Broadcom has licensed the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor for embedding in to system-on-chip devices for mobile applications. The deal comes just a week after ARM unveiled hard macro versions of the Cortex-A9 MPCore, but it demonstrates the significant installed base which already exists for the soft core version of the mobile computing processor. “This latest agreement demonstrates the continued ...
Intel has made clear its intentions to develop Atom processor-based system-on-chip devices for digital TVs and set-top boxes. The Atom processor CE4100 SoC, formerly codenamed Sodaville, is Intel’s the first “consumer” chip fabbed on a 45nm process. Traditionally the domain of PowerPC, MIPS and embedded processors from Japanese suppliers such as Renesas, Toshiba, NEC and Sony, the digital TV is now ...
Hardware emulators are widely used to debug SoCs that include one or more processors. Although hardware designers are the traditional target market for emulators, software developers often use them for early firmware, kernel and driver development. The typical connection of a software debugger to an emulator is done with a debug probe connected to the JTAG port of the design, ...
When the FPGA industry sets about building design tools, it has the logic designer in mind as the main user. However, with the rapid advances in device functionality, vendors now need to think “out-of-their-box” to enable embedded and DSP designers, as well as the system integrators who tie systems on chips together, to use programmable logic effectively in a variety ...
Andrew Porter. Events Director, Europe TechInsights organiser of the Embedded Systems Conference 2009 event (6 – 8 Oct, FIVE International Show Centre, Farnborough), talks to Electronics Weekly about what makes the best electronics exhibition and conference in the UK. 1. What makes the ideal UK electronics event? The UK still has a thriving design community which is hungry for information from ...
Altium has entered the “out-of-the-box” FPGA development market with its latest NanoBoard development system. Called NanoBoard 3000, the single board Xilinx Spartan development system comes with ready-to-use, royalty-free IP and a dedicated Altium Designer Soft Design licence. The aim, said Altium is that users no longer need to search the web for drivers, peripherals or other software. The first system ...
Atmel says its maXTouch family of capacitive touchscreen controllers is being targeted at the development of 10 inch touchscreen with zoom and handwriting recognition functions. The touchscreen controllers, first announced in May are now in production. The first device in the family, the mXT224, has 224 nodes that allow it to support many simultaneous touches. It will also redraw the ...
A femto basestation, usually referred to as a femtocell, provides mobile phone reception within the home, giving unlimited voice and data usage for a monthly fee. While traditional basestations provide wide area coverage, a femtocell provides wireless coverage in a small area. The femtocell routes mobile traffic to the network through the user’s broadband internet connection. The femtocell is based ...
The mobile software world is evolving at a rapid rate buoyed by the infusion of open source principles, methodologies, philosophies and licensing. While this is exciting and invigorating, it is also giving rise to a number of issues – some new, while others give us a sense of “déjà-vu”. Déjà-vu all over again One example of the latter case is ...
Direct Insight, an official Windows Embedded Training Partner and Windows Embedded Gold Partner, and Avnet Embedded, a European distributor of Microsoft’s Embedded Operating Systems are partnering to provide two training courses. They are intended to help students prepare for Microsoft Technical Specialist Certifications in using Microsoft Embedded Operating Systems to create embedded devices. The official Windows Embedded in-depth three-day training courses will ...
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