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More on low power

More on low power

Further to yesterday’s post, here is a video in which my colleague Rich Rejmaniak demonstrates the power management features of…

Power Suckers

Power Suckers

I have often observed that the world of embedded software is usually dominated by a small number of “fashionable” topics…

Too many pixels

Too many pixels

If I were to tell you that manufacturers of certain very popular electronic devices had a policy of producing newer,…

In a state

In a state

Once again, I am going to look at a topic helpfully suggested by my colleague Rizwan Rasheed. Unless you have…

Multicore thread synchronization

Multicore thread synchronization

An article by my colleague Faheem Sheikh has just been published in EE Times, which covers multicore thread synchronization. Apart…

Let’s all hold hands

Let’s all hold hands

Sometime or other, all of us hold hands with someone else. Whether it is with a “significant other” or with…

Freescale Technology Forum

Freescale Technology Forum

Nowadays, there is a perception that the higher end embedded CPU is dominated by ARM. Obviously, these devices are very…

Don’t jump!

Don’t jump!

There is a quote, accredited to a selection of people, including Thomas Beecham, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill: “Try everything…

Measuring interrupt latency

Measuring interrupt latency

I have posted a couple of times recently [like here] about a recent webinar that I conducted on measuring RTOS…