Embedded Software Blog

I am on vacation and, all being well, by the time this posting goes live, I will be sunning myself on a Greek island. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about the use of floating point. My colleague Brooks Moses [who did a guest blog post a while back] made a comment on that posting, pointing out that I had over-simplified my example. I am always happy to get such feedback. It transpired that Brooks … Read More

M4, Zynq, Cortex, e600, ARM, FPGA, Freescale, floating point

I often joke about having a “supercomputer” on my desk. It is actually a moderately powerful desktop PC, which is not really stretched by the work that I expect it to do. But, at least I am not normally left twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to do something. I have this computer, instead of a powerful laptop, as I concluded that, when traveling, I did not need to lug an enormous computer … Read More

Cray, Cortex-A9, Zynq