Embedded Technology Journal Update

a techfocus media publication :: May 6, 2008 :: volume XI, no. 06

FROM THE EDITOR

This week, Bryon Moyer brings us a peer-to-peer paper on Local Operating Networks (LONs). When you’re connecting embedded nodes together in a factory control system or similar application, you need a versatile solution that’s easy, inexpensive, and not necessarily fast. Bryon looks at networking solutions from Echelon and examines how they can be useful for low-cost connections of embedded systems used for large-scale control applications.

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CURRENT FEATURE ARTICLES

Coming to a Home Near You?
LONworks Implementations Spreading
(Bryon Moyer)
It’s the Parallelism, Stupid!
(Bryon Moyer)
Getting Back to a Simpler Life
A New Multicore Communications API is Ratified
(Bryon Moyer)
Multicore Momentum
The Multicore Expo Bulks Up (Bryon Moyer)
Java Earning Its Wings
Aonix Makes Real Time Almost Safety Critical
(Bryon Moyer)
MIPS Moves on Multi-Core
MIPS32 1004K (Kevin Morris)

JOURNAL WEBCASTS

NEW!! CHALK TALK Designing Embedded Systems With Linux and low cost FPGAs. Join Amelia Dalton as she chats with industry experts about simplifying embedded systems design with Linux running on low-cost programmable system-on-chip platforms. (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Lowest Total System Cost With Xilinx Spartan-3. Amelia Dalton chats with Mark Moran of Xilinx about reducing your overall system cost with Xilinx Spartan-3 family of FPGAs (Xilinx)

CHALK TALK Low Cost FPGA with Serdes Lattice ECP2M. Amelia Dalton talks with Bertrand Leigh of Lattice Semiconductor about low-cost FPGAs with multi-gigabit SerDes interface capability. (Lattice Semiconductor)

CHALK TALK Crossing the Gap between Algorithm and Hardware Implementation. Join Amelia Dalton as she learns how C++ and Catapult C Synthesis can accelerate the design, implementation, and verification of complex system-level algorithms. (Mentor Graphics)

Approaching Yield in the Nanometer Age-DFM Methodology. As we dive deeper into the nanometer era, we must rethink the way we design. Tools, techniques, and methods that once worked without fail cannot hold up at the 65 and 45nm depths, making it more challenging than ever to achieve yield. This tutorial explores these challenges within both the business and historical context of the IC design and manufacturing process. (Mentor Graphics)

CHALK TALK CES 2008. Did you miss CES? Amelia Dalton didn't! Watch Journal Webcasts coverage of the event now.

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Coming to a Home Near You?
LONworks Implementations Spreading
(Bryon Moyer)

This is a story that starts with the improbable topic of building controls – you know, those complex systems that ensure that no matter where you are in the building, it’s too damn cold. Way back in the last century, these controls were dominated by large companies with complete proprietary systems. OK, they sorta still are, but work with me here. The users of the systems were more or less captive to their controls company, and changes to the system needed by the users resulted in a nice high-profit source of consulting income to the controls company.

Building controls tend to consist of a wide variety of sensors and actuators widely dispersed throughout the building. [more]