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Embedded software performance optimization: Forget about it!

Embedded software performance optimization: Forget about it!

Another guest appearance this week. My colleague Faheem Sheikh is a member of the Mentor Embedded engineering team. He wanted…

Universal time

Universal time

Most people feel the need to know the date and have a fairly accurate idea of what time it is….

ESC imminent

ESC imminent

Well, tomorrow is the big day. ESC San Jose 2012 [now part of DESIGN West] runs for 3 days and…

PowerPoint hints and tips #1

PowerPoint hints and tips #1

In a recent post, I had a bit of a rant about bad presentations. I primarily lay the blame at…

Not the Embedded Systems Conference

Not the Embedded Systems Conference

Next week, the Embedded Systems Conference will take place in San Jose, California. Except that it has a new name:…

Signs of the times

Signs of the times

You go through life and there are things that are always there and you expect them to always remain. And…

Trends

Trends

I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview of the results from UBM’s annual survey of embedded developers….

Hail the straw man

Hail the straw man

There is an English idiom: “There are many ways to skin a cat”. Unpleasant an image though that is [even…

Embedded World visited

Embedded World visited

As I mentioned last week, I went to Embedded World in Nuremberg. The show itself seemed very busy – it…