ARM Tech Con 2010

ARM Tech Con 2010

Last week I attended the ARM Technical Conference in Santa Clara, California. I am not sure how many years this…

Embedded Linux – why?

Embedded Linux – why?

I have pondered before the appropriateness of Linux for embedded applications. My initial stance was clear enough: I could see…

Electronics for the sick

Electronics for the sick

I have always for medical electronics interesting and I have blogged about it from time to time [here and here,…

AMP & SMP revisited

AMP & SMP revisited

Multicore continues to be a hot topic. Recent Web seminars, that we have run, were well attended, with lots of…

MCAPI – lessons learned

MCAPI – lessons learned

Some weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry on MCAPI, which seemed to provoke some interest. Last week we ran…

AMP vs SMP

AMP vs SMP

It is becoming common for embedded designs to incorporate more than one CPU – maybe multiple cores on a chip…

ESC Silicon Valley 2010

ESC Silicon Valley 2010

As usual, I attended the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA last week. I guess it remains the foremost…

Introducing MCAPI

Introducing MCAPI

I recently wrote about a “multi-core” development project that I worked on many years ago, including some details of how…

Vintage multi-core – the IPC

Vintage multi-core – the IPC

Last week, I wrote about a “multi-core” project that I was working on 30 years ago. To be fair, it…