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November 2014 Global Edition
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 The author describes how to use an integrated
development environment to configure and generate initialization code and
peripheral drivers ideally suited to your needs without studying the MCU
docs--from pin muxing through application-specific parts. See how to
develop a simple application or proof-of-concept quickly without in-depth
programming knowledge. Learn More (pdf)
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 Learn how MCCI utilized Total Phase’s Beagle™
USB 480 Protocol Analyzer and Data Center software with their own custom
application to decode RNDIS protocol and meet their advanced debugging
requirements. While this case study focuses on RNDIS decoding; it also
serves as a template for developers to implement their own custom decoding
applications. Using Total Phase USB, I2C, SPI, and CAN analyzers with
Wireshark, you can decode industry, company-specific, and custom classes
with minimal effort. Learn More (pdf)
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By Jon Gabay
So much information is stored in our mobile devices that
we are at immediate risk of losing money, being burglarized, or even having
our identities stolen. And now, new wearable computers in particular must
“know” who is wearing them to be safe and useful. This article looks at how
biometrics can be combined with wearable technologies to help ensure that
the person using the wearable computer is the one who is authorized to do
so. Read More |
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By Mark Benson, TI
The cloud is a phrase that refers to a set of scalable
server infrastructure that facilitates the processing and storage of data
from devices or other sources, and enables the creation of web and mobile
applications. However, creating connected products can be difficult.
Embedded processor selection, networking, maintaining scalable server
infrastructure, software application development and data and privacy
issues can be time-consuming and expensive. Hasn’t this been done before?
There has to be a better way. Read More (pdf) |
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By Matt Saunders, Silicon Labs
There are myriad CPU choices available to embedded
developers and each choice has its own idiosyncrasies, architectural
benefits and array of power-saving techniques. Let’s focus on the widely
used ARM Cortex-M series. This architectural choice provides several CPU
variants to explore and many different MCU devices from silicon vendors.
The diversity of options within the Cortex-M series is important, as
minimizing the CPU power consumption is achieved not just through the CPU
architecture itself but also by the supporting elements around it. Read More |
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By Suzanne Touchette Kelso
Work remotely, lights on remotely, and now, brew beer
remotely thanks to the Arduino module. Using this microcontroller module
along with a variety of electronics components, home brewer Michael
ImObersteg put together a brew system that allows him to monitor his tanks
from miles away. Read More |
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By Atmel
History was made when the world’s first 3D-printed car
drove out of Chicago’s McCormick Place during the 2014 International
Manufacturing Technology Show back in September. The vehicle components
took 44 hours to print, and after a swift assembly, the vehicle named “Strati”
headed off the showroom floor. Read More |
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Haptic advancements put
us in touch with complex systems
Haptics, the use of advanced electronic technology to
simulate touch and feel, is migrating from the consumer world into a range
of industrial, commercial, automotive, medical and other systems. The
technology promises to make our interaction with machines feel more natural
- which in turn will improve productivity, safety and control. Learn More (pdf) |
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The ARM Cortex family of cores encompasses a very
wide range of scalable performance options offering designers a great deal
of choice and the opportunity to use the best-fit core for their application
without being forced into a one-size-fits-all solution. The Cortex
portfolio is split broadly into three main series: Cortex-A, Cortex-R, and
Cortex-M. Read More |
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CMOS camera modules are becoming increasingly common in
embedded system applications as production increases and competitive
pressures cause their cost to fall. Manufacturing volumes are growing as
sales of security cameras rise, boosted further by energy-saving camera
applications in TVs and other household appliances, as well as by enhanced
HMIs (Human-Machine Interfaces) in many kinds of business and industrial
equipment. Learn More |
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Playing the Embedded
Market
By Wolfgang Heinz-Fischer, TQ-Group
When making the decision to use an embedded module, one
must think about the module and the technology, as well as the provider.
The goal is to find a long-term, reliable solution, as the one-off
investment to purchase a modular design should have lasting effects. There
are a lot of providers in the embedded market, and the range of modules available
can be confusing. So, how to find the best provider? Read More |
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 This TI Design will demonstrate several
ethernet- and LCD-enabled applications such as remote sensor monitoring,
ethernet configuration via web-based and LCD dashboards and aware
applications that interface with weather websites.
Features:
· Integrated Ethernet MAC+PHY on the Tiva C
Series MCU
· Easy-to-use 3.5” LCD touch screen display
· Compatible expansion connectors including
Boosterpack, Boosterpack-XL, and EM
· Associated software package with divers,
stacks, and over 50 pre-compiled examples
· This development kit comes ready to go
out of the box with all the cables and software, and is pre- loaded with an
interactive Ethernet enabled weather demo
Buy Now
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 TrueSTUDIO delivers much more than ordinary
embedded development tools. This integrated development environment makes
it easy to develop quality code, collaborate with team members, manage
revisions, and find/track software bugs. The TrueSTUDIO IDE includes
support for more than 2400 ARM-based devices and has out-of-the-box support
for 150+ development boards. Learn More
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 The new Promira™ Serial Platform from Total
Phase offers many benefits over previous generation host adapters: blazing
fast I 2C/SPI programming; integrated level shifting; high-Speed
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C/SPI emulation; supports Windows/Mac/Linux; royalty-free
API. The all new architecture enables you to download applications as soon
as they are available; don’t let the delivery time of debugging tools delay
your project again.
Buy Now
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 Introducing the world's most energy efficient
MCUs, the LPC54100 Series, for always-on sensor processing applications.
Designed from the ground up to deliver the industry?s lowest power
consumption for sensor-processing tasks, these highly efficient MCUs
support listening, monitoring, and aggregation of sensor data, and can
perform complex sensor-fusion processing. In an always-on application, the
LPC54100 operates in a power-down mode while listening for sensor data
drawing only 3 µA of current. Buy Now
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 This low power consumption (typically 2 W)
module has both graphics processing and industrial interface options such
as 3D graphics acceleration, EtherCAT and PROFIBUS making it ideal for
industrial and home automation, as well as portable navigation devices and
networking with support for protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET,
EtherNet/IP, PROFIBUS, Ethernet Powerlink, Sercos. Buy Now
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