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DSL’s Managing Director, Rory Dear, shares five “not so obvious” aspects that directors, project managers and engineers should consider to avoid costly

You understand that outsourcing your electronic design project is the way to go, as you need a customised electronic product and circuit board design service that focuses on the particular solution you

Introduction A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) is a system whose architecture is optimised to perform high speed mathematical processing of digitised analogue signals in real time. A DSP system will generally comprise of an Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC), a processing core and often will also

Introduction A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to have its operation configured subsequent to manufacturing, assembly and even deployment of a product of which it forms a part. FPGAs contain programmable logic blocks, that are capable of performing many

Introduction In the 80s, Acorn Computers, fresh from the success of the BBC Micro were looking for a competitor against the ever popular IBM machines launched early that decade. What the marketplace currently offered, for example the Motorola 68000, simply wasn’t sufficiently powerful to

Introduction An embedded operating system is an operating system for embedded computer systems. These operating systems are designed to be compact, efficient at resource usage, and reliable, forsaking many functions that standard desktop operating systems provide, and which may not be used by

Here I discuss how DSL’s design flexibility arrangements can permit zero upfront costs with amortisation for low/medium quantities, even potentially completely free of NRE charge when coupled with up front commitment to quantity production units. Historically even the word ‘custom’ struck