The European magazine for embedded design

Volume 11 Number 80 March 2007

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News
Wind River buys ‘hard’ real-timne Linux
iSystem sings up to distribute for LynuxWorks
Telematics and PCs to drive M2M growth
Elektrobit and dSpace combine for Autosar tool
EEMBC adds processor benchmarks
Hitex becomes applications center for NXP
Enea and Kontroncollaborate on networks
Renesas university program for Europe
Wind River and Esterel partner for critical systems

Cover feature:
ESL simplifies design analysis
By Shelly Gretlein
While the definitions of ESL may vary, the end result should be the same, namely letting system developers analyze their designs at a higher level of abstraction.

Focus: DSPs

Using ESL to replace DSPs with FPGAs
By Sergio R. Ramirez & Shawn McCloud
If your application isn’t the most compute intensive, you may find that using an FPGA as a replacement is a good idea.

DSP power-management techniques help achieve faster design cycles
By Stuart Cording & Lori Vidra
Designing handheld, battery-powered systems that require DSP capability demands that a great deal of attention be paid to power consumption.

Features

USB eases data acquisition
By Richard A. Quinnell
This ubiquitous bus offers the performance of a parallel bus, with far less complexity.

Minimize ISR
By Nigel Jones
With all the automated tools available today, it’s easy to lose track of the overhead that such tools are introducing.

New Products
A round-up of the latest hardware and software for the embedded designer.