According to Forward Concepts, the market for general-purpose DSP chips dipped 2% last year to the $7.6 billion level given a severe drop in the China cellular market in the first half of 2005. A ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...

At the start of the year, I highlighted key trends in 5 Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2024, predicting the forces shaping the industry. As the year unfolded, many of these trends indeed drove ...

In any system design, there are always trade-offs that need to be made. Unfortunately, there is rarely a time when you can get your cake and eat it, too! Modern embedded systems have exceptionally ...

Digital audio products are complex systems, comprised of numerous software and hardware subsystems. If you've already read “Anatomy of a Modern Digital Audio Product” you've seen many of these ...

Multicore solutions may be finding their way into more projects, but opinions vary on the best architecture to use. When it comes to multiprocessing, what’s good for the hardware goose is not ...

While the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) was once dominated by just two players, there are now a number of companies trying to fill the various gaps in the $6 billion–plus FPGA market. One such ...