Embedded Systems articles from October 2002

Embedded Systems archives from October 2002

Metrowerks snaps up technology from Applied Microsystems. (Consolidation).
October 1, 2002... Metrowerks has agreed to acquire some technology assets from Applied Microsystems, which supplies integrated hardware and software tools for programming, testing and debugging embedded systems. Metrowerks agreed to purchase the majority of...

Green Hills gets preferential treatment. (Design).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Green Hills Software has been selected as a 'Preferred Supplier' by Rockwell Collins, which produces and supports aviation electronics solutions for government and commercial customers. The award was as a result of work in the Sikorsky...

Growth spotted in a variety of locations. (News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... At present we continue to look for signs that a sustained improvement in the industry is in place. Some recent research indicates that things are steadily improving but it is still a question of selecting market niches. Market research...

Tools to take an enhanced view. (Development).(ARM offers new in-circuit emulator trace products)
October 1, 2002... ARM has revamped its RealView family of development tools with the addtion of a new in-circuit emulator (ICE), trace products and an upgrade to its RealView Debugger product. The tools will allow developers to optimize systems on chips for...

Program available for Embedded Systems Conference in Munich. (Education).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... With over forty technical sessions presented by an international panel of experts the Embedded Systems Conference Munich will provide design engineers, technical managers and software developers with solutions that can immediately be put into...

On-chip ROM cuts cost of Bluetooth use. (Bluetooth).(Cambridge Silicon Radio offers new Bluetooth products)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) has added two ROM based products to its BlueCore2 Bluetooth portfolio. BlueCore2-ROM and BlueCore2-Audio are CSR's first Bluetooth devices which do not need external non-volatile memory. BlueCore2-ROM is...

Three join CE.NET push. (In Brief).(NeoMagic, STMicroelectronics, and Motorola to develop ARM-based products)
October 1, 2002... Motorola, STMicroelectronics and NeoMagic are to develop ARM-based products optimised for Microsoft Windows CE.NET. They join a raft of companies already developing products including Hynix Semiconductor, Intel, Samsung Electronics America, and...

Consumer chairman. (In Brief).(Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, Adrian Wise appointment)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Adrian Wise, chief technical officer of Siroyan, has been named as chairman of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) consumer subcommittee. The organisation also plans to add new benchmark kernels for MP3, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4...

Bitsy BSP certified. (In Brief).(Applied Data Systems completes Windows CE 3.0 certification test)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Applied Data Systems has completed the Windows CE 3.0 board support package (BSP) certification test. Four companies now have StrongARM BSP's recognised by Microsoft and the BSP is integrated in to the integrated development environment for use...

Live in Paris. (In Brief).(LiveDevices establishes new direct sales and support office)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... LiveDevices has established a direct sales and support office near Paris, France. Overseeing operations will be Olivier Casse, the company's recently appointed sales manager for Southern Europe. The move builds on its existing European sales...

Flash cooperation. (In Brief).(STMicroelectronics and M-Systems agreement)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... STMicroelectronics will cooperate with M-Systems to provide complete solutions to customers using the STPC family of x86-based SOC embedded microprocessors. It will enable integration of M-Systems' DiskOnChip flash disk products into products...

Digital radio ready to move forward. (Technology).(Motorola's Symphony Digital Radio chipset)
October 1, 2002... With its Symphony Digital Radio chipset Motorola is providing a complete digital intermediate frequency (IF) radio solution. It combines special purpose (co-processor) digital signal processors (DSPs) and the DSP56300 general-purpose 24bit Onyx...

Silicon slices aim to fill design gap. (Technology).(LSI Logic)
October 1, 2002... RapidChip is an attempt by LSI Logic to fill a perceived gap between cell based ASICs and FPGAs. It combines the company's CoreWare, intellectual property (IP) library, customizable logic, and a novel semiconductor design concept. LSI says...

Cyclone FPGAs for high volume use. (Technology).(Altera Corp.'s field programmable gate-arrays )
October 1, 2002... The Cyclone family of FPGAs are based on a new architecture that has been created from the ground up to provide the industry's lowest cost FPGA family. Altera believes the family will be used in high volume systems in the consumer,...

Embedded Linux with Java development kit. (Technology).(Arcom Control Systems Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Arcom Control Systems has expanded its range of development kits for embedded Linux with Java Technology to provide support for the 133MHz AMD SC520 based PEGASUS board, a compact PC/104 format embedded PG designed for embedded control and...

Processor cores ready-for-use. (Technology).(Altera Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Embedded Processor Portfolio from Altera is a collection of more than 100 embedded processor intellectual property (IP) cores for typical microcontroller and embedded processor applications. Developers can design and ship systems with the...

Java technology and embedded Linux--made for each other. (Focus: Embedded Linux).
October 1, 2002... Michael Mathews of MontaVista Software and Marc R. Erickson of IBM look at the individual technologies and explore the benefits of the synergy between them that support integration. Embedded Linux and Java technologies work well together,...

Developing communications appliances. (Focus: Embedded Linux).(TimeSys Corp.'s Linux running on EnCore embedded processors from Ampro Computers)
October 1, 2002... Bill von Hagen of TimeSys and Colin McCracken at Ampro Computers describe how software and hardware can be combined to provide a rapid development platform for network appliances. Today's network-centric environments--comprised of...

Using Linux with flat panel displays. (Focus: Embedded Linux).
October 1, 2002... As Linux is increasing in popularity as an industrial operating system, more customers need the security that their embedded single board computer (SBC) and flat panel system will operate effectively with this O/S. Display Technology (DT)...

A datapath interface for SOPCs: Robert Cottrell of Altera describes how the Atlantic interface can be used with a number of different cores. (Focus: System on Chip).(system on a programmable chip)(Altera Corp.)
October 1, 2002... Atlantic is a point-to-point interface protocol for IP cores, to make it easy to assemble System On A Programmable chip (SOPC) designs. It is primarily intended for high performance data path designs, and supports the transfer of a word of data...

Choosing a processor core for use in multi-CPU SOC designs. (Focus: System on Chip).
October 1, 2002... David Courtright of MIPS Technologies examines what cores need for multi-CPU designs and examines how the MIPS32 M4K4 core has been designed specifically for these SOCs. The use of multiple CPUs in SOC designs is becoming increasingly...

Debugging real-time designs over serial line. (Debugging).(Motorola Czech System Laboratories )
October 1, 2002... Pavel Kania and Michal Hanak of Motorola's Czech Systems Laboratories describe a serial communications platform developed for embedded motor control applications using MCUs and DSPs. The Motorola Czech System Laboratories (CSL) based in...

Efficient use of DFT filter banks to power OFDM: Mike Fleming of DSP Architectures describes how the DSP24/MMU24 can be used with the right algorithm to produce a DFT filter-bank. (Filters).(discrete fourier transform, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing)
October 1, 2002... The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) provides hardware efficiencies for separating a signal in to as many sharp narrow band signals as required and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can be deployed to implement the DFT logarithmetically faster...

Architecture design for use in 3G baseband. (Chip Design).(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2002... Will Robbins, design director at picoChip Designs, reviews the company's first design based on its proprietary picoArray architecture and using Linux as the primary EDA platform. Creating novel solutions for new markets is, according to the...

Networking systems--from theory to practice. (Networking).
October 1, 2002... Michael Orr of Radlan suggest 'horizontal specialization' as a way out of the dilemma facing OEMs designing embedded networks and describes OpENS, a Open and Portable Embedded Networking System technology. As more and more applications...

HA Berkeley database: Mike Olson of Sleepycat Software describes how the open source embedded database has developed. (Databases).
October 1, 2002... Embedded systems are the unsung heroes of the computer world. They do their job out of sight and out of mind. Many of these systems contain applications with their own databases. Cell phones can contain a phone book as well as a stored list of...