M Bukovic's List: SBC

• This focus on performance is importan
• because more and   more 8/16-bit microcontroller families do not meet today’s
• needs for higher embedded performance combined with reduced cost, smaller size
• and lower power
• picoPower
• Event System for fast
• Cryptography
• range   from 16 to 384 KB
• 44- to 100
• ust 1.6 volt with up to 32 MIPS at 32 MHz
• are general-purpose microcontrollers well suited for a variety of applications
• metering
• motor
• networking
• udio   systems
• white goods
• contro
• battery powered produc
• extends battery life o
• that XMEGA devices can be connected to a 1.8V (+/- 10%)
• innovative XMEGA Event System enables inter-peripheral communication without CPU
• s ensures a 100% predictable and short response   time
• o 8 simultaneous events
• nterrupt

• onditions in the peripherals can automatically start actions in other peripherals.
• XMEGA uses the same instruction set as existing AVR products, and code can easily be reused
• embers are pin and 100% code compatible,
• reuse both source and binary code in all projects

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• 1 MIPS per MHz,
• low power consumption
• elf-programmability for fast
• cost-effective remote   upgrades.
• 1.8V active mode at 1 MHz is less than 200 uA, and just 100 nA in power-down mode

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• Manufacturing and Detroit spur software job growth
• The National Association of Manufacturers reports 80 percent of its member organizations “are having difficulty finding qualified employees for today’s high-tech workplace.” (via Waste Management World)
• blem is broadening, not getting better,
• few years, seven million manufacturers will retire
• half the manufacturing workforce
• [for skilled labor
• shortage of skilled peopl
• the board-health care, construction, rebuilding of
• frastructure
• auto industry can’t hire enough software developers and engineers.
• ophisticated nature of in-car entertainment and navigation
• ystems is driving a cottage industry of software makers including Pand
• we’d be able to hire out all of our graduates three times over,” said Garth Motschenbacher, who helps place computer-science graduates at Michigan State University. About 70 percent of the school’s 54 students scheduled to graduate in May have jobs lined up, he said. “The number of students has not kept up with the opportunities.”
• ever they hire has to be a success imme
• ’s no margin for error
• e’s no learning curve allowed
• didates have to have experience in managemen
• ugh economic enviro
• ey have to be able to show they
• cut cos
• enerate profits
• hings more efficiently a
• action-oriented candidates
• nce of landing a p
• on-oriented candidates genera
• are rea
• ults immediat
• ed minimal train
• le to prove themselves from their first day on the jo

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• “Technology has nothing to do with innovation,” explains Mr Winarsky. “We’ve developed a course that teaches innovation. It’s become very successful and we now teach it around the world.”
• Innovation is about building a successful business.
• Innovation: the application of business processes in ways that exploit massive market opportunities.
• SRI’s “NABC” training

• NABC is an acronym for the four fundamental questions that have to be answered:

   

  N- Customer needs. What is the problem that is being addressed?

   

  A - Approach. How will the problem be solved?

   

  B - Benefits. How the approach will create customer benefit?

   

  C- Competition. What are competitors offering and at what cost?

   

  But there’s a letter missi
• M for markets.
• businesses that have the potential to disrupt a market valued at at least $1 billion are considered for spinoff.
• that any researchers that want to lead a startup have to show passion. “I ask them if they are willing to be the ‘champion’ for a project, which means are they willing to do whatever it takes for it to succeed. Not everyone has that level of commitment.”

• There are tremendous breakthroughs happening in so many areas. I can’t remember a time in my career when there have been so many opportunities for disruption in so many fields.”

   

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• China steps up its semiconductor game with homegrown supercomputer effort