Virtualization, a concept of the mainframe computing and business IT world, is no longer a technology restricted to large computing centers and business computing environments. Increasingly confronted with the requirement to communicate with business IT and to integrate complex processing environments, programmers and developers of embedded systems increasingly rely on virtualization techniques.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have become a hot research topic and show much promise to become a driver of current and future microelectronic technologies. This emerging technology offers exciting potential for numerous application areas including environmental, medical, military, transportation, entertainment and crisis management.

Could the marriage of Power over Ethernet and Power Line Carrier be the preferred green and cost effective solution, for combining power and data distribution asks Koen Geirnaert, product marketing manager at ON Semiconductor.

EDA applications are among the most complex and compute-intensive software ever written, and must now aggressively pursue parallel processing to accelerate the design of future ICs says Tom Spyrou of Cadence Design Systems.

Powerline communications technology could be about to reach its full potential, to become more than just a wire replacement according to Pablo Gagliardo, product marketing manager, DS2.

This article describes the architecture of a HD surveillance camera and shows how the entire system is built using a low-cost FPGA.

Many end-applications today use an FPGA-based design as an inherent component of their solution. They often require PCI Express (PCIe) as an indispensible feature, to provide a standardized interface with other components in the system.

PPTC protection devices can help meet the new current demands of USB 3.0

In this part in this three part series we present the basics of uniprocessor scheduling, which are the prerequisites for understanding multiprocessor scheduling.

Mobile IP is a dynamic routing protocol where end devices signal their own routing updates and dynamic tunnels eliminate the need for host route propagation. Need to learn about or brush up on Mobile IP? Here's your chance. This excerpt from Understanding Mobile IP, is an exhaustive and valuable tutorial.

Basic Concepts and Terminology: With the increasing complexity of embedded systems and the capacity of modern silicon technology, there is a trend toward heterogeneous architectures consisting of several programmable as well as dedicated processors, implemented on a single chip, known as systems-on-chips (SoCs).

New consumer products such as smartphones have helped make touch screen controllers popular, and touch sensors provide a convenient way to control virtually any type of device.