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7 Tracking Trends in Embedded Technology Embedded form factors:
shrink to fit By Warren Webb
Silicon Multicore CPUs, DSPs, GPUs
Software RTOS and tools
Strategies Small Form Factors
Silicon sorcery now has single die boasting an integral graphics processor, one or more CPU cores, dedicated signal processing elements, and extended instructions – a crowd that has embedded systems shrinking. See “Tracking Trends in Embedded Technology,” page 7.
34 Left2MyOwnDevices
Connected devices change everything By Don Dingee
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Embedded moves to multicore
RadiSys
Securing the transition to LTE
▲ Mentor Graphics By Warren Webb 12 By Jeff Sharpe
Minimizing risk: embedded software and today’s medical devices
By Stephen Olsen Flexera Software
Extending the product life cycle with embedded licensing
20 By Vikram Koka Infineon Technologies
16 ▲ congatec, Inc.
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Computers-On-Modules with ECC support for safety-critical systems
▲ By Franz Fischer 28
Rising to the USB 3.0 challenge: Smart design achieves high-speed signal integrity
By Alexander Glas 32 Editor’s Choice 2011 OpenSystems Media ® © 2011 Embedded Computing Design
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