Intel x86 Embedded, and the Arduino-101

by Patrick H. Stakem

Overview

This book follows Intel's excursions into the embedded space, with 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors, derived from their general purpose computer line. Intel has traditionally dominated the desktop, laptop, and server market, but has increasingly addressed the embedded space, and the Internet of Things We take a look at Intel's licensing of the ARM architecture, and the contributions to that area. This leads to the latest development, an Arduino architecture that doesn't use a ARM chip, but rather an x86 chip. Of course, it executes a different set of opcodes, but the magic is, at the source level, it uses the same code as the Arm. We just need a new set of software tools. The Arduino-101 from Intel, an x-86 architecture internally, can run source code developed for the standard ARM-based Arduinos.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157428334
Publisher:	PRRB Publishing
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	46 KB

About the Author

Mr. Patrick H. Stakem received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and Masters Degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.

He began his career in Aerospace with Fairchild Industries on the ATS-6 (Applications Technology Satellite-6), program, a communication satellite that developed much of the technology for the TDRSS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System). At Fairchild, Mr. Stakem made the amazing discovery that computers were put on board the spacecraft. He quickly made himself the expert on their support. He followed the ATS-6 Program through its operation phase, and worked on other projects at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center including the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM), some of the Landsat missions, and others. He was posted to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the MARS-Jupiter-Saturn (MJS-77), which later became the Voyager mission, which is still operating and returning data from outside the solar system at this writing.

Mr. Stakem is affiliated with the the Whiting School of Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University. He received NASA's Space Shuttle Program Managers commendation award.