OS influence on power consumption

OS influence on power consumption

Power consumption is an issue. With portable devices this affects battery life. [I am irritated by the short intervals between…

ESC Silicon Valley 2010

ESC Silicon Valley 2010

As usual, I attended the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA last week. I guess it remains the foremost…

Introducing MCAPI

Introducing MCAPI

I recently wrote about a “multi-core” development project that I worked on many years ago, including some details of how…

Vintage multi-core – the IPC

Vintage multi-core – the IPC

Last week, I wrote about a “multi-core” project that I was working on 30 years ago. To be fair, it…

Vintage multi-core – introduction

Vintage multi-core – introduction

Sometimes I think that there is nothing truly new in the world. With technology, it is often a question of…

RTS Embedded Systems 2010

RTS Embedded Systems 2010

Last week I was presenting at RTS in Paris. I spend quite a lot of time at such events, as…

USB – what we learned

USB – what we learned

Last week we ran a Web seminar about USB. It was very popular. We offered two shows and had well…

Graphical medicine

Graphical medicine

I am very sceptical when I hear the term “graphical interface”. All too often I have been frustrated and irritated…

Technology trends

Technology trends

In last week’s blog I talked about what was going on at Embedded World and made some observations about what…