Computing platforms destined for use in hazardous locations (HAZLOC) require far more robust mechanical designs even relative to systems used in rugged automotive or general military & aerospace applications. But as you might expect given the broad support for Intel® Architecture (IA) processors, there are vendors that offers embedded systems for use in places like oil rigs or chemical processing plants. Indeed design teams can mix rugged panel computers and headless systems while stil...Read More

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

If you’re an embedded geek like me, this year’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was a great place to be.  I saw a ton of cool products and demos that got me excited about the future of embedded.  The launch of the new Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series was at the top of my list.  I think this new processor—which is the first Intel® architecture chip designed specifically for embedded—will enable for a whole new generation of highly connected, h...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

The latest high-end processors in the Intel® Architecture (IA) family have a host of performance-oriented features such as the return of Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and a wide execution engine. And certainly the memory architecture is among the most important features on the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor series that uses the microarchitecture code named Nehalem. Several such processors are part of the company's embedded family, and have allowed partners such as GE Intel...Read More