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Image Sensors :: Light Sensors Save Battery Life in Display Applications

By Tamara Schmitz, Intersil Corporation Light sensors are ubiquitous across a broad range of everyday products now. These systems and applications use reflected light with optical detection for...  >>  

Cameras/ Camcorders :: MCU decision focuses on price, performance and power consumption

By Jeff Bock Starting with a blank page, you may not have a clear-cut picture whether to use an 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) or a 32-bit controller in your next embedded design. To make that...  >>  

Cameras/ Camcorders :: Smoothing the Migration Path Between 8-bit and 32-bit Devices

By Jeff Bock, Freescale Embedded developers are continually looking for the optimal microcontrollers for their system designs – without counting bits. Developers simply want the right level...  >>  

Cameras/ Camcorders :: Creating Scalable Embedded Applications with the Flexis Microcontrollers

By Jeff Bock, Freescale Semiconductor Updating my recent blog on easing the migration path between 8-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers ( Continuum strategy ), I’d like to tell you about the...  >>  

Image Sensors :: Multicore Architecture Alternatives for Embedded SOC Design

By Grant Martin, Tensilica, Inc. The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build systems has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term means different things to different people, much like the ancient story of the blind men and the elephant.  >>  

Cameras/ Camcorders :: Which RTOS To Use? Often "Less Is More"

By John A. Carbone, Express Logic, Inc. For many, real time operating system (RTOS) selection took a sharp turn with the advent of the Linux operating system. Developers, of every kind of device from consumer electronics to set-top boxes, enamored with Linux as an open source desktop OS, felt that it could be used as a target OS for embedded applications. These developers saw the cost-free...  >>  

Image Sensors :: The 16-bit SOC processor core is dead

By Steve Leibson, Tensilica, Inc. Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life.  >>  

Multicore Architecture Alternatives for Embedded SOC Design

By Grant Martin, Tensilica, Inc. The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build systems has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term means different things to different people, much like the ancient story of the blind men and the elephant.  >>  

The 16-bit SOC processor core is dead

By Steve Leibson, Tensilica, Inc. Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life.  >>  

Which RTOS To Use? Often "Less Is More"

By John A. Carbone, Express Logic, Inc. For many, real time operating system (RTOS) selection took a sharp turn with the advent of the Linux operating system. Developers, enamored with Linux as an open source desktop OS, felt that it could be used as a target OS for embedded applications.  >>  

MCU decision focuses on price, performance and power consumption

By Jeff Bock Starting with a blank page, you may not have a clear-cut picture whether to use an 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) or a 32-bit controller in your next embedded design. To make that decision, you should keep in mind three main considerations – price, performance and power consumption. And you have to weigh each against the end application requirements.  >>  

Creating Scalable Embedded Applications with the Flexis Microcontrollers

By Jeff Bock, Freescale Semiconductor Updating my recent blog on easing the migration path between 8-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers ( Continuum strategy ), I’d like to tell you about the first two devices from our Controller Continuum, that we are calling the Flexis series of microcontrollers (MCUs).  >>  

Smoothing the Migration Path Between 8-bit and 32-bit Devices

By Jeff Bock, Freescale Embedded developers are continually looking for the optimal microcontrollers for their system designs – without counting bits. Developers simply want the right level of functionality to meet their application cost requirements. The number of bits and even the core architecture often are not as important as finding the ideal combination of price, peripherals,...  >>