a techfocus media publication :: December 4, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 10

FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to Embedded Technology Journal’s new wider, wilder, webcast-laden format.  Our front page has been re-designed to come up to newer standards for website width, and our expanded webcast section will bring you countless hours of technical learning pleasure.  If you haven’t yet checked out our new “Chalk Talk” series – now is the time to try.

Our latest feature looks at the issues surrounding security in mobile devices.  Soon, there will be more mobile devices on the network than PCs and servers combined.  Faced with that reality, it’s time to get our security act together as our customers won’t have the kind of patience with mobile devices that they did with PCs.  

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Mobile Lockdown
Securing the Wireless World
Altium Goes 3D
Board Design Can Be Fun
Modeling for High Quality GUIs: Cracking the GUI Host-to-Target Challenge
by Marty Bakal, Telelogic
and Ariel Bautista, Tilcon Software Ltd.
Embedded in Birmingham
by Dick Selwood
New Kid in Class
Nios II Joins the Processor IP Race
Open Handset Alliance
Gorilla in Sheep’s Clothing?
MIPS Mulls Microcontrollers
New 32-bit MCU Line

JOURNAL WEBCASTS

NEW Xilinx Virtex-5 Power Optimization & Power Design Guidelines (Xilinx)

NEW Virtex-5 FPGAs and PlanAhead Deliver Maximum Performance (Xilinx)

NEW Accelerate Delivery of Built-in Ethernet Solutions Using ilinx FPGAs and Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit (Xilinx)

NEW Discover How to Design With and Take Advantage of the PCI Express Hard Block in the Virtex-5 FPGA (Xilinx)

NEW Discover How the Complete Virtex-5 PCI Express Solution Reduces Risks for Your Application (Xilinx)


NEW An Introduction to the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Family (Xilinx)

Addressing Size, Weight, and Power Constraints (Altera)

Enable High-Volume Applications with New Low-Cost FPGAs (Altera)

Implement PCIe, GbE & SRIO with Altera's Low-Cost FPGAs (Altera)

CHALK TALK Advancing SoC Verification Methods – Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with experts from Mentor Graphics on processor-driven test and other techniques for solving your system-on-chip verification problems. (Mentor Graphics)

CHALK TALK Real World Solutions for FPGAs in Ultra Low Power Applications - Join Amelia Dalton as she examines the Low Power Reference Platform from Arrow, Altera, and Linear Technology - proving that FPGAs really can run on batteries. (Altera, Arrow, Linear)

CHALK TALK Did you miss the ARM Developers' Conference?  Join Amelia Dalton for Journal Webcasts' coverage of the event - it'll be just like you were there! (Journal Webcasts)


Mobile Lockdown
Securing the Wireless World

In 1979, I was pretty sure I could unplug a phone in the top floor of a 7-story building, throw it out the window, go down and pick it up from the sidewalk, carry it into a different building, plug it in, and get it to work properly on the first try.  I’d pick up the receiver, hear a dial-tone, punch (or dial) in the number of my buddy across town, and we’d be connected and talking.  I’d never conceive of the need to call customer support for a problem with my phone.

My expectations for my computer in 1979 were very different.  In a pristine environment with a clean power supply, I’d delicately connect and double-check everything using my pre-EE super-powers.  Data was stored on an audio cassette, and I’d employ masterful tuning skills in finding exactly the right recording and playback levels to give me some chance of recovering my data once saved.  My default expectation was that my computer wouldn’t work at all.  If I managed to coax something like functionality out of it, I was very proud indeed. [more]
LATEST NEWS

December 4, 2007

RFID Device With 64-bit Embedded Cryptographic Engine

Atmel Offers a Feature-Rich UHF ASK/FSK Receiver/Transmitter Family for Industrial Applications

Xilinx Delivers Complete Virtex-5 FPGA Based Solutions for SPI-4.2 and SFI-4.1 Interfaces

ARM and Esterel to Deliver Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Systems

Mistral announces the first 3U VPX SBC from Curtiss Wright for embedded defense/aerospace applications

VirtualLogix Secures Collaboration Agreement With Texas Instruments for Virtualization

Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) Corporation Adopts Catapult C Synthesis for Next-Generation ASIC Design

Columbitech Mobile VPN Achieves Motorola SymbolPLUS Validation

EqualLogic Expands PS Series Line of High-Performance iSCSI Storage Arrays

December 3, 2007

Kilopass and Certicom Give Technical Talk on Hardware Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage

Open Kernel Labs OKL4 Now Supports ARMv6 Architecture

Sidense OTP Integrated in XMOS Programmable Semiconductor

RTI Teams with Northrop Grumman to Provide Standard Interface to Diverse U.S. Air Force and Navy Tactical Data Link Systems

Lattice Partners With Oregano Systems To Introduce IEEE 1588 Industrial Ethernet IP Core

AMCC and Virtutech Announce Expanded Partnership on Fast Simulation Solutions for Power Architecture-Based Systems

Three Universities Using Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array Technology in New, Advanced Research Projects

December 3, 2007 (continued)

Express Logic Introduces ThreadX® RTOS Support for Tensilica’s New Diamond Standard 106Micro

DAC Student Design Contest Seeks Industry Support

November 30, 2007

Atmel Introduces Its AVR 32-bit Platform for FlexRay In-Vehicle Networking

Robot Contest Winner Gets Surprise Bonus from Evolution Robotics

Mentor Graphics Questa Functional Verification Platform Adopted by Siemens IT Solutions and Services PSE

November 29, 2007

IAR Systems announces new KickStart Kit for AVR UC3 development projects

Axcelis Introduces Optima XE Single Wafer High Energy Ion Implanter

IR’s SupIRBuck™ Family of Integrated DC-DC Regulators Shrinks Silicon Footprint by 70 Percent, Simplifies Embedded Power Designs

November 28, 2007

Freescale Expands 8-Bit Microcontroller Portfolio for Growing Consumer, Industrial and Automotive Markets

Freescale Touch Sensing Technology Obsoletes Mechanical Buttons and Switches

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms AdvancedTCA IP Packet Processor Blade Delivers Superior Price/Performance

NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.5 Provides Flexible Multicore Programming for ANSI C Development

 


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