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Using Cellular Automation

Posted on October 15, 2013 by admin

Using Cellular Automation Cellular automation is the concept of providing remote terminal units (RTU) with cellular connectivity to access data in hard-to-reach locations. Cellular connectivity provides fast and easy access to monitor and control business-critical Solutions at remote sites. This flexibility, … Continue reading →

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Color machine vision has its challenges

Posted on October 7, 2013 by admin

Color machine vision has its challenges. Systems can produce three times the data (or less than one-third the resolution) of a monochrome camera solution. Color can introduce more potential sources for imaging errors, more complexity, more cost, and require careful … Continue reading →

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OPTIMIZATION AND OPERATIONS

Posted on October 1, 2013 by admin

The ability to operate and manage operations in a location-agnostic manner opens the door to a wealth of opportunities. For instance, experts and operations staff can be relocated to population centers, and out of harms’ way. They can then be … Continue reading →

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DIY pushes hardware from kindergarten to Kickstarter

Posted on September 24, 2013 by admin

Resurgence of the Do It Yourself (DIY) community has driven a range of open networking platforms, giving aspiring technologists cheap and easy access to embedded development. Outside of hobbyist toys and educational devices, however, “hacker” boards are increasing performance and I/O flexibility, and … Continue reading →

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IT Technology for industrial controls applications

Posted on September 17, 2013 by admin

It is the author’s opinion that automation  of the controls networking and the IT network is inevitable. It became inevitable the moment the controls industry chose to use Ethernet as the medium with which to communicate data. The controls industry may choose … Continue reading →

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Building a product based software

Posted on September 3, 2013 by admin

With a wide variety of proven open source software now readily available to run on the target hardware, the platform engineer’s typical day-to-day tasks instead focus on configuration, customization, and integration of existing open source software, rather than design and … Continue reading →

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4th generation Intel® Core™ processors snapshot

Posted on July 29, 2013 by admin

With improved processing and graphics performance as well as energy efficiency and broad scalability, the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors with its new microarchitecture provide an attractive solution for a broad array of mid-range to high-end embedded applications in target … Continue reading →

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Splash out interventions for COM module

Posted on July 22, 2013 by admin

“Bringing up an Android or Linux BSP is non trivial,” says Ravi Kodavarti, Senior Director of Business Development and Strategy at Inforce Computing, Inc. in Fremont, CA (www.inforcecomputing.com). “Say our application has a 6440 carrier board, and on top of … Continue reading →

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Supply the embedded module memory design

Posted on July 15, 2013 by admin

ECC has become a mainstay in embedded systems. However, the JEDEC membership initially did not recognize the need to accommodate ECC when it was developing the DDR2 specification on the SODIMM form factor because most laptop chipsets did not support … Continue reading →

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Different forms of embedded computer processors to better your system

Posted on July 8, 2013 by admin

  In the race to faster and faster interconnect speeds, some topics are not often discussed, including the types of transactions supported, communications latency and overhead, and what sorts of topologies can be easily supported. Designers tend to think of … Continue reading →

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