Applied Micro leads the charge to infiltrate the $12 billion server processor market with ARM-based ICs. This is not a trivial task. The $54 billion gorilla standing in Applied Micro’s way is Intel with a 90% plus share of the server processor market. So what, if any, are Applied Micro’s selling points compared to Intel’s? […]
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News – April 25, 2010: All future announcements and updates for the LCDuino-1 and related app modules (δ1 relay-based attenuator, δ2 relay-based input/output selector, and others) have moved to the new AMB DIY audio forum. We have an entire forum category dedicated to the LCDuino system, with separate sub-forums for each module. LinuxWorks and I
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Narrative Arduino is truly remarkable; I have a deep fondness for it. It can be likened to the “Lego” of the electronics and automation world. Presently, I’m engrossed in a project where numerous MCU boards are orchestrated to form an interconnected network of processors, aptly named NetP. These boards establish communication via the i2c bus.
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Ok, so the title isn’t as catchy as “Back to the Future,” but my guess is a lot of people who are advanced Linux users have — at least — a slight interest in retrocomputing. You’d like an Altair, but not for $10,000. You can build replicas of varying fidelities, of course. You can also
LINUX FU: FORWARD TO THE PAST! Continue Reading
It is hard to describe the Brother SuperPowerNote. It looks like a big old Z80-based laptop, but it says it is a notebook. The label on it says (with lots of exclamation marks) that it is a word processor, a communications system, a personal scheduler, and a spreadsheet organizer. Brother also promises on the label
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If you snore, you’ll probably find out about it from someone. An elbow to the ribs courtesy of your sleepless bedmate, the kids making fun of you at breakfast, or even the lady downstairs calling the cops might give you the clear sign that you rattle the rafters, and that it’s time to do something
AI-POWERED SNORE DETECTOR SHAKES THE PILLOW SO YOU WON’T Continue Reading
There are many questions that can be asked for software projects, with most of these questions starting with ‘Why…?’. This is true for the challenge of proving that cascading stylesheets are Turing-complete, or that you don’t need all those fancy ISA bits of an ARM processors when you already got the LDM and STM commands in the 32-bit ISA.
TURING COMPLETE PROGRAMMING ON ARM WITH TWO INSTRUCTIONS Continue Reading
There is an episode of Ren and Stimpy with a big red “history eraser’ button that must not be pressed. Of course, who can resist the temptation of pressing the unpressable button? The same goes for development boards. If there is a button on there, you want to read it in your code, right? The Raspberry Pi
BUTTON, BUTTON, WHO’S GOT THE (PICO) BUTTON? Continue Reading
There are many possible answers to the question of what the lowest-powered hardware on which Linux could run might be, but it’s usually a pre-requisite for a Linux-capable platform to have a memory management unit, or MMU. That’s not the whole story though, because there are microcontroller-focused variants of the kernel which don’t require an
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Table of contents 1 What is the Zynq? 2 Design Flow of Zynq 3 PS (ARM) 4 How do I use Zynq? 5 Pros of Zynq What is the Zynq? The all-programmable Zynq-7000 SoC processor The next-generation all-programmablesystem-on-a-chip from Xilinx, called Zynq, combines the hardware and software programmability of an FPGA and a processor. System
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