Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: December 18, 2007 :: volume IX, no. 12

FROM THE EDITOR

Hibachi is a new Eclipse initiative to provide integrated development capability for the Ada programming language. Dick Selwood, who remembers the early days of Ada, looks at how two very different traditions are coming together.

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

The Countess, the Moon and a Barbecue
Ada Comes to Eclipse
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Securing the Wireless World
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The Countess, the Moon and a Barbecue
Ada Comes to Eclipse

You want an audio system to provide you with very high quality sound, and also perhaps to take sound from your TV/video system. You can buy a complete integrated package; it is easiest but, depending on your requirements, it may not meet your expectations for quality. Also, when a new source appears, like MP3 for example, you may have difficulty integrating it.

Instead, you research the different components: tuner, amplifier, CD player, speakers, even cables and connectors, and assemble your own system with what may be best of breed units. Some years ago one of the interesting problems you faced was physically connecting the units together, as they often used different connector formats. Today most of them use phono plugs, so that is one less issue (although over the next few years HDMI may begin to make inroads). [more]