Monthly Archives: February 2012

Question of the Week: Are you looking at USB 3.0?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Administrator

SuperSpeed USB, or USB 3.0, has been available in certified consumer products for the previous two years. The serial bus specification includes a 5Gbps signal rate which represents a ten-fold increase of the data rate over HIGH-Speed USB. The interface … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: Are you using Built-in Self Tests?

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Administrator

On many of the projects I worked on it made a lot of sense to implement BISTs (built-in self tests) because the systems either had some safety requirements or the cost of executing a test run of a prototype system … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: Do you ever think about endianess?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Administrator

I remember when I first learned about this thing called endianess as it pertains to ordering higher and lower order bits for data that consumes more than a single byte of data. The two most common ordering schemes were big … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: Are software development tools affecting your choice of 8-bit vs. 32-bit processors?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Administrator

I have always proposed that the market for 8-bit processors would not fade away – in fact there are still a number of market niches that rely on 4-bit processors (such as clock movements and razor blades that sport a … Continue reading →

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