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embedded systems conference - special report...
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- The Embedded
Systems Conference will return to San Jose,
California, next Spring. But for those who made the treck up
North to San Francisco, this year's show sported hundreds of
exhibits, over 10,000 attendees, a new '
ACE ' awards ceremony for excellence in electronics, and
a fabulous keynote from Dilbert
creator, Scott Adams.
For our e-clips audience of 23,000+ subscribers, here is
a 'special report' of the top news from the show. You can
also browse all exhibitors as well as news releases
online at eg3.com 's special ESC coverage, here .
Authored by: Jason McDonald, Senior Editor, and Yee-Jiun
Lai, Editor. Comments to info@eg3.com .
contents:
- fpgas : progress towards ease-of-use
- board-level announcements : machine-to-machine
& pc/104
- eclipse and embedded software
- embedded chips
- JTAG
Debugger Tantino XScale for Intel XScale Applications
- The PXA255 XScale processor uses the v.5TE ARM
architecture. With a CPU clock of up to 400 MHz, integrated
cache for data and code and a multiplicity of peripheral
modules, it is widely used in wireless and portable
computing applications. Based on the Intel Media Processing
Technology, it supports demanding, low power consumption
audio and video decoder applications in Multimedia PDA and
Smartphone applications.
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fpgas : progress towards ease-of-use |
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FPGAs have long been promised the 'next wave' of embedded
computing. Not surprisingly, this Spring's show had many FGPA
evaluation and production boards that showcased easy-to-use
FPGA computing power. National
Instruments' CompactRIO, for example, garnered a
well-deserved EDN 'Innovation of the Year' award.
CompactRIO harnesses the power of FPGAs to the
symplicity of Labview as a programming environment.
Full release, here
.
Both Memec
and Avnet
made announcements of evaluation kits and/or seminar series
designed to make FPGAs easy to use:
And on the practical side, SBS
announced the newest member of its TS Series high-performance
field programmable gate array (FPGA) computing line. Focused
on ' Software
Radio ,' the kit uses dual Altera Stratix EP1S80 FPGA
computing devices. Software Radio is a hot topic both in the
military and commercial space, and because of its intense
computing needs, an ideal fit for programmable logic. Release,
here
.
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board-level announcements : machine-to-machine &
pc/104 |
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The show also displayed an impressive array of board
vendors, especially in the PC/104 area. WinSystems
, for example, threw down the hi-tech gauntlet, announcing its
intention to become an important player in the
'machine-to-machine' communication marketplace. To this end,
the Texas company announced their PC/104 GPS Receiver and
Cellular Modem, which allows easy communication,
location-fixing, and time synchronization. These are the
nuts-and-bolts of accurate and useful machine-to-machine
communication. Release, here
; for more information on 'machine-to-machine,' check out The
Focal Point Group .
Both WinSystems and VersaLogic
also built on the trend of providing easy-to-use board
packages with supporting software. The former released support
for Windows CE 5.0 (Release, here
), while the latter announced software development kits that
include a free CompactFlash device and are optimized to make
Windows XP easy-to-use on its popular Cobra Pentium M
processor board. (More information, here
.)
Competitors Kontron
and Ampro
went in a different direction by focusing on the PICMG
standard, '
Com Express ,' designed to bring advanced PCI technology
to small form factors. Kontron announcement here
, and Ampro, here
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eclipse and embedded software |
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ESC was not a show for bold software
announcements. Most of the show 'buzz' concerned the
increasing adoption of the Eclipse
framework. Wind
River , for example, launched a new Eclipse 'project' to
improve device software. Release here
. Enea
also announced that it is joining Eclipse as well.
Release, here
.
Other vendors had more practical announcements. With
respect to Eclipse , Accelerated
Technology, Mentor Graphics announced that their Nucleus®
EDGE software development environment now supports Eclipse
version 3.0. Release, here
. QNX
, long a leader in supporting Eclipse , announced their
new QNX Platform Core Source Kit. The kit simplifies software
debugging and troubleshooting by providing visibility into the
source code for virtually all system libraries and OS
facilities. Release, here
. The company also broke new ground in enhancing 2d and 3d
graphics for resource-constained embedded systems, joining the
'Khronos Group.' Release, here
.
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embedded chips |
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Surprisingly, ESC was a fantastic show for chip
announcements, perhaps because this show was the inaugural
'Microprocessor Summit.' AMD
announced a commitment to product longevity, announcing that
their Opteron family would be tailored for embedded
systems and supported with the long product life cycles
required by the industry. Release, here
.
Fujitsu introduced a new family of microcontrollers
developed for network-enabled household appliances, i.e.
32-bit MCUs that incorporate a full range of networking
security features, on-board ROM and RAM, and support for IPv6,
the next-generation Internet protocol. Release here
.
It was a great show for the 'PowerPC/PowerQUICC:'
On the support side, TimeSys
announced its 'OnBoard Program,' designed to hasten Linux
support for various chip architectures, including the PowerPC.
Release here
. And SBS
announced its PowerPC-based
V2S 6U VMEbus-based Single Board Computer (SBC) ,
targetted at high-end applications such as medical.
Atmel
bolstered its ever-popular AVR® by announcing five new high
performance, low power AVR Flash microcontrollers . The
company also showcased its 'AVR Butterfly
,' development board. The low-cost kit is an excellent
introduction to the AVR, available now from distribution. The
company also released a low-cost ARM development kit. At
$295.00, the AT91SAM7S Development Kit will fit the budgets of
cost-sensitive microcontroller designs in applications like
remote controls, interface panels and USB accessories.
Release, here
.
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