Bill is a staff editor for Electronic Design focusing on embedded,
software, and systems. He is also the editor for the Embedded in Electronic Design department and the weekly hands-on column, EiED Online. He prefers press releases via email and images should be at least 300dpi. Links to product photos is prefered. Email address: bwong@penton.com Web site: http://www.elecdesign.com/Departments/DepartmentID/67/67.html
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July 2, 2008
[EiED Online] ZigBee Kits 5
Getting started with ZigBee continues to get easier. Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at offerings from Digi.
June 26, 2008[Lab Bench] Micros Find Their Way Into Blue-Ribbon Science Fair Projects
Held last month in Atlanta, the Intel ISEF 2008 brought together more than 1500 students from around the world as they presented their award-winning projects from state and regional science fairs. Individuals and teams competed in more than 17 categories, including a healthy showing in the Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical (EE) division. A number of students used development kits in their work. Chris King’s Electromagnetic Levitation: A Digital Control ...
June 26, 2008[Technology Report] FPGAs Pushing MCUs As The Platform Of Choice
Falling FPGA prices and ever-improving tools make FPGA development more palatable to designers who aren’t well versed in this arena. Likewise, the increased number of choices and improved sophistication of soft processor cores for FPGAs create new options for developers who would otherwise look only at stock, offthe- shelf microcontrollers. There are many reasons why designers should consider FPGAs as a development and deployment platform. Processors ...
June 24, 2008
[EiED Online] FTF 2008
You may have seen Embedded/Hardware/Software Editor Bill Wong scoping some out products and announcements at FTF 2008. If you missed out, check out his impressions from this year's event.
June 19, 2008[Technology Report] Get Ready For The Multimedia Mess
The setting sun is a pleasant sight while driving home. I’m listening to satellite radio and a call comes in. At my verbal request, the car’s media system switches off the music and answers the phone. I continue the conversation as I pull into the garage and switch the call to my home line as I exit the car. Continuing to chat, I move into a room with an HDTV and switch to video conferencing. The call ends and the radio program resumes from the point of...
June 19, 2008[Technology Report] Four-Wheeled Supercomputers
Smart phones. MP3 players. Notebooks. We can’t live without our portable gadgets. However, we probably drive our most computeintensive mobile electronics to work everyday. Today’s automobiles use a variety of networks, sensors, and computer platforms to deliver safer and more pleasant travel than ever. Most companies concentrate their development efforts on safety, efficiency, and performance. These features rank high with consumers, and the...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Shining A Light On Bugs
Turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. This often seems to be the way to deal with programming bugs as well. Bring out the debugger or trace tools, and the problem goes away or remains difficult to locate. While application bugs don’t really react like real bugs, changing the state of an application’s environment does affect how buggy code responds. This is one reason why tools that impose no overhead on an application are...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Java Gains Static Source Code Analysis Tool
Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java brings static source code analysis to Java developers. It can help improve code quality while reducing bugs and addressing security vulnerabilities. Its latest version is integrated with a range of integrated development environments, including Eclipse and JBuilder. It also handles popular application frameworks such as J2EE, Google Web Toolkit, and AWT. Java support is available separately or as part of the...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Smaller Stackable USB
New 1/4- and 1/2-size PC/104 boards allow StackableUSB to deliver more compact solutions. A single SAMTEC connector links a motherboard like the Micro/ Sys Pentium III-based SBC1685 with up to eight stacked USB devices. The smaller form factors could allow multiple expansion boards to fit where single PC/104 expansion boards would reside today. This approach allows support for a carrier board that handles multiple expansion modules. ...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] ARM Gets Shot Of Support
Parasoft Embedded now supports ARM’s RealView Development Suite 3.1. This Eclipse-based Parasoft Embedded plug-in for C++ test helps automate static code analysis, code coverage, peer reviews, and unit and component testing. The static analysis supports MISRA C and JSF. It also supports DO-178B development. Support for Insure++, the runtime memory analysis and error detection tool, is available as well. PARASOFT • ...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Multicore, Multithreaded Goes Embedded
MIPS Technologies combines multithreaded and multicore support into its latest embedded SMP platform. As with most multithreaded designs, the MIPS32 1004K’s multithreaded support provides an incremental performance boost that is less than adding another full core. Still, multithreaded support can take advantage of a core’s idle time that would otherwise waste power— a critical item in most embedded designs. Each core can include one or two...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Net Module Secures Secrets
Connect One’s IIEVB-PIC-2128 evaluation board includes the iChipSec CO2128 network system-on-a-chip (SoC) as well as Microchip’s PIC24 microcontroller. The dualcore module supports local-area network (LAN), Wi-Fi, and cellular links with SSL security. The CO2128 acts as a firewall and supports TCP/IP protocols such as SMTP, POP3, and HTTP. The PIC24 host communicates with the CO2128 using the AT+i command set. The host features 64 kbytes of flash and 8 kbytes...
June 12, 2008[Embedded in Electronic Design] Long Life For Micro-ATX Motherboard
The ITOX BL330-BR microATX motherboard can handle dual- and quad-core Core 2 Duo processors. Based on the Intel Q35 Express chip set, it offers a 1333-MHz front-side bus and QXGA video that can handle Windows Vista via the GMA300 graphics accelerator. The ICH9R southbridge supports multiple RAID configurations with up to six SATA drives. The board has a a Gig Ethernet port, eight USB, two serial, eight GPIO, and 16x and a 4x PCI Express slot plus two PCI...
June 12, 2008[Lab Bench] Simple Is Better For C And Your Lawn
It’s almost summertime, and I’ve been watching the neighbors put all sorts of chemicals on their lawns. I recommend an organic approach that includes corn gluten meal (CGM) instead. CGM is a natural preemergence herbicide and fertilizer (9-0-0) that is a natural weed suppressant. It is better for the lawn, the environment, and your pocketbook. CGM prevents weeds by stopping the germination of the weed seeds, so you need to start using it at the beginning of ...
In Jack Ganssle’s anthology, Embedded Systems: World Class Design, he has collected over a dozen articles that span the embedded system design spectrum. Ganssle’s compilation touches on motors, testing, system level design, sensors, actuators and controls, version control systems, state machines, firmware/hardware musings, close loop control, video encoding, analog I/O, optimizing DSP software, and embedded processors.
June 2, 2008
[ED Bookstore] Professional C# 2008
Microsoft Windows remains the dominant development platform in most environments, and C# is the language of choice for Microsoft and developers using this platform. It is comparable to Java in functionality so if you are not using Java in the enterprise then you are probably using C#.
June 2, 2008
[ED Bookstore] Professional Xen Virtualization
Virtualization is hot and Xen is one of the virtual machine managers (VMM), or hypervisors, that target the x86 platform. Xen is an open-source project, so it is readily available on the Internet and it is bundled with most current Linux distributions for platforms that support virtualization. Xen is tightly linked to Linux as is KVM, another VMM that is now part of Linux.
May 28, 2008
[EiED Online] ZBA Bluetooth Kit
Technology Editor Bill Wong gives ZBA's latest evaluation kit and Bluetooth modules a test run.
May 21, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Q&A With GrammaTech
Paul Anderson, the vice president of engineering, GrammarTech, took set some time aside from his schedule to discuss CodeSonar and CodeSurfer with us.
Bill is a staff editor for Electronic Design focusing on embedded,
software, and systems. He is also the editor for the Embedded in Electronic Design department and the weekly hands-on column, EiED Online. He prefers press releases via email and images should be at least 300dpi. Links to product photos is prefered.
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