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GPS–As it it today

GPS has freed us…it gives us the ability to go anywhere knowing that we will not get lost. It gives us the freedom to explore knowing that we can always find our way back. There are may sites that you can go to and get a really good idea of how GPS works. This post […]

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The Center Pompidou – revisiting the self, Paris, France

The summer of 2012 has a lot of memories. This is about one of them…one that has lit a fire in me, one that I don’t want to put out. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. We got to see a lot, but from a learning perspective there were two two highlights . The visit […]

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The Agile Manifesto…

I read this in a blog on agile embedded… and it reminded me of the way some of the work I used to do earlier. A lot of that came from XP and the Spiral Model, but this is about fundamentals as to why you program. This does not mean that I don’t believe in […]

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Developing Specialised Devices for Intelligent Systems–Windows CE 7 Seminar

I am writing this at the Microsoft Windows CE Compact 7 one day seminar on Intelligent Systems. One caveat as you read this, you are going to find that there is really no continuity in this blog entry because I am writing this as it happens. A definition of Intelligent Systems…

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Wired magazine…have to read it cover to cover

There are very few magazines that interest me enough to read them in detail. Today my list is 2 magazines… The first is IEEE Spectrum. This is one magazine I read in detail, cover to cover, I even read all the ads. This magazine has pretty high technical content but in the past few issues […]

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Wifi, BT, Audio Testing and CeteCom

Went for a meeting to an interesting company today. Cetecom is a big player in the Certification and Testing space. They do EMI and EMC testing, but that is only a small part of what all they do. They do Bluetooth compatibility testing, Wifi Logo Testing, CTIA Converged Wireless testing, 3G, LTE and Audio testing. […]

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A world of small things…

Over the past few years I have been working on how we can build bigger and bigger systems. First it was ARM9 then ARM11, then Cortex A8, then dual core Cortex A9, now it is the Cortex A15. There is a continuous upgrade of technical capabilities that is required. This is the sexy stuff, the […]