Bill Wong is a staff technology editor for Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. He writes articles for a number of departments. Also check out Bill's latest picks for these channels.
By William Wong, January 02, 2012
Intel's N2600 and N2800 dual core Atoms are now available for tablets and netbooks but they may have the right feature set for your embedded project.
By William Wong, December 13, 2011
The OPEN (One-Pair Ether-Net) Alliance delivers 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet over a single, unshielded twisted pair cable. Power is optional.
By William Wong, November 30, 2011
Harvard and Rice University are tackling swarm robotics with low cost robots.
By William Wong, November 10, 2011
Xilinx's Virtex-7 2000T uses a silicon interposer in its 2.5D Stacked Silicon Interconnect to link multiple FPGA slices together for a total of 6.8 billion transistors in a package.
By William Wong, October 28, 2011
Arm has been talking about its 64-bit ARMv8 architecure for awhile. Applied Micro's X-Gene chips will be bring this platform to a server near you.
By William Wong, October 21, 2011
Ken Olsen co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Steve Jobs co-founded Apple. Both left legacy that affected the industry and the world.
By William Wong, September 26, 2011
Old technologies like VNC and USB get a new twist with Intel's vPro and USB's USB Attached SCSI Protocol.
The LM4Fx Stellaris line of ARM Cortex-M4F floating-point microcontroller from Texas Instruments uses as little as 1.6 uA.
By William Wong, September 08, 2011
Attendees could check out everything from the latest electric micro-UAVs to multiarm robots at AUVSI show.
By William Wong, August 03, 2011
C and C++ are the embedded programming languages of choice but they are prone to errors. Static analysis using standards like MISRA C can help reduce errors.
By William Wong, July 26, 2011
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a close look at Renewable Silicon International's ChemArc process that is poised to significantly cut the cost of photovoltaic panels.
By William Wong, July 07, 2011
Micron's RealSSD P320h board delivers up to 700 Gybtes of flash storage. The host can access storage directly through a PCI Express interface using IDT's controller chip.
Tilera's Gx 3000 series provides up to 100 64-bit VLIW cores for cloud computing applications. Each core uses under 0.5W.
By William Wong, June 22, 2011
Cognimem Technologies' Cognimem PM1K neural network chip provides high speed data recognition allowing microcontrollers to handle tasks like image recognition.
By William Wong, June 16, 2011
Digilent's latest Arduino-compatible boards utilize Microchip's 32-bit PIC32 bringing significant enhancements in performance and storage.
By William Wong, June 14, 2011
Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite and HP’s Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse are paired with a device via WiFi instead of Bluetooth.
By William Wong, May 10, 2011
Intel's 3D tri-gate transistor deliver 37% performance improvement at a lower voltages for next generation 22nm Ivy Bridge processors.
By William Wong, May 03, 2011
Texas Instruments’ 16-bit MSP430FR57xx looks like most microcontrollers except it only has one FRAM memory block for code and data. Shades of core memory.
By William Wong, May 02, 2011
On Semiconductor Q32M210 high precision analog microcontroller is based on Arm's Cortex-M3 architecture. It includes ECC support for its flash memory.
By William Wong, April 29, 2011
Kilopass' Itera technology can be incorporated into 40nm designs. The multi-time nonvolatile programmable memory technology has a 20ns access time.