a techfocus media publication :: October 17, 2006 :: volume V, no. 03

FROM THE EDITOR

Ever do one of those flip-book animations where the little stick man walks across the page as you thumb through the pages?  It turns out that, if you print off all the press releases from embedded technology companies for this fall, square off the stack, and thumb-drop them onto your desk at about four per second – you can see some interesting industry trends at work.  Of course, if you don’t want to waste all the paper it takes to print out those press releases, you could just read our latest feature article.  We’ve done the thumbing for you.

Thanks for reading! If there's anything we can do to make our publications more useful to you, please let us know at: comments@embeddedtechjournal.com

Kevin Morris – Editor
Embedded Technology Journal

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Xilinx Platform Studio 8.2
Streamline Embedded Processing Design

Version 8.2 introduces high performance embedded design with the new MicroBlaze v5.00 soft processing core. The MicroBlaze v5.00 has been optimized for performance in the latest Virtex-5 LX Platform FPGA family.
Learn more about Xilinx Embedded Processing Solutions, Platform Studio and flexible MicroBlaze design.

White paper: A COMPARISON AND MAPPING OF DDS (DATA DISTRIBUTION SERVICE) AND JMS (JAVA MESSAGE SERVICE)
Data-centric design is emerging as the key to data-critical distributed embedded and enterprise systems. DDS and JMS are the most popular middleware API stds for these systems. How do they compare? Differ?
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Fall Fury
Embedded Announcements Galore

Embedded Autumn has blown in with a blast (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, at least) and our collective attention is divided among more bright shiny objects than leaves cascading from the collective trees. Fall’s fury of embedded technology announcements is upon us, and we’re left trying to decide which ones to embrace, which to ignore, and which should cause us to dive for cover. It’s the season of events as well, with more conferences, forums, symposia and shows than anyone could possibly attend. Are your kids back in school? Great! Leave town immediately and spend a few marginal days trying to stay awake while you listen to speakers you can’t quite understand discussing topics bordering on banal through a headache that might possibly be related to the welcome “mixer” from the night before.

One thing is clear, though. Our new [insert catchy techno-trademark here] will speed your time to market, reduce the number of costly debug iterations, improve your system reliability, and slash your BOM costs. Your software will run faster, your batteries will run longer, and your system will be immune to a host of evils, the likes of which you haven’t yet even begun to comprehend. Don’t believe us? Why not ask our well-compensated and supported beta customers? They’ve had it for awhile, they get it, and just listen to them rave about how awesome it is. Luckily, now that our PR group has approved the press release, you can learn about it too, and your embedded design world will never be the same. [more]
LATEST NEWS

October 17, 2006

SkyWave Partners with Calian Technologies to Deliver Next Generation of Inmarsat Short Message Satellite Services

VMETRO Focuses Next Generation of Board Level Solutions on Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs

The SPIRIT Consortium to Participate in Upcoming SoC Conference

Futuremark Releases Revolutionary OpenGL ES 2.0 Benchmark

LTX Introduces the X-Series Fusion LX Test System

Devon IT Announces New Line of Fanless Thin Client Terminals

Sensicast Announces Intrinsically-Safe Thermocouple Smart Sensor

Cornet Technology Introduces its Celero CVME Board at the Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference

Alien Technology®, With Oracle and Intel, Unveils End-to-End RFID Solution for Transportation, Automotive and Aerospace

Sensicast's SensiNet Services Takes Wireless Sensor Networks to the Web

MadCap Software Announces Another 'First'

Atmel Unveils Industry's First Microcontroller-Transmitter RF ICs for Use With Simple Capacitive Sensorsserving Automotive TPMS Applications

October 16, 2006

Philips Applied Technologies demonstrates world's first maglev inverted planar technology

SkyeTek to Showcase World's Smallest, Globally-Compliant UHF RFID Reader Module at EPCglobal US Conference

Atmel Launches New Driver-IC Family for Automotive High-temperature Applications

Actel Mixed-Signal Fusion PSC Raises Silicon Standard for System Management

Rimage Brings CD/DVD Publishing Capabilities to Every Desktop with Launch of Industry's First Networked Disc Publishing Solution

Mentor Graphics Solves Key Industry Challenges with New CHS Wire Harness Design Tool

Denali DDR Controller IP Product Enables Mobileye's Next-Generation Automotive Technology

Analog Devices' Low Jitter Clock Generator Provides All Critical Timing Functions on Single Chip, Improving Reliability in Telecommunications and Instrumentation Equipment

Optimal Corporation Expands System-in-Package Analysis With Chip-Package-PCB Co-Design Capabilities

October 16, 2006 (continued)

Freescale Introduces Industry’s First 32-Bit, Dual-Core Automotive Microcontrollers with Flexible Low-Power Modes

Renesas Unveils Its First Microcontroller Built with MONOS Embedded Flash Technology for Controlling Electric Motors in Automobiles

mDOC H3 Embedded Flash Drive from msystems™ is Symbian Approved

October 13, 2006

eCosCentric announces eCosPro® for MCF5213 ColdFire® microcontroller

VaST Systems to Demonstrate Virtual System Prototyping for Automotive Electronics Development at Convergence

October 12, 2006

STMicroelectronics and Freescale Drive Automotive Cooperation Ahead

VMETRO Announces Extensive DSP Libraries for PowerPC 744x

eCosCentric announces eCosPro® for NXP Nexperia™ set-top box semiconductor solutions and introduces the high reliability Multimedia Filesystem

October 11, 2006

Accellera Continues to Promote Increased Electronic Design Productivity with Revised VHDL Standard

Lockheed Martin Selects Aonix PERC Virtual Machine for Aegis Weapon System

Aonix and Concurrent Sign Joint Marketing Agreement for Real-Time Linux with Java Software Solutions

Comsys awarded best chip design at WiMAX World

VaST Systems to Demonstrate Virtual System Prototyping for Automotive Electronics Development at Convergence

Comsys Presents Cellular Convergence Capabilities of ComMAX™ Multimode Baseband Processor at WiMAX World

LVL7 Networking Software Brings IPv6 Capabilities to Embedded Linux Systems

Quantum3D Thermite TVC Selected by Telephonics Corporation for Mounted Warrior Multi-Media Communications Technology Demonstrator

Telelogic Breaks New Ground with Direct Integration between Best-in-Class Tools Rhapsody and Simulink

Novatel Wireless Announces Commercial Availability of Industry's First HSDPA ExpressCard


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