By Glen Burchers “My three year old daughter has been playing with her iPad too much. When she walks in front of the TV, she tries to interact with it by pushing on the screen. The new generation is expecting new user experience across their different devices. People should not worry about where their content, [...]
By Michael Stanley – No, the title does not refer to the forces of good versus those of evil. Nor am I referring to my stance when chopping firewood with an axe. Instead, let’s see if we can straighten out some of the terminology that you’ll hear when people start to talk about sensors. Even [...]
By Robert Thompson — With approximately 500 million smart phones, 60 million tablets and 25 million eReaders shipping in 2011, the mobile revolution swept into full force. So what’s next? Well, there’s still a long way to go, as Eric Schmidt suggested in his keynote at Mobile World Congress, only one billion of the world’s [...]
By Robert Thompson
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Also posted in Freescale, The Embedded Beat
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Tagged 4G, Android OS, ARM, Chrome, Facebook, Google Play, HTML5, LTE, quadcore, smartphone, tablet
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By Michael Stanley – Last week, Freescale made its eCompass and 4 and 7 element magnetic compensation routines available in (drum roll please!) source form. Getting access is easy. Let me take you through the steps…. Open your web browser to http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=eCompass Click on the “ECOMPASS_SW: eCompass Software” link. This will take you to the [...]
By Michael Stanley – I admit I was tickled to see the Freescale MPL3115A2 win the embedded AWARD 2012 (in the hardware category) at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany. I’ve blogged on this sensor before (Xtrinsic Pressure Sensor/Altimeter Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). This is the device that can either operate as [...]
February 23, 2012 – 2:24 pm
By Yves Legrand – The California Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted a new power efficiency specification for battery chargers that will be sold in this state. The CEC has taken the lead one more time to impose better designed products that waste less energy. It is expected that the US federal specification will follow this lead. [...]
By Yves Legrand
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Also posted in Freescale, Smart Energy, The Embedded Beat, Uncategorized
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Tagged appliance efficiency, Battery Charging, california energy commission, cell phone chargers, efficiency regulations, energy efficiency standards, power efficiency, Smart Energy, WattSaver
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February 22, 2012 – 3:51 pm
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret — Augmented reality and immersive virtual reality can seem complex. These new technologies add contextual information to our environment in a seamless way, overlaying information about what we see around us based on where we are. Already used in smartphone applications, augmented reality navigates us through the quickest route to the nearest [...]
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