Curt Schwaderer, Technology Editor
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Touch controller and display driver integration (TDDI) innovations
Touchscreen performance and efficiency is a make-or-break proposition for embedded devices employing them. And the advancements and options for touchscreens may surprise you. Synaptics has made several announcements over the past few months related to advancements and customer applications for TDDI. I caught up with Kevin Barber, Senior Vice President and General Manager of [...]
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Between machines: Insights into tools and technologies for M2M communications
As M2M systems become more varied and widespread, new networking and platform-building methods can help solve communication, implementation, and scalability challenges.
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Code reviews take a page from social networks
Code reviews are an important part of software development, but the usual methods are often inefficient and disconnected from how developers typically work. Integrating social media-like collaborative features in the IDE can improve reviewing efficiency and effectiveness.
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HMIs: Write once, display anywhere
Players within the industrial control market have begun trying to take advantage of the mobility craze and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concepts. High mobility essentially boils down to using smartphones, tablets, or laptop equipment to make jobs easier and more efficient, drive down equipment cost, make replacement easier, and provide a more intuitive, familiar environment for end users.
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The Deep Packet Inspection spectrum: Evolution from technology development to plug-and-play products
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) has been around for a while and many companies in a myriad of industries have DPI capabilities in their products. For example, intrusion detection and virus scanning are both common technologies that utilize DPI to identify...
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Managing the transition to multicore: Part I
In part one of the two part series Curt speaks with David Stewart of CriticalBlue about a software that maps out the route for the “migration to multicore.”
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Virtual prototyping pushes the fast forward button for software development
Curt reports on his conversation with Marc Serughetti, Director of Marketing at Synopsys. Learn where virtual prototyping, fast simulation of hardware that makes testing without physical hardware possible, is most likely to make its mark and why.
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Embedded database technology becomes increasingly important for AdvancedTCA system applications
With the modern business workforce fueled by information that streams out from a central core via a mix of wired and wireless devices, flexible and efficient database storage and access is key.
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Execution partitioning for embedded systems increases security, reliability
Embedded systems software continues to grow in complexity. With the increase in performance and capacity of embedded hardware platforms, embedded software programming has grown to where it is not uncommon for an embedded system to reach or exceed one h...
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Execution partitioning for embedded systems increases security, reliability
Embedded systems software continues to grow in complexity. With the increase in performance and capacity of embedded hardware platforms, embedded software programming has grown to where it is not uncommon for an embedded system to reach or exceed one h...
