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| | Dynamic System Simulation... | |
High-fidelity simulations of dynamic embedded systems can be invaluable. This follow-up to "Modeling Dynamic Systems" (August 2000) presents
some techniques and algorithms you might find useful.
By Jim Ledin
In a previous arti... |
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| | Palm's latest wireless wonder... | |
A look inside the Palm i705-the early-2002 replacement for the aging Palm VII-reveals an ever-cheaper design point for capable, but not necessarily blazing, data radios and their companion PDAs.
With the exception of limited circuitr... |
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| | PCI Express image-acquisition board set to debut... | |
Imaging and video have always interested me. As a youth in the early 1960s I tinkered with a surplus photomultiplier tube (if I recall it was a 941A), rigging it up to an Amateur Radio video transmitter. My interest in video was piqued again i... |
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| | Sensors and single-wire LINs rev up Auto IQ... | |
Sensors to measure such quantities as pressure, temperature and acceleration have been a staple of automotive electronics for many years. But the myriad systems required for such functions as emissions control, fuel economy and safety (inclu... |
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| | Interconnects-Keys to the New Car Sensors... | |
As the automobile's electronic content continues to increase, the need for low-cost, reliable sensing systems becomes even more important. While there are many challenges to overcome to meet those needs, advances in interconnect architecture... |
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| | Eight-bit MCUs claim half the automobile... | |
Dozens of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) inhabit the average new automobile, which says something about both 8-bit MCUs and automobiles. Today's automobiles are nothing like their predecessors. Whereas automobile engineers/ inventors were origi... |
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| | Porting an existing embedded system to Linux ... | |
Every embedded system has the potential to reach a limit where
requirements cannot be implemented without compromise to the design, or
perhaps at all. When that time comes, the company's management and
technical staff must agree on what to do.... |
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| | Runners get iPod virtual trainer ... | |
When you run for exercise, you can often take your music with you; but if you are serious about how well you run and want to see the stats of your efforts, you are mostly out of luck. Now, inexpensive sensor technology and low-cost CMOS radios... |
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| | Revised Nano toughens skin... | |
Apple gave its popular flash-based music player a makeover last month when it launched its second-generation iPod Nano. Sitting in the middle of the overall iPod lineup, the gen 2 Nano comes in 2-, 4- and 8-Gbyte capacities, corresponding to music... |
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| | Inside the Apple 8GB iPod nano... | |
Apple has had great success in the MP3 player market. They have released multiple versions of MP3 players. We had previously reported on "Find out what's really inside the iPod" a year ago, which identified some of the components in various differen... |
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| | Intel gets some company at 65 nm... | |
Editor's Note: To view an On-Demand seminar featuring additional insight on the move to 65 nm, click here.
Intel still leads the pack in the 65-nanometer technology race, but at least three other vendors — Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and AMD... |
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| | 8-bit MCU supports field oriented control... | |
Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies has introduced a family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with field oriented control (FOC) capability and a new Digital Application virtual Engineer (DAvE) drive software configuration tool kit, which is ... |
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