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How Industry Software Expertise is Helping to Solve the Android Fragmentation Dilemma

It is no secret: While Google continues to push for wide adoption of smartphones driven by its open source Android platform, most industry pundits know that manufacturers typically...

15 years 4 months ago

Article: Multi-Core Slow Down

An interesting article by Dan Woods on Multi-core slowdown . The article tries to temper people's expectations with regards to mArticle: Multi-Core Slow Downulticore. The basic...

15 years 4 months ago

The Rise to Dominance of NAND Flash

Flash memory is the dominant form of non-volatile memory for embedded systems and has been since the EEPROM days. I remember using an ultraviolet lamp to erase the old EPROMs...

15 years 5 months ago

M2M, the Buzzword

The one I am referring to is an abbreviation of Machine to Machine . It's simply a communication mechanism between machines or devices. The communication is done with minimal or no...

15 years 5 months ago

Paper: Multicore and Multi-OS

Travel has it's disadvantages (30 hours door to door Ottawa to Singapore in an old United 747 for example). But it also has it's advantages: here I find myself at the airport with...

15 years 5 months ago

Bit Rot Amnesia

Spirit Rover has been having a number of problems recently, anomalous behaviors, losing contact with Earth, even forgetting commands . Amnesia has been one of the larger concerns...

15 years 5 months ago

Twenty

In 1989 I got my first "real" job, left an auto shop I'd been working at in Santa Cruz, and started working for a pre-tech-bubble company. Integrated made VME racks, boxes from the...

15 years 5 months ago

Making Multicore CPUs Work in Embedded Communications Designs

A good article by Jarrod Siket highlighting the need for a good heterogenous multicore design to be able to meet the need of embedded communications systems. I couldn't agree more...

15 years 5 months ago

Primary Multicore Software Configurations

Many people ask the question as to what the best approach would be for them to go to multicore and/or virtualization. This is a great question to start a discussion as there is not...

15 years 5 months ago

What Exactly are You Testing, and How?

"What exactly are you testing? How are you testing it?" I'm sure that these are amongst the questions that product, business, and technical managers across the embedded software...

15 years 5 months ago