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Performance, flexibility, and efficiency make the case for market-specific DSPs

By Eran Briman (CEVA)
4G wireless communications processing and HD video/audio processing are among the challenges market-specific DSPs are gearing up to handle.

Tackling Linux size, modularity, and GPL issues

By Kim Rowe (Rowebots)
Kim outlines options for developers facing proprietary kernels and OSs that can substantially limit future architectural choices, driving up costs and reducing profits.

Throwing a Lasko around serial ports

By Chris A. Ciufo (Editor)
Freescale’s new MCU uses 10/100 Ethernet to replace the ever-present serial port.

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White Paper: PIC® MCU Tips 'n Tricks Featuring nanoWatt XLP Technology

By Microchip Technology Inc. (Microchip Technology, Inc.)
PIC MCUs featuring nanoWatt technology implement a variety of important features, which have become standard in PIC microcontrollers. Since the release of nanoWatt technology, changes in MCU process technology and improvements in performance have resulted in new requirements for lower power. PIC MCUs with nanoWatt eXtreme Low Power (nanoWatt XLP(tm)) improve upon the original nanoWatt technology by dramatically reducing static power consumption and providing new flexibility for dynamic power management.

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White Paper: Taking Energy Efficiency to the Next Level

By Keith Ogboenyiya (Texas Instruments, Inc.)
Energy efficiency as a design goal opens new market opportunities; the omnipresent microcontroller has evolved to hit the green button and system cost targets simultaneously.

Green in: Micro cells running more, MCUs running less

By Don Dingee
In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

Green in: Micro cells running more, MCUs running less

By Don Dingee
In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

Solid-state micro-energy cells uniquely enable energy harvesting

By Tim Bradow (Infinite Power Solutions)
Energy storage devices seamlessly interface to ambient energy harvesting systems and provide near loss-less energy transfer and storage.

Green in: Power at 0.32 V, new MCU kits

By Don Dingee
In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology that helps integrate green features into today’s new products.

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Real-time digital power control increases system efficiency

By Keith Ogboenyiya (Texas Instruments) and Zhen Yu, PhD (Texas Instruments)
Next-generation MCUs combine the real-time control capabilities and power efficiency of traditional MCUs with the high-performance and math capabilities of DSPs.

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Embedded MCUs advance home climate control

By DJ Delorie (Delorie Software)
Multiple chips on a Linux SBC help manage a homemade home furnace control system.

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Changing the embedded development model with Microsoft .NET Micro Framework

By Mike Rohrmoser (Digi International)
Developers should take advantage of the accelerated customization capabilities offered by the .NET Micro Framework and a modular hardware platform design.

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Floating-point MCUs offer smart sensor calculation perks

By Yashvant Jani, PhD (Renesas Technology)
On-chip FPUs speed up calculations and require less code in MCU smart sensor applications.

Dial M for MRAM

By Don Dingee (Editorial Director)
There's a change coming to an MCU near you, and it's for the better in several important ways.

White Paper: QuiXilica V5 Architecture: The High Performance Sensor I/O Processing Solution for the Latest Generation and Beyond

By Andrew Reddig (TEK Microsystems, Inc.)
Military sensor data processing applications for communications, radar, and electronic warfare have an insatiable demand for increased signal performance. Sensors continually require more channels, increased processing capabilities, higher memory performance and greater communications bandwidth.

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White Paper: Reverse Engineering in the Semiconductor Industry - Investigating the Nanoscale

By Randy Torrance (Chipworks Inc.) and Dick James (Chipworks Inc.)
For reverse engineers, life will not get any easier in the electronics business. In semiconductors, the next challenge will be the 45 nm node devices already being ramped up in development fabs. The consumer electronics business keeps bouncing from new toy to yet another new toy, and it is necessary to be aware of all the new products that keep appearing.

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White Paper: When Extending Battery Life, Two Processors are Often Better Than One

By John Dixon (Texas Instruments, Inc.), Zack Albus (Texas Instruments, Inc.), Adrian Valenzuela (Texas Instruments, Inc.) and JB Fowler (Texas Instruments, Inc.)
This paper looks at ways to extend battery life by combining DSPs and MCU.

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White Paper: The What, Why, and How of Configurable Processors

By Tensilica (Tensilica)
A radical yet familiar way for you to meet performance, cost, and power objectives while reducing the risk of ASIC design and increasing design flexibility.

White Paper: Digital Receiver Handbook: Basics of Software Radio

By Rodger H. Hosking (Pentek, Inc.)
The inner workings of the digital receiver are explored and actual digital receiver systems and commercially available products are described.

White Paper: Primer on FPGA-based DSP Applications

By Rowland Demko (Acromag, Inc.)
Are you still using DSPs for DSP? Re-configurable FPGAs on PMC modules offer so many advantages with high-speed parallel processing and great support tools.

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Maneuvering in outer space and underwater

By Hermann Strass
Maxon Motor supports Phoenix, the most recent Mars project that successfully landed on the Red Planet on May 25.

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Electronic firefighting

By Hermann Strass
The Z8 Airport Crash Tender fire engine is based on an 8 x 8 chassis with a V12 diesel engine delivering 1,000 metric horsepower and has nozzles for spraying water and foam to defend itself against approaching fire.

Modular AdvancedTCA FRU power management architecture

By Shyam Chandra (Lattice Semiconductor)
Why take the resource- and time-consuming approach of modifying software across FRUs when all FRUs implement PICMG 3.0 specified platform management functionality in IPMC software?

Designing a battery charger for tactical operations

By Jeffrey VanZwol (Micro Power Elecronics)
A thorough understanding of battery capabilities and charger architectures, including those with microcontroller control and dedicated charger ICs, is necessary before designing a battery charger for today's military applications.

SoC microcontrollers power portable medical device innovation

By Kevin Belnap (Texas Instruments)
Addressing the microcontroller needs of the portable medical space is a challenge for semiconductor companies.

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eBiking all the rage with savvy travelers

By Hermann Strass
Not too far into the future, many people may be riding around in eBikes (electronically assisted bicycles).

White Paper: Memory Design Considerations When Migrating to DDR3 Interfaces from DDR2

By Virage Logic (Virage Logic)
The emerging DDR3 memory standard will extend the performance range of DDR memories considerably.

Waveform scanning techniques simplify embedded system designs

By Mike Hertz (LeCroy)
Recently developed measurement techniques are helping embedded system designers troubleshoot designs accurately and efficiently.

Implementation trade-offs of digital FIR filters

By Ed Rocha (Quickfilter Technologies)
In the world of military and medical technology, many choices are available including MCUs, DSPs, FPGAs, and dedicated FIR ICs. Now FIR ICs are stepping into the forefront, though, as the best option for balancing power, size, and cost with precision performance.

Multimedia, not just graphics, display capability

By Manish Singh (Genesis Microchip)
DisplayPort seeks to redefine the display interface for more robust functionality.

Low-power MCUs and the MPEG-4 challenge

By Dr. Oyvind Strom (Atmel Corporation)
New, more efficient processor architectures tailored for specific algorithm types are emerging.

Know your OS options

By Jerry Gipper and Don Dingee
Evaluating and selecting an OS can be a fun and challenging exercise for those who know what to look for.

Balancing the ZigBee/802.15.4 link budget

By Chris Baumann (Atmel)
Industrial control engineers need not become RF experts to implement 802.15.4 or ZigBee-based industrial control systems.

Cut product development time and costs with PC/104 and microcontroller platforms

By Walter Calmette (Calmotion) and Glenn de Caussin (Calmotion)
PC/104 offers an ideal platform for controlling the motors that run heavy equipment.

Combining a hardware neural network with a powerful automotive MCU for powertrain applications

By Dr. Paul Neil (Axeon Ltd.)
One solution to adaptive control problems is artificial neural networks. This article discusses an application in automotive control using a system-on-chip implementation.

Digital signal controller applications

By Venkat Anant (Freescale Semiconductor Digital Signal Controller Operation) and Bill Hutchings (Freescale Semiconductor Digital Signal Controller Operation)
In an increasingly competitive market driven by cost and time-to-market requirements, designers have been using low-cost microcontrollers in the... (continues)

When MCUs and DSPs Collide: Digital Signal Controllers

By Sumit Mitra (Microchip Technoloigy)
Embedded engineers now seeking the benefits of digital signal processing in traditional MCU applications now have a new choice.

Rich graphical interfaces for remote embedded applications

By Nate Smith (Microchip Technology)
Remote access to embedded applications over the Internet for monitoring or control provides many benefits for the end user including cost and ti... (continues)

Fast forward MCU design with the Eclipse IDE

By Yong Cui (Texas Instruments)
Faster, better, cheaper…the product development environment has become more competitive and demanding than ever before. In the past, the lack ... (continues)

World's smallest microcontroller promotes non-traditional usage

By Reston Condit (Microchip Technology)
Microchip Technology's new PIC10F family consists of 6-pin, 8-bit Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) packaged in a SOT-23 form factor, making them th... (continues)

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