ESC Boston

ESC Boston

This week I am making a flying visit to DESIGN East [a.k.a. ESC Boston] to present a couple of classes….

The Power Pyramid

The Power Pyramid

Power consumption of embedded systems is currently a hot topic – one I have posted on several times before. With…

Evaluation boards

Evaluation boards

Just about all the embedded CPU manufacturers produce evaluation boards employing their devices with a suitable selection of peripherals.These boards…

RTOS memory footprint

RTOS memory footprint

Most of the time, I subscribe to the view that “the only stupid question is the one you did not…

Going to sleep

Going to sleep

Once again, I am thinking about embedded software and low power design, as I have discussed before. I still find…

Munich Embedded Developers’ Forum

Munich Embedded Developers’ Forum

Last week, I attended the Embedded Developers’ Forum in Munich, Germany. This is an increasingly common type of event –…

Power Suckers

Power Suckers

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

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…

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…