CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: Blogs
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...
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By Peter Percosan, Texas Instruments Over the last 25 years, digital electronic technology has transformed one segment of society after another. It started with PCs, continued with the advent of wireless communication devices and the Internet and recently has taken hold with Internet connected consumer electronics and media playing devices. Along the way and behind the scenes the network...
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By Joep van Eijden, NXP Semiconductors It is always fascinating to watch a High Definition TV demonstration. Modern HDTV panels are capable of displaying vibrant image quality and the latest...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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By Joep van Eijden, NXP Semiconductors It is always fascinating to watch a High Definition TV demonstration. Modern HDTV panels are capable of displaying vibrant image quality and the latest wide color gamut (WCG) versions can reproduce an astounding range of colors, with contrast and brightness that even makes daylight viewing a real enjoyment.
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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.
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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.
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By Alon Ironi, CEO of Siano Mobile Silicon The worldwide audience for television in the 21st century is in the billions. We are witnessing a sociological trend, where watching TV shifts from a family experience to a personal experience. People want to see the latest news, weather, films and sports on their personal mobile devices, anytime, anywhere.
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By Alon Ironi, CEO of Siano Mobile Silicon The worldwide audience for television in the 21st century is in the billions. We are witnessing a sociological trend, where watching TV shifts from a family experience to a personal experience. People want to see the latest news, weather, films and sports on their personal mobile devices, anytime, anywhere.
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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.
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By Martin S.Won, Altera Corp. The proven strategy in the consumer electronic products time-to-market race is to add new features and slash costs while shortening design time. But creating the application- or product-specific functionality in products such as high-definition TV receivers in the consumer arena is taking longer and costing more.
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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.
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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.
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By Todd Scott, Altera Corporation Maximizing high-definition quality calls for a network of supporting, complementary hardware that begins with content capture and continues through the broadcast infrastructure to the final distribution of program material to the consumer. The weakest link will ultimately determine the quality of the HD experience to the consumer.
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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).
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By Larry Przywara, Tensilica, Inc. Audio is becoming pervasive and is being designed into a wide variety of products. Many new chip designs contain an audio processor just in case it’s needed in future product revisions, since an audio processor can often be implemented in under 100,000 gates on a multi-million gate chip. Some consumer devices contain multiple audio processors – a...
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By Vasilis Papanikolaou, Manager, Gennum Corporation It’s not your mom and dad’s TV anymore…or is it? Just as TV has evolved from The Brady Bunch to The Cosby Show and finally into Wife Swap, digital broadcast formats are also evolving.
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The new era for home radio emerges By Prem Rajalingham, Frontier Silicon, UK Today, millions of people are regularly listening to their favourite radio stations via the internet through their PCs. However, with the advent of low-cost, consumer-oriented Wifi radios, from now on there will be no need to boot-up the PC.
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By Todd Scott, Altera Corporation High-definition (HD) broadcast technology is bringing new clarity to drama, documentaries, sports and other top television programs. Still, there is a challenge to captivating and satisfying audiences who’s image quality expectations are high following their purchase of HD TVs. For broadcast system designers, this means constant pressure to achieve...
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