Real world signals are the basis for stimulus and response for embedded systems. Without real world signal interfaces, embedded processors would have a shortage of applications. Much attention has been paid to high data rate sensors, but the sensor continuum includes data rates that span a wide range. Most real world signals, unlike digital signals, are continuous in nature. Continuous (analog) signals can be processed by linear components as part of a control system, digital processing carries...Read More

The Tech Report recently reviewed a Gigabyte motherboard using a " Hybrid EFI " BIOS. It's true that this Gigabyte implementation isn't UEFI from the ground up, which makes it different from most UEFI implementations in the market. I think we need to take a look at the Gigabyte Hybrid EFI implementation and understand exactly what it does.   Gigabyte's " Hybrid EFI Technology " is pretty simple ... stick a UEFI layer on top of the existing legacy BIOS so users get support for 2TB+ hard...Read More

Generally, Intel® Hyper-Threading  technology (Intel® HT technology) seeks to boost performance in systems by making the most efficient use of multiple execution units in a superscalar processor core. It turns out, however, that Intel HT technology can also be leveraged in a virtualization application -- running both a general purpose OS (operating system) like Windows and a RTOS (real time operating system) simultaneously on a single core. Such an implementation on an Intel...Read More