Andrew Caples

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Andrew Caples is vice president of worldwide sales at Silexica. He has more than 25 years of technology sales and business development experience and drives Silexica’s growth in key vertical markets including automotive, wireless, aerospace and defense.

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Inaccurate Assumptions Mean Software Issues

By Andrew Caples - 28 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

It doesn’t seem that long ago when features and functionality were being added to next generation processors and SoCs ahead of demand. Actually, I recall when new processors were released, embedded software developers were forced to think of innovative ways to exploit the new features in order to differentiate the product to not be left behind. Today, in many respects it seems as if the... » read more

Real-Time Performance Across The Factory Floor

By Andrew Caples - 26 Jan, 2017 - Comments: 0

Next generation processors continue to push the performance envelope. It seems the price continues to drop while the processing speeds increase with each new processor release. I recall discussions not that long ago in which the future utility of real-time operating systems and middleware were being bantered about as if they were not going to be required going forward. After all, with each subs... » read more