Milpitas, CA, March 2nd, 2010 – Advantech, the embedded platform provider, today announced the ARK-3202, a new industrial computing solution for compact, embedded computer applications. ARK-3202 is a ...

The development of embedded software is becoming increasingly complex. Thanks to more powerful microcontrollers, networking and higher demands on security and reliability, firmware projects often ...

The PC architecture forms a powerful platform for general-purpose computing and for dedicated embedded functions. Unfortunately current PC implementations suffer significant drawbacks that can prevent ...

NXP has announced a real-time processor for vehicle central control computers with 16 1.2GHz Arm Cortex-R52 processors. Hardware isolation and virtualisation are provided to allow sharing of on-die ...

Last week I wrote about good practices in writing comment headers for source code files. Several readers wrote asking for my thoughts on headers for functions. I recommend reading code. Lots of code.

Cryptographic hash functions are a key building block in embedded security. They take input data of any size and convert it into a fixed-length value, called a hash or message digest. This hash acts ...