I spent last week at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) , and as usual I saw tons of cool new products and demos – including loads of new hardware , fun demos , and some cool software tools . The highlight of the show was the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 series , formerly codenamed Sandy Bridge-EP . These parts are the first Intel® Xeon® processors to use the latest-generation “Sandy Bridge” architecture found in 2nd generation Intel® C...Read More

Modern factory automated test and measurement equipment must be general purpose, remotely programmable, and flexible enough to handle a variety of input ranges and types, speeds, and functions.  To analyze the skyrocketing data transmission rates of production devices, manufacturers must provide real-time, high-performance digital signal processing equipment.  Many in-process inspection stations also include multichannel, high-speed video analysis equipment to record and verify produc...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