Nonrechargeable, or primary,batteries find wideuse in mainstream embedded-system applications(Table 1). Thiscategory of batteries includesalkaline devices, which ...

The line between middleware and application software is blurred, which is why this chapter introduces both together. Middleware is software that has been abstracted out of the application layer for a ...

The military relies on its massive defense budget to ensure it has access to the latest technologies that rely on embedded systems to function. Like any other platform in the military, those systems ...

Machine vision, a technology that until now has been largely restricted to factory production lines, is poised to enter a whole range of new applications with the development of embedded systems at ...

(1) A software application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in flash memory ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

The tradeoffs involved in building a UI can be many. Making the right choices can make or break your system. The implementation of a sophisticated user interface (UI) brings a number of interesting ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003--ZiLOG, Inc. (OTCBB:ZILG), the creator of the Z80 microprocessor and a leading innovator of integrated 8-bit microcontroller solutions, announced ...

One of the biggest challenges in security today is how the software in our operating systems and applications are so full of holes. And while traditional software makers have made (some) headway in ...