White Paper: Powerline Networking
System Architecture The above figure shows the architecture of a powerline networking system (in particular a HomePlug AV system). The Higher Layer Entities (HLEs) above the H1 (Host) Interface may be bridges, applications or servers that provide off-chip services to clients below the H1 Interface. The Data Service Access Point (SAP) accepts Ethernet format [...]
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White Paper: Virtual Machines
System virtual machines fall into two categories: Type 1 hypervisors (on the left), which run directly on the host hardware, and Type 2 hypervisors (on the right), which run on top of another operating system. Both are capable of running multiple independent instances of one operating system or different [...]
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White Paper: DirectX 11
Mmmmm….DirectX 11…. DirectX 10 marked a radical departure from DirectX 9: In order to be compatible, a graphics processor must feature a unified architecture in which each shader unit is capable of executing pixel-, vertex-, and geometry-shader instructions. The changes in DirectX 11 aren’t quite as fundamental, but they could have just as big an [...]
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Touch Screen Technology
Touch screens may never replace our clicky-clacky QWERTY keyboards—no, we’ll have to wait for brain-stem probes for that—but they are becoming more common. In fact, devices using this technology have been in use for more than 35 years and are becoming ubiquitous—kiosks, tablet PCs, desktop computers, and many handheld devices all now rely on [...]
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