Article on soft-control architectures as a replacement for dedicated DSP hardware.
The new Power-over-Ethernet standard IEEE 802.3at-2009, doubling the available power to 25W is interesting in that it greatly increases the number and type of in-premises applications that can be powered in this way. An Atom-powered processor board takes about 4W, which with the old system only left 9W max for a screen. Now that figure is [...]
There’s now an MSDN subscription for users of Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard. It’s officially called “Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with MSDN Embedded Subscription”. It’s an alternative way to acquire the required development tools (Platform Builder, Target Designer, etc), and a good deal for many users because you get absolutely everything. The toolkits [...]