With the onset of globalization, world travel today is prevalent be it for business or leisure; and with travel comes the process of planning to carry the basic essentials and gadgets for the trip.

The convergence of mobile phones and other consumer-driven devices such as PDAs, MP3 players, and digital still and video cameras is progressing rapidly as evidenced by recent introductions of phones ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...

This week Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of transceiver circuits capable of communicating at 32 Gbps, a world record. The company said the new technology will support inter-processor ...

Heterogeneous multiprocessor (HMP) systems, using functionally asymmetric compute elements, such as application processors and microcontrollers integrated within the same SoCs, are now used ...