Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: April 10, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 01

FROM THE EDITOR

This week, your Embedded Tech Journal staff is back from the San Jose Embedded Systems Conference with the latest industry trends and announcements. Our latest feature gives our take on where embedded technology is headed over the next year, and what some of the industry’s most influential companies were doing at the show.

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Embedded Technology Journal

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Actel + ARM® = A Powerful Combination. Introducing Cortex-M1, the first ARM processor optimized for FPGAs. Available for use in Actel’s flash-based, M1-enabled Fusion and ProASIC3 devices.
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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Smaller is Bigger
ESC 2007 Tracks Technology
Bigger, Faster, More Connected
Embedded Technology Looms at ESC
ArcticLink
Connectivity Without the Watts
ARM Optimizes for FPGA
ARM/Actel Announce Cortex-M1
Mixing Fossil Fuel and Electrons
by Jim Turley, Embedded Technology Journal
Managing the Middle Manager
An Engineer's Guide
Is it February? Then it must be embedded world.
by Dick Selwood

JOURNAL WEBCASTS

Using Processors in FPGAs? The industry's only soft IP ARM7 core for Flash FPGAs sponsored by Actel

Low Power FPGA design with Actel IGLOO, the 5µW FPGA for cool portables sponsored by Actel

ARM7, Analog,Flash and FPGA in a Single Chip Actel's ARM in Fusion sponsored by Actel

Introducing Actel Fusion – the world’s first Flash-based FPGA, with Memory and Analog front end sponsored by Actel

Introducing Spartan-3AN FPGAs – Non-Volatile Secure Platform for Highest System Integration sponsored by Xilinx

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

Smaller is Bigger
ESC 2007 Tracks Technology

The San Jose version of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in this year began with Al Gore throwing down the gauntlet. Socially and environmentally conscious companies need not sacrifice the environment for profit. In fact, the bottom line and the ozone layer may have mutual allies as emphasis on more efficient systems makes sense for both. If the types of technology under discussion and on display at ESC are applied to the problem of creating more efficient systems, Gore explains, embedded engineers can make a significant difference in the troubling trends threatening Earth’s environment.

Once the keynote ended, the ESC show floor opened and the cacophony of massively parallel trade-show high-tech high jinks commenced. Our Embedded Technology Journal editorial algorithms are finely tuned to sift through the din of product pitches and press releases to extract clear trends – sweeping generalizations that, while possibly correct for the industry as a whole, may in fact not be completely true for any specific system design project in existence.

With that not-so-fine print disclaimer, however, here are our projections for embedded systems technology in general (your mileage may vary, offer void where prohibited, actors may portray real people, embedded system generalizations may be illegal in CA, TX, NJ, and several other red and blue states) OK, that’s enough disclaimers. [more]