Consumer electronics: better prices come with a cost
I wrote a piece last week that talked about what happens when you cross medical device design with consumer electronics. It appeared in our weekly…
Richard Nass
Richard Nass is director of media/content, EE Times Group. His key responsibilities include setting the editorial direction for the various properties within EE Times Group, with a specific emphasis on design and products, as well the global Embedded Systems Conferences, ARM TechCon, DesignCon, and all custom events. Nass has been in the electronics OEM industry for over 20 years. Before taking on the his current role for EE Times Group, he oversaw the Embedded and Custom groups and the TechOnline DesignLine network of design engineering web sites. Prior to that, he spent six years as the editor-in-chief of Portable Design magazine, where he drove the editorial to new heights while launching a magazine and technical conference in China. Preceding that, Rich was a technology editor with Electronic Design magazine. Nass holds a BSEE degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Two easy paths to begin an embedded systems design
Two development kits crossed my desk recently, and I give them both very high grades but for different reasons. The first kit, the PSoC 5…
Why would Wind River add support for Windows XP?
At first glance, this is a funny turn of events. But thinking about it a little more, it makes perfect sense. I'm referring to the…
Low-cost PC/104 A/D and D/A modules operate from -40 to +85 degrees
Two new, low-cost PC/104-compatible analog I/O cards were released by WinSystems. The PCM-MIO-G-AD-1 is a 16-channel, 16-bit analog input card and the PCM-MIO-G-DA-1 is an…
GMS’s rugged Atom-based SBC delivers high performance and low power consumption
General Micro Systems (GMS) has developed an Intel Atom-based rugged SBC that boats low power consumption. Combined with a small footprint (2.5 by 3.3 by…
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There’s still plenty of life in 8-bit MCUs: Microchip’s latest adds LCD driver, 12-bit ADC
Microchip Technology announced the PIC18F “K90” 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family. The company claims that this represents the industry’s first and only low-power, 5-V, 8-bit MCUs…
Android follows Linux’s lead
I wrote a column about a year ago (“Android is coming where you least expect”) talking about how the Android operating system (www.android.com) will have…
Virtualization makes its way into a handset
The handset vendors are selling their products by the millions. And they crank out new models every few months. That would lead the consumer to…
Kontron’s latest MicroTCA platforms handle multi-core processing, 10-Gbit/s switching
Kontron's latest MicroTCA platforms, the OM6090D and OM7090D, which conform to MTCA.1, are specifically designed for high-end AdvancedMCs and feature a 10-Gbit/s Ethernet switched backplane….
Dell OEM fills the bill in Siemens’ ultrasound system
Siemens Healthcare, one of the key suppliers to the healthcare industry has adopted Dell's Precision T5500 Long-Life workstation in its latest Acuson SC2000 volume imaging…
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