Mobile makeover: Hijack a smartphone interface for embedded-systems control By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
With the right communications link and readily available development tools, you can transform an off-the-shelf smart phone into a low-cost, mobile user interface for your next embedded-system project.
Design Features
High-speed bus for PC management emerges By Charles H Small, Contributing Technical Editor
Analog Devices and Intel have collaborated on a new high-speed bus. The Simple Serial Transport bus provides PC-system management.
Downlink enables remote boundary-scan tests By Marc van Houcke and Anthony Sparks, JTAG Technologies
Link internal IEEE 1149 structures with communication ports integrated within a product and available to the outside world.
Application dictates choice: fixed- or floating-point DSP? By Boris Lerner, Analog Devices
Choosing between fixed- and floating-point implementations can be difficult. A comparison of one of each type of processor and some sample applications highlight some of the pros and cons of each approach.
Tapping Linux as an application framework for consumer electronics By Benoit Schillings, Trolltech
In the highly competitive consumer-electronics industry, product life cycles are notoriously short, and downward price pressures are constant. As a result, electronics manufacturers must produce consumer devices faster than ever and reduce overall costs and time to market.
