We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

Mixed-processor systems are growing more common as standard system-on-a-chip (SoC) architectures, like the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP, become available. OMAP combines a conventional ARM processor ...

Designers of complex microprocessor-based systems often face the problem of having to develop software before their hardware is ready. According to officials at ARM, that problem becomes particularly ...