The design diary - dev.emcelettronica – was born on December 1st 2006 with “Hello World!” based on WORDPRESS. The main idea was to exchange solutions and projects between designers. After the first month of life we read the statistics and we were astonished when we realized the importance of our blog analyzing web statistics.

Today, the boundaries between the general purpose PCs, the servers and the embedded systems are more blurred. These computers are sharing same platforms, same peripherals. For example, an x86/Mac PC can be used as a server, an x86/PowerPC CPU can be used in an embedded system like portable navigation device (PND).