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New Sensor Hub from Texas Instruments Debuts at Design West

GardenState

Texas Instruments has announced the Sensor Hub BoosterPack for its Tiva C Series TM4C123G LaunchPad at Design West 2013. The new BoosterPack is a plug-in daughter card that allows ARM Cortex-M4 MCU developers to create products with up to seven types...
- 25 Apr 2013
COTO Technology Announces Smallest MEMS-Based Magnetic Reed Switch at Design West

GardenState

Coto Technology introduced its RedRock RS-A-2515 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based magnetic reed switch at Design West in San Jose. Based on its high aspect ratio MEMS design and manufacturing processes, the switch is said to provide ...
- 25 Apr 2013
Atmel Introduces New Development Tools at Design West

GardenState

Atmel Corporation used the forum of Design West to launch a new integrated development tools platform, a complete hardware and software product specifically designed to support Atmel MCUs including its recent ARM Cortex-M4-based SAM4L family. Sp...
- 24 Apr 2013
AMD Targets Embedded Markets with New AMD Embedded G-Series SoC

GardenState

At Design West AMD announced its new Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on its “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 Series graphics. According to the company the AMD Embedded G-Series signifies a st...
- 24 Apr 2013
Wind River Announces New Release of VxWorks MILS Platform at Design West

GardenState

At Design West embedded and mobile software supplier Wind River introduced the latest version of its VxWorks platform, a secure separation kernel that provides Type 1 hypervisor–based, multiple independent levels of security (MILS) for systems that m...
- 24 Apr 2013
$45, 1-GHz BeagleBone Black Debuts at Design West

GardenState

BeagleBone Black, the next-generation offering from BeagleBoard.org, is a low-cost ($45), community-supported development platform for ARM Cortex-A8 processor developers and hobbyists. Its Sitara AM335x processor (from TI) enhances the user exp...
- 23 Apr 2013
Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, ARM Tools Featured at element14’s Design West Booth

GardenState

Visitors to the Newark element14 booth at Design West found it overflowing with hands-on demos, product giveaways, video Q&As, and tutorials on Arduino-based applications, ARM development tools, the next-generation BeagleBone, and, of course,&nbs...
- 23 Apr 2013
Embedded Wireless in the Spotlight at Design West

GardenState

Just when it seems like wireless communications has reached a cost/performance peak, one supplier or another comes along and pushes the bar even higher. As a result the market for semiconductors covering such wireless protocols as Bluetooth, for exam...
- 23 Apr 2013
Look for Us at Design West

GardenState

Held in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley the four-day Design West event (April l 22-25) is a technical conference and expo for systems designers, entrepreneurs and technology professionals in the electronics industry. Over 250 exhibitors...
- 4 Apr 2013
Analysis of the C2000 Piccolo processor from Texas Instruments.

DAB

Update 26 January 2013 I inadvertantly used the TI Piccolo dual processor spec when I made the blog.I will make an updated C2000 Launchpad blog soon. Analysis of the TI C2000 Piccolo Dual Croe Processor. As some of you might have...
- 10 Dec 2012
which language 'll i use to write code that perform face recognetion?

aml

if i want to do face recognetion is it must to use matlab in my code to do this?can i use only java or c# ?what i want to say is it compulsary to use matlab with java or with c# to perform face recognetion ?please i need your help . i'm looking forwa...
- 10 Nov 2012
More than 2Gbps achieved with SuperSpeed USB Core in FPGA - on a complete hardware system!

ngadhia

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- 18 Oct 2012
Cheap compiler to modify .lib files

gwlinn

The "free", open source, lib files for Arduino are great unless you have different hardware or want to do something differently. For example, the keypad lib is for a 3 X 3 keypad whereas I have a 4 X 4. To modify this, or any other open s...
- 18 Sep 2012
Kinetis L Series, the World’s Most Energy-Efficient MCUs ~

squadMCU

On Tuesday (June 19, 2012) at Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Americas, an impressive energy-efficiency killer demo was presented during the opening keynote. Showcased were the first MCUs built on the ARM®︎ Cortex™︎-M0+ processors: The brand new Frees...
- 21 Jun 2012
Designing with SuperSpeed and NAND Flash

ngadhia

The TrendThere is a trend observed in the market for designing products with SuperSpeed USB and NAND Flash inside. There are camera manufacturers, printer manufacturers as well as FLASH drive manufacturers involved in the trend. It is crucial, ...
- 20 Jun 2012
CodeWarrior and StarCore are digital processing even better! ~

squadMCU

StarCore technology offers fully scalable and flexible solutions at low cost, these high-performance low power programmable devices for baseband, aerospace, defense, medical and test and measurement solutions allow to get to market faster. CodeW...
- 24 May 2012
Amazing news when combining CodeWarrior and Power Architecture! ~

squadMCU

CodeWarrior Development Studio is one of the most robust Integrated Development Environments (IDE) in the debugging industry; allowing highly automated visual framework for complex embedded applications. The combination of flexibility and scalab...
- 11 May 2012
Young Engineers, Green Technology Share the Spotlight at Embedded World

GardenState

Joe Alderson reports from Embedded World 2012 in Nuremberg: With a rare chance to leave the Farnell/element14 stand and take a trip around the rest of the exhibition, the final day of Embedded World 2012, intended for students and academic...
- 6 Mar 2012
Unwrapping Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0 is tasty) ~

squadMCU

By Robert Thompson Last week, Google announced the launch and availability of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The first product that will use the new operating system will be the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, which was created in...
- 2 Nov 2011
Mastering real-time data with FreeMASTER ~

squadMCU

By Jim Trudeau Sometimes real gems are hiding in plain sight. We are bombarded by data, and who knows what brilliant discoveries we miss in the cacophony of noise. A friend might point out something. “Hey, have you seen…” and c...
- 28 Oct 2011
Booting VxWorks on Stratix III Dev. Kit

ngadhia

Here is a short video that explains the procedure for booting VxWorks OS on Stratix III Dev. Kit using MP32 IP core. The video does not have audio instructions. We are in the process of updating the video with audio instructions. Comin...
- 26 Sep 2011
Common sensing ~

squadMCU

By Jim Trudeau Freescale covers a lot of territory horizontally – industrial, consumer, networking, medical … the list is long. Our technological breadth and depth is immense as a result. We’re famous for it. So what? You are always right to ask...
- 20 Sep 2011
Solution Advisor – Picking silicon the right way~

squadMCU

The traditional approach to picking silicon involves data sheets; matrices of features; at best, a complex spreadsheet of all the many parts with all the many options laid out. Let’s call this the “top down” approach. You have to already be somewhat...
- 2 Sep 2011
having issues installing CodeWarrior? ~

squadMCU

Earlier this week a friend told us he was having hard times when installing his codewarrior on a brand new PC..."maybe he were doing something bad" you might think, but no...After a few tries (and failures), we start thinking this was related to some...
- 22 Jul 2011
More playing around with RTOS, to task or not to task

squadMCU

So back in November 2009 I posted an article about my starting to play around with RTOS to grow in my technical knowledge. I must confess something: I haven’t really played with MQX or others as much as I would have liked…at least not during 2010. Bu...
- 1 Jul 2011