Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: February 27, 2007 :: volume VI, no. 08

FROM THE EDITOR

This week, Dick Selwood, our European Editor, is back from embedded world in Germany with a full rundown on the happenings there. From Fujitsu’s foosball to rampaging robots our intrepid editor brings back the bacon from Nurnberg and one of Europe’s premier embedded systems events.

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Is it February?
Then it must be embedded world.

by Dick Selwood, Embedded Technology Journal

When you come out of three days of hard-sell briefings from company spokespeople at an event like Nürnberg’s embedded world (lower case e and w - exciting in German), sometimes the trends in the industry are obvious: a couple of years ago everybody was briefing on their new ARM-based microcontrollers. This year there were far fewer certainties. The only immediately obvious threads were tabletop football (soccer) and robots. In the entrance area, Fujitsu had a huge set-up with space for what looked like a dozen players, and several stands had people twirling the rods on standard-sized games. Also there was a plethora of different robots, there because the robot builder had used devices from the exhibitor, used tools from the exhibitor, or simply because the robot was cute and kind of technical. Infineon ticked both boxes with robots playing football on a tabletop.

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