Compute farms: the new data centers By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
Today's CPUs are not powerful enough to support the development of their successors. Dynamically allocated computing power keeps projects on time and fosters quality.
Design Features
Software-development tools are growing up By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
As processors become more powerful, more people without traditional programming backgrounds are developing embedded systems. Evolving software-development tools make this situation possible.
Testing the subscriber loop in broadband-telephony
applications By Duncan Ashworth, Legerity Inc
With traditional telephone service now available from cable, DSL, and wireless providers, designers are turning to silicon vendors for built-in subscriber-line testing to eliminate supplemental equipment and reduce recurring costs.
Tick, tick, tick By Gary Legg, Contributing Editor
Cardiac pacemakers do a lot more than just tick.
Tech Trends
Peering through the peer-to-peer fog By Greg Vrana, Technical Editor
In spite of all the hype about peer-to-peer computing, some useful applications have emerged from this not-so-new computing model.
