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Articles from
July 2005
| Freescale Introduces Impressive Application Processors |
By BDTI, 7/13/2005
Last month Freescale introduced its latest application processors, the
i.MX31 and the i.MX31L. The chips—which offer a number of
impressive features—primarily
target portable consumer electronics products such as cell phones,
portable media players, and portable gaming devices. The chips
also target portable medical applications and automotive entertainment.
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| TI Tools Get Numerous Enhancements |
By BDTI, 7/13/2005
This month TI launched the “Platinum Edition” of its Code Composer
Studio integrated development environment (IDE). The “Platinum
Edition” offers a number of enhancements over previous versions.
Most notably, the IDE includes two new features intended to improve
developer productivity: a “rewind” feature and a fast
connect/disconnect capability.
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| Optimizing Presentations, Products, and Plans |
By BDTI, 7/13/2005
Top-notch marketing presentations are key to convincing customers,
investors, and others that a product is attractive and viable.
Effective presentations combine clear, convincing technical information
with a compelling marketing message—a difficult combination to
achieve. Of course, even snappy presentations only go so far;
vendors also need solid products and well-thought-out strategies.
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| Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – Making Benchmarks Useful |
By Jeff Bier, 7/13/2005
A few weeks ago I participated in a panel discussion on
benchmarking. The theme of the panel was how to benchmark
multi-threaded and multi-core processors. In my view, this theme
highlights a key problem with many benchmark approaches: too many
benchmarks are designed to exercise hardware features, rather than to
provide information that system developers need.
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