CONTENTS: June 1, 2004

• Best of the Web - Featured Sites
  • News Summary - Top News
    • EPF - Embedded Processor Forum
    • News Summary
  • Cool New Web Sites
  • Conference Calendar

May brought the Embedded Processor Forum to the Bay Area, hosted by In-Stat/MDR. Traditionally, this conference is a high-end, 'meeting of the minds,' and this year was no different. You can purchase the conference proceedings (unfortunately, mainly a collection of powerpoint slides), or the more useful technical seminars at the Web site. Transcripts of the latter include:

• 'Microprocessors for Professionals,' by Tom R. Halfhill;
• 'Best Processors for Low Power Applications,' by Max Baron; and
• 'Choosing the Best High-Performance Embedded Microprocessor,' by Jim Turley.

Turley has just joined the staff of Embedded Systems Programming Magazine as editor-in-chief. We hope that Turley will bring his keen insight and great sense of humor to the magazine, soon.

Among major news, ARM announced their first integrated multiprocessor core. The MPCore™ synthesizable multiprocessor, based on the ARMv6 architecture, can be configured to contain between one and four processors delivering up to 2600 Dhrystone MIPS of performance. The MPCore multiprocessor implements Adaptive Shutdown™ technology and the ARM® Intelligent Energy Manager technology to reduce power consumption by up to 85 percent. Release here . Altera announced its NIOS II family.

With a whiff of economic prosperity in the air, tech companies of all sizes used May as a launching pad for new products and services. Relogix , for example, announced the general availability of Relogix/86. This software conversion tool takes 80x86-family assembler source files and automatically re-codes them in readable, maintainable C, and follows a similar product for the 68K. Release here .

Taking advantage of the momentum in the VoIP space, Trinity Convergence and ARM announced a single chip Solution for VoIP-enabled SOHO/residential devices. Release here . As mentioned above, Altera announced NIOS II , and Accelerated Technology (Mentor Graphics) followed with the first commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) and development tools support for the new processor. Release here . FS2® also announced debug tools, here .

Other important news of the month:

• Atmel Announces Industry's First ZigBee-ready Chipset
• Eclipse II FPGA -- QuickLogic Ships Industry's Lowest Power CPLD Alternative
• TI Unveils Complete Family of 12- and 14-bit High-Speed ADCS for Advanced Signal Processing

> To browse all industry news , for the last thirty days, click here .

eg3.com 's mission is to research, identify, and promote cool new Web resources - white papers, demo's, seminar's, free code. etc. Here are the top new Web sites we have found in the last month. First and foremost, EDN released their 2004 DSP Directory - a 'must have' index of all the major DSP's. Browse it here . On the job front, we identified EngineerJobSearch.com , the Engineering Employment & Resource Network , and the Job Hunters' Bible , all excellent sites for those seeking employment.

Cisco announced the Growing with Technology Awards, 2004 - essentially a contest to submit cool designs using Cisco technology in networking and, according to the rules, you don't even have to submit something to enter. Grand prize is $25,000 of Cisco products for your company.

For the ARM and Assembler fanatics, check out Richard Murray's Arm Assembler . Don't miss the GNU ARM toolchain for Cygwin, Linux and MacOS . This site contains a pre-compiled binary distribution for the (hopefully) latest GNU ARM/Newlib toolchain for Cygwin, Linux and MacOS. The toolchain consists of the GNU binutils, compiler set (GCC) and debugger (Insight for Windows and Linux, GDB only for MacOS). Newlib is used for the C library.

> To browse all 'best of the web' sites, for the last thirty days, click here .

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/6/2004, Boston

IDF RFID Update
If Wal-Mart gets its way, this is the date when the world's largest retailer will be receiving pallets and cases of goods labeled with RFID tags from its top 100 suppliers. However, with technology still immature, standards in flux, and tag prices still too high, RFID has significant hurdles to overcome before reaching mainstream adoption.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/7/2004, San Diego

Design Automation Conference
The 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the premier annual event for the electronic design automation (EDA) industry, focusing on the integration of EDA tools and design methodologies for effective system-level design.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/8/2004, Amsterdam

Wireless Connectivity World - Formerly Bluetooth Congress
The Official Congress of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, and the major international meeting place for Bluetooth Professionals. The Congress consistently draws a high level international audience and is universally recognised as the major international meeting for the Bluetooth World.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/14/2004, San Jose

Second Annual PCI Developers Conference
The PCI-SIG Developers Conference provides PCI-SIG members with the latest information on PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0 technologies, including updates on specification development and implementation. With over 460 attendees last year, this has proven to be the premier technology training event for systems architects, designers, engineers and engineering managers who are working on compliance and interoperability with PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/20/2004, Chicago

SuperComm 2004
SUPERCOMM is the global marketplace for communications technologies, systems, and ideas. Through nearly 800 exhibitors and 200+ educational sessions, SUPERCOMM's participants gain a clear perspective on what's ahead, no matter what decisions they face.

( conference, 5 stars ) - 6/28/2004, San Diego

Windows Embedded Developers Conference
This is the premier developer event for building and bringing to market solutions, applications, and content for Windows Embedded devices. Attendees will learn the latest technical information on embedded development and engineering straight from the Microsoft development teams. This year's Embedded DevCon will include the most current product updates covered in detail during technical sessions and hands-on labs.

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