Managing the power consumption of ICs is an increasingly difficult challenge, because each new generation of portable device includes expanded features and demands longer battery lives.

Two companies that exhibited at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, CA, in April have similar objectives but for different technologies. Coventor, a vendor of CAD and analysis tools for ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

Asynchronous processors, which function without a global clock, have emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional synchronous architectures. Their design relies on handshake protocols and local ...

Asynchronous learning offers flexibility that can be extremely beneficial for learners, but without real-time interaction, this modality can also create challenges with organization, connection, and ...