The recent release of Intel’s Cedar Trail platform has caused quite a stir in the embedded community as designers scramble to take advantage of the improved graphics performance, lower power requirements, reduced component count, and overall lower costs. As I covered in part 1 of this series, Cedar Trail is based on the next generation Intel® Atom™ processor plus the Intel NM10 Express chipset for embedded computing. This new architecture offers seven year lifecycle support a...Read More
Newcomers to Intel® Architecture (IA) processors and chip sets will find highly-integrated support for a plethora of I/O options in every platform. Indeed, no other processor architecture enjoys the same level of I/O integration that’s been driven by a combination of high-volume applications including PCs, workstations, servers, netbooks, notebooks, and embedded applications. The result is support for any I/O or connectivity needed by a design team and availability of that robust I/O...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