Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Imagination Technologies about their latest developments and tools. The driving trends in the consumer electronics spaces are mapping well with the various products that Imagination offers. The latest releases include new cores and development tools for software. The new product releases include the VXE384, a multi-standard, multi-stream video…
GDC, San Francisco—We talked with Marmalade about their cross platform development tools. Their single binary architecture allows for easy deployment for multiple end platform development. Starting from a C++ development environment with focus on Arm-based platforms allows them to target a large range of OS and devices. One key factor is that Arm is one…
March 2012, Santa Clara, CA – In a recent interview with Ely Tsern Chief technologist of Rambus’s Global Semiconductor Business Unit, we had the chance to discuss the new directions being addressed by Rambus. The conversation was prompted by visable omission of any Rambus papers in the DRAM session at ISSCC held in Feb 2012….
January 2012, As result of the recent rise in advanced imaging and motion control with head and eye movement for the gaming and generalized computer use, we contacted the Co-Founder of iScan Corporation of Cambridge MA to get an update on the industry and their products. For those that are unfamiliar with iScan, they have…
January 2012, In a recent discussion with Kevin Burbank, director of marketing, Enterprise Storage Division (ESD), and Brad Craig, manager product marketing, ESD of PMC we had the opportunity to get an overview of their new enterprise class storage controllers for the SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) marketplace which increased the data rates up to 12Gbps….
October 25, 2011 – At the ARM Techcon we had a chance to catch up with Marvell Semiconductor to talk abou their Avastar wireless controllers the 88W8797, 88W8787, 88W8764. As high bandwidth wireless networking extends to more and more devices in the household and SMB, advanced control technology is required. The SoC is targeted at…
We talked with Xilinx at the ARM TechCon about some of related packages for the Zynq programmable platform. The Zynq is an ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 embedded in a programmable fabric that was released earlier this year. The family of devices has been in development for over 4 years, to optimize the architecture and create an…
We talked with Chuck Parker, executive director for the Continua Health Alliance, an organization for health care device makers. The organization recently released a new set of guidelines for personal connected health care devices. The focus of all their guidelines is on three areas; disease management, especially for monitoring in homes and at rehabilitation facilities,…