The European magazine for embedded design

Volume 11 Number 81 April 2007

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News
Backplane technology in the balance
Esterel and ALT work on cockpit displays
RF Engines needs engineers to grow
Rutronik to sell Kontron boards
Bravo for Microsoft automotive platform
ACE opens up multiprocessing technology
CECED chooses Echelon network technology
Mantaro joins Nallatech channel program

Cover feature:
IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee opens the applications window
By Tom Balph & Larry Roshak
By employing standard hardware and software, you can quickly develop low-cost, bug-free systems..

Features:

Design and debug your ROM-based code
By Arvind Chauhan
Assuming ROM is your memory of choice, proper debugging can save you loads of time and money.

Integrating and evaluating speech algorithms
By Nitin Jain
Maintaining the proper level of performance is the key to integrating speech algorithms.

Focus - Multicore and Multiprocessors

Understand packet-processing performance
By Edwin Verplanke
You cache configuration can have a bigger impact on overall system performance than you expect.

Going multicore presents challenges and opportunities
By Anant Agarwal & Markus Levy
Performance and power efficiency are key advantages, but they’re also challenging as the number of cores increases.

Get multicore performance from one core
By Kevin D. Kissell & Pete del Vechhio
An SoC with a multithreaded virtual multiprocessor might be just what you are looking for.

New Products
A round-up of products launched at the Embedded Systems Conference.