Embedded Computing: October 2004 Archives
Michelle Delio of Wired reveals the secrets of Sun Studio's signature sounds as well as the link between music and geeks.
We have our own recording studio at Tipperary Institute and the digital mixing desk that we use can trace its ancestry back to those early days of recording. The technology we use is just the latest generation/evolution of recording music. The same way the IPOD is the latest way of listening to and storing music.
Ministers for European Union member states agreed on Tuesday to adopt biometric passports.
These passports are set to arrive in 18 months and will initailly record the facial characteristics of the bearer. In three years, European travelers will also have to provide a fingerprint for the passport. The facial and fingerprint data will be stored on an embedded chip, along with a digital copy of the bearer's photo.
Austria, Finland and the Netherlands have voiced minor concerns about the proposal.
The logisitics for this should be prove to be "interesting"
This text book has just joined my PhD arsenal of text books.
The book is divided into 3 areas
- CPU architectures
- Memory and System Architectures
- Vector Floating-point Archiectures
Hopefully it will help me in decoding the instruction set.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Intel and IBM released a new security specification called "Trusted Mobile Platform." The specification can help make advanced mobile-commerce services such as electronic tickets and e-wallets for online purchases more secure and help protect against viruses and other software attacks.
The platform has defined a number of s/w and h/w components that can be put together to offer various levels of security.
The specification is publicly available at http: //www.trusted-mobile.org/ for industry review.
My supervisor has recommended Furbers's book for ARM development its called ARM System-on-chip Architecture
The reviews look good as the book covers the following
- presents and discusses the major issues of system-on-chip design, including memory hierarchy, caches, memory management, on-chip buses, on-chip debug and production test
- provides an overview of the ARM processor family, enabling the reader to decide which ARM is best for the job in hand
- describes the ARM and Thumb programming models, enabling the designer to begin to develop applications
- covers all the latest ARM products and developments, including StrongARM, the ARM9 and ARM10 series of cores, and the ARM-based SoC components at the heart of Ericsson's Bluetooth technology, the Psion Series 5 PDA and Samsung's SGH2400 GSM handset
- includes details on the AMULET asynchronous ARM cores and the AMULET3H asynchronous SoC subsystem
A few days ago I wrote about the difficulties of finding some devel tools for the ARM. I have since been to www.gnuarm.com and have found the s/w I require.
The nice people at gnuarm have developed arm complier tools that work with cygwin (linux emulator for windows) and linux itself.
I am also using rick's website so as to learn a bit more about the ARM instruction set. Its well written a provides a good history of where the ARM came from. It brings back memories as I used to use a BBC micro during the 80's. www.heyrick.co.uk
At Tipperary Institute we have a number of projects that are facilitating the elderly.
In Singapore they have now developed a bluetooth enabled shirt. The shirt has been fitted with a 2cm x 2cm sensor that signals loved ones when the wearer is moving at great speeds horizontally. If the person falls, the device transmits, via Bluetooth, to a nearby computer or cellphone and alerts those designated
In the future I can see them using ultrawideband as it possess better geo spatial tracking and power consumption.
