Coding Relic

My Macbook Air M1 was gradually developing some kind of impairment in its USB-C ports where I'd have to jiggle or put actual pressure on...

I recently had cause to dig down through the layers of strata which have accumulated in my electronics bin. In one of the lower layers I fo...

When it comes to the cost of hardware, volume matters more than anything else. To large extent, volume matters more than everything else put...

I spent most of the period 2011 - 2017 building Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for an Internet and television service provider. CPE gear ...

In software development sometimes you spend time on an implementation which you are unreasonably proud of, but ultimately decide not to use ...

In addition to its role in assigning IPv4 addresses, DHCP has an options mechanism to send other bits of data between client and server. For...

When building the software for a new device there are a ton of things which need to go into the filesystem: binaries, libraries, device node...

In January JP Morgan predicted that Intel would acquire an FPGA vendor in 2010. Speculation immediately focussed on Altera and Xilinx , wh...

Its amazing that hard drives work at all. A tiny little drive head flies just above a metallic tundra, manipulating miniscule dots of magnet...

What the web needs right now is another blog post about the iPad. No, don't run away! This will be different, I promise. We'll foc...

EE Times reports on a JP Morgan Analyst prediction that Intel will acquire an FPGA vendor. The purported reason: to expand its competitiven...

Amazon's Kindle software version 2.3 increased battery life from 4 days to 7 days; quite an improvement. Only the Kindle 2 (*) model u...

There have been issues with the autofocus on the Motorola Droid phone, which suddenly resolved themselves this morning and led to speculati...

A bit of news got buried by other massive acquisitions this week: Cavium Networks acquired MontaVista Software for $50 million. The offe...

Western Digital recently corrected a firmware issue in certain models of VelociRaptor where the drive would erroneously report an error to ...

Intel has a long but uneven history in the embedded market. In the early days of the personal computer Intel released the 80286 as a follow...

Last week Wind River , now a subsidiary of Intel , announced that it had taken the lead in the share of embedded Linux revenue. ALAMEDA,...

Recently on the Chromium blog Google announced an improved binary compression algorithm called Courgette . In the example cited Courgette ...

Today, Gentle Reader, we will examine the Bionic library, a slim libc developed by Google for use in the Android mobile software platform...

In my industry at least, the high end of the margin curve is dominated by modular systems: a chassis into which cards can be added to add fe...