers a progressive migration path that enables software reuse and optimizes return on development investment.

Kevin Walsh —

On-chip eye-monitoring techniques provide visibility to receive-side data after equalization, offering a view of the PHY's performance.

Grant Martin —

Data plane processing units allow designs to be more flexible and optimized than what designers could achieve in the past.

John Hynes and Danny Boesing —

Boldly going where no connector has gone before. Q Series® ground plane with enhanced performance Edge Rate™ contacts and a smaller PCB footprint.

Staff and Staff —

Take a pass on bulky, expensive high speed I/O systems with Samtec's EyeSpeed™ I/O System.

Jarrod Siket —

As network traffic gets more voluminous, diverse, and unpredictable, the solutions that used to work well are being overtaxed. A new heterogeneous multicore architecture comes to the rescue.

Paul Bradley —

This extensive look underneath the hood at on-chip instrumentation shows how at-speed validation for SoCs can be greatly improved with the right visibility inside.

Don Dingee —

In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

Colin Walls —

This paper takes a look at the design of Android, how it works, and how it may be deployed to accelerate the development of a connected device.

Dan Driscoll and and Stephen Olsen —

This paper discusses how multicore designs are creating the need for a true multi-OS system. Within this discussion Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP), Asymmetric Multi-Processing (AMP), multicore hardware and software, development tools, and actual use cases will be covered.

Troy Kitch —

Designers can leverage Linux's capabilities to deliver power savings without sacrificing performance.

Nikhil Chauhan —

This paper describes the challenges faced by network equipment providers (NEPs) and operators to meet the market requirements for 4G networks. It defines the required development strategies, enabled by embedded computing platforms, that address these challenges.

Dave Bonnett, Eric Johnson and Larry Osborn —

Intel's new microarchitecture, the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series (codenamed "Nehalem"), is enjoying widespread adoption due ot its high-performance, low-power characteristics.

Jerry Gipper —

The combination of intelligence and connectivity is making our electronics devices prime targets for attacks.

OpenSystems Media —

Spotlight on HomeGrid Forum, HomePNA Alliance, and Homeplug Powerline Alliance

Kurt Stammberger —

With the advent of the "Internet of things," we are encountering a new wave of hacking that threatens mobile devices as well as wired computers and networks.

Paul Anderson —

Developers need tools that can identify and prevent programming errors that lead to security vulnerabilities.

Ted Pawela —

New simulation software tools solve the growing design problem of getting more work done faster and with less effort.

Rob Irwin —

FPGAs allow designers to prototype systems without having to build the underlying hardware, bringing the flexibility of software to the creation of hardware.

Steven Graves —

The in-memory database system (IMDS), a type of database management system (DBMS) software used in high performance applications including data analytics, securities trading, telecommunications, real-time military/aerospace, embedded systems, and science and engineering applications is able to leverage the multi-core architectures becoming common in companies, university research labs, and government.

Marc Serughetti, Vice President —

The virtual platform enables customers to experience the electronic system prior to its physical availability and to start their own development.

Dan Cauchy, VP of Marketing —

Downloading source and building a Linux distribution ("Roll-Your-Own," or RYO) provides the most flexibility, but requires a tremendous amount of work to integrate all the required components.

Don Dingee —

This month, we examine better storage technology that might solve the performance and capacity part of the equation at a much lower power point.

Don Dingee —

In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

Ben Chelf and Andy Chou —

Before the first software application was released, the first software defect(s) had been found and eliminated. Call them bugs, errors, failures or other names not suitable for publication–software defects have existed as long as software itself. As early applications evolved to become more robust and more complex, the remaining defects became more difficult to corral. Simply stated, the more lines of code necessary to create an application, the more defects one would expect to encounter during development.

Geoff Kendall —

This paper discusses the motivations for and potential benefits of switching to LCD-based interfaces, and goes on to describe the challenges facing anyone attempting to deliver a great embedded GUI. This paper concludes with a checklist of things to look for when assessing the merits of the various off-the-shelf GUI software solutions. available today.

Ville-Veikko Helppi —

This paper discusses host-based simulation and introduces two new tools that utilize this type of technology.

Syed Gilani —

This paper defines the concept of M2M, cites examples on how M2M is being implemented in various businesses/industries, and discusses how some of the partners in M2M are beginning to offer innovative solutions.