As the new Cedar Trail architecture takes hold in off the shelf embedded modules, designers are able to quickly take advantage of the higher performance, lower power, ubiquitous connectivity, and an expanded graphical user interface in new development projects. As I covered in an earlier post , the Cedar Trail platform includes the next generation Intel® Atom™ processor ranging from the 1.66 GHz N2600 and 1.85 GHz N2800 up to the high performance 2.13 GHz D2700. This new architect...Read More
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
As competition grows, embedded designers must pack increased performance, real-time connectivity, and interactive graphics features into each new design while reducing power requirements to eliminate fans or extend battery life. Some of the latest specifications in critical applications such as healthcare also call for always-on, always-connected embedded devices to eliminate delays due to startup and data updates. The current generation of consumers that grew up with computers and smart phones...Read More