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

Intel has continued the march down the Moore's Law path moving to a 32-nm process node, and now embedded designers have access to those processors based on the Westmere microarchitecture. Westmere continues along the Nehalem microarchitecture path adding a number of enhancements including the new Intel® AES Instructions that add hardware encryption support. The new instructions will enhance performance and security in applications such as medical, communications and military and aerospace....Read More