Embedded Computing: April 2007 Archives
I was delighted to here the news about the 151 jobs announced for Limerick this week. I worked in Limerick for several years and experienced the dot com boom and burst while being employed in the private sector.After the dot com bubble burst a number of my friends had to leave Limerick to find tech and sw jobs else where. For a number of years Limerick was in the doldrums from and R&D perspective, but slowly over the past 18 - 24 months it has experienced a turn around.
100 jobs with electronic payment systems software firm ACI Worldwide - R&D, software, tech support and finance.
30 jobs for Masters graduates with Rovsing - software development centre in Limerick specialising in the creation of specialist software tools for satellites and ground systems for spacecraft.
21 jobs with AR Corporate’s new European distribution headquarters - The company develops, manufactures and distributes high-power broadband radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
The Technical Insights column on Embedded.com contains a variety of interesting articles.
These include:
Using sub-RISC processors in next generation customizable multi-core designs
What's different about multiprocessor software?
Going multicore presents challenges and opportunities
"Embedded systems can be the most powerful part of a solution to this crisis," Gore said. "Our old, legacy systems are ridiculously inefficient." This message was delivered at the Embedded Systems Conference last week.
Why not "unleash the IT revolution," Gore said, and create a power grid where small "microgenerating" sources, including homes and businesses, can generate clean power and sell it into the grid? With efficient photovoltaic cells and better windmills, maybe we won't need centralized power generation plants that spew CO2.
I have no problem with Al Gore's views as my Phd research has observed that it is possible to reduce power and increase throughput for embedded devices.
