STAFF-WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES

The Editorial Calendar lists topics of articles we are developing or planning and on which we are soliciting contributed articles or viewpoints.
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There are a number of news-driven articles in final development. As always, please contact us as early as possible if your company is making major announcements. This lead time gives us the best chance to feature your company's announcement in a major feature article.

This series will examine the broad-based application of embedded computing systems in consumer electronics applications. Both editorial and contributed articles will discuss trends in consumer devices, standards, convergence, time-to-market pressure and cost control.

This series of articles looks at the challenges of supporting multi-core and multi-processor architectures in embedded systems.

This article series will dive into issues with designing embedded systems for high-reliability. A variety of high-rel applications and scenarios will be examined and issues such as fault tolerance and recovery, harsh environments, system verification, and standards conformance will be discussed. Editorial and contributed articles in this series will discuss tools, technology, and techniques for high reliability design.

The fledgling IP industry has always presented significant challenges both on the business and technical axes. This series will look into the wide range of available IP for embedded system design, as well as the obstacles, standards, and issues surrounding IP-based design.

Development and deployment of modern embedded systems requires a wide range of sophisticated equipment and techniques for test, measurement, verification, and even service. This article series will examine the latest trends in embedded system test an measurement.

Today, more industry standards for interconnect are moving away from traditional parallel architectures in favor of high-speed serial. This transition poses a number of challenges from signal integrity to dealing with latency and error-correction issues. This article series will examine the trend and give insight into the best methodologies for high-speed serial interface design as well as mega-standards such as PCI Express, Rapid IO, etc.

With batteries, heat, and power supply costs constantly growing in embedded system design, this article series looks at a wide variety of techniques and technologies for power reduction, estimation, and management.

Security is becoming an increasing challenge for embedded designers in everything from digital rights management (DRM) for protecting content from end-users to protecting end-users’ data from each other to protecting our own designs and IP from everybody. This article series examines the issues, trends, and techniques in embedded security.

Embedded designs are taking advantage of an increasing variety of storage and memory systems including both volatile and non-volatile technologies. This article series looks at the latest trends in storage.

As embedded devices become more sophisticated, there is a growing trend toward the construction of data-centric devices and systems. With this trend comes an increasing move to sophisticated databases and database techniques in embedded design. This series of editorial and contributed articles examines the issues.

This article will discuss the use of non-traditional processor architectures in embedded systems. Applications such as video and surveillance often require processing power that far exceeds what we can expect from our traditional Von Neumann-based machines.

This article examines the design of RFID systems and their applications.

This article series examines the wide range of networking issues facing embedded systems. We can no longer design systems in a self-contained environment. It is a rare design project today that doesn't’t include at least one major networking component.

This article will look at the important role that embedded systems and programmable logic can play in some of the most advanced technologies for defense.

This article series will examine the wide variety of operating systems options available to today's embedded systems designers.

This article series will discuss techniques for the design of low power embedded systems.

This article series will examine the latest advances in embedded processor core technology.

This article series will discuss the integration of high speed USB interfaces into embedded designs.

This article series will discuss the special challenges of configuration management for embedded software developers.

This article series will look at the trade-offs between open source and proprietary software solutions for embedded systems.

This article series examines the key role of pre-fabricated development kits and boards in getting embedded designs to market fast.

This article series examines the special challenges of software quality assurance (SQA) in embedded design.

This article series looks at the emerging trend of using virtualization layers to isolate processor hardware from operating system structure in embedded systems.

This article series discusses the increasing use of virtual platforms for embedded software design and debug.

SDR poses significant challenges particularly for designers of mobile handsets. This article takes a look at those issues.

Our annual end of year article will take a look at the most interesting and important embedded design related developments of 2007. If you think your company did something that qualifies, give us a call.