FEATURE ARTICLES

Mediocre Embedded Systems?
by Dick Selwood, Embedded Technology Journal
(August 28, 2007)

Modelling From the Belly of the Whale
by Dick Selwood, Embedded Technology Journal
(August 21, 2007)

Lessons from LinuxWorld
It's Not Just for Servers Anymore
(August 14, 2007)

Nailing Jell-O to a Wall
Saving Software from the Slippery Slope
(August 7, 2007)

NEWSLETTERS

August 28, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 09

August 21, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 08

August 14, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 07

August 7, 2007 :: volume VIII, no. 06

August 27, 2007

Magna Electronics Chooses Actel's ProASIC3 FPGAs to Enable Automotive Vision Systems

QUANTUM3D Recieves Follow-On Orders From Cross Match Technologies For Additional Thermite Tactical Visual Computers For U.S. Navy Deployed Biometric System

Actel Drives FPGAs 'Under the Hood' Into Critical Automotive Powertrain and Safety Systems

Edgeware Video-on-Demand Server Achieves Breakthrough Performance With Altera FPGAs

MIPS Technologies Acquires World's Leading Analog Intellectual Property Company

Avnet Technology Solutions and IBM Help Appliance Vendors, ISVs and OEMs Capitalize on the Industry-Standard Server Market

Cadence Selects Chipidea’s USB 2.0 IP For Its SoC Functional Verification Kit

Express Logic Launches ThreadX® MCU Edition for Microchip Technology’s PIC24 Microcontrollers and dsPIC® DSCs

Renesas’ New Low-Pin Count R8C/Tiny Series MCUs Offer Specialized On-Chip Features for Electronic Ballast, Handheld Power Tools and Motor Control Applications

August 24, 2007

austriamicrosystems Introduces AS8267, a Feature-Packed System-on-Chip Single Phase Energy Meter IC Supporting 80-Segment LCD Displays

August 23, 2007

Accellera Approves Functional Design Verification Standard

VIA Announces 1-Watt Processor, the World's Most Power Efficient x86 CPU

Ardence Releases V8.0 of RTX; Includes Vista Support

Kilopass Announces Embedded Non-Volatile Memory for 65 nm Low Power and 65 nm General Purpose Processes; XPM Macros Are the First to Be Compatible with High-Density Standard Logic CMOS 65 nm Processes

August 22, 2007

Altium hits the road in the US and Canada

Xilinx Worldwide Authorized Training Provider Program Expands with Addition of Hardent

Xilinx DSP Development Tools Deliver Up to 38 Percent Higher DSP Performance

Impulse C Adds 6 New Xilinx Virtex-5™ Based Computing Platforms and ISE 9.2 Support

Avnet Electronics Marketing Updates Design Resource Center

August 21, 2007

Enea Introduces Updates to Element Middleware Platform

VIA Introduces New pc3500 Mainboard

Qimonda Selects Denali to Enable Rapid Deployment of Industry's First GDDR5 Memories

Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus OS and EDGE (Eclipse) Developer Suite for the IBM Cell Broadband Engine Processor

Avnet Electronics Marketing and Analog Devices Deliver New Embedded Processing/DSP and Signal Chain Design Workshop for Design Engineers

FDI USB-Dongle and Derivative Board Family Now Available at Digi-Key

D2 Technologies Delivers Expanded VoIP Support for ARM Microprocessors

August 20, 2007

LPI to host discounted exam labs in England and Sweden in September

Trusted Computer Solutions Introduces Advanced Security Management Tool for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Users

Actel FPGAs Bring Clarity to Visibility Enhancement Technology Platform From LYYN AB

SanDisk microSDHC Cards Win “Best of Show” Award From the Flash Memory Summit

Embedded Linux World Tour 2007 Demonstrates How to Shorten Time-to-Revenue for Developers in 23 Cities in 9 Countries

Unify Boosts Scalability and Concurrency of Its Embeddable Database With the Release of SQLBase 11

NXP Launches World’s First USB-Driven Digital Headset Solution for Mobile Phones

QuickLogic Announces Availability of Ultra-Secure, Digital Rights Management, Single-Chip Silicon Solutions for Handheld Electronics Products

August 17, 2007

Ardence Releases Version 2.0 of Select, Includes Support for Windows Vista

August 16, 2007

Cypress’s PSoC Express™ Design Tool Now Offers Real-Time Debugging and Tuning for Higher Performance and Faster Time-to-Market

MIT Team Wins MEMOCODE 2007 Hardware/Software Co-Design Contest

Mistral Introduces Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Software Development Kit for use with Texas Instruments’ DaVinci Technology

August 15, 2007

EDA Tech Forum® Announces Keynotes for Santa Clara Event

Avnet X-Fest Seminar Series Wraps to Rave Reviews

BAE Systems Unveils Hybrid Electric Drive System for Future Combat Systems

August 14, 2007

Actel and Avnet Electronics Marketing Discuss FPGAs in Embedded Military Electronics

Avnet Technology Solutions Launches OneTech Connect™ to Help Partners Expand Services Capabilities

Xilinx Leads Teams with EDA Leaders to Tackle Ultra High-Capacity FPGA Design Verification

6th Sense Analytics Provides Free Public Access To Developer Community Data

August 13, 2007

Ericsson’s third-generation POLATM modules improve performance and save board space

Hynix Semiconductor Licenses ISi’s Z-RAM Memory Technology for DRAM Products

Quantum3D Independence IG Solution Selected By L-3 Link Simulation And Training For USN P-3C Tort Visual Upgrade

AVISTA Achieves CMMI
Level 5

Renesas Technology Develops Industry's First Microcontroller with On-chip Flash Memory Built with a 90nm Process: a 200MHz SuperH® Chip for Powertrain Systems

MontaVista and Ultimate Solutions Present Online Demonstration of Embedded Linux Kernel Debugging

August 9, 2007

AKA’s MIL-STD 1553 RT Core Validated by Leading Independent Test House

August 8, 2007

InMage Systems Announces CDP-Based Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Software for Linux

Mistral announces Event Analysis and System Monitoring Tool for Multi-Processor Systems

AVISTA Offers Expert Software Development for Government and Military Programs with Galaxie Management Partnership

Parade Technologies, Ltd. Demonstrated DisplayPortTM Solutions to Major OEMS

Samsung Teams with Denali Software to Improve Memory System Design Process

August 7, 2007

Compilers Target Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processors

NTE Automation Relies on SkyWave D+ for Remote Compressor Monitoring in Hazardous Environments

Xilinx Delivers DDR2-400 Support For Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs With Hardware-Verified Reference Design

Wind River Supports Raza Microelectronics, Inc. Multi-Core, Multi-Thread Processor Solutions

NI LabVIEW 8.5 Delivers Power of Multicore Processors to Engineers and Scientists

Woven Systems and Chelsio Communications Deliver Scalable High Performance for Computing Clusters at Sandia National Laboratories

Radvision® Announces General Availability of the IMS SIP Developer Suite 5.0

Genesis Microchip Licenses MIPS(R) Cores to Power Next-Generation Flat-Panel Display Solutions

NI Announces PXI Products with 600 MBytes/s Sustained Data Streaming

Palamida and Open Solutions Alliance Ensure the Integrity of First Interoperability Prototype

August 6, 2007

Historic Phoenix Mars Mission Flies Actel RTAX-S Devices

Actel Delivers Power-Efficient System Management Solution Starting at $1.20 for Embedded Applications

Avnet Electronics Marketing Powers Up New Training Seminars

Dolphin announces PCI Express Expansion Product Line

Freescale Launches Embedded Design Challenge for Students and Design Engineers in India

RTI Middleware Powers New General Atomics Aeronautical Systems UAS Ground-Control Station

Agilent Technologies Adds MIMO, Wave 2 Test Support to Three of its Mobile WiMAX(tm) Measurement Solutions

Promise Technology, Leader in Serial RAID Data Protection, to Exhibit Its Comprehensive Line of SATA and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Storage Products at LinuxWorld

Express Logic Announces ThreadX® RTOS Support for Freescale’s Advanced i.MX27 Applications Processor

Mellanox Announces Availability of Turnkey NFS-RDMA SDK for InfiniBand that Delivers 10X Throughput Improvement

Pivot3 and ServerEngines™ to Demonstrate Distributed RAID with 10 Gb iSCSI Target

August 3, 2007

e-con System’s escalated to Silver Level Membership with Microsoft® Windows® Embedded Partner (WEP) Program, premium level granted to Microsoft’s best-in-class Windows Embedded Partners

August 2, 2007

Migo Software Founder Jay Elliot to Speak at 2nd Annual Flash Memory Summit

LinuxWorld San Francisco Kicks Off Next Week

SPIRIT DSP: CML Launches Low Cost, Low Bit-Rate RALCWI Vocoder IC

August 1, 2007

Enea Open Sources LINX for Linux

Mentor Graphics Supplies Kettering University with State-of-the-Art Resources

Altera Offers Complete USB 2.0 Device Controller Solution

MIPS32(R) 24KE(TM) Core Designed Into VDSL2 Residential Gateway From Ikanos

Tata Elxsi Becomes Tensilica’s First Authorized Multimedia Processor Design Center

New EMPRESS Embedded Database Runs on Wind River's SBC8548 PowerPC Evaluation Board with VxWorks 6.4

NI Sound and Vibration Modules Offer 16 Simultaneous, 24-Bit Data Acquisition Channels in a Single PXI Slot

RapidIO® Radio Podcast: Applying the Serial RapidIO Technology to the Wireless Infrastructure Features Texas Instruments