От: eg3.com Editorial Dept [info@eg3.com]
Отправлено: 5 мая 2005 г. 20:11
Кому: Michael Dolinsky
Тема: Embedded, DSP, Busses, SOC - eCLIPS Best of the Web ...


6 May 2005 - eg3.com e-clips
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   embedded, dsp, busses, soc - e-clips may best of the web...
each month, the eg3.com editorial staff surveys thousands of web sites to identify the 'best' or 'most interesting' news, white papers, demo's, and other electronic design sites - focused specifically on designers of electronic products. here are our highlights and top choices from the last thirty days. comments please to info@eg3.com.

contents:

  • high speed interconnects : gaining knowledge on switch fabrics
  • new web sites : recommended, cool new sites
  • conference calendar : upcoming events

Technical SOC Benefits Tutorial with John Kinsel
Overview of SOC: technology evolution, what is an SOC & what goes on an SOC. SOC benefits: performance, power, reliability, footprint & cost. SOC challenges & PMC's SOC strategies including: SOC implementation methods & PMC's RM9150 SOC.
    high speed interconnects : gaining knowledge on switch fabrics
'Switch fabrics' and/or 'high speed interconnects' are mushrooming across the embedded networking landscape - at both the chip-to-chip level and the board levels. Designers of all types are struggling to make sense of this emerging landscape of competing standards - be they, ethernet , PCI Express , Xaui, Hypertransport , RapidIO , or Advanced Switching. If you were lucky, you attended last month's Linley Group Fabric and High-Speed Interconnects Seminar , which was a see-and-be-seen event for the high speed interconnect cognoscenti. Don't miss the forthcoming Guide to Switch Fabrics to be published in June.

Another important resource - this one for free - was EE Times' landmark study on the interconnect landscape, based on 243 survey respondents, entitled, "Industry Challenges - Choosing the RightInterconnect." Here are the highlights with links -

One standard about which one is hearing more and more is the 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface, or 'XAUI.' There isn't much available yet on the Internet, but check out this 2002 overview of Xaui from Techonline and don't miss the Gigabit Ethernet Consortium home page.

Finally, keep your eye out for a summer survey/study of High Speed Interconnects from eg3.com and the Venture Development Corporation .

   new web sites: recommended, cool new sites
Among cool sites of the month, we found, EDA Confidential , a personal Web site by journalist Peggy Aycinena, which has all the gossip on the high-end EDA industry. A different perspective can be found at various 'corporate blogs,' such as the Tensilica Blog , but Aycinena's is an outsider perspective that is more than just self-promotional corporate news. For those engineers interested in winning fame and fortune, we found the Mobile 2 Market Contest , whereby you can compete to design Microsoft -based smartphones and Pocket PC's.

Embedded systems is nothing if not nuts-and-bolts. So behold two important sites on the venerable TCP/IP - uIP TCP/IP Stack for Embedded Microcontrollers aimed at TCP/IP connectivity for 8-bit MCU's and lwIP - A Lightweight TCP/IP stack , whose focus is reducing resource usage while still maintaining full-scale TCP. And for those in the booming automotive electronics sector, don't miss Applying Java to Automotive Control Systems as well as WxWindows.org , an open source GUI development for consumer applications generally.

> To browse all 'best of the web' sites, for the last thirty days, click here .
   conference calendar: upcoming events

( conference, 5 stars ) - 5/9/2005, Las Vegas
Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005
premier developer event focused on the future of Microsoft Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded platforms. MEDC 2005 offers attendees the opportunity to learn how to build and bring to market devices and applications - and access to the latest code, hands-on labs, technical breakout sessions, and much more.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 5/10/2005, Babson Park
RapidIO Developer Summit
Don't miss this free, full-day summit, especially designed for the embedded developer! o Learn how to get better system performance, reliability and support for convergence by using the high-speed, flexible RapidIO interconnect and fabric. o Talk technical with the experts to understand how RapidIO technology provides the best solution to your system-level interconnect issues.. o

( conference, 4 stars ) - 5/16/2005, Long Beach
Military Embedded Electronics and Computing Conference
The VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) is introducing a new trade conference specifically targeted for the military embedded electronics market. Titled Military Embedded Electronics and Computing Conference (MEECC), the first two-day event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California on May 16-17, 2005.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 5/16/2005, New York
MPLS Con
Now entering its third year, MPLScon is the premier industry conference focusing on MPLS technologies, solutions, and industry trends. This year's event moves to New York City where we will focus on benefits, trends, and challenges in evaluating, buying, implementing and managing MPLS-VPN services from an end-user perspective.

( conference, 5 stars ) - 5/17/2005, San Jose
Spring Processor Forum
Participate in the industry's most important event for new processor and related announcements. We are actively seeking speakers who can address the following issues: PC Processors Server Processors Low Power Embedded Consumer Embedded Imaging and Video DSP Challenges of Advanced Semiconductor Design

( conference, 5 stars ) - 5/22/2005, Orlando
Wind River Users Conference
Registration for the Wind River 2005 Worldwide User Conference is now open. This is the most important conference for learning how to capitalize on the innovative and market-leading products and services from Wind River and its partners to develop and run device software faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 5/24/2005, London
Wireless Connectivity World
Wireless Connectivity (WiCon) World is the premier event for mobile solutions and addresses the huge potential of wireless networking applications from leading technologies such as WiFi, UWB, ZigBee, Bluetooth, NFC, DECT and WiMax.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 6/5/2005, Chicago
SuperComm 2005
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.

( seminar, 4 stars ) - 6/8/2005, Chicago
AdvancedTCA Forum @ Supercomm
How will the 600mm wide racks in Europe affect chassis sizes? We also need to consider how the AdvancedTCA is useful for both large and small companies, but for different reasons. Lastly, there is still much dialogue to be had of the choice of backplanes, between GigE, InfiniBand, RapidIO, and ASI. So come join us as we explore the diverse world of the AdvancedTCA and examine the business consequences of this miraculous new platform.

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