Processors are becoming more powerful both in terms of the MIPS and the bandwidth of the data they can handle. They are equipped with most of the peripherals to make them resemble a System on a chip ...

We’ve discussed the idea of makers buying the right analog-to-digital converter (ADC), with resolution a big part of the decision. Most applications don’t need 32-bit precision; but applications like ...

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Many of today’s embedded industrial and automotive systems are built upon 8- or 16-bit microcontroller architectures. With the availability of new low-power 32-bit architectures, there is an ...

But in his recent column “Is 8 bits dying?“, Jack Ganssle comments that while there are indications that a shakeout is coming, it will not be as soon as Michael Barr asserts in “Trends in embedded ...

SEATTLE — The transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing will happen “far more rapidly” than did the transitions from 8-bit to 16-bit and 16-bit to 32-bit, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates ...

Seeing how Intel and AMD are supposedly going to release their 64-bit chips soon and many software vendors are looking to convert their programs to 64-bit code to accomodate these chips I was ...