eCosCentric has added CAN (controller area network) bus capabilities to its commercially supported open source RTOS (real-time operating system) for deeply embedded systems. eCosPro-CAN initially supports ARM and PowerPC chips from Philips and Freescale, and targets automotive and industrial control systems. (more…)

Freescale is shipping a home NAS (network-attached storage) / media server reference design that runs Linux and targets power-efficient, always-on consumer products. The MPC8349E mITX Reference Platform includes a PowerQUICC-based mini-ITX board, along with a standards-based Linux software stack and SDK… (more…)

ARM is shipping a new version of its graphical development toolset. RealView Development Suite (RVDS) 3.0 offers a unified, end-to-end toolchain for coincident hardware and software development, and is optimized for system performance and Linux application compilation, according to ARM. (more…)

Hardware tools specialist American Arium is shipping a trace tool for ARM, XScale, and OMAP that offers a half-clock acquisition rate of 680 MHz, and a trace depth of 256 MB. The HS-1000 supports Linux and Windows development hosts, and comes with a graphical debugger. (more…)

The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has published a pair of whitepapers about its Patent Commons. One describes legal considerations for companies considering a donation to the Commons. (more…)

The Moxa Group is shipping a series of compact, fanless, industrially-oriented embedded computers available with Linux pre-installed. The “network-centric” UC-7400-CE series computers are based on Intel XScale processors and feature eight serial ports along with networking and digital I/O. (more…)

FreeHand Systems used embedded Linux to build an electronic music reader designed to replace paper-based sheet music in practice, lesson, and performance settings. The MusicPad Pro Plus supports annotations, turns pages with screen-taps or an optional footpedal, and can store “thousands” of music charts,… (more…)

Oregan Networks has updated its clean-room Flash renderer for non-PC devices, adding support for Flash 7.0 content. The renderer is part of Oregan's “Media Browser,” a standards-based “user-interface engine” optimized for television displays, and targeting gaming consoles, set-top boxes, and IPTVs, as well as 3G and WiFi-enabled mobile handsets. (more…)

FreeHand Systems used embedded Linux to build an electronic music reader designed to replace paper-based sheet music in practice, lesson, and performance settings. The MusicPad Pro Plus supports annotations, turns pages with screen-taps or an optional footpedal, and can store “thousands” of music charts,… (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) attended both the 2006 Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose and the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston last week. This article from VDC's Embedded Systems Industry Bulletin presents a summary of those two events, along with VDC's picks for its annual “embeddie” awards, conferred on the best ESC… (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) attended both the 2006 Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose and the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston last week. This article from VDC's Embedded Systems Industry Bulletin presents a summary of those two events, along with VDC's picks for its annual “embeddie” awards, conferred on the best ESC… (more…)

VersaLogic is shipping a two-module PC/104-Plus boardset based on a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor. The “Cheetah” runs Linux, and targets embedded control applications in medical, avionics, navigation/tracking, system monitoring, homeland security, and other applications requiring substantial processing… (more…)

O'Reilly has published a list of speakers for its second annual conference on global information service (GIS) and location-aware technology. The “Where 2.0” conference is set for June 13-14, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., and will include several presentations on location-aware devices. (more…)

The Gelato Federation has published the program of events for its annual conference, set for Apr. 23-26 in San Jose, Calif. The Gelato ICE (Itanium Conference and Expo) includes 65 presentations, in eight tracks, targeting business people as well as scientists and other technical Itanium users. (more…)

TimeSys has launched the second generation of its service for embedded Linux developers. LinuxLink Second Edition offers the first commercial support for Linux 2.6.16, the company claims, along with more complete kgdb support, commercial support for real-time kernel patches, 30 percent more packages, and user interface improvements, the company says. (more…)