The new Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) can double the peak floating-point performance of Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE), opening up new possibilities for applications like radar detection, video analytics, and medical imaging. The latest Embedded Innovator newsletter takes a detailed look at how Intel AVX works , and how you can use the extensions in your applications.   You can access more articles like this by subscribing to the Emb...Read More

In my last blog , I looked at DSP benchmarks for Intel® Architecture processors.  While these benchmarks are good place to start, they only tell part of the story.   DSP board vendor Curtiss Wright recently surveyed its customers and found that memory performance and inter-processor bandwidth were even more important than raw FLOPs ratings.  In this blog we’ll look at some benchmarks that show how both types of bandwidth have seen major improvements in the late...Read More

Face it. The ubiquitous Intel ® x86 architecture has been around a (relatively) long time, and it provides myriad benefits, especially in portability and ease of legacy code use. However, though x86 thrives and drives benign commercial benchtop and desktop environments, what about the rugged designs required in the military arena? Sometimes a customer-requested military temp component is simply not manufactured, or it is extremely price-prohibitive, thus commercial wares must be used. But...Read More