The security community raised the alarm regarding a serious issue last week —that of Android devices shipping with their debug port open to remote connections. The issue is not new, being first ...

Any developer, but above all the firmware or software developer, building a complex, microprocessor-based embedded product faces an enormous challenge to get a reliable, high performance product to ...

Several processor vendors have extended JTAG software debug, often to make it faster, or to add hardware trace capabilities. The NEXUS consortium for example defines an auxiliary port containing a ...

Security in modern systems is of utmost importance. Device manufacturers are including multiple security features and attack protections into both the hardware and software design. For example, the ...

Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t ...

Leading embedded processor and intellectual property (IP) developers have adopted the Open Chip Protocol (OCP) socket as a standards-based approach to on-chip bus integration. An emerging capability ...

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...