With the onset of globalization, world travel today is prevalent be it for business or leisure; and with travel comes the process of planning to carry the basic essentials and gadgets for the trip.

The convergence of mobile phones and other consumer-driven devices such as PDAs, MP3 players, and digital still and video cameras is progressing rapidly as evidenced by recent introductions of phones ...

The rapid buildout of a new generation of high-bandwidth wireless networks has opened up opportunities for handset designers to introduce a wide variety of exciting new multimedia functions. But many ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...

This week Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of transceiver circuits capable of communicating at 32 Gbps, a world record. The company said the new technology will support inter-processor ...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, which serves the electric power industry worldwide, announces the availability of the SEL-2701 Ethernet Processor--an Ethernet physical interface and protocol ...

Heterogeneous multiprocessor (HMP) systems, using functionally asymmetric compute elements, such as application processors and microcontrollers integrated within the same SoCs, are now used ...

New standards like the OpenAMP Framework let embedded developers take advantage of the features of the MPSoC to separate the safe world from the unsafe world, while maintaining system communications ...

Pros and cons of using a hypervisor. Pros and cons of multicore frameworks. Today’s multicore system-on-chip (SoC) hardware offers the promise of being able to pack more into your embedded project ...

2D-fabric provides glueless interface to Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor, embedded Virtex-II Pro IBM PowerPC processors, and IBM CoreConnect bus SAN JOSE, Calif., October 16, 2002 - Xilinx, Inc.