If It's Thursday, It Must Be Embedded

Talk about embedded! Engineers at Purdue University have developed a tiny micro-pump cooling device small enough to fit on a computer chip that circulates coolant through channels etched into the chip. The device has been integrated onto a silicon chip that is about 1 centimeter square.

As for recent embedded systems coverage around here, check out:

• Sabyasachi Dey's article "Power Management for Mobile Devices".
• Richard Vaughan's "Testing Times" which examines how you resolve temporal costs at the level of individual machine cycles.
• Dhananjay Gadre's blog on TI's MSP430 Microcontroller family and other things embedded.

And for database and performance stuff, don't miss:

• Steven Lott's "Database Design: How Table Normalization Can Improve Performance".

Finally, in a poll conducted by EE Times and Embedded Systems Design:

• The top factor for selecting a processor is its software development tools.
• A majority of main processors used in current design are 32-bit chips.
• 44 percent of current projects used two or more processors.
• Likewise, 44 percent of the main processors used in current designs are 10-90 MHz.

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