Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: October 3, 2006 :: volume V, no. 01

FROM THE EDITOR

Happy Birthday to us! Today, Embedded Technology Journal celebrates its one year anniversary. Our newest feature article takes a look at our first year, and peeks forward at the year to come. We’d like to thank you, our readers, for your enthusiasm and loyalty during our inaugural effort. We hope to continue that relationship far into the future.

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Kevin Morris – Editor
Embedded Technology Journal

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Happy Birthday to Us
Embedded Tech Journal Turns One
Soft Core War
LatticeMico32 Opens the Field
Connecting the Camps
Mathworks Bridges System and Hardware Design
Embedded Data Management Grows Up
Encirq Accelerates Data-based Development
Spartan-3 Goes Golfing
Axcon Drives TrackMan Radar
System Design by Swarm
Natural Selection in Embedded Design

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Happy Birthday to Us
Embedded Tech Journal Turns One

The first year of a new publication is always exciting, but Embedded Technology Journal’s first year has been nothing short of stellar. We began, of course, with modest-sized audiences mulling our strange stories about putting tiny little computers into toasters and such. People pondered processors, studied software, meditated about memories, brushed up on busses, wrestled with RTOS, and fumbled with FPGAs. We’ve covered applications ranging from smart phones to avionics and touched on some truly unique systems like golf radar and digital scarecrows.

Our first year saw explosive growth in the “ecosystem” of embedded system development, including rapid expansion of open-source offerings for embedded design, increased competition in the commercial software, tools, and IP space, and a reckoning of the co-existence of open-source and commercial components within the same systems. We watched ARM and MIPS roll out new processor offerings, Wind River, Microsoft, and Mentor Graphics turn up the competitive heat on embedded device operating systems, and we tracked a wide variety of announcements from companies whose offerings accelerate the development cycle for device software and hardware platform development. [more]