With the onset of globalization, world travel today is prevalent be it for business or leisure; and with travel comes the process of planning to carry the basic essentials and gadgets for the trip.

The convergence of mobile phones and other consumer-driven devices such as PDAs, MP3 players, and digital still and video cameras is progressing rapidly as evidenced by recent introductions of phones ...

Multi-processor architectures are becoming prevalent in today’s embedded systems to keep up with growing computational requirements, throughput and integrated system features. As an example, high-end ...

Distributed applications without interprocess communication does not exist. On the other hand, a variety of interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms for operating systems exists to support ...

Heterogeneous multiprocessor (HMP) systems, using functionally asymmetric compute elements, such as application processors and microcontrollers integrated within the same SoCs, are now used ...

Pros and cons of using a hypervisor. Pros and cons of multicore frameworks. Today’s multicore system-on-chip (SoC) hardware offers the promise of being able to pack more into your embedded project ...