Itanium 2 Developer Days Diary
The Intel Itanium microarchitecture is fundamentally different under the hood than other processors. It "thinks" differently.
April 27, 2006
Testing Times
Using the RDTSC instruction, applications can determine the number of machine cycles that have elapsed since the CPU was powered up, which can be very useful for building a test harness.
April 26, 2006
Wireless Braille Keyboard and Virtual Dogs
Robotiker-Tecnalia has designed a wireless Braille keyboard. Also, scientists at the Royal Veterinary College are modeling the mechanics of canine locomotion. (MP3, 2:23 mins.)
April 18, 2006
Offshoring confidential
Whether it's across the street or around the planet, outsourcing jobs is a fixture of engineering life. Here are the top five tips from one who's seen it all.
April 17, 2006
Putting Portable Storage in Perspective
In the portable data storage race, hard-disk drives and flash memory are currently running neck-and-neck. Look into the future with the mobile storage hierarchy and see where the storage devices will finish.
April 11, 2006
I, Testbot
Testbots let you move the effort of building and testing from your shoulders to that of software robots.
April 11, 2006
Porting an existing embedded system to Linux
Designers from Intellibot Robotics chronicle the transformation of their microcontroller-based embedded design – a mobile robot - from one without an OS to one built on Linux, describing issues relating to debugging, real-time performance, the use of the GCC tool chain and multithreading using POSIX..
April 11, 2006
Crash Handling
Ed tries to track down an error with his GoVideo Rave-MP AMP256 music player.
April 7, 2006
Corrigan sees double-digit chip growth returning
Semiconductor industry icon Wilfred J. Corrigan said he is “confident” that 15 percent annual growth rates can be achieved by the semiconductor industry again, driven by consumer electronics spending of some two billion new consumers in China, India, countries that were part of the Soviet Union, and Middle East nations.
April 5, 2006
Tight Code
Ed builds an ISBN bar-code scanner.
April 1, 2006
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