The Tech Report recently reviewed a Gigabyte motherboard using a " Hybrid EFI " BIOS. It's true that this Gigabyte implementation isn't UEFI from the ground up, which makes it different from most UEFI implementations in the market. I think we need to take a look at the Gigabyte Hybrid EFI implementation and understand exactly what it does. Gigabyte's " Hybrid EFI Technology " is pretty simple ... stick a UEFI layer on top of the existing legacy BIOS so users get support for 2TB+ hard...Read More
This series of labs consist mainly of an adaptation of a one-off lab that was presented at Fall IDF in San Francisco, but now there are three very large trucks driving all over the US teaching a lot of people. This means that systems need to be “restored” to new after every lab, to prepare for the next city. Problems we have encountered (and solutions too). These problems will occur for users who try these labs on their own, if they try a series of the demo insta...Read More
There’s a group of embedded software developers who are half programmer and half mathematician. You know who you are. You’re using fast Fourier transforms (FFT), coding IIR filters and operating on large matrices. When working with large amounts of data, you’ve found that SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) instructions can really speed things up. If you work with large floating point numbers, I have some good news. Get twice the throughput of floating point operat...Read More
EMBL003/4: Top of Form Intel® Embedded Development Board 1-N450 Contest and Lab at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 - Official Rules Bottom of Form EMBL003/4: Intel® Embedded Development Board 1-N450 Contest and Lab at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 - Official Rules Participation The EMBL003/4: Intel® Embedded Development Board 1-N450 Contest and Lab at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 will begin on September 15th, 2010 and end September 15th...Read More
Natan Linder from the MIT Media Lab visited the Intel Chandler office last week and brought me up to date with his plans for the Luminar Project. Suffice to say it will be smaller and faster in the near future. For those of you unfamiliar with the Luminar system here's the video from YouTube. And just in case you are wondering, yes, it is based on an embedded system from Intel, specifically the Intel(r) Embedded Development Board 1-N450. More info on the board and process...Read More
ESDC2010 Prize Winners. After a long and arduous process the winners of the Intel Cup Embedded System Design Contest were announced on Saturday afternoon, at Shanghai’s Jaio Tong University. The intriguingly named “ The Art of Shadow Puppet, The Stage of Atom ” was the winner of the cup. This novel project combined the traditional art of shadow puppets with robot’s that controlled the puppet’s movements. In addition to controlli...Read More
The Intel Cup Embedded System Design Contest (short for "Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest - Embedded System Design Invitational Contest") was initiated by the Chinese government, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is solely sponsored by Intel Corporation since 2002. Held every 2 years, the contest provides an opportunity for top undergraduate students to design a working system based on an assigned Intel embedded platform over a period of three months. Each tea...Read More
Advances in medical imaging have allowed for a new age of medical care. Minimally invasive procedures are replacing open surgery as imaging becomes more sophisticated, reducing risk and recovery time for patients. Medical equipment is also becoming more portable, allowing for a streamlined workflow and greater accuracy. However, as with all new technologies, these new imaging capabilities introduce their own challenges. The expanding usage of medical imaging technology, whether for CT, X...Read More
Intel® Active Management Technology ( Intel® AMT ) is a set of hardware and firmware features that lets administrator access and manage remote systems such as digital signage, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, kiosks, and ATMs. Among other features, Intel AMT allows administrators to power remote systems on and off, install software updates, and troubleshoot problems. The recently-released Intel® AMT 6.0 adds a number of important new features to this list. In thi...Read More
Personalization has always been in vogue as a marketing ploy to promote everything from monogrammed clothes and jewelry to customized laptops and cell phones with special ring tones. Today, this trend is appearing in the health care industry as a strategy to encourage proactive health management. With Wii Fit and other game consoles that administer fitness training, iPhone apps that track caloric intake, and even PDA-like devices that rate products using genome computing analysis , users have ...Read More
Many of us are familiar with those interactive displays at museums where you press a button and different bulbs light up to show you something like the path an explorer took to discover a new country or an arboreal animal's habitat in the forest canopy. Frankly, I'm never that impressed with those exhibits. I need a lot more "wow" to get me interacting with a display. Which is precisely why I got excited the other day while talking to the folks over at Micro Industries , an Affiliate Member of...Read More
In medical imaging, a picture is worth a thousand words and several gigabytes of data. MRI and CT scans, mass-spectrometry, phenotyping, and genetic studies generate hundreds of terabytes of data that must be processed and stored by powerful supercomputers, like the Intel Xeon-based SGI Altix UV being used to support the efforts of the Institute of Cancer Research in England. Companies that manufacture medical imaging equipment rely on embedded technology vendors to deliver high-perfor...Read More
While health care insurance and public policy spark heated debate, it’s difficult to dispute the value of medical devices and equipment that can minimize operating costs and improve patient care. The burden on medical device developers is to provide advanced technologies that fulfill the health care industry’s need for fast, secure, convenient solutions certified to strict rules and regulations. In a market exploding with growth driven by trends such as an aging population, s...Read More
Update Feb 17th -2010 Booth Demo's. The majority of demo's have shipped to the show, but there's still a few in development, or waiting for a crucial part. Currently I'm waiting for 24 bearings to complete an update of the hexapod robots. http://bit.ly/hexapod Cases for the next gen atom demo's have shipped, but we are still waiting for a few acrylic covers, and the ubiquitous blue LEDS. We have a large booth at the entrance to hall 9,according to our planner you real...Read More