Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: January 16, 2007 :: volume VI, no. 02

FROM THE EDITOR

The monsterest electronics trade show of them all has now packed up and left Las Vegas. The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show is now history, and we’re back from our embedded reporting duties to fill you in on the action where the stream of emerging technology flows into the ocean of “normal folks” driving their media players, mobile phones, digital televisions, personal computers, and every other crazy place we can hide an embedded computer. Check out our newest feature article for the details.

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Consumer Electronics Show 2007
Embedded Reporting from the Front Lines
Conspicuous Consumerism
CES Takes Over Vegas
Embedded '06
Platform Proliferation
Next-Generation Requirements Management
by René Bellei, Ryma Technology Solutions
Embedded Sweden
Pea Soup and Pancakes
IDE Considerations for Remote Programming
by Jerome Lambourg, AdaCore
Success with System Simulation
Are Virtual Models Really Helpful?

JOURNAL WEBCASTS

Embedded Design with LatticeMico32 Open, Free 32-bit Soft Processor sponsored by Lattice Semiconductor

Speed Adoption of Intel® Multi-Core Processors with VirtualLogix Real-Time Virtualization™ Technology sponsored by VirtualLogix

Harnessing ModelSim Designer to Improve your FPGA Design Productivity sponsored by Mentor Graphics

Optimizing Verilog Coding for More Efficient FPGA Synthesis sponsored by Lattice Semiconductor

Designing 2Gbps Parallel I/O with the LatticeSC FPGA sponsored by Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice's new 90nm LatticeSC family--general introduction sponsored by Lattice Semiconductor

Consumer Electronics Show 2007
Embedded Reporting from the Front Lines

The Consumer Electronics show is so large that it’s small. Amidst the acres of exhibits and over 140,000 attendees, the topics and interests are so diverse that the event becomes a buffet of sorts, serving up a greater variety of technology than you can find anywhere in the world, but specializing in nothing. Few of the companies exhibiting here consider CES their “big show” of the year. That status is reserved for the more specialized shows that go into exhaustive detail on any of the sub-subjects sampled at CES.

From an embedded design perspective, you’ll hear far more from companies like ARM, MIPS, and Intel at processor-specific forums and conferences. You’ll learn much more about Linux at any one of the specialized events in that universe. You’ll get more memory, storage, and connectivity details at a wide variety of venues. Where CES does excel, however, is in putting the entire embedded design world into context. The products showcased here, with their trillions of MIPS of embedded processing power and billions of lines of device software, put into perspective the net result of all that embedded technology when it finally finds its way downstream into the hands of the general public. [more]