Of the dozen or so new design articles featured on Embedded.com this week, my Editor's Top Picks are:
“Evaluating PCB layout tools,” in which Syed Ali uses his experience as a printed circuit board designer to guide you through the pros and cons of the various PCB tools available.
“Tips on improving 1394 kernel debug , ” where Dave Thompson outlines how to use the expanded memory on many desktop platforms to make embedded kernel debug more effective.
“Embedding HPC: A rocket in your pocket, ” by Peter Decher, which looks at some of the ways you can make use of the high performance computing capabilities of today's embedded processors.
Our columnists have been busy as well. From Dan Zaks there is “Using 'member new' to map devices, ” on another way to manipulate and represent devices in C and C++. And “Microprocessors change the world” by Jack Ganssle is the fourth column in a series in honor of the 40th anniversary of the 4004 microprocessor. In myCole /bin column , I write about the need to come up with better ways to write documentation for embedded designs. If you are a follower of the International Electron Devices Meeting (and are an iThing user ) – be sure to read “IEDM: I've got an app for that . ”
New embedded processors, single-board computers, and software development tools are enabling super-computing-like applications on embedded systems. Here are a few recent advances in HPC for embedded systems.
A look at some popular printed circuit board layout tools by an experienced PCB designer, who evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of some of them and provides tips on some work-arounds as well as features he thinks should be in the perfect PCB tool.
In this introductory article, Andrew J. Thomas argues for shifting product and system design documentation development to new approaches such as the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) to support the growing use of Agile techniques to deliver reliable systems based on increasingly complex hardware and software designs.
With the explosion of installed memory per system values from 64 megabytes to 64 gigabytes, 1394 now makes it possible for system developers to analyze increasingly large memory dump files easily through kernel debuggers.
Compared with individual parameter specification, the total error band envelope yields results that are more representative of how a sensor will respond in actual use.
Use of specific analog and digital sensor signal processing concepts enables interference-immune, highly accurate sensor signal measurements. Proper application of concepts, such as ratiometricity or signal conditioning, is paving the way for energy-efficient, high-performance standard solutions.
Validating embedded flash memory products for power fault resilience establishes their ability to reliably endure the power faults that embedded system designs inevitably encounter during their normal operation.
Engineer's Bookshelf Airport fiction blows. A look at books other engineers are reading and why you should read them, too. Recommend and write a review yourself. E-mail Brian Fuller.
Jack Ganssle's Bookshelf A list of book reviews by Jack Ganssle, contributing technical editor of Embedded Systems Design and Embedded.com.
Max's Cool Beans Clive “Max” Maxfield, the editor on Programmable Logic DesignLine, often writes about interesting books.
Movea has announced it is making gesture recognition and gesture database design capabilities available to consumer electronic OEMs and systems integrators though its GestureBuilder software.
ADLINK's latest Express-HRR COM Express Type 6 module offers a modular, power-efficient design with Intel Core i7 processor, QM67 chipset, and standards-based design to support multi-vendor interoperability.
InvenSense Inc. has launched a family ofdual-axis gyroscopes, IDG-2020 and IXZ-2020, that address the marketneeds for optical image stabilization (OIS) in smartphones.
Texas Instruments Incorporated's MSP430 line of 16-bit ultra-low-power microcontrollers for automotive applications has achieved AEC-Q100 certification.
IAR Systems has launched a new 32-bit KickStart Kit for STMicroelectronics' STM32F407ZG, a microcontroller (MCU) in ST's STN32 F4 series, the first ARM Cortex-M4 based MCUs.
STMicroelectronics has rolled the ST33TPM12LPC Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which the company claims is the industry's highest performing TPM, enabling significantly stronger security and trust for activities such as e-commerce and cloud-computing services.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is set to re-ignite debate about whether phase-change memory is commercially viable with the presentation of an 8-Gbit, 20-nm phase-change random access memory at the 2012 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
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