Creation of Safe and Secure embedded systems imposes exacting challenges for the architecture, implementation, and cost. Industry leaders will provide information on the real-time tools, services and technologies needed to deliver devices requiring safety certification and/or multiple independent...

Multicore processors are a staple part of every processor vendor's product offerings these days. Multicore processors come in many configurations from symetrical cores to Systems-on-a-Chip with co-processors. Designers of embedded systems face many application migration issues that need to be addres...

The Pentek 7150 high-speed data converter stands apart from competing products on the market because of its unique architecture. This module combines the faster and higher precision DSP slices, in the two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, with four 200 MHz, 16-bit A/D converters offering increased resolution a...

Historically when embedded platforms needed improved performance they moved to processors with higher clock speeds. This approach was always accompanied with power and thermal challenges for bladed environments such as CompactPCI®. Today the semiconductor industry is transitioning away from this clo...

Until recently, the vast majority of embedded systems employed uniprocessor designs. The situation is changing quickly, with many systems migrating to multiprocessor designs. However, with the availability of Intel multi-core processors that offer greater processing capacity while reducing overall p...

The latest technical advancements made by the Linux community have set the stage for Linux distributions to play an important role in emerging equipment for next-generation networking. But not just any Linux distribution can satisfy the specific needs of carrier-grade systems. In the rapidly growing...

The latest technical advancements made by the Linux community have set the stage for Linux distributions to play an important role in emerging equipment for next-generation networking. Tune into this second video in this series to learn more about the specifications that qualify a distro as CGL-co...

John Dixon, TI’s TMS320DM355 DaVinci™ Technology Marketing Manager provides an overview of one of the latest DaVinci based solutions: the TMS320DM355. This device is ideal for products that need low power consumption whether portable or plugged. At a price of less than $10, this device provides...

What are the best strategies for using Serial RapidIO and Gigabit Ethernet with maximum ability to mix and match modules? How can multicore and middleware performance be fully realized? During this ecast you will learn how the converged network meshes with reduced time to market, more capability per...

Telelogic, AdaCore, and LynuxWorks are utilizing the power of the open Eclipse framework to help integrate and streamline the process from design to deployment. Hear Telelogic, AdaCore, LynuxSys explain how they are using Eclipse tools for development.

Wind River offers Lab Diagnostics to streamline workflows during system integration, software verification and product validation for Linux. Sensorpoints enable engineers to dynamically instrument running applications without modification to the application source code, rebuilding the application bi...

RapidIO is one of the premiere choices for systems interconnect fabrics. Join this E-cast to learn about the latest in RapidIO technology and how it can be used in your embedded applications.

From quad-band programmable cellular basestations, to interoperable civilian radios, to the military's vision of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), we look at hardware, software and system solutions for SDRs.

Executives and marketing professionals learn what the editors are planning for 2008 for the following list of publications including the unveiling of the 2008 editorial calendars, new E-cast features, and new media products.

Linux offers enormous advantages as an embedded device operating platform - if you can safely manage the risks. Whether you are just starting to consider Linux or your engineering team has extensive experience developing Linux devices, producing increasingly complex devices depends heavily on "best...

Developers of embedded devices need speed on two fronts: speed in their devices and speed in their development time. The rewards for having both are clear: advanced functionality drives product adoption and adoption drives revenue. Hitting the market Window with differentiated product is everything....

After watching a wave of multicore processors announced in the last couple years, now I'm seeing the pendulum swing to new software that finally enables developers to really take advantage of them. Tools are hitting the market allowing developers to deploy applications on embedded multicore processo...

What open standard board format has dozens of vendors, leverages technology from commercial markets, and still offers RAS, QoS, low cost, and an outstanding roadmap? Why, the AdvancedMC-based MicroTCA, of course. This E-cast provides an overview of MicroTCA and showcases some of the standard's capab...

The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is an extremely high-performance signal processing chip currently under evaluation for multi-function radars, including detection, tracking, jamming, NCTR, raid assessment, missile data linking, mapping and communications. The key issue in parallel processing and...

Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs), network equipment providers (NEPs) and service providers face rising demands to increase services, faster and with fewer resources. The Service Availability Forum has developed specifications for standardizing hardware access, through the Hardware Platform Int...

FPGAs offer a wide range of cost/performance for implementing DSP algorithms. Finding the optimal implementation usually involves exploring the tradeoffs between fully parallel vs. serial architectures of the algorithm and will be highly dependent on the available resources, speed, and architecture...