http://www.rtcmagazine.com The Magazine of Record for the Embedded Computing Industry en-us As Goes the Economy, So Goes... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:36:05 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100949 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:33:42 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100948 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:21:10 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100947 Is your application small, relatively simple, cost-sensitive? Do you not need all the bells and whistles of a full RTOS? Microsoft’s new .NET Micro Framework might get you going with less hassle, less overhead and shorter development time. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:12:20 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100946 Connecting small intelligent and less intelligent devices on a network is one thing. Achieving end to end seamless connectivity between such small networked nodes and applications running on a larger IP network running on larger servers is quite another. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:09:38 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100945 Chipmakers do their part. But at the printed circuit board level, using the right mix of old and new materials effectively ushers out increasing heat. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:06:08 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100944 New I/O perspective challenges conventional wisdom about stackable architectures. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:53:41 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100943 As robots become more mobile, more complex and more useful, the ETX standard form-factor offers the ruggedness, processing power and ability to connect to complex I/O subsystems through a standard connector that is needed in present and future designs. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:40:43 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100942 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:10:29 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100941 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:59:34 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100940 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:01:20 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100939 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:57:04 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100938 A system event trace tool can paint a graphical picture of the system enabling developers to get a clear picture of interrupts, context switches and other system events to find and fix bugs and optimize performance in substantially less time than required using standard debugging tools. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:52:01 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100937 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:49:00 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100936 By enabling system-level architects to describe functionality in multiple processor systems as if it were all implemented on a single processor, CORBA allows greater architectural flexibility, especially since functionality is never locked into a particular implementation. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:39:36 PST http://www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100935