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| | The C Programmers Guide to Verilog... | |
Now that hardware is designed in high-level languages, the fields of hardware and software development are beginning to merge. Here's an introduction to hardware design in Verilog for the uninitiated.
In the near future, embedded systems de... |
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| | Software safety by the numbers... | |
When it comes to safety, it's not what you do, but how you do it. The IEC 61508 standard outlines how safety-critical projects should be managed and how to locate, and create, safety-critical code.
A client developing a safety-rated embedded... |
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| | When disaster strikes... | |
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Failure may not be an option, but when it happens it's important to learn from it.
To gear-heads like me the history of engineering is rich in stories and lore, of failings and successes, and... |
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| | MCUs or DSPs: Which is in (Motor) Control?... | |
Quick!—name the world's most popular microprocessor chip. If you said "Pentium" you're wrong. Way wrong. Fact is, Intel's famous Pentium family makes up barely 2% of the world's microprocessors. The other 98% are all embedd... |
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| | Tricks with PICs... | |
Squeeze extra features out of Microchip's popular PIC microcontroller chips. The tricks, such as making extra serial ports and performing 32-bit math on a 8-bit chip, are all here and can be used on other microcontrollers as well.
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| | Turn a kid on to embedded systems... | |
This country will always need engineers—great engineers. So why not get the next generation interested in embedded systems design?
In February I wrote about the difficulty kids have in learning about electronics and embedded systems an... |
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| | A Framework for Considering Security in Embedded Systems... | |
The need for security in many embedded systems is not always readily apparent, and too many embedded systems designers are paying too little attention to the subject, despite the increased wired and wireless connectivity of such designs and po... |
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| | How to use ARM's data-abort exception... | |
Processors giveth and processors taketh away. They can fetch and store data or they can refuse to do either. When your processor aborts a data access, what can you do? This in-depth article explains the hows and whys of data aborts on the ARM7... |
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| | High-end mouse is Revolutionary... | |
To view an on-demand seminar featuring the Logitech MX Revolution mouse, click here.
On the surface, it may look like any other mouse. But once you really understand all the engineering that went into Logitech's MX Revolution mouse, you can bette... |
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| | 8-bit MCU supports field oriented control... | |
Munich, Germany — Infineon Technologies has introduced a family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with field oriented control (FOC) capability and a new Digital Application virtual Engineer (DAvE) drive software configuration tool kit, which is ... |
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| | PWM control IC touts input voltage range up to 75-V... | |
El Segundo, Calif.—International Rectifier introduced the IR3651, a synchronous PWM control IC designed for high-performance synchronous DC/DC buck applications with an input voltage range up to 75-V.
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