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 ...

The rapid buildout of a new generation of high-bandwidth wireless networks has opened up opportunities for handset designers to introduce a wide variety of exciting new multimedia functions. But many ...

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 ...