Sam Williams, editor for UpsideToday, writes about Intel's growing emphasis on Linux for its new IA-64 (Itanium) architecture. Williams writes . . . (more…)

Terry Costlow, editor of EE Times, interviewed Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. Costlow discusses Tiemann's perspective on the growing role of Linux in the embedded market, the value provided to Red Hat by its acquisition of Cygnus (Tiemann's former company), and on the question of Linux fragmentation. Costlow writes . . . (more…)

EE Times online has published an article by Brian Ramsey, of LynuxWorks, about the issues associated with creating high-availability systems under Linux. Ramsey writes . . . (more…)

[Editor: this is a reposting of a “Request for Discussion” (RFD) of a proposed embedded Linux newsgroup (comp.os.linux.embedded) in the Usenet group news.groups. Please post any comments directly to that newsgroup.] (more…)

Test & Measurement World Online has published the first article of a two-part series on how to design data acquisition device drivers under Linux. The articles are written by Alex Ivchenko, of United Electronic Industries. Ivchenko writes . . . (more…)

San Clemente and Palo Alto, Calif. — (press release) — The RTC Group and LinuxDevices.com today released the technical program for the first Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) to be held June 22nd, in San Jose, Calif. The opening keynote address, to be given by Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's Chief Technology Officer, is entitled “Embedded Linux and Other Revolutionary Combinations.”

ELEC… (more…)

Response time is rapidly becoming more and more critical in ever-increasing numbers of applications, whether their developers think of them as real-time or not. Developers can now ensure that response times can be predictably met, without depending only on error-prone testing and tuning at the end of the system integration cycle. (more…)

NETsilicon has announced a free online seminar series entitled Embedded Networking Fundamentals. The topic of the first session is: “Deriving IP addresses, MAC Addresses and Configuration Parameters in a Networked Device.” The session takes place Wednesday, May 18, 2000 at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (US). (more…)

Will Knight, of ZDNet UK, reports that Intel today publicly released an unprecedented level of technical detail on Itanium's 64-bit non-X86 instruction set. The move represents a clear indication of the priority Intel now places on Linux and the open-source phenomenon. Unnamed sources on the embedded side of Intel are reportedly surprised by the amount of sensitive technical material released on the… (more…)

Over the next five years, everything that has anything to do with information, control, or measurement is going to be Internet/Ethernet connected. Electronic devices of all kinds will collaborate to perform tasks with minimal human intervention. Imagine your office printer ordering repair parts, or the vending machine placing a re-stocking order with the warehouse. (more…)

LinuxWorld editor Rick Cook has put together a comprehensive and informative article on both the benefits and challenges associated with using Linux in embedded and real-time applications. Rick writes . . . (more…)

Cornelius “Pete” Peterson, President and CEO of NETsilicon, Inc., has written a fascinating article about the coming of age of universal device networking. Highly integrated system-on-chip (SOC) integrated circuits, low-cost networking, Linux, and the Internet are key enablers of what surely represents a significant “phase transition” in the evolution of modern technology.

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Hunt Engineering Ltd. (UK), a specialist in DSP based real-time signal and image processing, has announced support for using its DSP modules under Linux. Hunt Engineering manufactures a modular line DSP and I/O subsystems for use in real time applications. (more…)

MontaVista Software, the maker of Hard Hat Linux for embedded systems, today announced the opening of its European headquarters. The office, which will be located in Paris, will serve as a base of operations for MontaVista's European and other non-North American sales and support activities. (more…)

Jungo Ltd. (Israel) has released a Linux version of its WinDriver device driver development toolkit. WinDriver simplifies the development of Linux device drivers for PCI/ISA bus interfaced hardware, by automating the development process and eliminating the requirement to program in kernel mode. (more…)