Embedded Systems articles from September 2002

Embedded Systems archives from September 2002

Integration to provide on-the-fly 3G updates. (Software).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The OSE Wireless Platform and 3G LAB's Trigenix user interface engine are being integrated to provide handset manufacturers with a dynamic and reliable software solution that will accelerate the development of customizable mobile phones with...

Embedded conference boost for Electronica. (News).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A strategic alliance between Messe Munchen and CMP Media (which owns the publishers of Embedded Systems) will produce the Embedded Systems Conference Munich at Electronica 2002, the world's largest electronics trade show. This conference...

Rational links to TI DSP design tool. (Code Checking).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Rational Software is integrating its Test RealTime solution for testing and analysing embedded, real-time and networked systems, with the Texas Instruments (TI) Code Composer Studio, TI's development environment for digital signal processing...

Siroyan DSP core added to SOCworks. (SOC Design).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Siroyan is adding its scalable DSP technology to SOCworks, the web-based SOC evaluation and simulation environment from Sonics. The deal will enable SOC designers to get free access to Siroyan's SRA328 DSP core (see Embedded Systems May 2002...

AccelChip and Elixent form alliance to give MATLAB link. (Design Integration).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... A technology alliance between AccelChip and Elixent is set to provide a direct path from MATLAB, the technical design language used by the majority of DSP designers, to D-Fabrix, Elixent's reconfigurable algorithm processor (RAP) architecture...

SESE for LynuxWorks. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... LynuxWorks has appointed Scandinavian Solutions and Engineering (SESE) to be its distributor in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. SESE will sell, support and provide engineering and training for all LynuxWorks products including BlueCat...

Start-up for Sweden. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Vector Informatik of Stuttgart has set up VecScan in Gotenborg to market its product range in Scandinavia. As well as selling and supporting all the Vector tools, which include CANalyzer, CANoe and CANape, VecScan will also conduct training...

I-Logix takes flight. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Avionyx is using I-Logix iNotion product lifecycle management portal to manage and automate development of mission critical and flight critical software engineering services.

Cyan stacks up. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CMX Systems, designer of real-time operating systems and TCP/IP software, and Cyan Technology, developers of low-power flash MCUs have launched the CMX-MicroNet TCP/IP stack on the eCOG1 16bit engine.

ARTiSAN in to battle. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Logica has selected ARTiSAN's Real-time Studio Professional to support the development of the Fire Control Battlefield Information System Appliance (BISA) for the British army.

Linux development. (In Brief).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development Studio. Embedded Linux Edition, is a graphical development environment for creating complex applications that run on embedded Linux operating systems across a range of multiple processor architectures.

Module provides complete system. (Technology).(Micro-Robotics )
September 1, 2002... A credit-card-sized embedded control computer costing around from Cambridge-based Micro-Robotics is used with Venom-SC, the latest version of the object-oriented, control-system language first developed by the company to handle analogue and...

MATLAB and Simulink updated. (Technology).
September 1, 2002... Release 13 of the Math-Works family of software brings together MATLAB 6.5 and Simulink 5. The latest version of MATLAB includes JIT Acceleration, which provides faster execution, making it an alternative to manual coding in C for technical...

Actel develops architecture to remove communications bottlenecks. (Technology).
September 1, 2002... Actel's Axcelerator family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) uses the company's new AX higher speed architecture and scalable platform. The Axcelerator family is designed to eliminate the performance bottleneck created when FPGAs...

SoC memory is a STAR. (Technology).
September 1, 2002... Building on the first generation of its Self-Test and Repair (STAR) Memory System, which has been adopted by over 30 customers, Virage Logic, has developed an embedded Re-configurable STAR Memory System. Designed to cut costs of...

72Mbit advance for NoBL SRAM. (Technology).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Enhanced Memory Systems' 72Mbit No Bus Latency (NoBL) burst enhanced SRAM (ESRAM) uses the company's proprietary one-transistor architecture to provide high density SRAM replacements. The company also said that its one-transistor ESRAM,...

Integrated graphics and imaging platform. (Technology).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Dy 4 Systems' Cornerstone is an imaging platform which integrates two highperformance graphics controllers, CPU, PMC expansion and X11/OpenGL software on a single VME-based ruggedized card. Designed for a range of display applications in...

Technology for FPGAs and PLDs. (Technology).
September 1, 2002... A programming technology, called ispXP (for in-system programmable eXpanded Programmability), from Lattice Logic, provides nonvolatile in-system programmability combined with reconfigurability via a microprocessor sysCONFIG port. The...

The benefits of configurable DSP: Oz Levia of Improv Systems describes the design and use of the VLIW Jazz configurable processor. (Focus: DSP & Processors).
September 1, 2002... Consumer and communication products typically support applications that require extensive and intensive computation and transformation of data as an integral part of the product. Some examples of such application include video decoding and...

Dual-core processor brings real-time DSP performance and reduces power for RISC. (Focus: DSP & Processors).
September 1, 2002... Texas Instruments' dual-core OMAP5910 embedded processor combines in a single device the real-time processing capabilities and low power consumption of TI's TMS320C55x DSP core, the flexibility and scalability of a TI-enhanced ARM...

DSP improves control of SMPS. (Focus: DSP & Processors).
September 1, 2002... It has been impossible over the last few years to ignore the transition in electronics from analogue to digital technologies. This change has been driven largely by the speed that digital devices are now capable of reaching, allowing them to...

Using mixed-signal DSPs in embedded control applications. (Focus: DSP & Processors).
September 1, 2002... Dr. Finbarr Moynihan, of Analog Devices describes how changing demands for embedded control have lead to the development of single chip devices based on core competencies in digital signal processing. In recent years, there has been a major...

No excuses -- the demand for HA: Steve Harris of Wind River describes how downtime, much less systems failuire, cannot be tolerated in a 'no excuses' culture. (Focus: Systems Reliability).
September 1, 2002... The need for 100% availability is the most demanding challenge for embedded systems that provide any level of electronic, revenue-generating service. This demand has profound impact on issues of reliability, serviceability and security as they...

Techniques to improve reliability in real-time operating systems: David Kalinsky of OSE Systems explains how hardware memory protection on processors can be exploited to improve RTOS reliability. (Focus: Systems Reliability).
September 1, 2002... Highly reliable embedded systems must be robust with respect to a vast spectrum of failure events. They are based on aggressive error detection, error handling, and often on redundant hardware and software. This article will survey several...

Improving ADSL modems: Andrea Gallo, Maddalena Brattoli and Nicola Magistro, of STMicroelectronics, describe how an ADSL modem's realtime control software can be run on a host over the USB. (ADSL Modem).
September 1, 2002... In the last few years there has been a steadily increasing demand for high speed Internet connection, mostly driven by a bunch of new appealing services and applications. Sound files, pictures, streaming music, live video and webcams all...

OS for a multifunction entertainment device. (Entertainment).
September 1, 2002... Fujitsu Siemens Computers wanted to develop a multifunction device that receives digital television via satellite, supports video-on-demand, and acts as a digital video recorder, DVD, CD, and digital music player. Windows XP Embedded was the...

Efficient RF analysis in optical networks. (RF Analysis).(Philips Semiconductors)
September 1, 2002... Philips Semiconductors, in collaboration with Teradyne, has designed a system around its first 12.5Gbit/s asynchronous cross point switch and using the Teradyne backplane and GbX connector. Valerie Prevel and Carle Lengoumbi describe how...

A 32bit RISC MCU for automotive graphics. (Automotive).
September 1, 2002... Richard Georgi of Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe, describes the features of a flash-RISC controller which can also process graphical data for use in private and commercial vehicles. Fujitsu has been developing 32 bit microcontrollers for...