Everyone who follows Intel as it makes the case for low-power, ultramobile x86 knows that the company has two code phrases that it employs in varying forms in its pitch: Intel processors support the "full Internet experience," and they support the complete "IA installed base." The first of these (the ...

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The universal serial bus (USB) has completely replaced UART, PS2, and IEEE-1284 parallel interfaces on PCs, and now is gaining wide acceptance in embedded applications. Most of the I/O devices (keyboards, scanners, mice) used with embedded systems are USB-based for good reason.   Since the USB is a well-defined standard that is ...

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ARM 7 and ARM 9 have been in the field for a number of years. They have been the work horses of the embedded microcontroller and low end microprocessor world with thousands of applications built around them. Generally though, unless coupled with large quantities of memory in the case of ...

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