Designing for compatibility means to design in such a way as to facilitate, where possible, the ability for any version of firmware and any version of hardware to be paired up. Cell phones are a good ...

Fig 1. Mobile phones saw incredible growth and evolution from 2000 to 2011, with functionality that rivals many personal computers. Fig 2. With the right interface, you can turn your mobile phone into ...

Linux is soaring in popularity as an operating system (OS) in both the commercial and technical environments. One thing lagging behind, though, is the availability of drivers for data acquisition and ...

A standard that is gaining broad acceptance and adoption in embedded systems in a variety of markets is the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). It is one of three it has ...

A success factor of embedded systems products is its performance. Is it fast enough to meet the customer’s requirements and expectations? But is it cheap enough that the customer will buy it? Putting ...

If you’ve worked with a microcontroller, you’re probably somewhat familiar with vendor-supplied hardware abstraction layers. A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is a software layer that provides a high ...

A hardware interface specifies the plugs, sockets, cables and electrical signals that pass through each line between the CPU and a peripheral device or communications network. It also stipulates which ...

Having SoC for HDTV under verification, verifying different components of SoC at block level are so far satisfactorily done using simulation. Now having full chip level environment and run-ning ...