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Technology In Context
RTC covers cutting-edge technology in real-world applications, including medicine, communications, aerospace, industrial automation, and control. The Technology in Context sections looks at the impact of embedded technology in these major application areas. Our editors strategically select key technologies where the solutions outlined and information provided are highly applicable and transferable.
Hybrid Architectures Tackel Multiple Challenges
Wireless Microcontrollers Combine Low-Power Processing and RF Connectivity in a Hybrid Architecture
Nisha Ganwani, Silicon Laboratories
April 2012
Microcontrollers (MCUs) are indispensible in the world today. Their applications range from simple alarm clocks and coffee makers to complex electronics systems that controlRead More...
FPGAs Mix It Up with CPUs
Designing ASP-Type Devices: What Does it Take?
Greg Brown, Xilinx Inc.
March 2012
An Application Services Platform, or ASP, a name coined by RTC Editor-in-Chief Tom Williams, is a new class of IC that combines a CPU, a standard set of configurable peripherals and aRead More...
FPGAs Mix It Up with CPUs
FPGAs Mix It Up with CPUs – The Era of the SoC FPGA
Chris Balough, Altera
March 2012
Semiconductor devices that integrate FPGA fabric, hardened CPU subsystems and other hardened IP—SoC FPGAs—have launched a new era that will lead to their broad proliferation in theRead More...
The Long Reach of ARM
ARM-Based Module Solutions to Deliver Low-Power Building Blocks for Smart Connected Applications
Jack London, Kontron
February 2012
ARM-based platforms dominate low-power market segments, especially for smartphones, tablets and HMI subsystems. Welcoming news for embedded designers is that the ARM processorRead More...
The Long Reach of ARM
ARM Variants Serve Multiple Levels of Complexity in xTCA Hardware Platform Management Controllers
Mark Overgaard, Pigeon Point Systems
February 2012
The ARM instruction set architecture is implemented in a very wide range of CPU and microcontroller devices. Different levels of that range of devices can be applied acrossRead More...
The Changing Role of the ASIC and the SoC
The Changing Nature of the ASIC
Alan A. Varghese and Michael B. Doerr, Coherent Logix
January 2012
Is the ASIC dead? Not if you consider that ASICs comprised a $20 billion market in 2010. And industry analyst company Semico Research projects that total ASIC design starts willRead More...
The Changing Role of the ASIC and the SoC
Changing Demands Are Changing the Role and Applicability of SoCs and ASICs
Brian Calder, IntervalZero
January 2012
Companies building embedded systems that depend on SoCs and ASICs have reached a tipping point. They cannot continue to meet their customers’ increasingly aggressive product-featureRead More...
Embedded Memory Design
Algorithmic Memory Boosts Next Generation SoC Memory Performance
Sundar Iyer, Memoir Systems
December 2011
System-on-chip (SoC) architectures are a popular choice for meeting the ever increasing performance needs of embedded and mobile systems. These designs generate a lot of memoryRead More...
Stackable vs. COMs: What's the Best Choice?
An Aerial View of COMs vs. SBCs from 30,000 Feet
Bob Burkle, WinSystems
November 2011
System designers have several viable options for their embedded computer and I/O board architecture. While technical articles, advertisements and datasheets tend to bury designers withRead More...
Stackable vs. COMs: What's the Best Choice?
Thinking (about What Goes) Inside the Box
Martin Mayer, Advanced Digital Logic
November 2011
Embedded form factors have continued to evolve and become more powerful as new bus interfaces and circuit technologies mature and graduate from mobile to embedded product sectors.Read More...
Flash and More: Nonvolatile Memlry
Advances in Nonvolatile Memory Interfaces Keep Pace with the Data Volume
Terry Grunzke, Micron Technology
October 2011
With the ever-increasing demand for larger nonvolatile memory capacities, NAND flash technology is widely used in a variety of applications today. It is an aggressively scaledRead More...
Open VPX in Commercial Applications
Updated Attributes Bring VME Beyond Military with OpenVPX
Steve Gudknecht, Elma Electronic
September 2011
VITA 46, more commonly known as VPX, was developed to improve the performance of VME technology and bring it in line with more advanced standards to ensure its longevity. InitiallyRead More...
Open VPX in Commercial Applications
CompactPCI Serial Challenges VPX as Embedded Shifts to Serial Point-to-Point Architectures
Barbara Schmitz, MEN Micro
September 2011
A considerable number of new serial-based standards have been created, which—unfortunately—were optimized for special markets or applications during their initial development. OnlyRead More...