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 ...

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) boundary-scan technology. In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Many ...

As EDN Europe reported in its last issue, boundary-scan techniques continue to develop from their original pc-board test environment to meet evolving needs, such as in-system configuration and ...

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 ...

When ARC was introduced in Objective-C, memory management become much less of an issue, but you can still create issues especially with holding objects longer than needed. Here’s an open source iOS ...