Joel Huebner,
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Choices, choices, choices
The initial selection of the processor type to be utilized during the design of an embedded system has the most dramatic impact on the overall system design.
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What is PCI Express?
The PC/104 Embedded Consortium recently announced plans to release a variant of the PC/104 form factor that incorporates PCI Express serial bus architecture. The incorporation of PCI Express into the PC/104 form factor has tremendous potential for the future of the embedded system. This Fundamentals 101 column will study PCI bus limitations and the strengths of PCI Express.
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Internal system cabling 101
The PC/104 embedded system design issue of efficient internal cabling and will provide helpful information to aid engineers in eliminating some of the common problems that internal connectors and cabling can cause.
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Sensor fundamentals 101
No matter how much data processing speeds continue to advance, the fundamental embedded systems requirement is for sensors to measure and convert real-world data into a digitized format for PC/104 systems to process. This PC/104 Embedded Solutions...
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USB fundamentals 101
Universal Serial Bus (USB) communications has greatly advanced the versatility of PCs and embedded systems with external peripherals. USB provides the next-generation interface for all devices that at one time communicated through the serial port, para...
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The PC/104-Plus bus
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The PC/104 bus
The PC/104 bus is, in essence, the ISA bus from the IBM personal computer AT and XT days. It is derived from the PC/AT (16-bit) and PC/XT (8-bit) bus specifications. The popularity of the PC/104 form factor is due to its compact board size, the incorpo...
